Or, and hear me out, what happened is what we saw. And I prefer it that way, the end of the last season had some real emotional resonance to it, why try and undermine that with some speculative fan theory?

I was just constantly teary eyed from that moment until the credits started, which I think is actually a good 10-15 minutes, you could say Jackson dragged it out a bit but I personally wanted to spend as much time as possible in the world he created.
With, as you say, the help of some truly perfect casting.

Cabin in the Woods was fantastic first time around. I've never been into horror but my friends convinced me to go, and I am so glad I did. Packed cinema, nobody knew the twist, films like that are just taken to the next level as a shared experience.

Oh god, that too, but in a more epic punch the air way. ROTK got to me because it was the end of what was an incredible trilogy of films, seeing the story reach its culmination was just astounding.

Any number of midnight screenings; Force Awakens, Age of Ultron, The Dark Knight, and also seeing Jurassic World (not a great film I know) and Fury Road on a big screen with a full audience, just utterly joyous experiences in the moment.
However my number one pick has to be Return of the King, a 3 hour fantasy…

It's one game which most definitely doesn't need a film, the storytelling is cinematic enough as it is, all you'd end up with is a version of the game minus the actual gameplay which sounds really pointless.

No, you're misunderstansing. Carrying a film has nothing to do with the plot or the character, it's about the name recognition of the actor or actress. Yes her character was central to the film, but people didn't go and watch the film because she was in it.
That's the point I'm trying to make, which you don't seem to…

Once again Hiveward spreads cheeks to ram cock in arse (glad to see John Hannah back on TV).
Really enjoyed this one, Coulson and May teaming up to kick ass is always fun, Mack didn't get knocked out, and I don't think Fitz and Simmons could possibly get any more adorable, which is going to make it so much more…

Being a female lead and carrying a film are two completely different things, you wouldn't Natalie Portman was the star of Thor or Hayley Atwell was the main draw of Captain America.

Yeah that's fair, you can tell the kind of people he means but he could have either not mentioned it or just used a better term for it.

Rinko Kikuchi didn't carry Pacific Rim, she was hardly one of the headline cast, likewise with Lee Byung Hun in GI Joe.

I'm not saying there are no arguments to be made against what he said, I just personally don't find the term SJW to be as offensive as others in this thread do.
In my view it's only seen as derogatory by those who see a grain of truth in what it has come to embody, which is a particular kind of busy body keyboard…

Low hanging fruit.

They simply don't because they simply don't. Name an asian actor who you think could carry a $100million+ film at the box office, just one, and obviously Jackie Chan is off the table.

Why? He gave some pretty solid reasons and also clarified that they're his own views, failing to see how Marvel and Disney have suffered.

Makes sense, still going to watch the film, let's all move on. Oh and he said SJW, get over it, it's just a shorthand way to refer to that particular group of people we all know about. It's hardly some sort of racial slur.

I think they're just cutting their losses, they tried Dorne and it fell a bit flat, so they'll just kill some people to engineer some tension and then work it back into the overarching plot somehow (maybe some kind of major Lannister v Martell conflict)

They've sapped whatever nuance there was out of the Dorne plot, likewise with Jaime and keeping him in thrall to Cersei instead of the books where he learns to be independent from her and be a leader.
The show has a habit of simplifying a lot of the characters for purposes of time or whatever, but it also means we…

It could set up something interesting, but it just came out of absolutely nowhere and was so rushed. They could have easily cut the scene with Arya and done a bit more to build it up.

Agree with the review, a solid opener but since both the show and book readers are in uncharted territory it lacked the wow factor of previous first episodes.
But honestly, the show has ruined Dorne. They captured none of the nuance of it last season and now they've changed course on a dime and, as it says, almost…