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Damon Lindelof is such a Toby. Just like the famous sad-sack HR guy on The Office, the Lost veteran is ridiculed to a degree that's totally out of step with his actual failings. And just like Toby, Lindelof keeps putting out solid, thoughtful work, as if to say, "Eh, how about this?" — and every time, the internet responds by telling him, "I hate so much about the things you choose to be." The man created one of the best shows currently airing on television, and yet nearly every interview with him turns into a vaguely medieval ritual of penance in which he is forced to publicly address his creative sins.

This week's takes place in Variety, where Lindelof offers a mea culpa over the promotion of Star Trek: Into Darkness, which infamously lied about the identity of Benedict Cumberbatch's character:

There’s no reason to be mysterious just for mysterious’ sake. That’s the thing that I’m trying to learn, because it’s completely and totally situational. When we did Star Trek Into Darkness for example, we decided that we weren’t going to tell people that Benedict Cumberbatch was playing Khan. And that was a mistake, because the audience was like, "We know he’s playing Khan." That was why it was a mistake.

There's nothing wrong with a creator acknowledging where he's stumbled, but this sort of thing seems to happen in all the time with Lindelof, in a way that doesn't happen to other high-profile writers. (And if you're thinking, My favorite writer hasn't written anything as bad as Lindelof has, trust me — they have.) Take this latest apology: Yes, the idea to hide the fact that Cumberbatch was playing Khan was an example of "mystery box" storytelling gone mad, but Lindelof wasn't even the one doing most of the lying about Khan. That was J.J. Abrams (who also apologized for the decision, but, as we've seen with Lost, nothing sticks to J.J. Abrams; in this elaborate Office metaphor, he's Jim Halpert).

And just as Toby Flenderson's inherent passivity only serves to make Michael Scott mock him more, so too does Lindelof's apparent inability to disengage from criticism only serve to bring it on even harder. (Contrast him to Carlton Cuse, his co-showrunner on Lost, who's been able to be unbothered by anyone's opinions. Too push this metaphor to its limits, he's like Stanley. He just keeps on doing his crossword puzzles, which in this metaphor means developing shows for cable.) For years, Lindelof took up arms against a sea of haters on Twitter, fighting the widespread disappointment with the Lost finale — which, as anyone who follows online content cycles knows, only served to keep it trending further. It took him until 2013 to learn this lesson; as he wrote in THR after the Breaking Bad finale:

I'd like to make a pact, you and me. And here's your part: You acknowledge that I know how you feel about the ending of Lost. I got it. I heard you. I will think about your dissatisfaction always and forever. It will stay with me until I lie there on my back dying, camera pulling slowly upward whether it be a solitary dog or an entire SWAT team that comes to my side as I breathe my last breath.

And here's my part: I will finally stop talking about it. I'm not doing this because I feel entitled or above it — I'm doing it because I accept that I will not change hearts nor minds. I will not convince you they weren't dead the whole time, nor resent you for believing they were despite my infinite declarations otherwise.

This followed on the heels of an absolutely brutal stretch for Lindelof. He received the brunt of the vitriol for Prometheus's missteps, had to apologize for the Alice Eve underwear scene in Into Darkness (despite, again, the fact that he didn't direct that movie), and received widespread criticism for his honest and clearheaded assessment of contemporary blockbuster criticism. And, despite, quitting Twitter in late 2013, very little has changed; he spent much of the run-up to The Leftovers' second season apologizing for how depressing the first one was. It all adds up to this idea of Damon Lindelof the embattled artist, which is totally out of step with his actual accomplishments. So today, we say: Enough! Damon Lindelof has created flawed art. He has also created brilliant, thrilling, mind-bending art. He is not ruining movies. His flaws are not exceptional. Please, for the love of God, let Damon Lindelof live. 

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The parenting website BabyCenter took a deep look at the list of 340,000 names chosen by parents on their site and uncovered these hot new trends.

There are a million ways to dress up your hot chocolate for the holidays, but the best method probably involves copious amounts of booze and Nutella. Hurry up and grab your coziest blanket and that nice pair of slippers, and make this drink immediately.

