season one had a lot of flaws, including no John Constantine, but at least it still had Captain Cold! Though Citizen Cold was fun while he lasted.

a (figurative) wanker defending a (literal) wanker. Fitting!

He also sells better than anyone except maybe Sami Zayn or Gargano. Especially against big angry dudes like Murphy or Joe who always leave me thinking that the poor guy got legit murdered.

I really like all of your points. I don’t know if SDA will get a chance to pick his successor, but I surely hope they are a scientist. No matter the talent of the voice overs, Attenborough always brings one down to earth with his on-location introductions and insightful descriptions. It comes from his heart and his…

Tilda Swinton is one of my favorite actresses, but it seems like getting famous actors/actresses, despite their obvious talent, to voice these docs takes away from the scientists who could and should be doing this sort of thing. It could be a platform to elevate female scientists or other unheard voices, but is going…

look at that farmer’s tan! ahhh. And a bit of muscle definition too.

Looks like Bowie mixed with Jagger. I approve.

I also didn’t think about the lack of female voices in the world of nature documentaries before reading this article. And now i do, so I am glad that it brought attention to my lack of focus on the issue. I just disagree with the notion that, despite the obvious respect and love the writer has for Attenborough, they…

They are both quite talented, but would you ask Attenborough to narrate a documentary about growing up below the poverty line in the US as a single black mother? Or the difficulties of the glass ceiling and misogyny in US media? I wouldn’t want him to narrate something with which Oprah is much more intimately…

“David Attenborough won’t be around forever. There will be newer, and I hope more, ambassadors for the natural world to come, and more diversity in that arena would be very welcome.”

Well the only issue I had with the article discussing a lack of female nature documentary narrators was that it seemed to think that just bringing in famous actresses would do the trick, listing several famous and talented women with a history of documentary narration, and neglecting to mention Oprah doing the…

Yeah we might as well use the absolute best that we have while he’s still able to do things like this. I remember when Planet Earth II came out and Attenborough was still on location for some of the shots and pleasantly introducing some of the segments before they cut to the nature scenes... It was so impressive, dude…

Yeah I mean Oprah has a great voice and is a star and I would love to listen to her talk about a great many things, but this would be like if Attenborough was asked to do a documentary on women of color who were born in poverty, or US media history in the past 25 years, or discuss the glass ceiling/wage gap in media.…

I like how even though Attenborough is a definitive authority, he always has a sense of wonder and curiosity in his voice. In that way, he never seems like he’s telling us “this is how the earth is” but discovering it along with the viewer. He’s on this journey, he’s a steward of the planet, he’s a guide but not…

“Beyond Attenborough’s low, masculine, British voice, and the perception of authority, our dependence upon male nature documentary narration might also be distilled to Attenborough himself, as the defining voice not just in style but in content”

I agree with you. Also, while the books mention other people trying to ride dragons and getting burned/eaten, I think that is because a lot of people didn’t have the time/training/trust/knowledge required to ride dragons. It might not be all about “nature” but “nurture” when it comes to convincing dragons not to kill…

Oh yeah, Dany has changed from a liberator to a conqueror a while ago. She does have a lot of meritocracy/democracy rhetoric and ideals, but she also insists that she must rule because of her name and burns dissenters alive and such. She’s not as unhinged as Cersei, but at this point she has only lost one of her…

“And yet when these three men ride past Arya in the caravan, they are just as oblivious to her as Robert’s caravan was back in the pilot, despite the fact she was standing in plain sight”

I’d replace “twee movies” with “emotionally damaged family figures collide, usually rich” but it doesn’t roll off the tongue quite as well.

He sounds like the Nick Saban of auteur directors. Gets amazing results, but just doesn’t care about any humans who aren’t helping him at the moment and will step over your body if it is in his way while he is coaching/filming. And Kubrick is probably my favorite along with the Coens and GDT. And maybe Edgar Wright.