When he was literally the face of the franchise on that procedural that lasted for 20 seasons I don't think that's vanishing.

This is true, but right now it's an unfired Chekhov's gun.

There's a reason the series started with that scene (it did in the book too). That was supposed to indicate that the White Walkers were ultimately the important threat and the war of the five kings was, quite literally, a game of thrones in comparison.

Cassian Andor's sister

The first one was okay for you?

The Last Ship is a great example for this.

Americans don't know the difference

I haven't seen Face/Off, but my thought is The Rock is the best movie while Con Air is the most fun.

This exactly. The 3-D rides at Disney world are worse, probably because the glasses are shit quality

The first time I watched it I found it quite boring and I turned it off and went to watch something else. It's just so completely different from the first season. But then when I later tried it again and stuck it out through S2 it was actually great.

The Last Ship - I get that it was like a dream sequence of sorts or a "life flashing before his eyes" kind of moment but it was just ridiculous in a show that had been so serious and grounded for 5 previous seasons.

Also I will echo those who have already answered with Merlin.

He wasn't killed. He just went into or out of an undercover persona. (Or went to TAHITI, for those who will get the reference)

Why do you think Leroy Jethro Gibbs knows so much about Air Force One and Secret Service procedure in the first episode of NCIS?

This is too political, man. Nobody was thinking like that when they wrote it.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

The Arrowverse or "#OneChicago" type shows need this too. And those are/were different nights.

But it sounds like you mean the whole night from one network.

Oh it definitely is

Yeah, but a movie isn't a live broadcast so that's a totally different situation.

I don't remember if the movie actually played the song, but when Nicolas Cage said "it's you, Captain. You're the rocketman."

Is that scene (as well as "Middle" in the title) why I always think that song was the intro theme for Malcolm in the Middle?

Lucas was lying when he said that then, because he wasn't even the writer who came up with it.

You realize I mentioned that in my comment, right?

But if I'm watching a movie then I know it's not really breaking in to deliver an actual message. The concern would be with live broadcasts. I suppose airing a movie on cable you might have to edit that, but in a theater or on a home edition it shouldn't matter.

I already am desensitized to it because the tornado warnings on the radio use the same sound and the listening area of the radio station is such that I hear warnings for folks three counties away which does not affect me in the slightest.

If you live in the US you've heard it. Whenever they break in with a national weather service report like a tornado warning, that uses the same tones that this is talking about.

And the long one after those first three tones.

I live in a college town and every time in September when the new out of state/international students hear the monthly tornado siren test for the first time is a fun explanation.