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1. Big Bang Theory Finale -- better than expected. Sort of surprising. My biggest take aways from it, was that it was in some respects less sexist than most of the series to date, and instead of Star Wars, Star Trek, Game of Thrones, or various male centric superhero comics -- the shout out was to...Buffy the Vampire Slayer and in particular to Buffy herself as a cult icon.

And ( spoilers )

Interesting.

2. Discovery of Witches had a mean cliff-hanger ending. Good thing it's being renewed or I'd be pissed.

3. Laying back and not doing all that much this weekend. Went for a couple of walks, and been doing some writing. Nothing worth reporting on.

4. Hmm...here's the list of top box office films of all time.

* Box Office All Time World Takes

Here's another, better link... Box Office Hits of All Time

And.. Worldwide Box Office Records( Read more... )

Rank	Released	Movie	Worldwide Box Office	Domestic Box Office	International Box Office
1	2009	Avatar	$2,776,345,279	$760,507,625	$2,015,837,654
2	2019	Avengers: Endgame	$2,677,857,736	$798,557,736	$1,879,300,000
3	1997	Titanic	$2,208,208,395	$659,363,944	$1,548,844,451
4	2015	Star Wars Ep. VII: The Force Awakens	$2,053,311,220	$936,662,225	$1,116,648,995
5	2018	Avengers: Infinity War	$2,048,134,200	$678,815,482	$1,369,318,718
6	2015	Jurassic World	$1,648,854,864	$652,270,625	$996,584,239
7	2015	Furious 7	$1,518,722,794	$353,007,020	$1,165,715,774
8	2012	The Avengers	$1,517,935,897	$623,279,547	$894,656,350
9	2015	Avengers: Age of Ultron	$1,403,013,963	$459,005,868	$944,008,095
10	2018	Black Panther	$1,348,258,224	$700,059,566	$648,198,658
11	2011	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II	$1,341,693,157	$381,193,157	$960,500,000
12	2017	Star Wars Ep. VIII: The Last Jedi	$1,316,721,747	$620,181,382	$696,540,365
13	2018	Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom	$1,305,772,799	$417,719,760	$888,053,039
14	2013	Frozen	$1,272,469,910	$400,738,009	$871,731,901
15	2017	Beauty and the Beast	$1,259,199,706	$504,014,165	$755,185,541
16	2018	Incredibles 2	$1,242,521,342	$608,581,744	$633,939,598
17	2017	The Fate of the Furious	$1,234,846,267	$225,764,765	$1,009,081,502
18	2013	Iron Man 3	$1,215,392,272	$408,992,272	$806,400,000
19	2015	Minions	$1,160,336,173	$336,045,770	$824,290,403
20	2018	Aquaman	$1,146,894,640	$335,061,807	$811,832,833

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I was discussing this with folks on FB. They were claiming that the finale of Buffy, Chosen, wasn't that controversial. Oh yes, it was. I can probably hunt down the posts and fights in my journal regarding that episode, if I really wanted to.
But, the big difference between Chosen, BSG, and Lost finales and Game of Thrones is well...the advances in technology and improvements not to mention creation of various internet platforms since 2003 (Chosen), 2009 (Battlestar Galatica) and 2010 (Lost)...since then, Twitter was created in 2006, Facebook in 2004, made accessible to all roughly in 2008, Tumblr more recent, Youtube started roughly in 2005, and took off with reviews and everything much later.

While the first smartphone was in 1992, the iphone didn't launch until 2007 and wasn't accessible to most people until then.

When I was discussing and playing about in the Buffy, BSG, Firefly, and Lost fandoms, we didn't have the internet that we have now. ( Read more... )