Next time in Middle Earth…

Out of curiosity, how do you mean regarding pacing and slogs? I recall the Hobbit being a really quick read.

As hated as Ed Sheeran is around here, I'll go to bat for his Hobbit song as being pretty terrific. The best feeling that I got out of that trilogy was hearing "I See Fire" over the ending credits of the second film.

The Hobbits seem to have been just as successful moneywise as the prequels, though we may not favor either set of films here.

Does Patrick Rothfuss have second middle name that starts with an 'R' that he isn't telling us about?

It's just there at the very end of Return that he looks like that. Everyone is happy and relieved and dressed up.

I think that if the choice is made to show the Battle of the Five Armies, Bilbo should be awake during it. That last film didn't have nearly enough Hobbit content.

Back Then and There (Again)

One does not simply…

In search of some sort of escapism, I tried the new Beauty and the Beast but couldn't sit through more than about the first ten minutes. I imagine that it is a great movie for those who aren't familiar with the story or the animated original, since each new generation deserves their own version. But for me, there's no…

It's certainly one of the few titles that attracts me on its own.

That is true. It's much easier to enjoy something when one's entry point was not the best installment. Things just get better from there.

I'd say that you qualify. 1983 is a very debatable limit.

So…why would a GenY person not click on such an article?

I was riveted by the opening scene, although I suppose that it does quiet down for a while after that.

Yeah, as others have mentioned Generation Y works well enough to not need this new term, but I do find quite a bit of resonance in the observation that we were the people whose childhood was bisected by the grand entrance of the internet.

Yeah, I'm glad that I didn't have to scroll down to find a Generation Y comment. That's an existing term that also works. Let's be honest, it's just cooler to be labeled with a variation on 'Generation X' than it is on 'Millenials.'

I think that if you continue watching the show, you'll have an easier time reconciling Anakin's eventual actions. Hint: Ahsoka figures prominently. While as other have mentioned, the show is kind of handicapped by having to more or less play within the sandbox of the films, it does about as good a job as it could have…

Unfortunately with regard to Batman, the animated series had already been on the air when the Schumacher films premiered, and especially Batman and Robin was coming years after the cartoon made excellent serious characters out of Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy. The movies were influenced by the storylines, but managed…

Have you watched the episode in which Plo Koon is trapped with some clones in an escape pod or something like that? It's one of the Malevolence-centered episodes. I felt that it did a really nice job of demonstrating a Jedi being very concerned with their lives, and I recall some instances in the series of other Jedi…