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Say, what gender is adorable Star Wars robot BB-8? There's only one correct answer, and it's "Would you ask that question about a person?" As EW reports, even now the Force Awakens crew is not sure if the droid's a boy or a girl, or if the gender binary should be blown up like just another Death Star. "’I'm still not sure, dare I say, whether BB-8 is male or female," effects artist Neal Scanlan says. "BB-8 was female in our eyes. And then he or she became male. And that’s all part of the evolution, not only visually, but in the way they move, how they hold themselves."

BB-8's skillful code-switching is mirrored in its personality, which Scanlan admits is "quite manipulative." Like a child that knows how cute it is, BB-8 is not above using the heart-melting feelings it inspires to its own advantage, and Scanlan says it has no qualms about using its "coyness" to accomplish its "very important mission." Still, though, despite the robot's groundbreaking androgyny play, some of its creators are still stuck in a mind-set that belongs to a long time ago, gender-wise: EW reports that the crew still calls BB-8 "he." Looks like maleness is still the default, SMH.

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He's the hero of Canton--the man they call Jayne. Wash understood the importance of Jayne's hat, which was a gift from the gunslinger's mother in the short-lived but much-loved TV series Firefly: "A man walks down the street in that hat, people know he's not afraid of anything."

Which is why it makes the ideal basis for a Christmas wreath. When visitors arrive at your home to share the season's festive mood, you want them to know who they're dealing with.

Etsy seller Laura Ducros is a dedicated browncoat. We've previously seen a dress that she crocheted with the colors and pattern of Jayne's hat. Now she brings us this wreath that gives you a similar warm and fuzzy feeling.

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Like William Burroughs’ “Thanksgiving Prayer,” this “Cthurkey” rears its head every holiday season. It’s almost criminal that we’ve never blogged about it here on Dangerous Minds, so I thought I’d correct that egregious oversight. 

Now some of you may have probably already seen the Lovecraftian Cthurkey...

Supergirl will reportedly cast a young Superman for later this season

In the opening minutes of every episode of Supergirl, Kara dictates her story from the doomed planet of Krypton and her journey to Earth. Her parents planned for her and her infant cousin, Kal-El, to land on Earth and allow her the opportunity to watch over him; however, Kara’s ship was knocked off course and by the time that she arrived on our world, Kal was already an adult, and already Superman.

With all that in mind, TVLine reports that the series is looking to cast a 13-year-old actor with “future leading man looks” for the role of Kal-El in a series of flashbacks set to establish his bond with Kara. The problem, of course, is that in the context of the series, Kara was trapped in The Phantom Zone when Kal was 13-years old. Though anything is possible in a show about people that fly around and have heat vision. Check back here for more details on the casting as we learn them.

Melissa Benoist leads the cast of Supergirl season one as the title character with a cast that also includes Mehcad Brooks as James Olsen, Laura Benanti as Alura Zor-El, Calista Flockhart as Cat Grant, Chyler Leigh as Alexandra “Alex” Danvers, Jeremy Jordan as Winslow “Winn” Schott, Jenna Dewan Tatum as Lucy Lane (sister of Lois), Iddo Goldberg as Red Tornado, David Harewood as Hank Henshaw, Peter Facinelli as Maxwell Lord, and Dean Cain and Helen Slater.

If you missed an episode of Supergirl, or just need a refresher, be sure to check out our weekly recaps by clicking here.

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Despite all of the weird stuff he has done and that whole Scientology thing (and all of the weird stuff it has done), Tom Cruise is still one of the biggest movie stars in the world. Soon, though, his career may reach an unexpected new stage, commonly referred to as the “Replacement For Brendan Fraser Stage.” That’s because Entertainment Weekly and Variety are reporting that Cruise is in talks to star in Universal’s The Mummy, a reboot of the Brendan Fraser-starring series (which itself was a reboot of the old series from back when mummies were more common). In a way, this is a compliment to Brendan Fraser, since Universal decided to go for someone way better than him for the next movie instead of someone equal or worse than him…but it’s also probably an insult, since we just referred to Cruise as “way better than ...

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The Dark Tower eyes Matthew McConaughey for the role of The Gunslinger

The man in black fled across the desert, and Matthew McConaughey followed…

TheWrap brings word that Academy Award winner Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club, “True Detective”) is being eyed for the lead role of Roland Deschain, aka The Gunslinger, in the big screen adaptation of Stephen King‘s The Dark Tower. However, The Hollywood Reporter brings conflicting word that McConaughey is up for the film’s villain role, Randall Flagg, aka The Man in Black. Check back here once the dust settles on the film’s casting.

