Kong: You have to... save... Mothra...

I am reminded of the Batman: The Animated Series episode Almost Got Him where all the rogues gallery are playing cards and talking about the time they almost got Batman. My favorite bit is Killer Croc saying “I threw a rock at him!” pause “It was a big rock!” Of course it turns out Killer Croc was actually Batman in…

Out of morbid curiosity, I checked out the MotU comic about the sad, Anakin Skywalker-like origin of Skeletor where he’s a hunky emo dude who gets his face melted off and consequently turns to evil and it sort of destroyed my mind.

There have been so many “Tolkienesque” novels and games that people tend not to realize just how weird LotR is, especially if they haven’t read it, or tried to and just couldn’t get into it. It’s not a D&D-type fantasy world, and it’s not an allegory. It is, like Tom Bombadil, just sort of its own thing, and that’s…

True enough. Especially Gandalf the White with his little power boost. Honestly, its discussions like this why I love the full legindarium people don’t even know a fucking fraction of the insanity in Tolkien’s mind. I love it. Every time I hear people talking about the “Badest Dragons in Fiction” and people say things…

Oh, Morgoth was definitely more powerful than Sauron. They weren’t even in the same class.

Morgoth was stronger than the other Ainur, but never remotely as powerful as Eru Ilúvatar; in fact, it’s stated in the Ainulindalë that the most he can ever do is express the ultimate will of Eru, albeit in a distorted and abhorrent form. He was powerful among the Ainur, but Eru was infinitely more powerful by…

Correction: Sauron persuaded Celebrimbor to create the rings of power, and created the One Ring himself, before the fall of Numenor, not after. Following Sauron’s war on the Elves, he was captured by the Numenorians and taken back to their island nation as a prisoner. There, he used his powers of persuasion to…

Nope. Only Eru Ilúvatar (“The One”) was a God. The Ainur were essentially Eru’s archangels, though they combined elements of other mythologies and fantasy works (particularly Elias Lönnrot’s Kalevala, which was a huge influence on Tolkien). Morgoth, originally called Melkor, was definitely a Lucifer analog, who…

I want to see that show! That sounds like Twin Peaks: Middle Earth. 

Morgoth was the most evil threat to Middle Earth. He was the first of the Ainur who rebelled against Iluvater. He was the one who led other gods or angels astray. He was the one who caused the rebellion of the Noldor and was responsible for kidnapping, torturing, and corrupting Elves until they became Orcs. Sauron was…

Ray Fisher says he will not work on any film associated with DC Films President Walter Hamada in the wake of WarnerMedia’s investigation into the alleged misconduct on the superhero film set.

Damn straight, glad your kids loved it. As a first generation fan who saw Jedi in the cinema I’m glad kids love it today. Sure it may not be what I fell in love with or imagined but their joy doesn’t diminish mine and the more love the better. :-)

Wow, a specific corner of the internet has seriously convinced themselves that the response to The Force Awakens was divided? People really out there in the wild inventing their own versions of reality.

wholeheartedly disagree.
Disney lost money on the Solo movie (but probably made that 80 million lost back in merch), but every other star wars property has made bank for the house of mouse. Just because you didn’t prefer the sequels doesn’t mean that loads of other people felt the same way.

Completely agree. Kids love Star Wars. Kids love Jar Jar, kids love BB8, kids love Vader, and Kylo, and Ahsoka. It just depends on when you were a kid, really. Listen, everybody shit on the prequels when they came out. EVERYONE. Then Dave Filoni came along and made Clone Wars and now everything seems to tie together…

Pshh. What took y’all so long? I already have Control with ray tracing on my... Nintendo Switch! https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/control-ultimate-edition-cloud-version-switch/

I’m not buying anything running at 30fps anymore

The first line of Alan Wake speaks directly to this idea about mystery. I never played Alan Wake, but as I started the expansion, I suddenly wanted to know what I had missed, so I started watching a playthrough on yt. In the opening monologue, he says that the most memorable mystery is one that is never answered.