Basic physics? Snapping the arrow like that’s going to move the shaft in the process.

When the water started flowing through the channels and tunnels and it cut to the mountain (which is when I had the “a ha” moment), I quoted out loud one of my favorite MST3K riffs: “Ah ya, it’s raining cinematic payoff!”

Mount Doom is created because of a steam explosion is... just fucking terrible writing.

The trouble is that it’s an idea the source material leaves no room for. Sauron’s desire is for ‘mastery over flesh at a blood price so high Adar ostensibly rebelled.

I liked the episode, but 3 things bothered me:

It’s a triumph of adaptation. We all know what’s going to happen, yet they made it episodic and compelling, while compressing thousands of years of history into a coherent narrative.

We’ve made a lot of predictions, all of which have been wrong. This show seems committed to zigging when we expect a zag, and it’s a total relief.

I love this show, every single second of it. I don’t care if it’s slow at times, or it messes with Tolkien’s timelines or whatever. Tolkien’s books will always be there, I will always be able to return to them. This show takes the world and fills it with interpretations of the events from the books - it’s not a…

There was talk of the new one focusing on Dani’s kids, but I think part of the reason the human actors are out is down to the fact that Omri Katz no longer acts. So that takes Max off the board unless you recast. So then if you have Dani, you have to explain away Max. Bring Binx back and he loses his happy ending -…

Special treatment?

I have to think nothing makes him more upset then

The lid & the seat should always be down. When a guy needs to stand there to piss, he should lift the seat and the lid & then lower them both when he’s finished.

Illusions, Michael. A trick is something a whore does for money.

ASSHOLLLLLLLE! 

Kevin Kline played Hamlet twice in different productions, one of which he directed.  Before he became known in movies, he was a renowned Shakespearean performer for years in NYC.

While not necessarily the direction Bob really excelled in, I do think that ‘I love you, but you’re all terrible’ line did do an understated amount of weight-pulling in defining Bob as a good, caring dad right from the jump. It’s one thing to say that at the end of a story, in private, or when it’s really important,…

It actually almost feels like a reversal - Bob kind of plays the role of the ‘put-upon husband’, often acting as the voice of reason and having to endure the repercussions of a family that doesn’t heed his advice. Just like with the ‘traditional’ sitcom format, it doesn’t always work in my opinion - there are some…

It also serves to set him apart from Jimmy Pesto. One of the things that makes Pesto a bad guy is that he’s ashamed of his kids’ weirdness.

Another way Bob eschews the typical sitcom dad trope is he’s not an overgrown manchild that needs to be babysat by the overly stern wife. A wife that is only overly stern BECAUSE she’s married to someone who isn’t pulling his weight in the parenting department.

Hate to be that guy... but “screaming match”? Could we be any more gender stereotyped? If this is George Clooney and a male director, it gets called “shouting match”, which is not going to be viewed nearly as badly.