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No no, you don’t understand, moose really do get that big. Take it from a Canadian. I’ve seen that bullshit in person. Scary as all heck.
And that’s how people can die if they hit a moose. Seriously, one of our fears when driving in the country is having to deal with this scenario of a moose jumping out in front of the car.
moose are actual legit ice age megafauna; theyve been here since the ice age, they are old as fuck. they also are pretty terrifying and ive echoed this before but i went to wiki and “In terms of raw numbers, they attack more people than bears and wolves combined” and “In the Americas, moose injure more people than any other wild mammal and, worldwide, only hippopotamuses injure more.”
like, fuck off with that
I was dog sitting a dog once who insisted she had to go out in the middle of the night it was an emergency, so I took her out. Suddenly she starts pointing and barking and I look up and can just make out the outline of a HUGE moose. I’ve been accidentally face to face with a black bear and that scared me less than being up close with a moose. I’m 5 foot so imagine staring up at an animal several feet taller than you that is debating charging the dog who’s leash you are holding. I was terrified as I grabbed the dog by her collar to get better control over her and backed up slowly til I was out of line of sight and bolted for the house at a dead run. Did you know most Canadian lake monster stories come from people seeing moose swimming? They are massive animals.
They are massive and they charge. I get so scared when tourists are all “oh yeah, we got out of the car to get a closer look and, ya’ll have some mighty impressive animals around here.”
Yes, yes we do, and they have mighty tired guardian angels because moose can, and do, charge at people.
Someone my mom worked with died hitting a moose on the highway. Their eyes don’t reflect light. In the dark they are literally nothing but a big slightly darker shape in the night.
Roughly every year in the town I grew up in, a cow (moose) and her calf will wander through downtown. Maybe once or twice. If she’s aggressive enough, the local Mounties will escort her through to keep idiots away.
I’ve definitely talked with people who thought moose were deer-sized or maybe horse-sized and I was like NO YOU DON’T EVEN UNDERSTAND MOOSE ARE TERRIFYING
Moose are terrifying, you guys.
I finally live on a province where moose and deer exist.
I do not drive at night in fear of meeting one. If you hit a moose going 90 on a highway, not only is your car trashed, you are probably trashed. I’ve seen cars that got wrecked and there seems to be a consensus that at least half the time, the giant fucking beastie just shakes itself off and continues gallumphing along the countryside.
If you fucking hit a moose with your car and their legs go through your windshield, congratulations, you are dead. Massive hooves kicking you to death? Yeah.
Moose are fucking terrifying. Bull moose won’t fuck with you too much unless you fuck with them, but the time a bull moose casually swaggered his way past 7 year old me when I was sledding literally put me off winter sports for a solid month.
Momma moose and their babies, though? I legitimately had to call in to work to be like “ey yo there is a moose in my driveway and I can’t get out” AND MY MANAGERS UNDERSTOOD.
Moose. MOOSE.
I have to admit I thought they were like a Canadian deer before this.
The commenter above who claims that moose’s eyes don’t reflect light is only partially correct; if you shine a flashlight in a moose’s eyes it will glow like a cat (and then you will probably get killed to death by an annoyed moose) but the reason they are so dangerous to cars at nights is that they are too tall for the headlights to reach. Think about that.
Moose confirmed for actual kaiju.
Kaiju category: Maple.
as much as i try not to add to the “newfies being rednecks with boats” belief.. one time when i was in elementary school someone hit a moose and killed it, so the school raffled off the roadkill moose corpse as a fundraiser the next couple days
I mean, you could probably pull a goddamn ton of meat off a moose carcass, and if you’re the animal-bone-collecting type, a moose skull could make for an impressive display piece. Unless the corpse was jacked up something fierce, auctioning/raffling it off seems like a perfectly sensible way to raise a little money. What else are you going to do with the freshly-killed body of a car-sized animal? Rent an excavator to dig a giant grave for it?
Oh no, it was entirely for the meat. Saves ya from havin to apply for a license, and gotta get yer moose, b’ys.
Jesus Christ that moose is huge. I remember feeding a moose at an educational facility in Alaska once and being dumbfounded by its size
My parents live in this town and the city legally can’t tear the tree down to build or anything because the tree has its own legal rights and they can’t do anything about it.
how does. how does this happen. how DID this happen
I love this story because this guy in the early 1800’s had so many great childhood memories of this tree and wanted to make sure it was protected no matter what. So he deeded the ownership of the tree to itself and everyone just went with it.
Then in 1942 this intense windstorm came and knocked the tree over. And people were bummed. But someone had saved an acorn from the original tree, so they planted that and now Son of the Tree That Owns Itself is over 50 feet tall.
And since this new tree is technically the offspring of the original tree it’s considered to have legally inherited the plot of land it’s inhabiting.
Two generations of trees owning land is amazing and if you don’t think this is the coolest thing get right out of my face.
