Technically, he’s only a capitalist if he owns capital and profits from it.

The weirdest thing in this movie is Desi Arnaz claiming that the communists took his family’s land, imprisoned his father, drove his family out of the country... in a movie set in 1952, 7 years before the Cuban Revolution.

Arnaz’s family was fleeing the 1933 Sergeants’ Revolt, not communists.

She’s also homophobic and transphobic, but that tends to get glossed over for the antivax stuff. She had followed some “pray away the gay” accounts on Twitter and liked some eyebrow raising tweets. She was never as public about that though, and the receipts are kind of gone since she nuked her Twitter.

These books were pretty successful in China, bordering on beloved. I don’t think it will be a problem.

Matt Cable, before dying and reincarnating as a raven, was a cop from Louisiana. So if anything he should be Cajun, which is equally funny to imagine.

We don’t actually know that it’s been medieval for thousands of years in the books. That is certainly what characters think, but the backstory - including books like Fire & Blood and The World of Ice and Fire - is all presented from an in-universe perspective, and is full of colorful gossip and improbable legends. It…

Geralt looks more like Colin Farrell to me than Henry Cavill. 

That’s what I think “remake” means in this sense, as opposed to remaster. It sounds like this is going to be more in line with Final Fantasy VII Remake or Resident Evil 2 than the Shadow of the Colossus remake (although that game is also excellent).

Bad Batch is largely built off prequel-era worldbuilding, I would argue.

What I’ve always said is that they might never reach Empire, but they consistently turn out Jedi. 

The most recent reports are that the Tolkien Estate is happy enough with whatever it is Amazon is doing that they’ve given them limited go-ahead to reference parts of the Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, and some of Tolkien’s other writings. They probably still can’t do full adaptations of those, but that’s something…

To be clear, the Lord of the Rings show is not based on The Silmarillion nor is it really about “prehistory”. It is set thousands of years before The Lord of the Rings proper, but it is set during the Second Age. The Silmarillion was almost entirely set in the First Age. It does look, based on the preview image, that…

They’re addressing the study thing too actually! A new regulation for schools bans exams in grades 1 and 2, allows for final exams only until grade 6, and midterms and final exams thereafter. It also says that tests cannot be given weekly. There are also new strict regulations for private tutors, and regulations on…

She put on an “apology” after doubling down and yelling about being cancelled. And her only apology was basically saying “It wasn’t my intention to offend anyone, I was just raising questions about what’s in vaccines.”

Hearing them use the term “magical realism” to describe the show is a bit strange too. I guess it’s technically true, in that it features fantastic elements running up against bureaucracy, but characterizing superhero stories in general as that genre feels wrong. There certainly isn’t magical realism in stories like…

See also: The Clone Wars episode “Bounty Hunters” for another Star Wars example

Uncle George doesn’t die in the book, and killing him off was a weird decision, because at least some of the different genre explorations are linked by his love and knowledge of genre fiction. 

Season 4 is the last one faithfully based on the books, Season 5 is the last one where most storylines have a book equivalent and ends where the books did, and Season 6 has a few remaining chapters Season 5 never got around to (the Kingsmoot, the siege of Riverrun, and the Bastard letter -arriving later than it did in…

I doubt he’s going to change his ideas based on the show, because the show’s execution is probably massively different than what he had in mind, and some major plot points have to play out very differently. I think some things like Daenerys going mad and Bran becoming king are still going to be in the books, but…

It kind of seems like Hasan might be an actual crazy person running a one-man studio while claiming to have a large dev team.