Director Nikolaj Arcel, who co-wrote the Swedish version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and directed the Academy Award-nominated A Royal Affair, is set to helm the big screen adaptation, which also has a tie-in television series in development simultaneously. Academy Award winner Akiva Goldsman (A Beautiful Mind) and Jeff Pinkner (The Amazing Spider-Man 2) have written the screenplay, which is said to be based primarily on the first book in the seven volume series.

Sony Pictures and MRC were teaming to make the live-action version of Stephen King’s epic tale, which focuses on the saga of the legendary Gunslinger.

“I’m excited that ‘The Dark Tower’ is finally going to appear on the screen,” King previously said. “Those who have traveled with Roland and his friends in their search for the Dark Tower are going to have their long-held hopes fully realized. This is a brilliant and creative approach to my books.”

Ron Howard was initially planning to direct the first film in the series. He is now involved in producing the series through his Imagine Entertainment alongside Brian Grazer and Erica Huggins. Goldsman is also producing through Weed Road with Pinkner set to serve as executive producer.

The Dark Tower is currently set for release on January 13, 2017.

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We’ve had a rewatch for one prequel, but there are still two more! After critics and fans alike came at The Phantom Menace with finely-sharped machetes, George Lucas decided to get a cowriter on Episode II. His name was Jonathan Hales, and I saw him on stage at Celebration II, the second Star Wars fan convention (back when they held it in Indianapolis—it was only a short road trip from home). He was talking about how it was important not to get bogged down in who-wrote-what-line, but did make a winking comment that Obi-Wan’s whole “You don’t want to sell me deathsticks” bit was his.

To be fair, it’s a pretty great bit.

The jump from Episode I to II was a great flying leap. Fans learned it was going to take place ten years later, that Anakin would be recast as indie darling Hayden Christensen, and suddenly Boba Fett had a dad? Yoda was CGI, and about to fight with a lightsaber? Christopher Lee was involved?

Then, of course, there was the fandom uproar over the title. Apparently people thought “Attack of the Clones” did not have the required oomph/sexiness for a Star Wars film. It was too silly, too trivial. Lucas claimed that the title was meant to harken back to old SFF serials from his childhood, and frankly, that seems as good a reason as any. Also… people really thought that title was cornier than “The Phantom Menace”? Come on.

The title did give fans a very important clue, of course: that the Clone Wars, name-dropped by Luke in Episode IV would indeed be a focal point of the prequel trilogy. The Expanded Universe (now the Legends canon) had already given their vague say on the Clone Wars, being that they were wars fought over the emergence of clone technology. It was a sound idea, and a sharp science-fiction move too. But Star Wars has never been heavy on the science front, and when you looked into it more closely, the idea that a galaxy with artificial intelligence and interstellar travel and freaking laserswords would balk at the idea of cloning seems a bit off base.

Lucas ignored these suggestions utterly, and made the name more literal—it’s called the Clone Wars because it is a war being fought by clones. Get it? But audiences knew nothing of that plan in the beginning. We only knew that we were finally going to figure out what sort of “damned fool idealistic crusade” Anakin followed Obi-Wan on. (In truth, he didn’t really do that, and Obi-Wan wasn’t such a big fan of the Clone Wars. Obi-Wan was just spinning tales, as he is wont to do when young Luke is nearby.)

So I rewatched it! Carefully, studiously, and again, doing my best to keep personal reservations and opinions out of the mix. And here is the curious result:

My stance on this movie has shifted entirely—Attack of the Clones is a weaker film than The Phantom Menace.

Episode I had a lot of excess material that needed trimming, and a lot of ideas that needed expanding. The one benefit the The Phantom Menace had going for it was that you could make plenty of inferences based on what you saw and heard. You could guess what Lucas was going for, even when the narrative was vague or sloppy. But Episode II, on paper, makes no sense whatsoever.

