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The Chorrol quest A Shadow Over Hackdirt has the townsfolk secretly worshipping unseen creatures called the Deep Ones through their own twisted little scripture. That's lifted almost wholesale from H.P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth, right down to the isolated town hiding something under the water.
You'd think the show would film outside the actual 221B Baker Street, but by the time production started there was so much Sherlock Holmes signage and tourist clutter around the real street that it wasn't usable. The crew ended up shooting exteriors about a mile east, on North Gower Street instead.
The ruined city you spend the whole campaign creeping through is a reimagined, futurized version of the actual Kenyan port city of Mombasa. Bungie's art team used it as the canvas for the invasion, which is part of why ODST's setting feels so much more grounded and lived-in than the alien ringworlds and installations the series usually deals in.
That same fan, Kevin Cordasco, got asked by Vince Gilligan what he wanted to see in the ending. His answer was more closure on Gretchen and Elliott, Walt's old business partners — and sure enough, they got extra screen time in the final stretch of episodes.
For The Taken King expansion, Bungie replaced Dinklage with veteran voice actor Nolan North, best known for Nathan Drake in Uncharted. Remarkably, North didn't just voice new lines, he re-recorded every single piece of Ghost dialogue from the original base game so the whole experience would feel consistent.
Nolan had wanted to shoot on IMAX cameras for years, and this was his chance - The Dark Knight became the first non-documentary feature ever filmed with them. Only a handful of sequences got the full IMAX treatment, but it set the template for how he'd shoot every Batman film after.
Across its full six-season run on The CW from 2007 to 2012, the original Gossip Girl racked up a total of 121 episodes before the finale finally closed the book on the Upper East Side.
Darren Aronofsky's 2008 film The Wrestler has a scene where a kid explains the game to Randy 'The Ram' Robinson while they're playing a fictional title on an old console together, a nice little nod to how big it had become in pop culture by then.
Throughout the series, whenever the core group needed to gather for something big, they always seemed to end up at the Metropolitan Museum steps, and that's exactly where the whole cast reconvenes right before the finale's big reveals.
Long before he was the undead lich guarding Naxxramas, Kel'Thuzad was a respected human archmage and member of Dalaran's Kirin Tor, with genuine standing among the city's magical elite. His obsession with forbidden necromancy got him cast out, and the Lich King's voice found him not long after, turning him into the very first member of the Cult of the Damned.
