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Referring to things that happen "behind the camera", the real-life reasons for how/why a TV/film/book/comic turned out the way it did
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"No rubber-suited aliens" rule in Doctor Who?
I've heard it said that at some point the Doctor Who TV series had a rule that they shouldn't have aliens which were just people in rubber suits. E.g. this claim about the Daleks:
The Daleks were …
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How was this shot of River Tam on the ceiling managed in Serenity?
There's a scene in the Firefly film Serenity where we see River Tam clinging to the ceiling like a giant lizard:
Over on the Outdoors Stack Exchange, there's some discussion, in ChrisH's answer and …
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Why were Series 6 and 7 split into two parts?
Nearly every series of new (post-2005) Doctor Who, excluding specials, has comprised a sequence of weekly episodes:
Series 1: weekly from 26 March 2005 to 18 June 2005
Series 2: weekly from 15 April …
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Working titles of Star Wars films?
I learned from this question that Blue Harvest was the working title of Star Wars Episode VI (Return of the Jedi), and it made me wonder: did any of the other Star Wars films have similarly surprising …
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Who is Rory in this Doctor Who clip?
This answer features the following video clip from the Tenth Doctor era:
An interesting tidbit, from the part where David Tennant is speaking out of character, is the fo …
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Were parts of Harry Potter inspired by James and the Giant Peach?
James and the Giant Peach:
full name James Henry Trotter
parents killed by a rampaging rhinoceros when he was very young
lived with 2 abusive aunts until magic came into his life
Harry Potter:
f …
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What is Deanna Troi's accent?
The TNG character Deanna Troi always speaks with a slight foreign accent, which I've been unable to place. In-universe it's presumably a Betazoid accent, but what is it based on out-of-universe?
It c …