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"What went wrong", well the ads were really unfunny, I think that's got something to do with it. I know people who say it's actually very funny but I'm dubious about giving it a go because of those bloody trailers

The only way Katie's making it through five minutes is by getting blackout drunk and stuffing earplugs in.

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None from the 19th century, no, but people have been doing it since

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though having written that I now wonder if someone's done an intentional pro-capitalism story where heroic business people fight a feudal rent-seeker vampire or communist-ish vampire. There's got to be at least one, it'd be valid, I'm not entirely sure I'd like it but _someone_ would

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I'd disagree on the claiming the vampires as anticapitalist symbol being like claiming the Matrix is right-wing, as a lot of the claiming of the vampire itself being symbolically capitalist was doing stories where vampires were. Can't do that with Dracula though you can in an adaptation

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(a Gatwa Era season finale later goes "after the build-up of the last few episodes, I thought this was my old companion Dodo... but it's... SURF DRACULA!" [reveal shows an Egyptian mummy in a plane]")

Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 05/10/2026

DOCTOR WHO: THE SURF DRACULA EP 1 (OF 6) [21m in] Third Doctor: [stares at night time sea] [synth music builds as a man in an opera cloak walks across beach carrying a surfboard] Third Doctor: "Surf Dracula!" [cliffhanger EEEHHHRRRRRR]

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Two skulls converged with a crack, and I— I was, I guess, an owl guy, And that has made all the difference

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Stuart Webb @inflatabledalek.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Riker being so smug at exposing the Klingon Bird of Prey that destroys the Enterprise in 6 months is hilarious in retrospect. Take them into custody you idiots!

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"Mariner's going to ask me about that ale I owe her."

(He could've joined Starfleet if you _had_ to have him At War and that'd have been better conflict, since Worf might take that as Alex specifically rejecting being a _Klingon_ warrior if he's off phasering Dominion troops for another fleet, whatever reason Alex has for signing up)

his DS9 one aggravates when this ends with "son, I still love you even though it's clear you can never be a Klingon warrior", well actually just wait a few years and he can totally be a Klingon warrior.

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Parallels said "remember Alex?" and then... didn't have even one scene of Alex, even though it'd make sense to do one to sell it being a Big Deal that in another universe he's not there. As is, "oh does Worf think this is a good universe to stay in?"

Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 23h

Wes Anderson would absolutely nail a Gamera film.

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Chris Burnham @theburnham.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That’s me on Sam Slade Robo-Hunter with Garth Ennis, Brian Reber, and Rob Steen! Featuring the Return of Kidd!! Ennis in his geeky reverential mode!

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John Freeman @johnfreeman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Commando celebrates its 6000th issue in this week’s next set, on sale from Thursday 8th October from publisher DC Thomson in newsagents, on subscription and as digital editions! Featuring superheroes, a special tale from celebrity authors James Holland and Al Murray, and some special crossovers,…

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6000 Not Out: Four All-New Commando Adventures celebrate a Major Milestone for the British War Comic

Commando celebrates an amazing landmark issue!

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

THE PORT AUTHORITY OF EARTH AND LUNA WISHES YOU A PLEASANT AND PRODUCTIVE DAY BUT IF YOU SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING BECAUSE SAFETY IS EVERYONE'S BUSINESS AND ALWAYS REMEMBER: "WE BRING THE GALAXY TO YOUR FRONT DOOR!"®

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And they're all staging an intervention for you

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Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Even last year, we'd go "now I was with you on the Bayeux AI gag, but--"

Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think this is it, all this cheap throwaway stuff like menus or tourist tat or a colouring book aren't going to last. But if you buy a physical comic in the 2020s, you're the sort of person who wants to keep this thing indefinitely

Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I remember seeing this one, over twenty years ago and I STILL remember it

As tall as a bean leaf @kellykanayama.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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Also shout out to Team Wagner/McMahon for these images, which sparked my exploration of simulacra and hyperreality

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Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I hope Cregger gets to adapt a big horror franchise next!

Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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I posted Labour's response to the Green Party 'Zionism is Racism' vote, without comment, on Threads and someone replied "how many shekels is that post worth?" People often assume I'm Jewish so I occasionally get little, bleak snippets of insight into antisemitism

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Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Why aren't we allowed to smoke?

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Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Everyone says "people should talk over food to bridge the divide" but then says "stop talking to me about leasehold reform, I'm waiting to collect my McD's order"

Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

when you're watching occupation drama Enemy At The Door and a babyfaced Anthony Stewart Head shows up

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Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

you can't tell me about the greater social good if it's for people earning multiple times what I do when you're also saying "look at that SCROUNGER after YOUR MONEY by having kids BEYOND THEIR MEANS", you've changed the argument to But My Money, so why'd I want it going above me?

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Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yeah, I'm fully onboard with the argument to reverse (the Tory's own) limit for childcare support to support £100k+ families, that it's better for the country to do that on higher-income families so it doesn't disrupt the earnings that go into the pot... unless you're saying "no welfare once 3 kids"

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Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

looking forward to the clip where Rees Mogg has to explain to a confused Tucker how brushing your teeth works