This from the guy who couldn’t wait more than one minute for someone to reply to his commend and did it himself.

Both Laena’s suicide and the murder of the Strongs are fiery set pieces, tragic spectacles with no groundwork laid beneath them.

A couple other folks replying to you have kind of hit the nail on the head. My biggest issue would be the timeline compression. By the time Isildur is born, Celebrimbor is dead, the Numenorians have already fought Sauron once, and the One Ring has been made. Numenor already has colonies in Middle Earth and the…

I am not well versed in the lotr lore, can you tell me in what big way is the show departing from the books?

If Better Call Saul never wins a fucking Emmy I swear to god....

Succession is already running out of steam going into season 4, there’s no way Squid Game makes a season 2 even half as impactful as season 1, Severance will live or die in how it resolves its mysteries like all other mystery box shows... none of these hold a candle to Better Call Saul. It’s a perfect series of…

Ke Huy Quan was also at D23 to talk about his role in season 2 of Loki, which led to this lovely picture:

I’m all in favor of more Walk Hards as music biopics continue to hit every single genre trope without irony.

Give all the awards to Rhea Seehorn.

Perhaps I have a different definition of comedy, but a single episode of What we do in the shadows made me laugh more than the whole season of Barry. 

In Peoples of Middle-earth Tolkien toys with the ideas of the blue wizards arriving in the Second Age, so it would fit.
BUT, I believe they also arrived together. And this show won’t be able to resist it being Gandalf (even though Gandalf was the last wizard to get there and arrived by ship, which is how he got Narya…

“so that makes it okay”

I guess I’ll have to be that Tolkien nerd who starts off saying “Well, actually...”

I *do* think Hightower wanted Alicent to fuck the king - I just don’t think she had it in her to try and do so (which, in the long run, was the right move even if she didn’t intend it as such). 

There’s been no evidence shown they had a sexual relationship.

The lack of any levity is going to be a problem.  The most beloved characters in Game of Thrones, like Davos or Tormund, were very witty and entertaining alongside being serious.  Its what made me frankly root for them to survive, because they didn't just brood all day.  Those two were also probably the least damaged…

I got into this episode more than the first one. It was refreshing for this type of show to eschew action and violence and tell a character-based story. Sure, you could say they didn’t do anything new with the story and dialogue, but I was involved because of the actors, especially Paddy Considine, and the breakout…

I actually quite enjoyed this episode, a lot more than episode one. aside from the stand off I thought it was a good episode establishing the strengths and shortcomings of our leading lady. I also think it’s been apt in showing how the patriarchy pits the women against each other for what little power is available to…

I dunno, I think Baz Luhrmann’s best movie is Strictly Ballroom, which has some glitz but is much more restrained than his later movies. But that’s just me.

I think he used them up already with the basketball stuff.