Speaking of which, I actually thought that was how they were going to have a black Corlys Velaryon in the show - just say that his grandmother was a Summer Islands princess, since it would be an appropriately noble match for a Velaryon and they don’t do the incest thing like the Targaryens.

Kudos to the marketing team on this film, continuing to pay for puff pieces like this even after the film flops at the BO.

“Rings of Power” may be streaming only, but I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot more people had Prime video than have HBO and HBOmax.

The Queen’s political power was near nil. Her role is not to steer policy, or shape policy, and attempts to do so against the wishes of the Parliament, the elected officials who run the government and military of Britain, would be wrong.

I have very mixed feelings about Arkady Martine’s two-book series. The world-building and conceptualization? Top-notch. The execution? Decidedly hit-and-miss. At some turns, the plotting and action are excellent. And then two paragraphs later, the “ambassador” to a galactic empire is running an inner-monologue like a…

Even Rhaenyra’s crush on Ser Criston Cole can’t lead anywhere good

During the final battle, I was hoping they would have killed off Daemon. That would have been an exciting, unexpected turn.

the king seems content in his marriage (to, I will stress once again, an underage girl)

I object to Jenna’s description of the final battle as thrilling — everything about it was totally obvious and not shot in an interesting enough way to make up for that. This is my biggest complaint about this show so far: it just seems like box-ticking and moving pieces into place.

I’m having a difficult time caring about any of these characters.

haha happened here, too

Same.

I don’t know a ton about Tolkien’s works, or how any of the magic in his world actually works, so maybe there’s something that contradicts this, but to me, it seems that The Stranger is Sauron, reborn in a new human form.

It must be a fine line to develop, because I’d wager that a lot of people would be perfectly happy to merely go back to that world and watch the same themes play out over and over (see: other major franchises). That said, I’m with you; some repetitive stretches felt tedious, particularly the forbidden lurve angle.

Hopefully it’s NOT Gandalf, that’d be disappointing. I’d be okay with him being one of the blue wizards though, which are mostly ignored in Tolkien’s work 

I’m pro sexwork and sexworkers, but Kotaku’s obsession with this lady is weird. This whole article just seems like an extended love letter or something. I understand wanting to be more sex positive and promoting the existence of sex workers on mainstream platforms just having the right to exist. But maybe do that by…

I mean, Rob Schneider sucks, but he’s not wrong in this instance. That was a really embarrassing/cringey moment for a comedy show.

End of Summer. Not a lot going on in the entertainment mediascape right now. What are we gonna do to spark some traffic today? Just say something, anything, about The Last Jedi.

Last Jedi sucked and Rian Johnson is a fat faced idiot.

There will never be a Buckaroo Banzai sequel or show. The rights are so fucked up nobody knows who really owns them and there isn’t enough potential profit in the franchise to make something, then have someone come out of the woodwork and have to pay them off or go to court. I believe that David Begelman’s production…