A question like “what if you could ‘hack’ reality?” is fine if you set up the premise that can happen from the getgo

Welp. I’m not one to dabble but, uh, spirituality exists, and your bad take assumes it doesn’t and nobody on earth might even be interested in the concept

Ask yourself this: when Deadpool addresses the camera, do you need an in-universe explanation as to how that makes sense in canon? What sense does it make to an onlooker incongruous as to why Deadpool is seemingly speaking in the void to an audience who isn’t there?

It’s because it’s symbolic, not... “literal”. It comes at a point in the story when Neo has realized everything he needed to understand the systems of the real world, the way he did in the Matrix.

This is genuinely great and shows a profound understanding and respect for the source material, I really hope it explodes and proves to frigid producers we can make pulpy treasure hunt blockbusters movies in the 21st century that aren’t pure garbage (Looking at you, Indy 4 and Lara Croft)

So these days Grammar Nazis lurk on FIVE year old comment sections? That’s grim.

Someday you silly Americans will use measurements that make the slightest amount of sense. Someday. I’ll keep rooting for you.

In terms of sanitized unchallenging wholly forgettable crowd pleasers without any vision or purpose other than make money over brand recognition, Marvel has you covered.

It was actually the same for me, on first viewing. Visually sure it’s fantastic, but emotionally it felt janky at every turn and all the big moments fell flat. People laughed when Leia did her thing, and that’s all but a good sign...

I’m attacking the people who hated The Last Jedi and justified themselves with stupid reasons such as plot details. The way the Overton window is leaning on that debate culturally right now, they’re winning. For now. In a few years this’ll be remembered as maybe the second best Star Wars movie. We’ll get there, but…

Why, God why, don’t they go with the one explanation that actually kind of scientifically makes sense?!

To me, it’s the same necessity of streamlining, only it’s the first time it happened with a name because it’s the only time a name is tied to a story reveal. I don’t think it would be bizarre because I do take intense care of maintaining the gigantic mental wall I keep between the books and the show.

You’re right! My bad, I’m trying to run on memories that have been fading for... phew, going on decades now. I need to reread these books again.

The books have the necessary complexity to have foreshadowed other names with thematic implications. There’s a theory floating around that Jon’s real name is Jaehaerys III because thirds are a recurring motifs of the Targaryens, and Jaehaerys I was hands down the best king Westeros ever had.

I don’t see where you saw me using metatextual knowledge for anything. And y’know if you had better things to do nobody was preventing you from not engaging with me in the first place.

Maybe, but don’t you think that the fact that it’s incredibly popular makes it so it can handle the harsher scrutiny? I admit I won’t give any slack to this show (and I have serious gripes about it, running far deeper than mere names repeated) but would it really need it?

Like I said elsewhere, no matter the shaky quality of the Watsonian excuse we’re coming up with to warden the inherent silliness of the situation, it’s egregious on a narrative level, when you consider how much it undermines Elia and her children’s murder to the benefit of Jesus Snow (because God help us if we didn’t…

The show still said their names. That’s the prophecy that’s absent.

Are you kidding? I am having so much fun.

Here it is in full and genuine: I find it insensitive and downright insulting that the showrunners decided to do as if Aegon VI never mattered, to butcher Elia Martell and her children for nothing, to prop up the legitimacy of Saint Jon Snow the Chosen One.