But Daemon runs, leaps, and slashes through the Crabfeeder’s men—good soldiers, attested to by the fact we’ve been constantly reminded that they’re winning the war...

It wasn’t Ceraxes that showed up (his rider was otherwise occupied). It was Seasmoke ridden by Laenor Velaryon.

That was the least of the issues with The Hobbit movies!

If it doesn’t have the line, “Sonja. Your parents. They are dead.” delivered with about a much sympathy as a rock could muster, then I’m not interested.

What are pump jacks?

Seen it!

Ah, yes! I’d forgotten what they did to Théoden. In the books he seemed to be under some kind of spell (it’s unclear if actual magic was involved) that was lifted by Gandalf.

Several things. First they eliminated the Fog on the Barrow Downs episode (that could have been included without Tom Bombadil) where the Hobbits were saved by Frodo’s bravery. Secondly, in order to attempt to show the influence of the ring, they amped up Frodo’s failure to deal with it, and kind of made him in to a…

I hated what they did to Frodo. He was perhaps the bravest character in the books. While it’s not easy to show on screen his struggles against the influence of the ring, they took away his heroism.

I’ll reserve final judgment until after watching LotR: TRoP, but at this point I’m quite happy Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh aren’t involved. Obviously The Hobbit was terrible, but even before this there were some big red flags. Whenever they added their own writing to the LotR, we got to see that they were mediocre…

China likes to perpetuate the myth that their borders have been the same for thousands of years. It’s a lie, as this video illustrates.

It’s sad that we live in a world where powerful leaders have fragile egos and organize their existence around maintaining face and their honor.

She already did. That is why we celebrate her.

...her kiss with William Shatner’s James Kirk in the episode “Plato’s Stepchildren” being cited as the first interracial kiss on scripted TV.

You are correct about the various Sherlock Holmes stories. I should have used “The Hound of the Baskervilles” which has at least 20 movie and TV adaptions.

It is an old story. “The Adventures of Pinocchio” was first published in serial form in 1881. It’s just another thing Disney appropriated and then managed to convince a lot of people (especially Americans) was a Disney tale.

Yes. The server energy required to stream a video like that is far, far higher than the energy needed to send some text.

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Ah, yes. You are correct. It was Unfinished Tales I was thinking off. Although people had told him that The Silmarillion was unpublishable.