I watched it, it wasn’t bad. Rhaenyra pulls herself out of the show to confront G.R.R.M. (here played by a jolly robot) and demanding more pages. Very fitting end.

Just an FYI for everyone this book is not written by George, but Linda Antonsson, the owner of westeros.org, who has perpetrated racism and misogyny and harassed specific parts of the ASOIAF fandom. Don’t buy this book.

Agatha will be interesting in that I completely and utterly hated her character. And not in the way that I would dislike a well-played bad guy. She didn’t even make a good bad guy for me.

I can’t add to any of the positives addressed here save for one. I thought the beach resort was spectacularly well realized. You note the buildings are built atop large retaining walls sloping to the beach, as if to mitigate a violent storm season? But just the design of a corporately planned beach community,…

I’ve thought since the Aldahni storyline began that the restraint the show has had with not showing the iconic stomtrooper armor even once before now was a terrific decision that also just made sense. They’re soldiers, they’re not deployed for everything. It made their appearance now raise the tension in a way that…

I don’t know your definition of ‘dark’ sci-fi, but if you’re leaning in the ‘gritty’ Blade Runner direction, Andor is in fact not that, and why I feel it’s refreshing not just for Star Wars but the current cyberpunk-obsessed grimdark sci-fi landscape in general. Andor is an ‘adult’ ‘mature’ show insofar as it...…

George Lucas has always said that Star Wars was a fairy tale for children. That certainly tracked with the prequels, particularly Phantom Menace. The Abrams sequels were Star Wars for adults in arrested development.

I have to wonder if maybe the backlash against Andor isn’t rooted so much in a lack of Easter Eggs or revisionist takes on canon events, as this simple fact:

The decision to hold off on showing us stormtroopers and star destroyers until now has really made their appearances here pay off. We just get a little bit, and it’s enough to actually make them seem dangerous. Same with how the show handled the TIE fighters on Aldhani. I’m glad to see a Star Wars property treating…

The birds flying alongside it give a sense of scale and menace that’s lost in the big laser space fights.

Man, I’ve been reading that the views on this show are terrible and that’s really, really depressing. I think this is the best written Star Wars anything. That scene with Syril and his toxic mother was so well written and so well acted you could have set it in a NYC apartment and it would have still worked. I hope…

So people didn’t go see Freaky in theaters ‘cause it was released on VOD a month into its run, not because it was “released in the very heart of the pandemic lockdowns”?

Sorry, but no. I saw Freaky in theaters, I loved it, but it was in theaters for 4 weeks before it hit streaming services. If it didn’t make money by then, it wasn’t going to happen.

Halloween Kills is why this isn't doing as well as expected 

Oh I’m sure that’s Gandalf. Im thinking when they get to Rhun the Blue Wizards will already be there and will serve to help Gandalf discover who he really is. Although whether or not the Blue Wizards will turn out to be good or evil is a question I’m sure the series will milk for all it’s worth.

I’m mostly just surprised that as far as we know, Isildur is still under that building?

I was completely bemused that they burned through the entire plot of what everyone expected to be Season 2 - Sauron infiltrating Eregion, befriending Celebrimbor and helping forge the Rings of Power - in about 20 minutes. That bordered on the surreal. Basically we went from the Rings not even being on the drawing…

I really hope the “OMG, women, PoC, and Women PoC!” review-bombing brigade don’t have their way and get this cancelled. I want the full goddamn adventure.

obligatory “she did it first” post

Madisynn and Wongers need a Werewolf By Night style Special Presentation!