And it’s an even sillier argument to argue that one aspect of what made, for instance, Ally McBeal such a must watch among then-20 something women - I take it you were far younger then, which explains a lot, along with being Canadian versus stuck in the hellish NYC/Boston/Chicago/SF 2000+ billable hour grind - was…

Miranda having oodles this time for a social life while making partner (and from what I remember never having a significant work/life conflict) was another bit of background that made the show feel shallow - especially to my friends who were going through the big law grind at the time, and I know at least one who…

That’s an interesting take on the “raging sun” line, because otherwise it’s a genuinely terrible bit of writing given we’d just been told (like many things in the show, rather than shown) women can’t see men’s weaves and, presumably, vice versa. To me, it was a clumsy attempt to recast suspicion on Nynaeve as a…

Inherent Vice is one of maybe ten or so movies I’ve ever walked out on. I gave it a full two hours, and then thought to myself ‘I’ve wasted enough time already and no matter how this ends, I genuinely won’t care.’

The other part of that is that I’m perfectly ok having certain rare souls in women’s bodies being able to channel saidin if the showrunner wants to go down that route with gender (which it appears he may), hence, a woman can indeed be Dragon.  As we’ve already got a unique book example of that phenomenon, it’s not…

One weird realization that I had after episode 1 is that the Billy Zane adaptation probably killed off the proper opening to the show, which is part of the reason why the first three episodes don’t work as well as they should (along with some strange writing decisions.)

It’s been a while since I read New Spring but I think you’re probably right on the opening scene reflecting the Vileness.

I agree.

The best films are driven by the characters

I’m about 1 1/2 episodes behind here since I’m watching this only when I a. have got nothing else to watch and b. don’t mind turning my brain and suspension of disbelief off, but I’ll take it a bit further.

There’s a full breakdown of the trailer by the showrunner here.

Matt Colville mentioned he got this in the theater when seeing Dune as a 13 year old and wished he’d kept it - Ebay listings for it were like $110 yesterday!

I’m still not visiting theaters in my region of the world, but watched it at home and - so far - it’s by far the best of the three adaptations visually. It’s one of the tiny handful of ‘splosion and ‘everyone-is-a-kick-ass martial artist/swordfighter’ movies of the last 20 years that effectively fits the VFX and…

Yay mutiny!

Well, the kids have to learn about Tek War sooner or later...

I watched the first two episodes of Foundation last night and unfortunately Rob Bricken’s scathing reviews over on io9 are closer to the mark than Wanserski’s.

You’d almost assume that everyone mourned [MLK’s] loss

If you think back through the various guest stars on SG-1, there really were very few who completely dominated their episodes. That’s exactly what he did in 200.

This decisive victory for The Crown speaks (to) its great fourth season...

Yeah, there were a lot of people just shocked at how well Rita Wilson did her Naughty by Nature bit.