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Costume designer Eric Daman has said Ed Westwick's polished, suited-up look as Chuck Bass had a genuine influence on menswear at the time, pushing back against the era's more casual, 'Jersey Shore' style of dressing.
After Al Mualim strips Altaïr of his rank for a botched mission, he's handed a hit list of nine targets scattered across Damascus, Acre, and Jerusalem to earn his way back into the Brotherhood. Each kill drips out a little more of the game's Templar conspiracy, right up until the reveal that Al Mualim was pulling the strings all along.
The season isn't made up of even-length episodes — the opener clocks in at 45 minutes while episodes two through four each run 50 to 51 minutes, and all of those times include the roughly 5-minute end credits sequence tacked on.
Getting Patrick Stewart to voice Emperor Uriel Septim VII was a genuinely big deal back in 2006, when big-name actors in games were still pretty rare. Funnily enough, all that star power gets used up fast - Uriel is killed off within the opening stretch of the game, making his one of gaming's shortest celebrity cameos with the biggest opening impact.
Line up a sniper rifle on the moon and take a shot, and it'll actually change size on screen. Nobody outside Rockstar really knew why this was in there for years, until an ex-developer finally explained it on Twitter.
At launch, Witcher 3's open world was roughly 20% larger than Skyrim's map, and about 35 times the size of the world in The Witcher 2. That scale goes a long way toward explaining why the map ends up absolutely covered in little question marks waiting to be uncovered.
Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega and retired Marine lieutenant colonel Oliver North, of Iran-Contra fame, both appear in Black Ops II's campaign, with North voicing his own character. It's a strange bit of casting even by Call of Duty's usual standards, mixing real-world figures with controversial pasts directly into the fiction.
The show was written and produced out of Nickelodeon's studio in Burbank, but almost all the actual animation was outsourced to South Korean studios JM Animation, DR Movie, and MOI Animation, which is fairly standard for American TV animation but not something most viewers ever think about.
The original plan for Series One was six standard hour-long episodes. After the pilot was shot in that format, the BBC decided to turn it into more of a TV event and asked for three feature-length 90-minute films instead. Moffat's actually credited that change as one of the reasons the show survived as long as it did, since fitting six episodes around Cumberbatch and Freeman's schedules would've been brutal.