So Padmé comes back to Coruscant (she’s a senator these days) to vote on a very important bill, one that will create an army for the Republic, rather than allowing individual systems to defend themselves however they see fit. She’s against it, being from a pacifist culture and all that jazz. Her decoy is immediately offed in an assassination attempt—again, how do we not get more from Padmé and her handmaidens? it’s way too interesting to keep pushing off into a corner—and Padmé visits the Chancellor to talk about what went down. She tells him and several Jedi Council members that she thinks the Separatist Leader, former Jedi Count Dooku, was behind the attempt. She never explains why she assumes that, unless we’re meant to believe that the Separatists want war, which has not been implied at all up to this point.

More importantly, we never learn why we should be upset about the Separatist movement; they think they’re government is failing them, so they’ve decided to opt out. Why is this a problem? Will it create trade issues? Is the Republic concerned about vying against another large government? We hear people make vague comments like “The day we stop believing democracy can work is the day we lose it,” but we don’t see any evidence of that occurring. We just see a group that has decided that the political body in charge no longer has their best interests at heart. It’s not like the US Civil War; the Separatists’ desire to leave the Republic is down to the government’s antiquated systems, their overblown grandeur, their inability to get things done.

(I should point out that all of these questions are answered—and then some—in the Clone Wars cartoon. Seriously, that show is a gift, and works so hard to show the machinations going on across the galaxy. It puts everything that occurs from this film forward into perspective.)

Obi-Wan and Anakin are dispatched to look after Senator Amidala, and rather than attempt to show any growth Anakin has made (aside from becoming a totally different person), the first thing we find out is that he’s been carrying his torch for Padmé all this time, and now he’s gonna… well, we don’t know. But Obi-Wan is keen to tease him about it. The movie then proceeds to pepper horrifying dialogue throughout where Anakin proves that his creepy nine-year-old self has nothing on his creepy twenty-year-old self. Lines like, “She covered the cameras; I don’t think she liked me watching her.” and “I am haunted by the kiss you never should have given me.” and “I don’t like sand. It’s rough and course and irritating, and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Everything is soft and smooth.”

Because, at is core, Attack of the Clones was meant to be a love story. That’s right, this budding romance is meant to be the central narrative, the one that turns the wheel of the universe. The soundtrack single released in 2002 was the track “Love Across the Stars,” and it is so achingly beautiful that I can almost forget the dialogue and the awkward giggles, and just use this piece of music to tell me everything I need to know about Anakin and Padmé’s relationship. This motif has more to say about their forbidden love than the entire movie.

Oh that’s right—did I mention it was forbidden? Because that was a brand new thing that the film introduced. We got wind that this might be coming when Yoda got all freaked out by Anakin’s attachment to his mom in the previous film, but here is where we come to the crux of Anakin’s fall: It begins when he decides to fall in love with the woman of his dreams, against the commandments of the Jedi Order.

And in theory, I love this idea. The notion that the Jedi bring about their own destruction by demanding that their disciples avoid romantic attachment is a profound move—especially when we know that Luke’s familial love for his father is ultimately what saves him. It shows us just how deeply out of touch the Order is. Plus, I’m a sap, and forbidden love plotlines sounded like an awesome thing to have in a Star Wars movie.

The problem, of course, comes from the fact that the dialogue here moves beyond cliche and into parody. And no, Anakin being young is not an excuse for lines like, “My heart is beating, hoping that kiss will not become a scar. You are in my very soul, tormenting me.” If he were fifteen, and fronted a high school emo band, then I guess. He’s trying to impress a grown woman, a shrewd politician, and even more unbelievably, she goes for it. After straight up saying to him, “Please don’t look at me like that. It makes me uncomfortable.” No. This is not how real people act.

And that’s not even the best part! No, we haven’t even gotten to the point where Anakin buggers off to Tatooine because he’s certain his mother is in danger. He finds out that she’s been freed, and is married to a man named Cliegg Lars. (This was a huge alteration. Lucas’ original intention was for Owen to be Obi-Wan’s brother, and a large portion of the fanbase knew that. It was a big deal to have that detail scrapped.) The Lars family tells Anakin that his mother was taken by Tusken Raiders, and he goes looking for her. She dies in his arms on the floor of a tent, and Anakin’s reaction is to murder every last Sand Person in the camp.

There are about eighteen things wrong with this, the primary one being that the Sand People are simply cast as villains in this, even though they’re meant to be Tatooine natives. But the most horrific part of all is that Anakin comes back and admits this to Padmé and her response is essentially—I’m gonna marry that man.

