I create a world of finite somethings

Stand back everyone, nothing here to see
Just imminent Whedon, in the middle of it...everyone he's ever worked with.

I guess the rule is, if you've ever worked with Joss Whedon on anything, you'll never be out of work. Except for when your tv show is cancelled.

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I hate this time of year, when all the summer movie trailers start showing ...

So. I run a university anime club. I've also studied Japanese going on four years now. Even prior to starting Japanese, however, I could pronounce the languages' words correctly simply by listening to the anime I watched.

It bugs the shit out of me when people so easily mispronounce stuff.

There's a couple of students in my club. One of them is supposedly focusing on studying Japanese history. She's been to Japan for two weeks. Yesterday at our meeting, she said, ...

Or if there were a term for Method Acting, only putting it to writing rather than acting.

To some degree, I think good writing is about writing what you know. Obviously imagination does wonders and all, but let's face it: my imagination is nowhere near significant enough that it will be able to outwit every single person that could potentially read my stuff. So really, I'd rather use my imagination on crafty ways to manipulate what I already know or understand and use it to my advantage. ...

The entirety of Indiana Jones came up one day when Spielberg was saying how he'd like to do a James Bond film. Lucas told him instead of the idea for a movie called Raiders of the Lost Ark that spawned from the image of a guy in a leather jacket, hat, and with a bullwhip jumping from a horse onto the back of a moving truck full of Nazis.

Joss Whedon said that when coming up with Firefly, he'd been reading the book The Killer Angels, which is about the Battle of Gettysburg. It got ...

It really does come from the fact that Star Wars is and forever will be my favorite thing. And I don't just sit around enjoying it, but dissecting what it is about it that I like.

Lucas pointed out that the composition of the films is more like a musical score. It has a main theme and refrains that theme over and over in a cyclical fashion, with individual notes or tunes also refraining. Both trilogies begin with a young person taking a step out into a journey, blowing up an enemy ...