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Wait… I just realized that Drogon shrugging off the arrow is a direct "fuck you" to J.R.R. Tolkien, from George R.R. Martin. "Why would one arrow take down a dragon, you fucking asshole? Sit tight, I'll show you how a real fantasy writer kills dragons…"

I love Bryan Fuller, I love Neil Gaiman, and I… did NOT like this. I really wanted to. I was excited. And I loved the open, right up through the viking stuff. But then… THUD. Visually stunning, but never came together tonally after that. Sadly, I don't think I'll be watching any more.

Obviously. Too many Women Of Color.

The beast at Tanagra!

Scandalous!
*Faints dead away*

The only way to stop a bad guy with a bomb robot is a good guy with a bomb robot!

It's the best possible cast married to the worst possible premise.

Are… are there other ways to watch television? To LIVE??

BoJack Horseman, the most THRILLIFYING show on television*!

You know… for kids!

No. Fuck this. No goddamn way.

Chief Investigator Humble McDadbod!

Yeah yeah yeah!

All Stephenson books end this way. It's his thing. Except Anathem and maybe Zodiac.

^^^ This.

Eh. She's a bit too… wimpy, I guess?

I disagree. When you add movies to a franchise, you increase the story as a whole and alter the concept of the film in the mind of the audience. The more you add, the more you dilute the original film. Take Star Wars for example: when people talk about "Star Wars," they mean the entire trilogy, then sextet, and now

"It’s not the job of the artist to give the audience what the audience wants. If the audience knew what they needed, then they wouldn’t be the audience. They would be the artists. It is the job of artists to give the audience what they need." - Alan Moore