The Linking Point
Sunday, January 25, 2015 at 4:35PM 
Write Out of LA on underappreciated directors of 2014's awards season
Playbill Into the Woods cast members sang to Rob Marshall at the Artios Awards
xkcd The Star Wars tipping point
Script Notes talks about the "default male" problem in screenwriting
Empire Warner Bros still wants to make a feature adaptation of The Jetsons
Jason Robert Brown, the great composer of The Last Five Years shares a new live concert online with Tony winner and movie Dreamgirl Anika Noni Rose. It's $5
Vulture cable programmings explosion over the past 15 years. This is why no one can keep up.
Awards Daily the Oscar bump is helping the indies. Even the long since faded Whiplash was up 114% this past weekend
Dissolve Martin Scorsese finally approaching production of the long-gestatingSilence about Jesuit missionaries in 17th-century Japan
Comics Alliance casting young versions of the X-Men for X-Men: Apocalypse. Tye Sheridan is a fine young actor so no qualms there but I didn't enjoy Sophie Turner's work on Game of Thrones (I only watched the first season - did she improve?) so I worry about her Jean Grey
Carpetbagger The Witch still hasn't technically premiered at Sundance (just press screenings) but reviews are so good it's not helping the attempt at a mysterious low profile
Reader Comments (16)
Turner did improve quite a bit on GOT, but I'm not sold on her as Jean Grey.
SAG predictions?
I second Paul.
Seems to me that, if the Star Wars Tipping Point uses Phantom Menace as a reference point, it should also use the original movie as one, since both were parts of trilogy. Or Empire/Clones or ROTJ/ROTS.
Sophie Turner is excellent on Game Of Thrones. I'd even call her one of the best actors on the show.
Yeah-Turner became one of the best parts of Game of Thrones as the series has progressed.
Sophie Turner improve a LOT.. just like Sansa in the books... Great Choice!
Sophie Turner is easily one of the MVPs of Thrones the past two seasons.
Sansa HAS to be a whingy brat in the first season, but she blossoms and is amazing. She's a stellar choice for Jean Grey.
Man, she and her onscreen sister (Maisie Williams, who plays Arya), are the acting forces of the Starks, arguably better than any of the Stark men. It's awesome. They're among the youngest of the cast and each season they're progressively stronger and have come to dominate some of the more affecting moments of the show, not to mention completely holding their own against the bigger stars of the show. Pretty interested to see what she's going to do with her first role outside GoT.
Caroline, you can already see her in last year's Another Me...if you must. Not a great movie, but she does carry it.
I think last season was Turner's best and it looks as if she has a meatier role next season but I'm not 100% on her as Jean. It could be my overwhelming Famke Janssen bias though.
Turner is great on Game of Thrones, particularly as she's stuck with some of the series' worst adaptation choices in terms of book-to-screen (the showrunners utterly eviscerated her character arc in seasons 2 and 3).
Yes, Turner has improved greatly. She's gotten some of the more tricky scenes to play in recent seasons, and she handles them like a pro.
Links I want to talk about:
Script Notes: I'd take the details of ScriptNotes more seriously if John August's co-host wasn't Craig "Identity Thief" Mazin. The default male thing IS stupid, but...if this was your idea John, please get someone at least a little smarter than that. (Probably should have been replaced after not even trying to shut down Goyer's toxicity.)
Empire: I understand the idea behind Scooby-Doo and (to a lesser extent) Flintstones films. But...The Jetsons? In animation, I kind of get it (even if I'm not a die-hard fan), but the idea of R Rod trying it in live-action? No. If you don't modernize it, you've got a $150 million flop and if you do, you've got a $150 million bomb because it is, at once, whiz bang cool, painfully anachronistic in the ways they try to achieve whiz bang cool and too ingrained to dare justify changing that stuff.
Comics Alliance: After seeing X-Men: Days of Future Past, is it wrong to say I want this film franchise to fade away? They'll always have good elements at their best but the costume design has never gotten bold enough to quite ascend "relic of the late 90s" and they'll never recapture the energy of X2's hamhanded but instant classic moments like "have you ever tried...not being a mutant" that (almost) excuse their approach.
Carpetbagger: Guess we have to keep an eye on The Witch.
X-Men movies treat their female characters pretty badly so I have a very low expectations for the new Jean and Storm regardless of their actresses ability. Their character arcs tend to make very little sense if they are lucky to have one and they usually get the worst dialogue.
And of course instead of blaming Fox, screenwriters, directors and producers, the fanboys online prefer to insult the actresses and complain about them.