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What time did your package depart LA @crumbs This is my schedule, strange that mine hasn't yet left.

Mine is still yet to depart LA, it's been processed through the regional facility, probably getting ready to be shipped from LA to here. Damn it! I should've known no matter how early I ordered it, it'd still take a million years to get to Oz!

I wonder if McQuarrie wanted Zimmer all along and then Zimmer pulled out and gave the duties to Balfe? Then McQuarrie was like 'oh shit, yeah, Balfe, he's amazing, incredible, he delivered an outstanding score, so complex and diverse etc.'

I don't think that last extract from Variety is complimenting the score...

I wish these were the official covers for the printed set. The fact is, that the title 'Philosopher's Stone' is a direct reference to the alchemical artifact and Nicolas Flamel. The reason they changed it for American readers is that they were unsure if the title would take with children and young readers, which I think is banal! The silhouette of Hogwarts in the first one is beautiful, but the second image makes it look like Hagrid had to walk Harry to Hogwarts because they missed the train!

Azkaban for sure. Then they can lock me in Azkaban so I can spend the rest of my life listening to it.

Hillary Clinton was looking in the program to see who composed this masterpiece.

Lighten up, sourpuss. The obi-wan gif was a reference to your comment about the latter films not counting. Posting a gif response didn't take any effort at all. Ooh, look, I responded.

I love Silvestri, but I can't remember a note from Infinity War unfortunately.

Dobby's gone, my friend. Took a knife through the heart from Bellatrix... GO BELLATRIX, DEFENDER OF LLL!

I think Spider-Man has been my favourite Marvel Comics character, and I've enjoyed many of the MCU films, but I was never really impressed by the Avengers films as I believe they're ideas better expressed in comic form, than films that at once try to convey a gritty reality and the superhero shenanigans. In Infinity War, we were meant to feel something for Vision and Scarlet Witch, but they were characters so poorly introduced in Age of Ultron that I didn't care enough about them to feel invested in any of their scenes. I've always maintained that comic book film adaptations must ride a very thin line between comic schlock and realism and certain properties in the MCU manage to do so with varying degrees of success when they aren't packaged as a team-up story, where no one hero is afforded any time worth watching. Part of my disenchantment or disenfranchisement stems from the fact that there is a saturation of superhero media that has reduced the values of any one standalone property to just another commodity. Superheroes don't feel special anymore if they're the norm. I'm getting frustrated of filmmakers and studios asking us to invest in more and more origin stories, more sequels and reboots and all of this is effortless to these faceless corporate entities, as long as people will buy tickets they can get away with extremely lazy products and to see everyone gnash and gnaw at these films like they were going out of fashion is disturbing. In one foul swoop, people will derride The Last Jedi, and praise Infinity War for doing nothing new, nothing bold, nothing at all. From my perspective, we're doomed to more and more of extremely average nonsense with a few gems along the way when the MCU is concerned. I've never devoted any energy to hating any of these films, just in trying to understand what's so great about them and why other people don't feel what to me is tired, worn-out genre that needs to take a breather.

I haven't bothered to keep up with all these films. I'm the only one around these parts who thought Infinity War was just terrible, I much prefer the standalone films.

I thought there were going to be four Infinity War films...or two...I don't know anymore... Wasn't Infinity War marketed as 'Part 1'? I swear it was...

Especially us Australians, I don't know if it'll even get here before Christmas 😭

So is Avengers: Endgame 'Avengers: Infinity War Part 2 - Endgame'? Or was Infinity War Part 1 just 'Infinity War'? If there are meant to be four films, does that mean Infinity War Part 4 is still the 'Endgame'? 'Endgame Part 3'? So the 'Endgame' will be going on for two more films after this one? What does this mean?

Ordered at 12:00, received the confirmation email 4 seconds later.

Shipped!! The email was in my promotions folder on Gmail for some reason....

I love Oxygen! I think it would've made a good Borg story for ST:TNG.

There's something special with how they played Capaldi's Doctor, something that made him feel like he'd been the Doctor for longer than he was. I think he ought to have done another season or two, but I think scheduling, Moffat's departure etc. kind of screwed it up.

I don't know how Mondo organizes their sales, it could be that they've worked out for different items that 2000 sells better. The more limited something is, the more valuable it is, it's just the way it works. The bottom line is that Mondo know what works best for them!

Because there's money in limited numbers, it'd cost more for them to print larger quantities. This way they can retain a higher margin of the profits. It seems to be working out for them, and there is the market for these special artwork releases, especially considering it's fucking vinyl - hipster gold.

Yes, I don't think there were any shenanigans between Gold and the BBC, just his busy life - his child, and scoring other shows. Season 10 was also his last season scoring the show, I'm sure he'll put something together to commemorate it. My dream one day is that they'll do an expanded set for each season of Gold's work. There's so much that never made it onto the releases.

Or a step backwards - if pineapples have legs and feet, that is...