Ooooooooooooh. I was trying to make that into Asha. That makes much more sense.

Yeah, no idea. You could maybe get me on board that the southern kingdom of men is loosely analogous to the Roman Empire, which would I guess make Minas Tirith Rome? Sorta? Anyway, no idea.

As first conceived, ASoIaF is an extremely loose fictionalized retelling of the War of Roses, so it's vaguely Great Britain with, as @doctuar:disqus said, Spain stuck on the bottom for some reason.

Tolkien would literally come back from the dead to beat you to death for saying that if he weren't Catholic and that was antithetical to everything he believed in.

It's one thing to give someone a cameo.

No, I agree completely (and Evil Lincoln doesn't at all play to the fundamental issues raised by an imagined Confederate win).

It's sorta weird that they didn't just cast the people who did the podcast.

It's so interesting how someone's "objective" lack of acting talent can serve them perfectly in one role, but then essentially moot their career otherwise.

It's still dire.

To be fair, you referred to "colored people" and seemingly have no clue why a creative team composed of white men would have pretty offensive optics for an alternate history project about a reality that a bunch racists wish had (or still will) happened.

Sometimes people just sort of explain away their points without you having to do any work at all.

Everything about this seems like an offensive, desperately ill-timed, and all-around poorly considered idea, especially coming from two white dudes from New York and Chicago.

This is the palest, palest imitation of Wacken Open Air, and I'm disappointed this is the best we can muster in comparison to that.

Yeah, I'm in no way being judgy about people who choose to crowdfund. Obviously there's tons of great stuff out there that wouldn't exist but for crowdfunding. My risk/reward analysis has just come down firmly on the side of "let it get to market" before I plop down cash.

I solved the "burned by kickstarter" problem by never funding a kickstarter. Really took care of that risk.

That is an amazing idea that will never, ever, ever happen.

About the only way the auction house/seller wins is if they can prove that Madonna either sold, gifted, or abandoned those items. If they don't have something pretty convincing to show one of those things, I think the benefit of the doubt is going to favor returning them to the apparent owner.

Surely there was one actress from New York who could've taken this role, right?

Astonishingly weird.

Nothing has ever been worse for the involvement of Walton Goggins. Also, I miss Justified. Kinda a lot.