I guess? Tbf it’s been ages since I’ve read any of it, but I was always under the recollection that after Earendil (or perhaps after the Noldor were forgiven), the Enchanted Isles either didn’t exist or didn’t matter anymore, which is why the Numenorians were simply banned from trying to reach Aman.

They don’t call it that, no, but I’m not sure how else one’s supposed to interpret it—it’s a light in the sky that that the boat’s approaching before Galadriel jumps, and she’s still looking up when the clouds close and hide the light and the elven ship.

FWIW, I think they’re sort of trying to get at that with the Elrond/Durin and Galadriel/Miriel exchanges. The show needs to spend too much time establishing the different races to deal with much of the subgroups within, but these elves are dickish.

- Since Pharazon is a character in the show, I’d like to see his ill-fated invasion of Valinor at some point. Maybe season 3-4 ...

I’m guessing this is taking place around year 3230-3250 or so of the Second Age.

FWIW, I don’t think it’s that the writers are lazy. They’re just not given much to work with, both in terms of the core premise and how much space they have to make for MCU crossovers.

There’s no reason to talk about ‘these kinds of situations’ as a generality. If LaBoeuf genuinely feels like he’s ready to own his shit, he should settle with/not contest Twigs’ lawsuit.

FWIW, I thought the mutant tag was deeply cringe and I wonder if it wasn’t part of the original script. Bruno’s earlier explanation (that it was genetic rather than entirely the bangle) was plenty for narrative handwavery.

What the hell was all that talk about Aisha being the great family shame?

Yup. The vibe it seems we’re supposed to get is that Khonshu has a history of crying wolf, i.e. he tells Marc that their case against Harrow has to be indisputable. Harrow comes through the portal without the cane, and you can guess that maybe he left the scarab with the cane, and that maybe even Ammit temporarily…

The funny thing about Ritchson is that he’s ~38, so he’s not that young, but modern actors don’t age like presumably boomer veterans did.

Does David Harbour look like he could stop a bullet with his pecs? Jack Reacher did—which is why there’s no realistic way to depict him, which is why I think at least the first movie was fine.

Well, what’s weird is that she may be one of the only people they don’t try to make Ritchson look big against. Multiple times when Roscoe and Reacher are shown close, she’s basically as tall as his chin. He’s not crazily huge compared to her.

It’s clear that Shauna feels like she killed Jackie, but there’s a pretty straight narrative line from the first time Shauna confronted her about her not doing her part to declining the grubs and trippy stew and pitching Doomcoming in terms of their being likely to be dead in a few weeks. Teenage stubbornness is…

If we could go back to 20 episode seasons so story tellers could take their time we wouldn’t feel so ripped off.

He just died that day.

She’s trying to build the fire with a lighter of all things

That’s certainly the suggested explanation if that scene was meant to be realistic, but it’s so surreal that it’s hard to know what to make of it. What sort of house in the world has a large room like that in the basement hidden entirely behind a flue grate?

Hot take: they should’ve made it without the Wachowskis.

Of course The Matrix was going to have a poor weekend, regardless of what name was on the director’s credit.