Vikings: Can Aslaug Outwit Lagertha?
Fans of History's Vikings watched in awe last week as Katheryn Winnick's Lagertha led a huge raid on her former home, Kattegat, with the intention of overthrowing Queen Aslaug - the women she's convinced bewitched Ragnar, stealing him away all those years ago.
What lies in store for us this week on "In the Uncertain Hour Before the Morning" -- airing Wednesday, December 21st? Well, Aslaug herself, Alyssa Sutherland, chatted with me about the episode, providing a preview for the Queen's showdown with the mighty Lagertha. Is Aslaug ready to give up all her power or does she have a backup plan in mind?
"I don't think Lagertha's kept her intentions that well hidden," laughed Sutherland, explaining that Aslaug must have known what was coming. "She basically outright told Aslaug what was going to happen. I don't think it was a secret. I think she was aware. Those weren't subtle hints being dropped."
Blunt Talk Cancelled By Starz
Starz has cancelled Blunt Talk, the scripted comedy starring Patrick Stewart, after only two seasons.
Blunt Talk's season 2 finale drew in 134,000 total viewers with a 0.4 rating among adults 18-49, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The live-action comedy was executive produced by Jonathan Ames and Seth MacFarlane and centered around Stewart's Walter Blunt, a British newscaster who moves to Los Angeles in an effort to dominate American cable news.
"We are grateful to Jonathan and Patrick for the tirades and laughs that Walter Blunt delivered to fans with such aplomb," said Starz programming president Carmi Zlotnik. "While Walter may not be returning to the airwaves, we are incredibly proud of the work that was done these past two seasons by our wonderful partners and collaborators on Blunt Talk, from Seth MacFarlane and our studio MRC, to our actors, writers and crew. It was a very special show with a heartfelt message. It was an honor serving you, Major."
CoD: Infinite Warfare Sabotage DLC Release Date Announced
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare's first DLC, titled Sabotage, will release for PlayStation 4 on January 31 with "other platforms to follow," Activision has announced.
Sabotage will bring four new multiplayer maps to Infinite Warfare as well as a new chapter for the game's zombie mode.
Rave in the Redwoods, the next zombie chapter, will continue "the macabre narrative while transporting players into a new decade: the 1990s." Players will fight zombie hordes "in an abandoned, lakeside summer camp where zombie ravers have taken over and turned the grounds into a techno-fueled illusion." All four playable characters from the original story will return, but with "fresh, over-the-top roles."
Pokemon Go Players Have Walked 8.7 Billion Kilometers
Pokemon Go developer Niantic Labs has revealed that a whopping 8.7 billion kilometers have been walked by those playing its hit mobile game.
The Pokemon Go development team shared the news in a post on the game's official site. The impressive figure—which nearly doubles the 4.6 billion kilometers it racked up by September—was reached on December 7, and equates to over 200,000 trips around our planet.
Niantic Labs also revealed that Pokemon Go players have now caught more than 88 billion Pokemon, which makes for approximately 533 million creatures caught each day since the game's launch.
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Star Wars: Rogue One Novel Features New Scenes
A novel based on Rogue One: A Star Wars story is now available and features additional content that wasn't covered in the film's theatrical release.
According to Amazon's product listing, the novel, written by Alexander Freed, includes "new scenes and expanded material."
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story novel by Alexander Freed
How a Video Game Let Me Relive My Father’s History
One of the most important games I played this year wasn’t about sci-fi space battles or dark fantasy realms. It was a short, small, and sad interactive story about a frequently overlooked, real-world event: the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
I’m half-Iranian and it isn’t often that I get to see elements of my heritage portrayed in a positive light. Western movies and TV shows love to “other” the so-called Middle East, casting actors as faceless terrorists in political dramas that oversimplify complex conflicts into fights between the Good Guys and the Bad Guys. In video games, we’ve fired shots at many a bearded, AK-wielding baddie in a keffiyeh, seen Arabic script used as cryptic decor to root gaming’s nameless, war-torn deserts in some kind of gritty reality. Sometimes, the language isn’t even right.
Justice League: New Look at Flash, Wonder Woman, Batman
A new photo of Justice League has been revealed, providing a brand new look at Ben Affleck's Batman, Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman and Ezra Miller's The Flash.
The photo comes courtesy of Entertainment Weekly, who recently spoke with director Zach Snyder about the film. "I'm super happy with the chemistry of my league of justice doers," Snyder said.
Ezra Miller as The Flash, Ben Affleck as Batman and Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman in Justice League. Photo credit: Warner Bros. Pictures/DC Comics, via EW
This Pokemon-themed Wedding Is Adorable
A bride and groom made their Pokemon wedding dream come true earlier this month, and some of the photos from the event have been shared online so the rest of the world can enjoy it too.
One of the attendees (thanks Otakamu with a translation by Anime News Network) posted some of the pictures to Twitter, and they've received thousands of likes and retweets.
A look at the Pokemon-themed wedding via Twitter user sdc47_intel
13 Things Rogue One Did Differently Than the Other Star Wars Movies
Rogue One! It’s a Star Wars film, that’s for sure, and yet in many ways it has eschewed the tropes of the standard “Saga” movies with a style all its own. Of course, that was the intention of Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy and director Gareth Edwards in introducing this first standalone Star Wars movie, i.e. a story set outside of the Skywalker family soap opera.
So let’s take a look at some of the things Rogue One did differently than the rest of the Star Wars movies to date -- from little things like onscreen text changes to bigger stuff such as music, digital character creation, and
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Yes indeed, some major spoilers follow.
That’s right -- it never says “Star Wars” during the opening of the film. The traditional Lucasfilm logo followed by the full screen “Star Wars” and the blaring fanfare just isn’t a part of Rogue One. And when the Rogue One title (finally) appears onscreen, there’s nary a sign of the subtitle “A Star Wars Story.” It’s just “Rogue One.” And it’s pretty cool.