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🎂 Bill Withers - Use Me

The Replacements - Portland

I'm liking the ADR upgrades for a start...

According to the Backstage directory site, they are one and the same. But having asked an online mate who's still in Whollyodd (via Georgia) and does casting, amongst other things... ...it seems in film and TV, they're now more commonly referred to as background actors / featured background actors - i.e. you take a scheduled action or speak (even if it's not a scheduled line, for example background babble that has to be on a convincing theme), which is also what they're referred to as by SAG-AFTRA's collective contracts. Extra is now more a stage and musicals thing. Though, in practice, he uses the term interchangeably.

Quick thing that popped up on the SW twitter: as mentioned earlier, Krystina Arielle (The High Republic Show) got snuck in as a background actor (are they not called extras these days? ah well), and made a lovely, very illustrative little EPK on how being on set works for actors. And geeked out. A lot. Which is adorable. Don't deny you would too.

Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights (Please feel free to join in at home, especially on July 30th)

...and a very Evil cameo right at the end of the credits. And, yes, the Delta '88 is in there. Twice. Thoughts in purple, because goth:

Little Feat (ft Emmylou Harris & Bonnie Raitt) - Dixie Chicken

According to ancient legends, the Sith gained their powers from suffering... through one too many Powerpoints. Also, I do love that the Sith really know how to co-ordinate their look.

Non spoilery thought from James SA Corey (the Expanse writing hivemind): ...how does someone with the catlike* speed and precognitive ability to use a magnetised plasma sword to deflect a speeding bolt of plasma (which does seem to travel a bit slower than a bullet in atmosphere at least, but nonetheless)... ...get felled by a punch? There's all kinds of things inconsistent if you start suspending your disbelief in the whole space wizard movie thing. But what works for a plot works for a plot, much like many of the hardware solutions at my old work. If something works for you, you don't notice the gaffer tape, string, and that it might be slightly on fire. *not actually catlike, or you'd paralyse any Sith with sunbeams and/or hypnotic dangly string

Bob Marley & The Wailers - Hypocrites

This is also a mood right now. For reasons. (But also spoilered in case there's kids around). Lily Allen - F@!# You (Yeah, Pretty Much)

Oh, well since the page is stickered now... yeah, still in that mood Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name Of (Explicit)

I'd picked out songs over the last few days I wanted to post for you lot. Afraid you're gonna have to make do with this. Sorry* Twisted Sister - We're Not Gonna Take It 🖕 *not sorry

Traffic - Feelin' Alright

Chemical Brothers - Go!

Non-spoilery stuff: I'm not sure. For Mandalorian, Respeecher completely rebuilt Hamill's younger Luke voice, with only the lines he performed on set with Rosario to sync to rather than a clean ADR. But it was noticeably a little robotic. https://www.respeecher.com/case-studies/respeecher-synthesized-younger-luke-skywalkers-voice-disneys-mandalorian JEJ's performance here feels more like his performance. So what I suspect they did was call JEJ in to record a base performance track (or double-bass performance track in his case). Then used it the same way as animators record an actor's physical performance when recording lines - take that as a template, note any particular tics, and build onto that. We'll find out when they do the Gallery episode. Back to spoilery stuff:

FYI, if you've not seen it yet, DS:MoM is now on Disney+. No deleted scenes or gag reel yet, but they do have a full widescreen version, and a new one they call "IMAX-enhanced": like the regular crop-n-track TV/airplane version, but which changes ratio in key scenes where you might miss something. Might give that a try.

So, our finale turned out to be about 20-40 minutes less feature-length than promised. But... yeah, that worked. All in all, a surprisingly tightly presented finale that left me wanting more - both in an S2, and in the episode itself (that rumoured additional 20 minutes would have allowed for one more event of some kind... maybe they're saving something for later?)

Yup. There are plenty of side trips any character can take. This one we specifically know Luke, Leia, Obi and Vader all survive it - Luke being basically unpeturbed, but all three of the others forever changed by it. Death isn't the only risk a character can take. Hell, death isn't fatal either, and not just for evil Emperor types. I'm guessing I don't need spoiler warnings for Princess Bride by this point, though it's not inconceivable... but Bill Goldman does first (mostly) kill, then rez, then perma-doom the hero (nobody quite knows how long a miracle pill lasts for... but then again, what does?) (Side note: I love Miracle Max, steal from him endlessly at work, when writing and even playing CoH, and if ever the full demo reels of Crystal are released, I will be buying whichever Ultra Mega Steelbox DVDOUS or whatever I need to to get it.) Oh, and all the Lincoln sequels are just getting derivative now. On with the spoilery(ish) stuff: BTW: just going away from this for a minute, how do SW fans feel about a batch of entirely new characters set in the same universe with few or no reference points? That's what Taika Waititi's planning. Filoni made it work with Rebels but had a whole series to play with - can it be done in a single tentpole flick?

That they do. And it appears that a number of the odder kinds of fans - or possibly division-stoking ragebots, trolls and s***posters, probably all of the above - have discovered Homelander isn't Statesman, he's Tyrant. I would have thought there were clues in the previous two series, or the books. Ah well. One update from Ep5 - and if you're not watching the show, open the spoiler for something you should see anyway: BTW, if you enjoyed the bit in the spoiler: (ab)normal service will be resumed next week, as it's a direct lift of the Herogasm arc. And if the aforementioned ragehowlers had problems with the show before... [wanders off cackling]

It is a strange pitch because we know more or less what's going to happen, but not necessarily how we get there. Getting people excited about that And it's already pencilling in some things that tie up... One side note:

Atlanta Rhythm Section - I Hate The Blues

That's a bold strategy, Cotton, let me know how it works out for ya.