“Yeah man, in REAL LIFE the good guys HAVE to murder thousands of civilians to save the day, I’m so edgy and mature!”

Yes, I know that’s not how the scene went, it is rather famous so I thought my sarcasm would be obvious. The point is that “we had to kill innocent civilians because the bad guys were hiding behind them” is straight up villain talk. At least admit you’ve utterly lost the moral high ground when you’re making that…

Ah yes, I too remember that great scene in the first “Iron Man” where all the terrorists used women and children as human shields and then Tony Stark just blew everybody up instead of trying to save the women and children’s lives. Truly his finest heroic moment.

I mean, in a way he’s not wrong. I personally would love it if more men in this country acted like Jesus - respecting women, discouraging violence, openly weeping when they’re sad, and standing up for marginalized people - but that ain’t what these people mean when they say read the Bible.

Willa mentioning that he might get a book deal and a speaking tour out of his presidential run is probably the most realistic outcome (and she’s probably planning to ghostwrite it).

I would amend spot #3 to be Connor AND Willa. Without her, he absolutely would have taken that stupid position in Oman and blown any power to affect the election. They are superior as a team than as separate individuals.

You literally only have to watch the last 3 episodes, which is what I did. The plot of Fett was so dull and pointless that you will immediately pick up on everything that already happened just from the “previously on.” It works perfectly well as a short arc for “The Mandalorian.”

As someone who recently went back and re-read all the second age material in the appendices (which is all they were allowed to use as they have no rights to the Silmarillion and its story, Akallabeth, about the fall of Numenor), and there are three main things they’ve gone completely off on:

You could still keep saidar/saidin if male channelers overwhelmingly are saidin-users (>99%) but there are occasional exceptions of female channelers using it (<1%), hence Egwene can’t be ruled out completely. It keeps the duality but gives them the wiggle room for, well, the contemporary understanding of the wiggle…

You could easily make it so that male channelers *usually* are saidin (like 99%), but there are some exceptions, and vice versa. It would make it both understandable that male channelers are considered suspect and dangerous but could also make the Red Ajah seem even more fanatical if they don’t even *check* if the…

Okay, sixth makes more sense -- I was in seventh grade myself when I read “Wizard’s First Rule,” but couldn’t get past the demon sex scene with the barbed penis at the start of the sequel. Goodkind definitely knew what he liked and wrote about it.

You read a doorstopper fantasy novel with a fairly extensive BDSM subplot in 3rd grade? o_O I mean, kudos, I guess.

Ah yes, D&D had to save up Jon’s resurrection, which they did so much with! It impacted his psychology and his relationship to others and their thoughts about the world so strongly and...oh, I can’t keep up the sarcastic streak any longer, the show treated Jon’s resurrection like a nothing incident. Everybody who…

And what I’m saying is, I don’t see why it *needs* to? Maybe he just never bought into the racism his family tried to pass on to him as part of his general bad relationship with his father? The idea that people are only not outwardly racist if something massively special happened to them isn’t, I think, something that…

The point of Caleb is that you don’t have to be outwardly racist (and even back then a lot of white people weren’t) to benefit from a racist system. The racism the Baptistes and Freeman experience allows Caleb’s plans to succeed, even if he’s “nicer” to them.

“Good”? You mean the guy who they explicitly call totally evil in the book? Who does them favors to win their trust and loyalty so that they rely on him in a racist society so that he can achieve his selfish ends? I don’t think turning him into a disenfranchised woman is exactly a “smart” change...

...Caleb being nice wasn’t “inexplicable,” he was getting them into his debt so that he could use them for his plans. He was preying on vulnerable people to achieve his goals. The number of people in this thread calling him “good” or “nice” apparently missed the entire point of his character!

It’s been a couple years and maybe I’ve just forgotten, but I don’t remember George dying in the book...? Somebody’s who’s read it more recently remind me.

The book, adapted straight, would basically be one season’s worth of material, and yeah, I’d prefer they kept it that way. It wouldn’t be *impossible* to do a second season with the same interconnected set of friends and family, only facing a new threat, but they’d definitely need a good writer to pull it off.

Well, and the book “Lovecraft Country” definitely takes “sinister lurking forces are trying to destroy you everywhere your turn” and points out that this describes life for black people in a racist society.