Her sweetie just committed small-scale genocide and she comforts him. Yes, he lost his mother, but these are not proportionate reactions. If he had told her “I killed the men guarding her,” or even “I killed their warriors,” her willingness to overlook it might be understandable. Not better, but understandable. But after a guy tells you that he essentially destroyed an entire tribe of people, that he decapitated kids, that’s the point where you run to your shiny Naboo spaceship and get as far away as possible. (It’s worse with the deleted scene, an extension of Anakin’s admission, where Padmé counters this horrifying truth with “To be angry is to be human.” …ARE YOU F*CKING SERIOUS?) And worst of all, the entire sequence undermines the real, righteous grief Anakin should be feeling over the death of this mother, an event that will have a huge impact on the course of his development.

And then we have the B plot, which is Obi-Wan trotting all over the place to solve the mystery of Amidala’s attacker. Some of this stuff is charming and fun (whatever, I love Dex’s Diner, that whole retro-future 1950s setup is adorable), but the rest of it is totally confusing. Obi-Wan can’t find the planet Kamino in the records, and Jedi Master Jocasta—the super-librarian—says the most un-librarian-like thing I’ve ever heard: If we don’t got it, it’s plum made up. So Obi-Wan has to get some Jedi preschoolers to tell him that the planet is totally there, even though it should be obvious because of gravity. I think that entire scene was just an excuse to show tiny Jedi students.

Obi-Wan gets to Kamino and there’s this weird subplot about Jedi Master Sifo Dyas ordering the Republic a clone army. And here is where the film completely jumps the shark because we never get an explanation for this ploy or why it would ever work on people who have brains that make thoughts. Sifo Dyas is dead: the real point in that Sidious and Dooku are responsible for the clone army order and used his name so it seemed legit, but that is NEVER SAID OUT LOUD BY ANYONE. More importantly, Kamino has been making these clones for the past decade—if Dyas is dead, who is their contact? Here is one perfect place to interject a random Darth Sidious scene, showing him talking to the cloners. Without knowing, it seems as though the Kaminoans have been hammering away at that army for ten years without ever checking in with a Republic representative, which is not how business is done, period. In fact, they should have had people coming to inspect their work this whole time, someone checking off on their choice of DNA donor, requests and lab work and a million other little things.

Which brings me to my most anger-making question: why, in the name of all that is holy, did the clone template have to be BOBA FETT’S DAD. WHY. All it really proves is that George Lucas has no idea why the fandom liked Fett in the first place. He’s the silent cowboy type, the guy who never takes his mask off by choice because he’s got a true sense of theatricality. And now I’m watching kid!Fett sit in the Slave I cockpit with his dad, saying crap like “Get him, dad! Get him!” This is not a thing I ever wanted. I doubt anyone really wanted it. The only true purpose in putting Jango in the film is to have a Boba Fett-like character around to get in a fight with a Jedi. (This one really rankled for me personally because Fett in the Legends canon was really important to teenage me. I’ve gotten past it, but I sort of pretended it hadn’t happened for a while.)

Obi-Wan follows the trail and gets captured on Geonosis, then questioned by Count Dooku, and Christopher Lee is utterly wasted here. Yet again, nothing that he offers makes sense. His interrogation of Obi-Wan is just confusing; is he trying to mollify him? Turn him to the Dark Side? Proposition him? Nothing gets explained, people are just constantly in peril. Like the whole droid factory mess, which may be one of the most boring action sequences in any science fiction film ever. (Stop abusing Threepio like this, he’s better than those puns you keep piling on him.) And finally, we get a big battle at the end, and… the clones are useful? Hooray? This is one movie where we actually need a bit more politics—we need to understand how this looks to the galaxy, we need more public opinion, more cloak and dagger. The out-and-out firefight tells us nothing. It’s just a stock end-of-movie sequence.

