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Spoilers Supergirl - Season 2
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The ironic part about that statement is a lot of the seventies shows now seem more relevant than they have in about thirty years.
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In "Day of The Dove," when Kirk makes the declaration "Stop the war now" he's parroting a chant that NBC's viewers heard (at least) every time the network news sent a camera crew to a Vietnamese war protest. It was not just a phrase, it was a slogan.
No one remembers that now, and it makes no difference.
No one remembers that now, and it makes no difference.
If the Wonder Woman movie turns out to be as good as the early reviews say, this may be the most accurate image in human history.
There's gotta be a blooper reel outtake where Pine pretends to be Kirk meeting Wonder Woman.
Gal would have made an astonishing Edith Keeler, and her accent makes a hell of a lot more sense than Joan's did.
Gal would have made an astonishing Edith Keeler, and her accent makes a hell of a lot more sense than Joan's did.
Nobody from England came to America in the 1930's, but somehow someone from Israel did?????
Edith and Joan sound like money and breeding. Sure people from England comeover, but if a lady with a toffee accent like that came over, she did not live in a tenement, unless something disastrous had happened to her money or her reputation.
Unless Edith's accent was fake?
Unless Edith's accent was fake?
It was called the Depression for a reason. Some rich people like helping the poor and unfortunate.
Edith is a helper. We know this. But was she a poor helping other poors, or was this what we saw her "Batman" persona, and Keeler retired to a stately manor every night after a hard day doling out soup?
It's reasonably more likely that she lost most of her money in the stock market crash, and other issues like an idiot husband who killed himself because he couldn't cope with being such a failure after losing the family fortune... If I can trust her accent (which obviously I can't) Edith was raised in a castle with servants, and hunted the poor for sport, so Keeler had come down in the world, even if Edith still did own that building (her last asset?), using it as a boarding house, and other services.
If Edith's father was an earl, meeting Roosevelt in '36 wouldn't have been a big deal, and maybe even a bit of a yawn.
Another possibility is that she married a poor, and ran away with him to America.
Some people actually give up material possessions to help others.
I think Collins was raised upper class, but not royal. Wiki says she grew up in Paddington, not on country estate.
I saw Joan as the Queen Mother on the Royals last year, and it was the same accent.
Edith wasn't randomly bleeding to help the poor with her blood. it was a business. There must have been books. She supplied lodgings, food and offered salaries to workstaff, and either paid taxes, or proved that she was a charity/nonprofit. She was helping the poor, but I doubt that she was being an idiot about it, and while not striving to make a profit, one tries to keep out of the red.
No one is going to mistake Joan for Meryl Streep. I think she only has one accent in her.
Yep... not Meryl Streep.
At a risk of going off-topic: she doesn't play the Queen Mother on The Royals, she plays Grand Duchess Alexandra of Oxford, the mother of the Queen. Queen Mother is the unofficial title of the reigning monarch's mother when they were, in turn, the consort of a previous monarch (ie Queen Victoria's mother was not the Queen Mother, just the Queen's mother, as the Duke of Kent never ascended to the throne, Queen Alexandra, Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth fulfill both criteria, and the Duchess of Cornwall will fulfill neither).
We met the actual Queen Mother in The Royals in the season one finale, "Our Will and Fates do so Contrary Run ..." but she is never seen again.
As a mother of a Queen.
Better?
Somehow Helena was still Queen while her brotherinlaw was King? Or was her title ceremonial until King Cyrus found himself a wife... Or Husband? Is the Kings spouse, no matter their gender always the Queen? In real life Phillip, Bitsy's Husband, is a Duke and not King... Although in Reign I'm seeing a King without the powers of a King, Mary has to sign over the "Crown Matrimonial" or her husband is just there for bedroom sport.
It was heart breaking when one of his parents, a little dotty, might have been the mum, thinking that Cyrus was Simon, told Cyrus that she was so glad that he was king, because his brother Cyrus was a slimy nogoodnik, or words to that effect.
The Royals could be such a good show if they just got rid of everyone under thirty from the cast.
Reign, the Royals, and Supergirl are all on the CW, so you would think that synergy permitting, that the stars of any one of these shows might periodically guest star on one of their sister series?
Better?
Somehow Helena was still Queen while her brotherinlaw was King? Or was her title ceremonial until King Cyrus found himself a wife... Or Husband? Is the Kings spouse, no matter their gender always the Queen? In real life Phillip, Bitsy's Husband, is a Duke and not King... Although in Reign I'm seeing a King without the powers of a King, Mary has to sign over the "Crown Matrimonial" or her husband is just there for bedroom sport.
It was heart breaking when one of his parents, a little dotty, might have been the mum, thinking that Cyrus was Simon, told Cyrus that she was so glad that he was king, because his brother Cyrus was a slimy nogoodnik, or words to that effect.
The Royals could be such a good show if they just got rid of everyone under thirty from the cast.
Reign, the Royals, and Supergirl are all on the CW, so you would think that synergy permitting, that the stars of any one of these shows might periodically guest star on one of their sister series?
Well Joan Collins's is somewhat put on, so why not? I mean it's hard to tell for sure as she was raised in the West End around show business which is bound to throw it off somewhat.
As for Edith: that's not an upper class accent. It a very middle class/public school girl accent. I remember having to explain this very same thing on here to a yank when Agent Carter premiered, so I understand it's hard for non-Brits to grasp the distinction.
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It's not Coronation Street.
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