Ehhhh this period could have worked, but you need to build it around the war. Tolkien’s a guy, he’s got pals, he’s got a lady, he likes myth and language, and then it all gets taken from him during this cataclysmic event that he’s just trying to survive. Maybe do some visual metaphors, but I’d keep all that to PTSD…

It was a little lucky. Once Barros saw that no kick was incoming, he was getting ready to counter with a wild hook. Daniels’ punch happened to be faster and straighter, even though the wind-up for it started in a different post-code. Still, points for style, guts, and sticking the landing. 8.7

I was referencing Arsenic and Old Lace, a delightful screw-ball comedy.

I’d take him over John Conner in T2.

Last year, I worked at a summer camp that had the triple-combo of Hayden, Aiden, and Hagen. Yelling at all three of them was...interesting.

That’s a loooooooooooonnnnngggggg loooooooooonnngggggggg maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!

Except all that sounds fun and watchable.

If you have yet to explore the insane possibilities of advertising, allow me to introduce you to the six minute romantic-epic that is Long Long Man.

To be fair, Van Damme pretty much automatically makes whatever movie he is more ridiculous if only because of that accent. But yeah, he can’t quite ham it up like Schwarzenegger can.

I’m inclined to think it’s the latter more than anything, as well as the visual aspect. If it’s a cultural thing, then it’s bad world-building. Any culture that did not adapt it’s tactics to night time combat would be defeated and wiped out pretty quick. Even the Huns, the OG wild horde, had basic cavalry tactics,…

I didn’t get a good look at their armor, but if it was light cavalry, holy shit.

As long as we’re making movies, I’d like a screwball rom-com where Peggy Carter has to hide Steve Rodgers from nosey neighbors throughout the years. And the neighbors are killing drifters with arsenic. Call it Arsenic and Stars and Stripes! And get them a dog. People love Asta!

Looking back, they also had more episodes. Getting cut back by four episodes might not seem like much but that’s 4 hours of storytelling gone, so that must have hurt them too, regardless of the budget.

This is only my second season of GoT (well, 2.5. I did watch Battle of the Bastards and Cersei blowing up King’s Landing), so I can’t say how the writing. It does seem like everybody is an idiot or too loyal to stop the idiots or just ridiculously sadistic and selfish.

But don’t worry! We’ll light all your swords on fire so it’ll be real obvious where you are and they’ll see you coming from a mile away!

I still want to know who ordered the cavalry charge. Somebody thought it made sense to have the heavy cavalry charge blindly into the night against an enemy whose numbers they do not know and whose battle-order they do not know. Why didn’t they wait until they saw the enemy? Or better yet, why be outside the castle at…

I think my main issue with the “You’re gonna need back-up,” scene is that I just saw Captain Marvel fly through a space ship bigger than God that had all guns blazing at her and didn’t even tousle her wig. There was nothing about Thanos’ army that looked like she couldn’t have ripped apart with her bare hands before…

1. Game of Thrones has always used tropes, even if they just subverted them.

Really, that last one could just say “insert name of actor/actress from a minority group in a headlining role here.”

I know this post is a few days old and therefore ancient history, but it’s the same with my dog. She’ll be 18 in June, she’s blind in one eye, mostly blind in the other, and deaf. I hope she’s chasing rabbits in her dreams, even if she never really did when she was awake.