She’s entirely correct though.

Now see, they could have cast someone who is not conventionally good-looking, but has charm, charisma ... John Leguziamo comes to mind. Or Marc Anthony. Heck I wouldn’t have been mad at Jack Black!

When did all 3D animated movies achieve a sort of singularity of style, texture, and design? Outside of Into The Spider-verse, it’s a real problem that I cannot visually distinguish a Pixar movie from a Disney movie from a Sony Pictures movie from a... I was going to say Blue Sky Studios movie but it turns out they’re…

very curious as to how this does at the box office. feels like it’s being dumped (though i’ve definitely seen ads all year), but advertising is so laser-targeted these days it’s possible that a 38 year old man just isn’t getting advertised a disney kids movie.

Zeta-Jones and Guzmán don’t have an ounce of chemistry between them.

very funny to retort ‘he hasn’t made a good movie in 30 years!’ with ‘no, he did one 20 years ago!’

They’re tedious, not kooky
Mediocrity’s not spooky
It left me feeling poopy
The Addams family . . . spinoff series Wednesday

To be fair, Minority Report takes place in 2054.

“Expecting the USSR to still be around” could probably be its own sub-category.

My hot take is that WoT is fairly progressive for having been written by a High Church Episcopalian, graduate of the Citadel, and lifelong resident of the South...

Piers Anthony was an SF writer who got in on the late ‘70s fantasy boom while the getting was good. I never liked his stuff — I bought On A Pale Horse because the Whelan cover was cool but never got more than fifty pages into the book because his style was execrable — but I can see why it was so popular with teenage…

It sounds like Jordan and Martin both made the same mistake — instead of doing a time jump and recounting key events as backstory, they felt the need to depict everything that happened in grinding, lugubrious detail. I get that these are important plot developments, but I don’t see why you’d need to add eight massive…

There are definitely similarities.

Adaptation is not appropriation.

A couple of quibbles:

Maybe it’s because I’m old, but I see no reason why any epic fantasy saga has to be longer than three or four books. Beyond that it turns into a soap opera.

Just once, I want a fantasy world populated with people who have boring names. The great wizard Bob Smith of garden terrace. The evil Dick Muntly of hilldale. Jane Bork, the great adventurer/warrior who comes from the land of Sandwich.

While women must submit to saidar and allow it to flow through them to use its power, those men who can channel saidin must fight it and conquer it, and are more powerful than women as a result.

Corrections that I hope will be taken as constructive:

“The omnipotent Creator created the Wheel to imprison his destructive counterpart, Shai’tan.” - incorrect, the Creator imprisoned Shai’tan outside of existence at the moment of creation. Shai’tan’s prison is literally ‘outside existence’. The Wheel drives existence…

Do we really need to critique the streaming adaptation of these novels if Amazon doesn’t update them to be more diverse/inclusive?  I’m all for representation, as every demographic/group should see people like themselves in media just as much as cis/het white dudes like me have forever.  However, the source material…