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Shots from Alien Club (2025)

Directed by Jesse McKay, cinematography by Jiashanmei Liu, 2025.

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Something that astounds me is that there hasn’t been any serious attempt by anyone to depict a young Aragorn story. More specifically, of his adventures under the name Thorongil, Eagle of the Star, during the period between the Hobbit and Fellowship. Let me outline what takes place here.

From 2957 to 2080, Aragorn served in the courts of both Rohan and Gondor at a critical time, as this not long into Sauron’s return as a power in Middle Earth, and being an existential threat to both kingdoms. That’s 23 years of interesting stories to tell, showing several critical details about his development.

1. It shows him learning how to be a leader outside the confines of either Elrond’s or the Dunedain’s influence, where his role was known, if kept secret, and immediately respected once he took his role of chieftain, while in Gondor and Rohan under an assumed name and initially an outsider, his eventual leadership and trust had to be hard earned and genuine. This would prove critical in the War of the Ring, as he would be able to rally both Rohan and Gondor at their times of greatest need.

2. He also learns the ways of Gondor and Rohan as a government servant, earning the respect of both kingdoms Thengel and Steward Ecthellion, and thus know both the culture and the way these kingdoms were run. If you have ever heard someone sneer at Aragorn’s leadership lacking an understanding of the Gondorian Tax Code, just point to this fact.

3. All of the above situates Aragorn to be in a story that contains both courtly intrigue and a long war against the existential threat of Sauron. While he was beloved by Ecthellion for example, Denethor had no such warm compunctions towards him, and that had to lead to some tense moments that could translate well into a story of court intrigue.

4. Aragorn also lead a critical victory against the Corsairs of Umbar, Allies of Sauron, destroying Sauron’s primary naval attack force and slowing the plans of Conquest considerably. Umbar had a long history of those among Númenor who cleaved close to Sauron, and any depiction of them would provide an antagonist that hasn’t received as much focus as other servants of Sauron, allowing for some interesting exploration.

5. At the end of the 23 years of service, Aragorn went East, into enemy Territory, and it’s from his recounting of this we know a bit about Rhun, the home associated with the Easterlings, and where the stars appear different in the night sky. Outside of Mordor, are whole groups of people that have never received a fair look on what life is like under Sauron, and would not make peace with the men of the west until Sauron’s defeat. Here we could see not only men but the dark elves who never went west to see the light of the trees, who could have a culture quite different front their western cousins, and where the two blue wizards fought a unknown war against Sauron.

6. When Aragorn returned home via Lothlórien , he reunited and began the process of courting Arwen and gave her the Ring of Barahir, and she in turn abandoned her mortality for him. A powerful ending that heralds all the future events to come.

In short, you got character growth, you have conflict of intrigue and against evil, foes and cultures previously unexplored, and potential for new faces and heroes to invest in and hope for. When the Legendarium becomes open for all to write and publish, that is the novel I want to read and maybe even write myself. I’m amazed no one else seems to have hit on it.

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bi-monthly rewatch of Night of the Doctor will have to do

not at all fair that rtd gets to bring back all his favourite characters to doctor who (the ones he wrote), but the 8th Doctor limited series that everyone else wants and DESERVES will never happen 🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲

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not at all fair that rtd gets to bring back all his favourite characters to doctor who (the ones he wrote), but the 8th Doctor limited series that everyone else wants and DESERVES will never happen 🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲

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Lego Swimming Pool Layout

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how many times do I have to click "don't recommend this channel" before youtube understands that I'd rather kill myself than watch a Nerdrotic or Critical Drinker video

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In like five years on some convention panel we’re gonna get the real story about what happened with this series and it’s gonna be messyyy

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whatever you think about john mulaney he really did fight those three 14 year old boys on live TV and for that I respect him

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croaker is a fraud and will lose I'e seen him fight.. imagine the little girl they just cast as hermoine versus Stone Cold Steve Austin

WHO WILL WIN

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how it feels to be a twitter loyalist in 2025

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Watching this new season alongside the perfect pacing of Andor has really hit this idea home- the worst part I think is that with 8 episodes, each episode feels sooo vital. We only have so many, and might not have any more for years, and so when an episode like Lucky Day is just Fine it feels like a way bigger waste then something like the Lazarus Experiment

I am capable of endless nitpicks about Doctor Who but the one thing that’s really stopping me from fully enjoying this era is that there’s just not enough of it - we haven’t had a real full length season in five years

After watching the RTD era and seeing just how long it took the team to really refine the thirteen 45 minute episodes format, I just don’t think eight episodes could possibly do this show any justice

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i love seeing all the dw spoilers on here cuz like. i dont fucking know what any of this shit means. nothing is ever in context in doctor who. theres an episode where pig humans build the empire state building per orders of the daleks and fucking spiderman is there. youre telling me theres a cartoon character irl in the newest eps? ok cool man i dont know what the fuck thats gonna mean anyway.

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Instead of meeting the Beatles or Shakespeare they would meet Skepta in 2009

If I had to reboot doctor who it would be only slightly different to the revival except the doctor would actually call herself Doctor Who

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Revival collection progress- series 7 on its way 🤩

it’s rare to find Whittaker era dvds second hand so it may be more expensive from here forward 🥹

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If I had to reboot doctor who it would be only slightly different to the revival except the doctor would actually call herself Doctor Who

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He made my heartbells sing!