With all the plagiarized apology tweets, I now see only two options: either Shia is a huge asshole and decided to troll the entire internet in a "Well, what are you gonna do?" way, or as Teague suggested, it's part of something bigger.

I don't really see how he could be so stupid that he'd keep making apologizes taken from somewhere else and hope people wouldn't notice. He'd have to be really, really stupid.

We'll see. Maybe I will love it and realize I was a movie hipster all along.

Oh God, no.

Way to go, dude. Way to go.

I want to believe there's a perfect good reason for that. Let me believe, dammit!

Today's NASA's APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day) is very interesting.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

First, it was taken outside Saint-Michel-l'Observatoire in France. The astronomy center where I've worked as an activity leader for the last few summers is right behind this windmill.

Secondly, it shows a very cool comet. This is Lovejoy (not the same as the one in 2011, but it was discovered by the same amateur astronomer, Terry Lovejoy), and it's being beautiful at the moment. It's not a sungrazer, though, and it's already moving away from the Sun.

If you guys wanna see a comet, this is the time. It's not very bright, and probably not observable to the naked eyes, but get some binoculars and you might see it. What would also be very cool would be to feed the Astrophotography thread with pictures of it. It's not hard at all, and I think even with some light pollution it'll work. Just get a tripod, and do a 5 to 10 second exposure shoot towards the East before sunrise.

I plan on shooting it back home during the holidays, but as the month progresses, it'll get dimmer.

I just saw it. And it was great.

(minor spoilers)

Not as great as Shaun of the Dead or Hot Fuzz? I don't know. Maybe. I might need to watch the whole Cornetto trilogy in a row for that. But in the end, I don't care much. The World's End made me feel safe in the hands of Wright, Pegg, Frost and the whole bunch. I felt home. I kinda knew what I was gonna get by watching a Wright movie, and I got it. The cinematography is great, the dialogues are sharp and funny, the characters well developed. The action is very present but not boring, the editing fast but comprehensible.

As such, The World's End lives up to being the last movie of the Cornetto trilogy; and as of now, I'll be happy to count this trilogy in one of my watch-them-once-a-year trilogies such as Star Wars or Lord of the Rings (the latter, maybe not every year; who's got time for that, eh?).

To address Jimmy's main problems with it:

Pegg's character did not annoy me negatively. It did, of course, as he's supposed to, but otherwise I loved him. I just needed a moment to get used to the fact that Pegg wouldn't be carrying the heroic part of the movie. His character (and therefore acting) is very much different than in the other two movies, and I'm happy either way. The whole character development kinda throws you off balance, because you'd expect the most development would come from Pegg's character; but somehow, he's not the one being dragged up; it's the others being dragged down.

The ending felt a bit odd to me too. It all makes perfect sense thematically, but it might be a bit too much. I don't think the movie needed to go that far to wrap up its message (which got a bit blurred to me at first, because the pre-ending seems to tell the opposite message). I think Wright wanted to go a bit nuts with it because it's the end of the Cornetto trilogy (speaking of which...).

Looks like it's over. The Sun's intense coronal activity kinda finished the job. Beautiful while it lasted, though, and I'm sure we'll learn a lot from all this.

ISON may have survived. Which means, at least part of the nucleus did - but it was damaged along the way. Still, the comet keeps getting brighter as it's flying away from the Sun.

Update: at least part of the comet has survived.

No nucleus is visible, so currently we have no idea what's next. ISON is currently hashtagged as #TheWalkingDead on Twitter. I doubt it's much more than that...

This is what I love with this show. Whenever you start to think "Wait, how can this even work?", they get away with "Oh it's too complicated, you know, wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey". They just don't care, and we don't either.

Black Books is probably my favorite British TV show right after Doctor Who. Bill Bailey and Dylan Moran are two awesome sumbitches I want to have children with.

I've watched Elementary for a while - maybe the ten first episodes - but it felt a bit too much like a "one episode, one case" show, which felt weird after seeing Sherlock. The cinematography isn't quite as good either. Jonny Lee Miller is really great, though. I'll probably pick it up where I left off sometime in the future.

I was giggling like a little girl all throughout the moments with Smith and Tennant at the same time. And the first time I saw Tennant again, I almost cried. Looks like the wound created by Tennant's departure will never fully mend...

Anyhow, amazing episode overall. The dynamic between the three doctors - the old grumpy war veteran still connected to the old era, the regretful Tenth and the dancing around baby Eleventh - was really great. I really like how they chose to take all these fifty years of Doctor Who and celebrate them, and I'm very, very excited about the season to come.

New Doctor, new goal - a fresh start. The upcoming searching for Gallifrey makes me think series 8 will focus more on the Doctor himself. Until now the show has always made me feel like it was more about the companions than the Doctor himself. Of course, their arcs were also a way to make his own story develop, but this time I would really love it if it was more like "the Doctor is going to search for Gallifrey, and his companion will be there to help him", not the opposite.

The weakest moments, if I had to pick some, were when the episode fully focused on the Zygon plot. I only wanted to come back to this big meta Doctor thing, which was awesome. I'm still very unfamiliar with the old era, so I could only guess what impact the times the episode connected with it could have on everyone. I still squealed a bit when I recognized Baker, and it kinda surprised me. I really have to check out his era...

PS: "I don't want to go". Really, Moffat? Ouch. Uncool, man. Uncool.