I suffered through the Mary and Blake nonsense to listen to this after seeing an anon who said it was interesting. My comments will be in italics. I now remember why I stopped listening to their podcast after S1. Mary really annoyed me in this particular podcast. I also recognize when a New England person with a thick accent turns it up for effect and Blake does that from time to time. I actually agreed with a few things DG said (gasp).
The timing of the interview is probably a few weeks ago, she had not heard about Albrecht resigning.
Mary introduced it as the most popular show on Starz (um, wrong. Power has better ratings.) And also a great adaptation of DOA. (no comment).
Before I summarize the whole thing, the one thing that jumped out at me was her saying she had not seen script outlines when Cait said she had at least a month or more ago. DG said script outlines are usually sent to her, Starz and Sony for feedback before they start the white page production script. I find this very interesting in light of the detailed survey that they sent out. Are they comparing the responses with how the outlines are? Also, remind ourselves to look at the dates of the white page production draft.
DG also said that prep for S5 would include technical reconnaissance and finding locations which is done after the story is broken. This is about 60 producers and people from various crews within production visiting location sets to plan their lighting, building, etc. David Brown has left so there will be a new head of production. Writers can go but are not required to. (Is this why Cait said they are due back next week? Are they participating in this too?) DG said as far as she knows they are in the final stages of breaking into scripts.
Back to the interview:
-what is she looking forward to the most in S5. 1. The big thing that happens to Roger and 2. How Jamie deals with trying to build his community,keep his family safe, build his house and deal with the Regulators and when he reveals his true loyalty.
-Favorite part of S4 Jamie meeting Bree. She also liked 406 (Blood of my Blood)
-She didn’t answer what she missed from book “I don’t keep score” She did say sometimes she says to them “why would you do it your way when everyone was expecting something else.”
-She was the one who suggested they bring Murtagh into the Regulator story, it also helped tell the background of the whole movement. Their first two drafts of the exposition were confusing and not logical.
-Blake asked about the music changes. She loved Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall. She said America the Beautiful was a bold artistic choice that Matt was excited about but she warned him half would love it and half wouldn’t (I remember Cait saying they didn’t know that they were going to put music over their acting and she sounded annoyed by it.)
Matt/Toni versus RDM: A showrunner imparts their personality and imprints it into the atmosphere into the writer’s room. RDM had a small, tightly knit team with the same vision. M/T have 10 writers and that’s a lot of different visions and takes on the characters. Sometimes this is reflected in when you see a character who seems to bury something inate to who the character is or they take a step back in an episode. (I thought that was a very interesting statement.) It’s a slightly less tight knit. She prefers the smaller group.
I saw someone earlier today give a summary of exactly what she said about Sam and Cait being producers and she said it was very good. They will have equal voice in how their characters are portrayed and nobody knows J/C better than Sam and Cait
Mary and Blake brought up Rankin is wonderful but referenced book versus show Roger. DG said that is what happens when you leave in book speeches but take out book context, it makes him look bad and abrupt when he isn’t. She said if you take out the context, you can’t leave the speech verbatim from the book. She said you can’t hear what he’s thinking. (Same problem we saw with Claire on the journey to the Mohawk.)
They talked about Sophie (Mary and Blake also praised her to high heaven) and mentioned the fans thought chemistry between LJG and Bree was better than Broger.
Then Mary pissed me off by complaining about fans being overly critical about wigs, pacing, etc. (Get off your fake bubbly high horse Mary, in the Season 1 podcast, Blake was critical in almost every episode about something. It is people like you that make this fandom challenging. I swear I was waiting for her to use the divisive “true fan” comment.)
DG said sometimes changes are made like the bear scene where she doesn’t necessary like it but she understands it. She called her books long but tightly structured (ha!)
When asked about Albrecht she said TV is funny that even good shows need someone to support it but that the head of Starz TV programming is a big supporter. (I think this woman was honored by using her name for the author of the book Roger reads about Fraser’s Ridge. Plus Parnell at Sony is a fan, it seems).
That was it. As I said, I think it is interesting that Cait (and Sam too, I would assume) has seen outlines but DG hasn’t combined with the survey timing is intrigues me.
Thanks for the summary and suffering through DG (and Mary and Blake by the sound of it)!
“Why would you do it your way when everyone was expecting something else.” Sometimes things are that simple and I have to wonder why. Those egos are real.
She has basically pointed out the bad characterisation that we’ve complained about all along.
I wonder if they hired so many writers because they only had the budget to hire inexperienced ones and they can’t be entrusted to more than 1.5 episodes each. Plus that’s the calibre of writers they can realistically get to work under Toni Graphia.
I do hope this interview was done weeks ago otherwise it doesn’t bode well for filming to start soon. Speaking of time, they’ve been prepping for S5 for a year so something must’ve been written. It means it took the tidal wave of bad critical reviews and fan response to stop them in their tracks. These are professionals. So they thought there was nothing wrong when they watched their own final product? That’s some next level blindness and arrogance.
Tori