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All Star but it’s in a minor key so it makes you question life and realize the years start comin and they don’t stop comin

aka, the theme song to Shrek 9: Shrek’s Third Divorce

Thank You for Your Kind Expression Of Sympathy

To De's friends and fans:

I want you to know how deeply you have touched me with your many cards, letters, and emails. It's good to know how much DeForest meant to you.

Most Sincerely,

Carolyn Kelley

From Star Trek After They Were Famous, 2002 British Documentary

Reporter: Millions of Star Trek fans are in mourning today after the death of DeForest Kelley, who played Doctor Leonard “Bones” McCoy. Kelley, who was 79, was in more than 70 episodes of the series as well as six feature films.

Also they're normally natural enemies in the wild but sometimes they occasionally hybridize?

depends on the wolf! for this exercise we'll assume a median coyote size of 30 lbs.

while all north american wolves are technically grey wolves (except the mexican red wolf!) there are more than twenty subspecies of the damn things, all of which can differ significantly in size and appearance! (many now displaced with some extinct)

for example, the mexican wolf is only barely bigger than a large coyote, with adults reaching the 50-90 lb range.

whereas the northern rocky mountain wolf has any coyote massively outclassed, ranging between 80-150 lbs!

most other north american wolves range somewhere in between. but this is why we don't say "the size of a wolf" much as a figure of speech, because they come in so many different sizes!

and when wolves and coyotes hybridize, it's generally because there's no other potential partners in the area for either animal, so they start being willing to look a little farther up the family tree, so to speak!

i see people trying to hype them up too by showing off really impressive practical effects for the time, and sure, that's nice. but I unironically love seeing very obvious foam boulders bounce off people, and wooden swords clash, and bright flashes of light from "laser guns"... and it is so much better than 90% of shit today, and you know why?

key fucking difference: they inhabit it. everyone on screen is putting their entire soul into it. and I think people forget that tv is at its very essence theater, you tune in and suspend your disbelief, and you are always aware you are watching a story. if you go to a play and see someone stabbed with a very obvious fake knife, it doesn't fucking matter, does it?

because everyone's forgot that you're not there to see how good of a real-looking fake knife somebody can make, you're there to see people who can make you believe in the emotional truth of a story.

xena warrior princess is superior to every single marvel movie that has ever been made for the key fact that i can watch two actors struggling in "quicksand" which is very obviously just dirt that they were buried in up to their chests, but they are SCREAMING, wailing, crying: they are selling it and I am there for them ---

Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings had much better actor/effects interactions than The Hobbit films. Why? Many of the effects were practical instead of digital and used physical scale models that showed the performers the scene's exact setting, even if they weren't on a full set.

Rocky in Project Hail Mary has a lot more personality and variety in his interactions with Ryan Gosling than many effects-based characters. Why? They opted to have a puppet on set and digitally remove James Ortiz controlling him rather than leaving all the acting to be created after filming.