Yeah. I love the LOTR movies, but I am glad people were there to rein in some of the things Jackson wanted to do, like have Aragorn fight Sauron one on one at the end.

I think part of it is that every new show seems like it has to insert a massive amount of dumb teen drama. Willow was maybe the worst in that regard. Even Rings of Power, based on fairly teen-free material, had the stupid bullshit with Isildur and his idiot friends and his whining about how dad doesn’t understand or…

The three big fantasy series in the past couple years - Rings of Power, Wheel of Time, and Willow - were all pretty bad, but WoT was the worst of the three. Some really baffling changes from the source material, which wasn’t exactly high literature in the first place, with 90s-quality special effects and some of the…

Longer than that. The entire site’s been in a downhill slide ever since Gawker smarmed their way into being shut down by that ghoul Peter Thiel, and they’ve been hemorrhaging talent ever since - Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders leaving io9 made that site nearly unreadable.

I knew who the author of this piece would be before I even clicked on it.

Some YouTube person I think.

If Suletta turns into a lesbian car at the end, we’ll know for sure.

But this is a new movie, and an article was needed, I guess.

God I hope not. Jet Brody or whatever the hell his name was in Godzilla was the most godawful cardboard cutout soldier character I’ve ever seen. Just an absolute black hole of charisma.

Young doesn’t work for Bond. He’s experienced and world-weary and bitter.

The Reapers in general were weirdly flat after the first game. The initial encounter with Sovereign made them seem inscrutable and terrifying and beyond understanding, while 2 and 3 made it clear that while they were still a galaxy-ending threat (basically the same thing as the Inhibitors from the Revelation Space…

Pure luck whether or not you get past those goddamn dogs and manage to perch on the arch long enough to kill them off so you can fight the boss.

Fired up by people who wouldn’t otherwise have given them the time of day, like Steve Bannon and Roosh V. I think the Gamergaters have dispersed into even more pathetic endeavors by now.

Do they even need to? The whole “True Gamer” hard-r crowd is pretty much alt-right by default for the last 10 years at least. I guess the silver lining is that it’s not much of a “community” since they hate each other just as much for not playing Dark Souls the right way, or liking the wrong character in Smash Bros.,…

Yeah, I mean it’s not even “bad writing” really, in the case of either Redwall or HP. Redwall was always a little more serious from the start, while the underpinnings of both wizard and muggle society are exaggerated and silly - the Dursleys literally move from the suburbs to a tower in the ocean so Harry won’t get…

I think HP’s ethics are torn between the initial Roald Dahl-esque, over-the-top kids’ fantasy it was at the start, with comically odious characters like the Dursleys, and the actual world-building it tried to do later. I think there’s potential in Slytherin - drive and ambition and tackling less whimsical magic…

Of course his name is Tanner. I guess he’s been playing stupid games long enough that he was overdue to win a stupid prize.

Wheel of Time was the only one I couldn’t finish, I just found it completely unwatchable and couldn’t force myself to watch more than the first 3 or 4 episodes. Willow had too much stupid teen drama, but had its good points (I really liked Boorman). Rings of Power...also had too much stupid teen drama, for some…

Obviously they didn’t think it added to the story - it was a credits gag that nobody had to watch. Just a joke that people will either find funny, or not.

I liked Durin and Disa, and their friendship with Elrond was adorable. The sets were nice.