I don’t remember Stormtroopers.  But there was a golden ball more akin to the Phantasm ball called a sneetch that was an homage to Rowling.

I agree, mostly. But we’ve seen SOME straight King adaptations, and not all work. King likes to do a thing where one character has a revelation and then there are twenty pages of him laying out his thinking while others are skeptical.  In book form it’s fun, in live action, it’s harsh. I’m thinking of one attempt at…

I think fondly of the mini series. But it’s free on YouTube and I tried to watch it again and....well, it suffers with age.

Actually, it would track.  Both shows shot in Vancouver.

Listen, I’d be thrilled if they added allusions to Roland’s world. Judging by what they’re doing so far, they can’t even get THIS world right. So if they add in things that tie to Mid-World, it’s only gonna work as Easter Eggs for book fans. Wasn’t there a moment in one of the later Tower books where they briefly walk…

Again, the timeline is all over the place. Again, the flashback intros to characters are the most rushed, nonsensical things. Nick’s entire story is inserted into 2 scenes. He goes into a fully functional bar with nobody coughing. He’s punched into oblivion and wakes up, like Rick Grimes, to a world where everybody is…

I rewatched Nadine’s scenes and have decided that you misheard Nadine saying “Boulder.  I can’t feel you there.”  I may have missed it somehow, but it seems that’s what you heard.  Also, the phrasing of that line seems to indicate that she hasn’t arrived in Boulder, though the scene with Joe seems to say she is…

As opposed to your brand of insufferability.   The poster used it correctly, and was correct about it.   The reviewer KNOWS that Nick is called upon to talk in the story, yet brings this up to meet their PC quota.

Rest Well Ms. Wells, you’ll be long remembered. Mary Ann all the way.

Which one?  The Birdman one?  I bet it’s the Birdman one.

I’ve never worked with him, but he came to our city to do reshoots on a MI and many many friends I have did work with him. He learned everyone’s names, said hello to everyone in the morning, and was happy to take pics with everyone. He was, according to my colleagues, a great, hardworking guy. Whether he’s in a cult…

Thank Demeter I never noticed that.  

I really liked the first movie. I think Gadot is a perfect choice for WW. I had a lot of good will towards the franschise going into the second movie.

If you think calling out logical fallacies is tantamount to a weak argument, I suspect you may have lost more arguments than of which you are aware.

Strawmaning every statement is not going to help your point, David.

Uh, no. Harold is a loser who is discarded by the story. We don’t follow him except to see him manipulated to a terrorist act, and the story ultimately tells us he was just a plot device to the proceedings. Walter and Tony are the eyes we see with the whole time.  Harold is a failure.  And if the story this version of…

I mean to say that they’ve timed this out to do the story they want to tell, which seems to be the shit going on in Vegas.  I don’t get it, because that is all wrapped up in a “well, I gotta end this book now” fashion, but that seems to be their bent.  Sure, 9 hours is enough to give a whole host of folks very decent…

They won’t send him to prison, man. No matter how many illegal, disgusting, treasonous acts he’s been involved with, the US just CANNOT handle locking up one of their Presidents. And the orange piece of shit has millions in his thrall for some arcane reason. They cannot be reasoned with and will put their fingers in…

Lloyd’s lawyer, book Wayne Stuckey, Frannie’s handsome baby-daddy, The Kid, and the scarred up deaf teacher of Nick are all things this story isn’t interested in showing. The characters the show thinks are necessary will get thumbnail sketches to position them on the board somewhere, and then we’re off to the races. I…

The military thing is clearly an issue that is a bee in your bonnet.  I don’t share feeling.  I also never took the act of spreading the virus further to be about saving face.  It was a particularly jingoistic necessity.  If the US was going to succumb to this, they’d be weak.  There’s no way that it could be…