And even above all of these strange problems, we have the most important takeaway: this poor cast. Pity them. Why was everyone directed this way? It’s some of the most wooden acting I’ve ever seen, and coming from truly excellent actors. The only person who manages to come off with his usual gravitas is Christopher Lee (probably because you don’t really direct Christopher Lee—you just point a camera at him and agree that everything that happens from that point forward is perfect). If you pay attention to the dialogue, we’re meant to infer that Anakin and Obi-Wan have this sparring brotherly relationship, that they’re playful and supportive of each other. Unfortunately, McGregor seems to have been directed to act the part of a grumpy dad. None of the character’s wit comes through (with the pointed exception of the “good job” exchange) and we can’t really blame Anakin for chafing under his direction. Christensen and Portman have all the chemistry of two wood blocks being banged against each other, and I don’t think it’s because they truly couldn’t have sold the couple—I think they’re being told to play it far too innocent to be believable. Neither of these characters needs to seem so naïve and wide-eyed.

And then we have more pointless symmetry. Last movie, Anakin blew up a Death Star droid control ship. This movie he gets his arm cut off. Okay. You can start his transition to “more machine now than man,” as Obi-Wan put it to Luke. But mirroring something just to mirror it is usually a bad choice.

The kids get married and no one notices that Anakin is gone because I guess he has lots of free time now that the Clone Wars have started(?) And we’ve just watched over two hours of romance/mystery/war mongering that will hopefully lead… somewhere. Just be thankful be have the novelization to look forward to—we’ll get much more information there, yet again.

Emily Asher-Perrin had a friend who used to faux-pick up women in bars by walking up and saying “I don’t like sand, it’s rough, but you’re smooth!” He never got a date off of it. You can bug her on Twitter and Tumblr, and read more of her work here and elsewhere.

We are loving this trend of kids’ bonkers drawings crossing over into tangible, real-life objects. Instead of being told that doodling is a waste of time or that their drawings don’t match the real world, kids get to see their designs turned into actual plush toys. (Or, in the case of one doting dad, those doodles become lifelong tattoos.)

IKEA is the latest to take part in this trend; it’s part of their Soft Toys for Education program with UNICEF, in which the purchase of each toy donates $1 to schools around the world. We have to say, the timing is very appropriate for Halloween, as the latest batch includes a bat and more than one adorable monster.

We’re particular fans of the little green dinosaur with a jaunty hat…

…this rainbow-colored alligator creature…

…and this one-eyed blob dude:

They’re just so cuddly! You can check out more drawings brought to life from artist Wendy Tsao and entrepreneur Alex Furmansky.

Star Trek star and Priceline pitchman William Shatner has been vocal about his distaste for the Star Wars franchise for quite some time. Even J.J. Abrams's spot at the director's helm for both franchises won't usher in a new era of peace as long as Shatner is trolling Star Wars fans hard on Twitter. Shatner made fun of the first Force Awakens trailer last November, as well as the unveiling of the new trailer and poster last week. He wasn't even taken by little BB-8!

Or the lightsabers.

With the new poster, he implies the new franchise was copying older space-adventure stories:

He has photos, too.

It didn't stop there.

But of course, this beef is really about Star Trek versus Star Wars.

If you respond to him, he'll just use that as another opportunity to troll.

And troll ...

And troll ...

He isn't even afraid to sass back at regular people!

December 18 is going to be so much fun.

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Not all horror movies are the same kind of scary. Reel Scary tells what movies people rate to be the scariest, and helps you separate the disturbing from the gory and the suspenseful.

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If you dream it, you can do it. That's the motto to follow when making this pizzaception creation — little pizzas, with all sorts of fun toppings, on top of one big pizza. What a time to be alive!

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Doctor, actor, aspiring member of the Blue Man Group… clone? Could Tobias Fünke be a recently discovered member of Project Leda? No, it’s just Tatiana Maslany showing off her chameleon-like powers on Halloween!

The Orphan Black star shared this amazing transformation on her Instagram. You’ve got to appreciate her attention to detail, down to the smear of blue paint on her neck. Now that’s a man we wouldn’t mind kissing between the cheeks. But is she wearing cutoff jean shorts?? She did make a Nevernudes joke… Tatiana, you blowhard!

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I had no idea there was such a thing called trypophobia where one has a fear of tiny clusters of holes on human flesh or objects. In fact, there’s...

11.22.63 is based on Stephen King’s best-seller

Hulu Original series 11.22.63 is a thriller in which high school history teacher Jake Epping (James Franco) travels back in time to prevent the assassination of President John F. Kennedy — but his mission is threatened by Lee Harvey Oswald, falling in love and the past itself, which doesn’t want to be changed.

