Wipeout! seems fine. I haven't seen much of it, but the appeal is very straightforward. I'm not sure what desires or state of mind would make Fuller House so popular.

Or they don't want the people they're negotiating with to know how valuable they are.

Girls would be pulling better numbers than Game of Thrones.

Once they get sufficiently close to a monopoly to stop trying to be everything to attract everyone, it's gonna be ugly.

It's amazing how well those things worked. We remember at least a little bit of stuff about Egyptian culture and royalty from thousands and thousands of years ago, and not only could i not name anything equivalent from Mesopotamia or the Indus river valley's civilizations of the time, i couldn't even name the…

It's that sweet Laurel Canyon reprogramming.

She raises sort of an interesting philosophical question: can you be brainwashed by things you yourself selected for that purpose? Or does consent make it not really brainwashing?

I think she'd work great for Vice. They could set out to learn something about the Pashtun-majority regions in Pakistan or something, and then go off the rails when everyone they talk to, even in remote villages, keeps asking "Wait, are you that transformers lady? What the hell are you doing here?"

It's hard to imagine she won't be a disaster, producers' past work and that character description screaming "modest goals that are still delusional somehow." So this might be less broad city and more workaholics/idiotsitter in terms of how it portrays heavy substance usage; which is to say, as something the character…

I think hearthstone is supposed to be a game people in warcraft's world play to pass time at inns? So right after the Triple Triad movie.

I see. I'm working mostly from half-remembered warcraft lore via the games and do not plan to see the actual movie version, but heard it was pretty faithful and saw promotional stuff. So Sargeras doesn't explicitly come into things in this versoin? That's probably for the best.

Well you picked the right part to half-ignore. It gets less coherent and interesting as it resolves and expands in scope. When it's just an adventure with this super guy in a weird world, it's alright.

Rnlrn'rlnnnlr?

I've heard this "It makes both sides sympathetic!" line, and i just don't see it. The orc leadership makes a literal deal with the devil to be his army if he gives them the power and the transportation to go conquer a new world and wipe out its people.

The Warcraft [number] games mostly make sense on their own. WoW doesn't, partly because of the MMORPG angle, specifically because they seemed to want to not make any plot happen during the game action itself. That really was a case of, read this tie-in book to know what made a continent suddenly appear or whatever,…

My first thought: "Man that Chinese actor looks uncannily like Brandon Routh!"

We can in theory make our own art films too, but we seem to keep importing a lot of them anyway.

There's no way 5 minutes covers all the stuff Warcraft had to cut out to be a movie. Not that they shouldn't have cut that stuff out, but fuck is there ever a lot of it. It's only like one tier below Star Wars in terms of how much unnecessary detail there is about the universe.

Right, from the outside…

All those muscles and more were necessary to get anyone at all to maybe take Carrot Top seriously.