Honestly can’t take someone seriously who both wants showrunner to “stay true” to the source material but also admits to loving the Jackson films which very much do not do that. They are honestly better films for it.

If Canada wants to do what’s reasonable and yet whiz-bang, build a maglev train system. But this vacuum tube bullshit—I can’t stop my eyes from rolling.

Even Street Fighter, a game franchise with an international if somewhat stereotypical cast, has gotten this.

My favorite is still wypipo complaining Star Trek is too woke. You know, the franchise that was noted for breaking several important interracial taboos and diversity barriers on TV 60 years ago.

The fact that the trolls are mad because their are black people in this show is just hilarious.

LOL. We can’t even get a “not slow” train from Toronto to Montreal. It’s literally faster to drive. Average speeds in the Quebec City - Windsor corridor are under 100 kph. This has a snowball’s chance in a sugar bush.

Watching the Internet of today calling out the judges of America’s Next Top Model for being problematic is like watching people calling out a Klan member in the 50's for using the n-word. It’s like, “no shit. What did you expect?”

This was a show where young girls were competing to enter the fashion industry of the…

I don’t know a ton about Tolkien’s works, or how any of the magic in his world actually works, so maybe there’s something that contradicts this, but to me, it seems that The Stranger is Sauron, reborn in a new human form.

“Where did he come from?”
“He fell out of the sky!”
“Oof! I sat on a carrot and it broke!”
“What happened to the cartful of man we were dragging!”

I thought it was Sauron, although... would they really do ‘oh no, the cart rolled away’ comedy bits with the Dark Lord?

Of course it is. They paid 250 million for the rights. Hobbits weren’t supposed to factor in but people expect hobbits in LOTR so they are in.

It’ll be Gandalf, and his adventures with Nori will be framed as an explanation for why he loves hobbits so much, which is something that never needed a backstory.

Pretty obvious that the man who fell to Middle-earth is David Bowie.

Trying to be as vague as possible here, but they not only announced Sauron’s casting, they released a still of him without the armor. So I don’t think it’s Sauron. The only way that would be conceivable is if Amazon Studios was issuing fake press releases to fake everyone out and I imagine publications wouldn’t take…

I don’t see how they would make him Gandalf. Blue Wizard is far more likely. No idea if they can use their names or not contractually. Palando? Can’t remember.

I’m rooting for one of the blue wizards as well, since they’re basically blank slates. It’d also fit with the southern focus; what little we know about them involves establishing themselves in the lands of the humans.

It’s Tim

God I hope it is one of the blue wizards. That is the obscure Tolkien shit that I cannot get enough of

Hopefully it’s NOT Gandalf, that’d be disappointing. I’d be okay with him being one of the blue wizards though, which are mostly ignored in Tolkien’s work 

Pretty sure it's Dumbledore.