The series also stars Chris Cooper, Josh Duhamel, T.R. Knight, Cherry Jones, Sarah Gadon, Lucy Fry, George MacKay and Daniel Webber.

The nine-hour limited event series based upon the New York Times best-selling 2011 novel written by Stephen King premieres Presidents Day, Feb. 15, 2016, on Hulu. J.J. Abrams, Stephen King, Bridget Carpenter and Bryan Burk serve as executive producers. Academy Award-winning Director Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland, State of Play, Black Sea) directs and executive produces the first two hours.

You can view photos from 11.22.63 in the gallery below.

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I can't be the only one out there who has dreamed of Dean coming back to Stars Hollow just to rub the town's nose in his Sam Winchester alias and wipe the town clean of demons, djinns, and Dooses in the bloodiest possible way. Therefore, I have helpfully provided some ways this could be achieved just in case Netflix is listening.

1. Five days before Armageddon, Castiel goes to live among the regular people of a peaceful but quirky New England town in order to rest up for humanity's final fight. After three days in Stars Hollow, Castiel decides to fight no more forever.
2. Sam and Dean arrive in Stars Hollow on the trail of a Korneber, the feared German pig corn demon, which was raised by Taylor in order to pull off a corn maze in the town center that surpasses Woodbury's.

   

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   Lorelai makes a "He Who Walks Behind The Rows" fart joke, Dean winks at her, and they disappear in Metallicar for two weeks.

3. On a special avenging angel mission, Castiel drags Sookie to the Gates of Heaven to confront every innocent victim of her kitchen clumsiness but first he recognizes Michel as a brother angel and reminds him he's doing God's work.

   

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   Michel puts away the angel blade he'd been about to use on Kirk for tracking bedbugs into the Dragonfly and pouts.

4. Receiving reports of brutal murders in the kitchen at the Dragonfly Inn, Dean goes undercover as the Squire of Bracebridge. When Sam stops Sookie from taking a cleaver to her sous chef, Sookie realizes she's pregnant again and goes after Jackson with a meat cleaver for failing to get yet another vasectomy.

   

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   Just in time, Mrs. Kim outs herself as an archangel and reveals that Sookie is actually pregnant with Charlie's reincarnation. Charlie springs forth fully formed and runs off with Paris to Oz.

5. Learning about a town curiously obsessed with the private lives of two of its citizens, Sam and Dean discover a hex bag buried under several cat carcasses in Babette's garden. Taylor holds a town meeting to vote on whether or not to burn Babette on an enormous knitting needle during the Knit-a-Thon which is being held save the town's traffic camera that has has been stalking Stars Hollowians and blackmailing them with compromising photos taken at the intersection. Sam and Dean reveal that Taylor is the one controlling the camera using a grimoire he found at Bootsy's newsstand. They also hint that Taylor is either a Shtriga or a Wendigo, so the town burns him on the knitting needle instead and Dean shoots out the traffic camera with the Colt.
6. A cursed basket at the charity picnic basket auction, which enslaves the recipient and forces them to eat nothing but Mrs. Kim's eggless egg sandwiches for the rest of their life, turns out to be the work of Lillith who is now back after Taylor got confused when he tried summoning Lillith Fair to Stars Hollow.

   

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   After consulting with the files in the Men of Letters bunker, Sam and Dean determine that the only way to kill Lillith again is to go back in time and kill Jess.

7. Having broken down and gotten fixed by Luke for so many years, Lorelai's Jeep becomes possessed by a misogynistic spirit and tries to eat her. Next, the Dragonfly Inn's horse-drawn sleigh becomes possessed by a homophobic spirit and tries to eat either Taylor or Michel (it isn't entirely clear which). Sam and Dean finally step in only after Christopher's truck becomes possessed by a misandrist spirit and actually does eat him. After consulting with the files in the Men Of Letters bunker, Sam and Dean determine that the only way to exorcise the spirits is to go into the future and kill Jess.
8. Because of the audible anachronism that occurred with Lorelai's cell phone last time, Woodbury has wrested control of the Festival Of Living Art from Stars Hollow. A perturbed Taylor bustles about arranging a human sacrifice in the town gazebo, for which Kirk has volunteered himself. When Taylor is unable to bring himself to say the word "hell," the curse aborts, and Kirk is instead imprisoned in his Festival of Living Art role: Edvard Munch's The Scream.

