Does Donald Trump intend to take policy cues from Velma if he somehow ever becomes president again?

To answer your question, I’m definitely not agreeing with you. 

It is shocking how Tolkein-esque it feels. I think the people complaining about it for not-racist/misogynistic reasons want it to be like the Jackson movies, but the show really has the pacing of the books. 

Why stop there with a secular text? Make the Bible feature white people and demand Arabs and Jews be okay with it...oh wait.

Groan, please no. Tom Bombadil needs to be able to sing. 

Look, person, I know we’re all anonymous on the internet, so you have no idea who I am or that I am an academic historian who specializes in sports history and 19th century African American studies. So you had no idea that I am exactly the person who knows everything you said is bullshit because I have spent literal…

There was the one hiccup of Goyle landing himself in prison and getting replaced by the Zabini character. And that was it. They managed to make eight movies with the same core cast, and even Radcliffe’s drinking problem during the filming of five and six didn’t derail things. 

Whoo boy. I do not have time to debunk all that. And pretty much all of it deserves debunking. I was really hoping you might have some salient points, but no. This has been a disappointing interaction from beginning to end. Adieu. 

The ghost of George Washington, played by Michael Caine doing a bad American accent, haunting his successors is something I didn’t know I wanted. 

It is different because local stations are not academia nor Hollywood. You would have to convince me that there is an equivalency first before we proceed. And then you would have to provide proof beyond your feelings that academia and Hollywood are, in fact, controlled by left-wing interest groups acting in concert in…

Imagine what Michael Caine could do with a role like that, though. Yes. I’ve decided I do want such a thing. 

Why does that matter? Left wing groups aren’t taking over local stations. What are you trying to achieve by posing a hypothetical when the answer is obviously, ‘yes’?

There is a HUGE overlap. The Tolkien fandom has had a white Christian nationalist problem for years now. I was kind of hoping this show might actually force Tolkien fans to confront the rot, but, alas, I’m pretty sure now this show will only exacerbate the problem.

Vox Day has locked down his blog since the last time…

If they’re going to accelerate the wizard timeline, I’d like to see some Blues myself.

I made a sly joke about wanting to see onscreen confirmation of Gandalf and Galadriel’s torrid love affair (because Cate Blanchett and Ian McKellen somehow had off-the-charts chemistry in The Hobbit trilogy) but knowing it would never happen because Gandalf wasn’t there for the second age. And then, meteor guy landed…

On a surface level, the whole series is about greed over jewelry. But Tolkien obviously intended the Simalrils and Rings of Power to be metaphors for other things. And those are open to interpretation. The Simalrils specifically capture the light of the Two Trees of Valinor, so I have always interpreted obsession with…

I mean, you are talking about a guy whose formative years were World War I AND II. He saw a lot of obvious evil threat growing on the horizon, no one doing anything about it until it was almost too late, and then huge alliances having to pull together to repel the threat, only to have to rinse and repeat in a few…

Also, if you’re going to do all of this anyway, hire an actually disabled actor. 

The concept of race is historically new, only about six hundred years old or so. You can’t really claim that we are closer to “racial progress” than we’ve ever been when someone from the Middle Ages would have no idea what you’re talking about. And that brings us to the second problem with your assertion. What is…

Limit your time scale to 600 years rather than “all of human history,” and you might have a point. Well, more of a point.