But then Finch walks away at the end as Britain slides into brutal statlessness. What was achieved? I mean that's part of why V is such a difficult work - that horrible suggestion that life under an oppressive fascist regime is better then life under chaotic statlessness.

Eh, even some of his early work is hard going. I re-read V for Vendetta not too long ago and damn is it a nasty, unpleasant piece of work. Th whitewashing of it that is the movie just makes it all the worst - transforming a story with zero heroes into some shitty feel-good democracy narrative like Crowe's Robin Hood.

And without needing to be a giant bearded asshole at the same time.

No I got through all of the Suffering Game - and having done so that's when i burned out. i argued it only got 'better' in the sense that it finally, finally ended.

Wow, no, not really. Edgy comment, though: making an erroneous comparison between a cartoon show for the pre-teen set and the most successful young-adult literary series in recorded history.

I burned-out after The Suffering Game and have yet to pick the series back up - it was just so relentlessly miserable, I know as a D&D player I would be nothing but pissed-off.

Harry Potter means a once-loved childhood series that has aged worse and worse as I have aged and encountered better-written media (shout-out to the sublime Young Wizard's series by Diane Duane), and now resembles nothing more than a pile of bad worldbuilding, flat characters, and a really disturbing amount of…

I can still smell it, Bizarro.

Yeah, great, because no fan of Star Wars has ever made a bad Star Wars movie before.

The man who bought Segway-the-company died backing his Segway off a cliff by accident.

CARABINER! CARABINER!

Quitter.

I contrast it with somethink like the later Fast and the Furious movies - it is totally possible to have endless action sequences, but actually doing it well is REALLY HARD. I personally find FATF to hit the sweet spot between well-made and dumb - they have this sweet, ridiculous naivite that lends well to the concept…

Good use of the passive voice.

High on life, man. Or self-righteous self-delusion. One of those things.

That was half the people I went to theatre school with right there, especially the dude who was escorted out by the cops one day for making death threats and always claiming he was sniper-trained.

"Perhaps not the best Trek film that's Wrath of Khan and Undiscovered Country)"

HK was funny… the first time.

It still ends with a 45-minute action sequence that WILL NOT FUCKING END. It's got some good in it but Action For The Sake of Action needs to END.

Oh my God are you telling me you spent most of your time with Bastila and *shudder* Carth?