Xander: It’s strange, but beating up that pirate gave me a weird sense of closure.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 2: Episode 6 – “Halloween”
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Review: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
After three Hobbit movies and three Lord of the Rings films, it’s hard to view The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies as a standalone picture. It carries far more weight than it necessarily should, and as the presumed final film in the Lord of the Rings saga it has higher expectations than perhaps are fair. So while it’s a film that can be both thrilling and emotional while also plodding and uneven, its place in the saga serves to magnify both its faults and its virtues as a representation of the successes and failures of the Hobbit trilogy and the LOTR saga as a whole. Narratively, it serves as both and end (to The Hobbit) and a beginning (to Lord of the Rings), but it’s status as a link doesn’t detract from the big dramatic moments of the film’s story, even if at times it feels designed more as a link than as a cinematic experience of its own.
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‘My heart bleeds for you. I have never yet known a man admit he was either rich or asleep: perhaps the poor man and the wakeful man have some great moral advantage.’
Master and Commander – Patrick O’Brian
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Quark: Have you ever seen anything so disgusting? The way he’s undressing her with his eyes… And look at his hands!
Odo: What about his hands?
Quark: His gestures, they’re obscene. You should arrest him.
Odo: You’re joking.
Quark: He’s pitiful. Doesn’t he realize she loves me?
Odo: I don’t think he does. To be honest, I don’t think she does either.
Quark: Thanks for your support.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 7: Episode 12 – “The Emperor’s New Cloak”
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“Wow,” he added, blinking rather rapidly as Hermione came hurrying toward them. “You look great!”
“Always the tone of surprise,” said Hermione, though she smiled.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – J.K. Rowling
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Giles: Well, alright, l-let’s, let’s, let’s review. Um, so everybody became, uh, whatever they were masquerading as.
Willow: Right. Xander was a soldier and Buffy was an 18th-century girl.
Giles: A-and, uh, your, your costume?
Willow: I’m a ghost!
Giles: Yes. Um… w, uh, uh, uh, the ghost of what, exactly?
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 2: Episode 6 – “Halloween”
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Stephen shrugged. ‘No. But you are quite mistaken, you know. I can assure you, speaking in all sober earnest, that he has no notion of it. He is not very sharp in some ways; and in his simple view of the world, paederasts are dangerous only to powder-monkeys and choir-boys, or to those epicene creatures that are to be found in Mediterranean brothels. I made a circuitous attempt at enlightening him a little, but he looked very knowing and said, “Don’t tell me about rears and vices; I have been in the Navy all my life.” ‘
‘Then surely he must be wanting a little in penetration?’
‘James, I trust there was no mens rea in that remark?’
Master and Commander – Patrick O’Brian
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Ezri Dax: I haven’t talked to my mother in almost six months.
Benjamin Sisko: Oh.
Ezri Dax: Last time I saw her was just after I was joined. She came to visit me on Trill and… I was still a little confused. When she walked into my room, I put on a big smile, looked her right in the eye and said “Hi mom, it’s me – Curzon!” Things kinda went downhill from there.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 7: Episode 11 – “Prodigal Daughter”
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He led a party of warlocks into the marquee as Luna rushed up.
“Hello, Harry!” she said.
“Er — my name’s Barny,” said Harry, flummoxed.
“Oh, have you changed that too?” she asked brightly.
“How did you know —?”
“Oh, just your expression,” she said.
Like her father, Luna was wearing bright yellow robes, which she had accessories with a large sunflower in her hair. Once you got over the brightness of it all, the general effect was quite pleasant. At least there were no radishes dangling from her ears.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – J.K. Rowling