   

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   After consulting with the files in the Men Of Letters bunker, Sam and Dean determine that the only way to break the curse is to kill Jess.

9. Sam tells Rory he has died six times. Rory asks him to read her campaign-trail blog posts and tell her what he thinks of them. Sam tells Rory he drank demon blood. Rory tells him he needs to try Luke's coffee because he now has a burr grinder that no one is allowed to breathe near. Sam tells Rory he spent 120 years in Hell in a cage being tortured by Lucifer. Rory tells him she's really sorry he can't live without her but she's moved on and begs him to do the same.

   

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   Sam leaves Rory a parting gift of a book written by a nun named Agnes.

10. Sam and Dean finally track down God. They expected God to be judgmental.

    

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    They just didn't expect God to be wearing a Chanel suit.

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SPOILER ALERT SPOILER ALERT SPOILER ALERT! If you haven’t seen last night’s episode of The Walking Dead, turn back now because we are going to be dissecting, dismantling, and disemboweling some super-spoilery content in today’s episode of Nerdist News.

Okay, are we safe? Great. GLENN WHY?! WHY GLENN WHYYYYYY?!

Last night’s Walking Dead was nothing short of brutal, and it truly seems that everyone’s favorite pizza boy-turned-supply runner, Glenn, has gone to that great, flesh-eating beyond. But is he really dead? Are we being tomfooled?! Is this just Jon Snow by way of Robert Kirkman? Join Dan Casey and Kyle Hill on today’s Nerdist News as they break down every single piece of evidence we’ve seen so far that Glenn is dead, alive, or just waiting to get a sweet pair of robot legs (it could totally happen).

Although, to be fair, maybe that isn’t the point of it all. In an interview with Vanity Fair, actor Steven Yuen had some strong words for people only watching The Walking Dead to see who bites it:

“I don’t particularly want to subscribe to the idea that this show can kill off anybody it wants. Yes, it can. Yes, that’s a thing. That’s definitely a thing. But I think that’s not the point of the show. Game of Thrones kills people left and right and yet that’s not the point of the show. Sometimes you look at the viewers and you feel kind of bad because they’re watching the show like an episode ofSurvivor. They’ve picked two people or one person and if that person continues to live, they’re happy. If that person wasn’t in an episode, they’re unhappy. But when you watch the show like that you’re missing out on such beautiful storytelling.

We talk in terms of “are you afraid to get killed off?” And for me, if it serves the story, I’m game for anything. I hope people can watch the show in that same regard. Stop watching it to see if your favorite character is still alive. That’s kind of been on my mind lately because you notice a lot of fans saying “we want you to live, or we want this person to die” and it’s like, that’s not what the show’s about.”

Well said, Steven, but who are we kidding? Of course we care about the character deaths! Or the supposed deaths! Or the fake-out deaths! So much to theorize about, so little time…

Thanks for watching today’s show! Don’t forget to enter our Attack on Titan contest in order to win a trip to Japan! And let us your theories on whether or not Glenn is alive in the comments below!

This post was originally published on October 26, 2015. Spoilers ahead for the season-seven premiere of The Walking Dead.

Glenn Rhee, former pizza-delivery boy, husband to Maggie Greene, and all-around badass, was killed by Negan in the season-seven premiere of The Walking Dead. But as any loyal walker watcher knows, he won't be forgotten. Glenn is one of Rick's OGs — and Steven Yeun has made the remarkable trick of being the only original cast member other than Andrew Lincoln (Rick) and Chandler Riggs (Carl) to still be kicking it since the first season (note: Norman Reedus, Melissa McBride, and Lennie James were all guest stars). While there are plenty of babes in zombieland, there isn't one who would make a better boyfriend than Glenn. Dead or alive, know that you were the best thing in this dreary world, Glenn.

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He'll run away with you in the night.

He'll wear that new shirt you bought him.

He'll take you out for scenic drives.

He came from humble origins.

He'll pick up after you.

He'll always use protection.

He's handy with shelving.

He actually means what he says.

He knows how to pick a good ring.

He looks great in riot gear.

He'll beat up punk-asses who try to get people killed.

And best of all? He's a good kisser.

Glenn: Come back to us!