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10 Flashbacks That Totally Changed Our Favorite Stories
A great story has lots of layers, and a rich backstory. When you only see part of the picture, you might reach a snap judgment about what’s going on — but then you see events from years ago, that make you rethink everything. Here are 10 flashbacks that turn your understanding of a story upside-down. … Continued
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11 Fan Theories That Are Better Than The Actual Story
Fan theories can be wonderful and strange, but sometimes a fan will come up with an idea that’s even better than the official story. Here are just some of the fan theories that actually make a lot of sense—and would actually improve the stories they come from. Top image via img.ly. The publicity shot on … Continued
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10 People on Whom Immortality Was Totally Wasted
It’s hard for the average person to understand why anyone wouldn’t want to be immortal. Immortality has been a fruitful lens for fiction to examine the human condition. But sometimes there are immortals who completely fail to get the horror of immortality across. Instead, you can’t help but think you’d do better. Here are ten … Continued
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7 Deadly Sins Of Talking About Pop Culture
We love to argue about pop culture, because geeking out about movies, books and television makes them even more fun. But sometimes these discussions can go to a terrible place. Here are seven mistakes to avoid when having a spirited debate about entertainment. The following “sins” are things that we’ve encountered in our years of … Continued
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Flashback Wigs: The Best And Worst Of “This Is The Past” Hair
When TV shows and movies do flashbacks, they face a dilemma: They can cast a younger actor that looks like their star, sacrificing easy recognition, OR they can just slap a wig on their actor. They usually go with the latter, with… mixed results. Here are the best and worst of flashback wigs. Seriously, using … Continued
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The Three By Sarah Lotz Could Be This Summer’s Most Engrossing Thriller
I’ll be very interested to see if airport bookstores stock Sarah Lotz’s new novel, The Three. It’s a creepy, engrossing look at the stories we come up with in the face of disaster, involving four airplane crashes on a single day. In the aftermath of these crashes, morbid fascination mixes with conspiracy theories that make … Continued
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12 Of The Most Game-Changing TV Episodes Ever
If a TV show nowadays doesn’t have at least one big twist now and then, chances are it doesn’t remain on the air for long. But only a handful of TV series have the courage to completely transform themselves — to show something so crazy, it irrevocably redefines the show from that point on. We’ve … Continued
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Are You Ready For A Lost Reboot?
It’s only been four years since the Lost finale, but co-creator Carlton Cuse already thinks ABC will likely reboot the series. “We have to go back to the island!” an ABC executive will presumably scream. As show Cuse told Entertainment Weekly: I think it’s likely that at some point, ABC will want to reboot Lost … Continued
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All The Ways You Can Screw Up Your Own Timeline
Time travel and temporal anomalies can be messy and unpleasant. When time starts getting out of whack, anything can happen. People can be born over and over, meet themselves, relive the same day, or just screw up all their relationships. Here are all the ways people get tangled in their own timelines in science fiction. … Continued
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What Makes You Watch, And Then Re-watch, A Television Show?
There are shows you watch once and enjoy — and then there are those shows that are a continual presence in your DVD player or Netflix queue. So what makes the difference? In response to this post, about enjoying Lost but not its ending, a discussion began about just what took a show from a … Continued
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Could The Star Wars Sequels Be Worse Than The Prequels? Absolutely.
Did I tell you guys that after the apocalypse happened, magic returned to Earth? Yeah, it’s pretty wild! One day I was stopping in a town on my mail route and then this guy told me to pick a card and put it back in the deck without him seeing. And he still knew what … Continued
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Forget crossovers – what happens at the fictional pet daycare?
This is from Pinkwa on tumblr, and the only complaint I have is that there aren’t more pets here. I’m partial to Person of Interest’s Bear. And also Myfanwy, the Torchwood pterodactyl. Let’s get all the pets together, preferably in a location convenient to my apartment, okay? From left to right: Annie’s Boobs the monkey … Continued
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Michael Keaton nearly played Jack on Lost
In the early days of Lost’s development, the creators had a very different idea for the character of Jack: first, he would die in the pilot episode; second, he would be played by Michael Keaton. J.J. Abrams initially approached Keaton about the idea of playing Jack, and Keaton was intrigued by the idea of doing … Continued
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The series bible that sold ABC on Lost is full of lies
If you take a peek inside an early series guide to the TV series Lost, it’s immediately clear that there are some major differences between that early production piece and the show itself. That’s because the document served as a not entirely honest pitch to sell ABC executives on the series. An early Lost series … Continued
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The Season Finale of Under the Dome, Recapped by the Dome
Hi, everybody! It’s me, the Dome. I hope you enjoyed the first season of my show. I felt like I was able to wrap myself around a lot of important themes, including fascism and propane and stuff. The season finale aired the other day, and I thought I should share my thoughts about it. Spoilers … Continued
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Mark Pellegrino is excited to play a sinister evolutionary biologist
You might know Mark Pellegrino from, oh… just about every genre TV show ever. He was Jacob on Lost. Lucifer on Supernatural. The only fun character on Revolution. Etc. Now he’s playing an evil evolutionary biologist who hunts mutants on The Tomorrow People, and he told us why he’s over the moon. Minor spoilers ahead… … Continued
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Is Continuum really the story of two brothers who take dark paths?
Kiera Cameron is ostensibly the main character of Continuum, but A) she’s less and less sympathetic lately, and B) it’s less and less clear what her goals are. Meanwhile, last night’s episode makes a strong case that the real protagonists of this show are Alec and his step-brother Julian. Spoilers ahead… The basic plot of … Continued
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Tech News
These Dumb Insurance Claims For Lost Cell Phones are Hilarious
We’ve all misplaced our cell phone and spent what seems like hours searching for it—but some people take losing handsets to a whole new level. Chances are, you’ve never lost a phone as impressively as the people that feature in these stories. A UK-based mobile phone insurance company has released a list of its most … Continued
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Did we just find the ruins of a famed lost city… using lasers?
Using an airborne mapping technique involving laser pulses, researchers have uncovered curious surface features deep in the rain forests of Honduras in Central America. Could archaeologists have actually found the legendary La Ciudad Blanca, “the White City”? Explorers have dreamed of finding the White City since the days of the conquistadors. The lost metropolis was … Continued
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What are the rules of time travel in the J.J. Abrams Universe?
This week, we return to the Star Trek universe that J.J. Abrams rebooted using time travel. And meanwhile, Abrams is adapting Stephen King’s book 11/22/63. So it’s a great time to ask: How does time travel work in the Abrams-verse? If you’re in a J.J. Abrams story and you build a time machine, what should … Continued