He’s the one who drove home the importance to every crazy man rock drummer of being tight as hell.  If you couldn’t emulate the fills on Tom Sawyer then you weren’t a real drummer.

Not a single one.

As a life long Rush fan, this is going to be crippling, and will take a while to process. But to tell a little story, I owe my dad’s life to Neil Peart. When my mom decided she was done with chemo and was ready to go, my father confided in me that he would likely kill himself when she was gone.  Both of us are…

I’ve said this at the end of each season, Alex, but once again, thank you for these pieces. They’re what I wish for most from reading reviews. They added to the experience, highlighted things I might’ve missed or provided context or trivia I might not have been aware of, and had an insightful point of view.…

It didn’t end how I thought it might end, but it did end exactly where I wanted it to... with Darlene and Elliott alone. It was gutwrenching and wonderful.

“He’s desperate to be like a person and have a daemon, just desperate. So I tricked him into thinking that I was your daemon, and I was going to desert you and be his instead, but he had to fight you to make it happen. Because otherwise, Iorek, dear, they’d never let you fight, they were going to just burn you up…

Perhaps 10 episodes would have been a better call? And the budget could have been stretched to cover both an armoured battle and the human-style extravagance of Iofur's regime. 

As a viewer, not book reader, I am left saying “uh...he had an arc?” Sad how that played out. I can imagine in my head how it could be a great arc of redemption, but the show didn’t build it at all.

Also, getting people to write him off immediately is what he wants. It’s a useful thing for him.

The omission of important details is just mind boggling. Wasn’t it stressed that the armor is like a daemon or soul for a bear? Why would they fight without it? Also where is the emotional connection between Iorek and Lyra? She seems so standoffish. Iorek is treated basically as an Uber.

The overall plot of II is really about the Exile’s emotional journey, and canonically at least, back to the light and to restoring the order. There’s so many things the game’s story is commenting on: depression/mental illness, the aftermath of devastating wars, trauma, survivor’s guilt, nihilism, etc.

“If there’s a tragedy to Knights Of The Old Republic, it’s that the game’s never been topped, even by its successors. Knights Of The Old Republic II...”

I can’t quite believe I’m using my first ever comment to moan, but isn’t that just what the internet is for? Sidenote- Hello everyone!

Random Writer: Shouldn’t we put the armor on the armored bears? It looks kind of wrong.

That feels like one of the only things they got right with the bears, Iorek’s armor. Iofur’s armor in comparison...where was the story’s commentary on that? It again makes me wonder if the people making this show just have no idea of what parts of the story it is important to tell, and what parts are okay to leave…

The themes and core characters of KOTOR II are maybe my favorite in any video game I’ve ever played. It’s a shame that its rushed production schedule led to some production cut corners, which prevent it from being placed consistently on the same level as the original game. But give me the Exile over the [player…

I think they avoided showing the victory so Lyra would temporarily think Iorek was dead, which was just pointless. Stripping the bears of their armour just made it look like a Transformers fight, where you couldn’t tell which of two similarly coloured blurry objects was winning and which was losing. Shame, because it…

Well, it’s a little fruitless to judge a series you haven’t read by viewing part of an adaptation. Where this story goes is so unexpected and wild that summarizing it would not do it justice. The first book just dips its toe into the larger story. It blows open and expands to many other realms and locations.

You super called it, but fuck, man, the way this episode was put together was so shitty and clunky. We literally cut away from Lyra’s story to watch Boreal come through the portal again, and that’s it. It was so ridiculously stupid and unnecessary.