True, but it’s one thing being self-contained and another thing entirely to write out one of the major characters in the episode, which is why I think it’s unlikely to happen.

It’s a much larger assumption to assume Ed isn’t in the season simply because Ed hasn’t been seen in any of the trailers, which is what I was pushing back on.

Saying it’s not a one-to-one adaptation is a given. We all know that. They’ve said as much. It has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not Ed is in the…

I said nothing about the chronological sequence in the adaptation. I merely pointed out that we’ve seen snippets from episodes that Ed was in, and we’ve also seen snippets from episodes from the very start of the anime. Sure they can change them around. I was merely pointing out that I personally think it’s a bit…

I replied to you in a different thread, but I’ll put it like this.

The season is going to be 10 hour-long episodes. From the trailers, we’ve seen at least 8 episodes from the anime that are being adopted. The 1st five from the anime, Black Dog Serenade (episode 16), Pierrot le Fou (Episode 20), and Brain Scratch…

It’s already going R-rated; we can hear Spike using the word “fuck” in the trailer, so it wouldn’t make sense for them to avoid having a child in the hallucinogenic episode (especially with the type of content you can find on Netflix anyways).

Downfall was hardly a flop, considering it was a German-made movie, in German, with subtitles, that didn’t see wide release in America.

Oh, it also grossed $92m worldwide and got nominated for Best Foreign Language Film

Nope.

Pierrot le Fou has been shown (prominently), and that’s episode 20, not to mention that Ed is in that episode. So unless they’re writing Ed out of the episode (which wouldn’t make sense considering Ed’s role is integral to Jet’s part in the episode), Ed’s showing up.

Problem is, that doesn’t actually jive with what we’ve seen already.

Pierrot le Fou has clearly been shown, and Ed’s in that episode (not to mention it being Episode 20 in the anime), and we’ve gotten some hints that Mushroom Samba is gonna be an episode, and Ed plays a major part in that as well.

Given that, my guess…

Activision-Blizzard is still, by most financial metrics, in the top 5 largest gaming companies in the world (excluding companies that make hardware).

Their IPs are incredibly valuable, regardless of the internal issues at the company, and in this industry, good releases heal all wounds.

The reality is that for most of…

The main reason why Coke isn’t close is because there’s a great deal of substitution effect at play, even with the perceived ubiquity of Coke products, and Coke as a brand. Further, in many parts of the world, soft-drinks either aren’t consumed nearly as much as other beverages (due to a variety of factors, including…

You’ve misunderstood my point.

It’s not that any character has to be framed in a purely black or white moral and/or ethical stance. Rather that because the ambiguities are so present, it made for a rather disinterested viewing.

The visuals were great, but nothing about the narrative or the portrayal of the characters…

In another response (not to you), I made that point that everything seems very grey, which is apparently the case. That’s all well and good, but with how the movie is structured, everything being a shade of grey leads me to feel absolutely nothing for any of the people involved. Nothing made me at all interested in…

Exactly.

Economically, individual firms, when seeing that there’s a discrepancy between the demand for the shipped goods, and the available supply, will move the price curve towards the new equilibrium by increasing supply via more trucks and drivers.

One of the few reasons why that wouldn’t happen both come from…

As someone who hadn’t read the books (but absolutely loves the work of Villeneuve), I thought it was, for the most part, a lifeless visual masterpiece.

I’m not sure if it was the writing from Villeneuve, or from Frank Herbert, or the narrative itself, but I just wasn’t engrossed by any of the characters or what they…

I had the same feeling, but I phrased it as “so much of nothing.” Meaning that a lot was going on, but it didn’t really have any significance due to a certain emotional distance from most of the characters.

In other words, I wasn’t made to care for House Atreides. I wasn’t made to loathe the Harkonnen’s. I wasn’t made…

At least in Florida, it was an outright goal to have a broken unemployment system specifically to deter people from using it.

While many states had systems that were simply inadequate for a deluge of claims due to a once-in-a-century type event (Covid-19), Florida purposefully contracted a system that was nearly…

It’s definitely not in all states.

I sold for Honda in Florida for a brief time back in 2010, and didn’t have to get individually licensed.

To piggyback using specifically those two games (X being a favorite and XIII being one I despise).

The other issue that hurt XIII in regards to the feeling of linearity was how the story was presented. We were thrown into a vast new world following multiple characters in the midst of a conflict knowing absolutely fuck…

You’re right, but there’s also the reality that all of the players involved, from studio executives to directors to actors to crew members, have the have the ability to synthesize the correct feedback and learning opportunities from the intervening period.

Too often we see knee-jerk reactions to pre-screens and…

True, but it’s a bit wrong-headed to think that back-to-back filming is necessarily the cause of the movies being bad.

Bad movies are gonna be bad movies, most of the time, irrespective of the shooting schedule. It’s whether or not the studio and financiers have the foresight and/or the gumption to spend the money and…