A renaissance in reference to an actor or artist implies that either they’re back after a long break or that they’ve returned to peak form after a string of disappointing projects. Neither applies to Rachel Bloom, who aside from taking a short break to have a baby has been working consistently and to acclaim since Cra…

I like to refer to Brie Larson as “White Captain Marvel”, the way non-Josh Chan Josh in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is called “White Josh”.

Except the whole point of the movie is that she’s a blank slate, because her real personality has been buried under a mindwipe and Kree propaganda. The movie is about her slowly growing out of that and becoming her real self again. My favorite of these is the people who accuse the movie of not selling Jude Law’s…

hell yeah

well said, Fraser has to struggle with fatphobia regardless, I feel he has his own sensitivity to the issues.

As a larger individual myself, I have no issue with the fat suit here. It’s not being used to transform a skinny person, it’s being used because it would be insane to have anyone actually gain 600 pounds.

“The butter seals in the apple’s juices so they don’t leatherize”

That trailer just made me smile so whole heartedly. I’m fully on board and cannot wait for this show to arrive.

Spoilers from the books below.

“Somehow every man she talks with gets pegged as her love interest against all evidence.”

Not sure how they can. The elves sailing to Valinor were already using the Straight Road, which shouldn’t exist until after Pharazon’s pholly (sic).

the foul creatures who serve darkness, hate sunlight, and have apparently been busying themselves with a series of elaborate tunnels in the Southlands for quite some time now

Celeborn has been confirmed for season 2 of the show. I currently expect that they’ll run with his oldest backstory as a Nandorin elf from Lórien, and move their meeting to the Second Age.

After 3 episodes, I love what this show does with Tolkien’s world so far. It looks amazing, I like the characters so far, and I’m curious to see where it goes, what would be the end point of this season. I’ve read LOTR, Hobbit and Silmarillion, so I know where this is going in Tolkien’s books, but looks like the show…

The Gray Havens are not to the west of Middle-earth. They are a harbor  city within Lindon, also called Mithlond. 

Aesthetics intended to evoke a vast ship, I assume. Makes sense since Numenor is a nautical culture and Gondor is made up of Numenorians descendants. 

You are *remarkably* patient.

I don't have an answer that will satisfy you. You have a sense of how things should be, ideally, and that's fine, but no suggestion for how things would actually change, or who would do the changing, or what legal mechanism they would use to get there. We agree on the end result, the question is how to get there. You…

These kinds of lawsuits aren’t about actually collecting damages. It’s about discouraging copycat accusations. 

If the officer found the car in which you are having sex, it is likely to be found to be in a public place, either because, um, found OR because some complaining citizen phoned in a complaint.