My guess is the TV show essentially changing the main, versus supporting, characters of the story to include, or maybe just be, Moiraine, Egwene, and Nynaeve isn’t temporary.

It is definitely a dodge, but I think it is helpful to remember the 1990s was a transitional period in terms of how prominent social institutions were dealing with these issues, and specifically one in which Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (“DADT”) became official U.S. military policy. And it was a hypocritical policy in just…

You seem to have written a different adaption in your head that you would prefer to see. Of course that is your right, but I think there is a virtue in not thinking there is only one way to adapt a book, and that deviations from the adaption that you would do are necessarily worse as opposed to just different.

Well, we will have to see how that is handled when it happens. Right now you are imagining a sudden, crude, and unsatisfying transition from Rand The Least Special to Rand The Dragon Reborn. But the show hasn’t made that transition yet, and maybe it will be executed in a more satisfying manner than you are imagining.

The 1/2 Hour News Hour.

So since the LOTR movies were a huge hit, I don’t really see there being a good case that only anti-fantasy like GOT can work with wider audiences. I think LOTR and GOT could both be hits despite GOT essentially being a critique of LOTR because both were actually good.  The Harry Potter movies also made a ton of…

So apparently it started reasonably strong and then had a large drop off in viewership.

If all that was objectively outstanding, then why did it feel so subjectively fake to me? Like I was always seeing them as costumes and sets and props, and not just getting lost in show.

I was fully prepared to treat it as its own thing, I just didn’t like it that much.

I could only get through the show by skipping forward through all the scenes with Vicious/Julia (unless Spike was also in the scene).  I do not feel I missed anything important.

All my favorite superhero content this year was TV shows. I’d probably take Hit Monkey over any of the movies.

Stole SEASONS as Lyanna Mormont!

Obviously he expected his movie to solve the media problem, right before it solved the climate problem.

I don’t see that as being accurate of Craig’s Bond, and I am not sure it really applies since Roger Moore’s run. And in fact that Alan Moore line is from 1986, so right before Dalton started.

No Time to Die was the third-highest grossing movie of 2021, and the top two were both China-specific movies.

That implies an independent existence to this character beyond whatever Eon Productions decides to do with the character. And that makes no sense to me in this case, because the character is fictional, and has long since moved on from the original Fleming character as well.

I’d define it as the next movie in the franchise having a woman in the lead role.

Not to be crass about it, but the latest James Bond movie was the third-highest grossing of 2021, first among non-China-specific movies. Spectre was #6, Skyfall was #2, Quantum was #7—really going all the way back, it has been a reliable hit machine.

This sort of reminds me of the debate about allowing women (or for that matter people of color, Jews, and so on) into prominent traditional institutions like colleges, clubs, military branches, and so on, versus creating separate institutions for them. Normally a particular movie role would not be a close analog, but…

A bit of a nitpick, but I don’t think Christopher was being absentminded when he told his stepmother about the bodies. I thought it was framed as a very intentional decision. His surface reasoning was that she would not send them money unless he gave her a compelling explanation as to why they were in France, but the…