They are absolutely not romantically involved in the books; Tolkien modeled Frodo and Sam’s relationship on the relationship between British officers and their batmen (usually lower-class enlisted men assigned as a kind of personal valet/companion to an officer) during wartime. Its fun to have fandom and shipping, but…
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I’ve always thought the shipping of Frodo and Sam was kinda problematic in an odd way, and promotes the idea that men can’t have really close, affectionate relationships with one another, without them being homosexuals. There’s literally nothing in the books or films to indicate that their relationship is anything but…
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That’s why it’s called a microaggression: it’s one small thing that, on its own, is probably a nothing, but when it adds up over time with others, it becomes a real problem. Especially because it’s such a small act done by a stranger who’s not aware of it. Did you ever see that Key & Peele sketch about the substitute…
Not at an awards ceremony. If the task is to announce people’s names to bestow honor, the host should learn or be told how to pronounce all of the names.
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Well then! Lemme refresh your memory. (Great gag)
They should do an article on fantasy series we’ve all stopped caring about or given up on: Kingkiller, ASOIAF, Wheel of Time, Outlander, hoping that we don’t add the Stormlight Archives or Dresden files to that dubious list.
Jesus, if he publishes the dam books I’ll have to read the entire series again just to see where the infinite story lines left off. I can’t commit that kind of time.
The main thing that would get me to subscribe to HBOMax is a true dedicated TCM feature. Instead they just have a bunch of classic films that seem to be based on a cursory run-through of the IMDb Top 250. But the whole point of having TCM in the first place is all the obscure, deep-dive stuff they air. Some Sam Fuller…
What is it with these lines on the road telling me where and which way I should drive my car. I thought I woke up this morning in a free country.
As a liberal, in my mind the proper stance should be: Mass testing, contract tracing, masks and social distancing required in public. Enjoy your day.
You know, the things South Korea and other Asian countries adopted after SAS and has worked really well so far for COVID.
‘Well everything’s fucked anyway, guess we might as well open’ - a lot of businesses, I imagine, at this point.
There is one thing I don’t get about The Snyder Cut as a movement. Previous Snyder movies (Man of Steel and Martha v Mart... I mean, Batman v Superman) were met with all sorts of critiques by the fandom, as in “Oh no, Superman is a murderer” or “I can’t hear the name Martha anymore, WHY DID YOU SAY THAT NAME!”... and…
So they're making a new movie with Justice League footage spliced in, this is not #thesnydercut it's a new movie. Lol.
This comment took an interesting left turn. From “Be wary of white women falsely accusing black men of crimes” to “Let’s not investigate a white woman accusing a white man of something that he has already been known due to do and of something for which she has some corroborating evidence even though a failure to…
Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion.
So I’ve read the first Dune novel. I really liked it. Is the rest of the series any good? I’m moving into my “It’s Summer so it’s time for a sprawling Sci-Fi epic read-a-thon.”
A 14,000-year-old genome scraped from a prehistoric tooth found in southern Siberia is now the oldest known…
It should not take three paragraphs describing an existing plug-in that also supports Netflix to reach the single sentence, in the article, which actually relates to the title.