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Today in Depressing

True Blood’s Charlaine Harris Has Fans Threatening Her Over The Ending To Her Sookie Stackhouse Novels

Charlaine Harris, writer of The Southern Vampire Mysteries novel series and the source material for HBO’s True Blood, is ready to end her story. Unfortunately, some fans aren’t and they’re taking their displeasure to a dangerous place.

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High School Student Makes the Cap Pop Off a Water Bottle With Science, Now She’s Facing Adult Felony Charges

Kiera Wilmot is a sixteen-year-old student with good grades and a “perfect” behavior record. Or at least she was. She has been expelled from her Florida school after creating a small chemical reaction that caused no damage or harm, and additionally been arrested and charged with possession and discharge of a weapon on school grounds and discharging a destructive device. According to the Miami New Times, she will be tried as an adult.

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R.I.P. Futurama, Cancelled For a Second Time

Please accept my sincerest apologies for any mental/emotional trauma my choice of top pic may have caused.

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R.L. Stine Was None Too Pleased With A Certain Event in Downton Abbey‘s Season Finale

The season finale of Downton Abbey aired on Christmas Day in Britain, but it made its way to TVs in the U.S. just last night. The ending was, er, rather shocking. And author R.L. Stine didn’t like it, no sir. Two more (spoilery) Tweets are after the jump.

Also, beware probable spoilers in the comments. Don’t read on if you haven’t seen or don’t already know what happened in the finale, basically.

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Bah, Humbug. Hollywood is Making Another How the Grinch Stole Christmas

I hope you’ll forgive my mixing up of Christmas books with the title. It’s just that “Bah, humbug” so perfectly expresses my feelings.

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Guillermo del Toro Turned Down Directing Star Wars: Episode VII, Because He’s Busy Enough Already

First we found out that J.J. Abrams said no to directing Star Wars: Episode VII. Now it turns out Guillermo del Toro has done the same.

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Writer Megan Ganz Leaves Community. This is the Darkest Timeline.

Community just cannot catch a break. First showrunner Dan Harmon gets fired. Then it’s the subject of a showtime shuffle that leaves its fans wondering if season four will ever actually premiere. (As of now it’s February 7th. I’ll believe it when I see it.) Then Chevy Chase quits. (Though that could be considered a bright spot, depending on who you talk to.) And now one of its star writers, Megan Ganz, has left to write for Modern Family.

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So Here’s the Slut-Shaming, Homophobic Post on Superheroes by… the Director of Guardians of the Galaxy

Generally, I don’t make a habit of making news posts about things that happened on the Internet more than a year ago. Unless, of course, it managed to slip everyone’s attention and is just blowing up now. I also don’t make a habit of writing news posts about random people on the internet being jerks. Unless, of course, they’re not random people at all, but people with significant power over either legal matters or the media we consume.

The case of ”The 50 Superheroes You Most Want to Have Sex With,” or rather, the content of the commentary on the post of that name by writer/director James Gunn last year. See, in between last February and now, Gunn was tapped as the director for the first new set of characters to be introduced in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Phase 2, The Guardians of the Galaxy.

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Awww, Man. Brad Bird Says He’s Not Directing Star Wars.

Another rumor bites the dust: It looks like Brad Bird (The Iron Giant, The Incredibles) won’t be directing Star Wars: Episode VII after all. Granted, it was less a rumor than an instance of “Oh wow, how cool would that be?” (Though a few weeks back there was a theory floating around that his upcoming sci-film film 1952 was actually Star Wars in disguise.) Anyway, it’s all a moot point now as the director has taken to Twitter to dash the hopes of everyone who wanted Bird to take to the Stars.

Hey, I’ve been remarkably light on the puns so far today. Gotta catch up.

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The Wizard of Oz Being Converted to 3D

Stop, Warner Bros. Just stop. With their 90th anniversary coming up, the studio has announced a whole slew of box sets, including a 100-film DVD collection, a Clint Eastwood collection, and, most interestingly, a Blu-ray rerelease of The Wizard of Oz.

In 3D.

They are converting The Wizard of Oz to 3D.

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