How come my body insists I need more than four hours of sleep a night? How come my souvenir time-turner keychain doesn’t really work and I can’t add more hours to my day to devote to dramas? How come I’m answering this days later because I’ve barely had time to be on tumblr? How come all the icons have changed in this place and I missed the weekly “ZOMG the staff has ruined tumblr!” dashboard melt-down? How come I haven’t finished watching the last two episodes of Bubblegum even though it’s been a week already? HOW COME I’M STILL ONLY ON EP 10 OF SIX FLYING DRAGONS? *openly weeps in utter exhaustion*
you didn’t like d-day?? i’m on ep 16 right now and i LOVE it! except for the director’s existence, and professor han’s lying about hae sung’s mom’s medical malpractice. but besides that i think it’s an awesome show!
So, I wrote up this whole thing about the technical logistics of how frustrating shows can be when you’re forced to pay attention to the little details instead of just mentally hand-waving them away and why it means I usually end up disliking shows more than I would when I just casually watch them – but that’s not really important, I guess.
All that matters is yes, I thought it was a very disappointing show that didn’t even begin to live up to its potential, laden with a weak and repetitive script and characters that either had very little growth, or uneven/circular growth, or an inexplicable burst of so-called redemption at the end that felt totally unearned.
I loved Jung So Min and was grateful for her presence every time she was on screen. She was by far the best thing about the show, closely followed by Kim Sang Ho who was brilliant as the fire chief.
London’s highly-anticipated West End play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’s cast was revealed Sunday with three adults playing the lead trio.
In the eighth story in J.K. Rowling’s famous series, Hermione Granger is a black woman played by 45-year-old Noma Dumezweni. The play cast 36-year-old Jamie Parker as Harry Potter and 40-year-old Paul Thornley as Ron Weasley.
Dumezweni is a Laurence Olivier Award-winning actor born in Swaziland, who has appeared in more than a dozen London theatre productions. She moved with her South African parents to England when she was a child.
Parker was in Alan Bennett’s original cast for The History Boys in 2004. More recently, he appeared in the historical thriller Valkyrie and multiple productions at Shakespeare’s Globe.
Thornley was in the 2012 Les Miserables film and has had roles in several movies and British television series, such as London Road and Doc Martin.
In the films, Harry was played by Daniel Radcliffe, Hermione by Emma Watson and Ron by Rupert Grint. BuzzFeed Film and TV writer Alanna Bennett pointed out in January that Rowling never made Hermione’s race clear in the books.
The new play that Rowling has called the eighth installment of the series is set to premiere in London’s Palace Theatre in the summer of 2016.
In the play, Potter is all grown up, working at the Ministry of Magic and married with three kids, according to Rowling’s website Pottermore. The play focuses on his youngest son Albus Severus Potter, who is struggling with the burden of his family legacy.
The play is written by Jack Thorne based on a story by Rowling and directed by John Tiffany. It will have two parts and a large cast of over 30 actors, which are still to be announced.
I’m so far behind on dramas yet I feel like all I’ve been doing the past couple of days is think of nothing but dramas. I want a drama break but I also want to get caught up on my “to-watch” list.
The reason why I like you, is because you are you. Just you. That’s the only reason. Are there other reasons for me to like you? I wish I knew. Then I could figure out how to stop liking you.
It was SO GOOD y’all. So many women!!! I never realized that just seeing an equal distribution of men and women in the background would feel so important to me – especially for the roles of Resistance fighters (women in uniform walking with other women!).
Also it was fun and made sense and had characters (and droids!) I instantly cared about. I am envious of the generation that gets to grow up with this version instead of my generation that was stuck with the likes of The Phantom Menace.
I’m thinking about seeing Star Wars today just I don’t have to deal with spoiler-worry.
EDIT: got my lazy bum out of bed to make it to the cinema by 8:45am to catch the 9am show, thinking it might not be as crowded as the other showings. I WAS WRONG SO VERY WRONG. Am 4 rows back in the largest auditorium that has an extra wide screen. So it’s gonna feel like I’m in the movie.
Now I’m having mild post-submit-button regrets because I’m just being “me” about dramas, y’know, but I forget that my opinion is usually the opposite of the vast majority and within that vast majority are some highly vocal people.
Also I see there’s stuff in the ask box but it’ll have to wait ‘cause I’m still way too busy and I plan to celebrate my free evening by falling asleep to some random cooking competition show as yet to be determined.
The Obsessive Dilettante 