I kind of agree that it seems like a good candidate for adaptation. It's a strong, flexible premise, like you say. And death gods appear in every culture, even if the grim reaper feels downright boring compared to their Shinigami. You could even keep Ryuk's thing for apples, that would have a whole new set of symbolic…

Note how I said "Japanese character names and cultural content". There is a difference between adaptation and appropriation. If they are choosing to adapt the concept to an American setting, then I would hope they would use characters broadly representative of America. I would also expect that the Shinigami would be…

Hopefully they'll get whoever did the effects work for the Cat in the Hat movie. That shit was horrifying.

This misses the point of the problem. America is, thankfully, not Japan in terms of having a monolithic ethnic makeup. America is a more diverse nation, and it's reasonable to expect the American film industry to reflect that in a way that they typically don't do. Casting white actors for these kind of roles becomes a…

In the American version, Ryuk will be renamed "Rod" and he will be at least 30% more extreme, as well as being "edgy", "rude", and "in-your-face". Also he will be shaped like a shark and he will shoot energy drinks out of his eyeballs.

Cool, I haven't heard of that one. Thanks for the rec.

Well that is an excellent choice as well.

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What is it about books about circuses, that they have so much potential but are so often awful? For every Geek Love, there's probably more than a dozen like The Night Circus or Water For Elephants that I just find atrocious.

One of the fan q&a things I read suggested that Lucifer was originally going to be a major recurring character this season, but got cut. I guess because they felt they had… too much excellent material already? It would have been nice if they could have built up one villain better and kept the focus on them for the…

Dominion, S2E12: "Day of Wrath"

So Steven clearly stole that "World's Best Stephen" mug from Colbert, right?

I can only imagine how many entendres were unintentionally doubled in those…

It was pretty hard, and fairly scary at several points. Luckily I quickly discovered that the best strategy is as follows:
1) never use medkits
2) save as much ammo as possible
3) die repeatedly
It's a strategy that really plays to my strengths.

*savescumms furiously*

Well the most important thing is that you tried.

God I hope I don't show up in this reboot.

Jesus is like syrup / He's sticky and he's sweet
He also knows that breakfast / is the most important meal to eat

Yes. Very much so. If anything, more so.

I would have to have been drunk out of my mind to be on that show.