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In Andrew Garfield’s defense, he was trying to joke around with the kid who was just a little too shocked to see him to respond.
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The latest Doctor Who Christmas special doesn’t look to have wowed audiences in the UK, but it turns out Americans love combining their Doctors with superheroes. It’s the most-watched episode in BBC America history.
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Shortening the final two seasons of Game of Thrones seems, on its face, to be a bad thing. All previous seasons included 10 episodes, but the next two will only have seven or eight each. Overall, we’re getting less Game of Thrones than usual! But one of the show’s stars has a very good explanation as to why having shorter seasons is actually a good thing.
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It’s the last gif party of 2016, so let’s send this year out with a bang. A bang full of gifs.
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Carrie Fisher will be buried with her mother, Debbie Reynolds, according to a report from the Associated Press. Reynolds—who starred in Singin’ in the Rain and is mother of the late Star Wars legend—died the day after her daughter did.
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To paraphrase Charles Dickens, 2016 was the worst of times, and the pretty good of times. It was a year of wonder (Game of Thrones) and disappointment (Walking Dead), amusement (Deadpool) and aggravation (Suicide Squad), delight (a few things) and loss (too many to count). Relive the year that was with io9's 100 most-read posts of the year, and then let us never speak of 2016 again.
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The idea that Darth Vader had a home somewhere in a galaxy far, far away isn’t a new one. Star Wars concept designer Ralph McQuarrie came up with the idea decades ago, but no filmmaker has been able to fit the idea into the franchise yet. Until Rogue One.
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This season’s breakout anime was Yuri on Ice, a welcoming show about an insecure Japanese figure skater named Yuri, and Victor, the Russian skating legend who mysteriously decides to become his coach. Yuri and Victor develop a relationship flush with love and young sensuality. Since October, fans feverishly watched the simulcast, playing “will-they-or-won’t-they?” while the protagonists teased sexual consummation.
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It’s the last day of a stupid shitty year, so let’s watch a bunch of superheroes take their shirts off.
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Actors on the level of Matthew McConaughey often turn down the biggest roles imaginable for any number of reasons. What we rarely hear, though, is their reasoning, and in a new interview, McConaughey explains why he turned down a role in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, but did choose to appear in The Dark Tower.
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The crew of the International Space Station has taken the ubiquitous Mannequin Challenge as far as it can go—260 miles above Earth’s surface.
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If you’ve been following the long saga of Steve Rogers, you’ll know that this year he returned to superpowered heroism as the current second Captain America. You’ll also know that he came back with some… intriguing quirks, like, for example, being a secret brainwashed Hydra agent. That’d be bad enough, but now, he’s become a loopy supervillain, and it’s amazing.
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It’s not even January 1 yet but we’re already counting down to February 1, when Syfy’s The Expanse returns with a double episode to kick off its second season. So far, we’ve gotten a few trailers and a behind-the-scenes peek with megafan Adam Savage—but this clip of a heated clash on Mars is our best glimpse yet.
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Talonflame, a fire/flying Pokémon, took over the competitive scene after it was added to the monster compendium with Pokémon X & Y. For the last three years, wise competitive players made sure to prepare for Talonflame’s appearance on the enemy team. Everything changed after the release of Sun and Moon.
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The least scary thing about horror movies is making one. If you don’t believe it, watch these bloopers from the set of the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
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Earlier this year, NASA astronaut Jeff Williams captured ultra high definition video of our pale blue dot from the vantage point of the International Space Station. It’s easily the most uplifting thing you’re going to see all day.
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It’s a dubious honor the show has held for the past five years, but once again, Thrones has “triumphed” to become the most pirated show of the year—but not without some competition from a few other genre favorites.
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When his beloved companion is dognapped, a shirtless shepherd combines his despair with his hidden talents and briefly becomes a chart-topping musician. Meanwhile, his pup takes a wild interstellar journey that involves an incredible transformation. At least, I think that’s what happens in Matija Pisačić’s Choban.
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Patty Jenkins discusses why Diana becomes a superhero in Wonder Woman. Jordan Vogt-Roberts teases the time period of Kong: Skull Island. Sadly, there will be no shark punching in Meg. Plus, a tiny new look at Episode VIII, and what’s to come on Agents of SHIELD and The Vampire Diaries. Spoilers now!
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Do you want to take a look back at 2016? Yeah, me neither. I’ve blocked out so much of what happened this year that I’m not even sure if it was a memorable year for movies and TV shows. If I squeeze my brain really hard to remember: Spider-Man was fun in Captain America: Civil War, the trailer for Arrival looked great (I didn’t watch the actual movie yet), Game of Thrones ruled this season, Westworld was a show people like to talk about way too much, and that’s about it. I’ve forgotten everything else.
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Just when you thought 2016 couldn’t get any more cruel. Debbie Reynolds—a Hollywood star since her teenage leading-lady debut in 1952's Singin’ in the Rain—died just one day after her daughter, Carrie Fisher. She was 84 years old.
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All across the video game galaxy, players are gathering to memorialize Carrie Fisher, who died yesterday following a massive heart attack.
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Mere days before 2016 comes to a close, Marvel’s “summer” event series Civil War II has released its last issue. But Civil War II wasn’t going to go down without at least adding a few more twists to the future of the Marvel Universe… and oh boy, did it add some.
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As if the timelines for these X-Men-related movies wasn’t confusing enough, The Wrap’s claiming that Ryan Reynolds has shot a scene as Deadpool for the upcoming Logan.
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It’s no secret that Rogue One: A Star Wars Story took many different forms before being released in theaters. The commercials and trailers alone prove that. But, according to the film’s villain, that may have just been the start of it.
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