Tolkien didn't want his stuff filmed because he thought it was impossible because the digital cinema revolution wasn't even conceptually on the radar in the 1950s and 1960s when he was saying all this.

Thank you! That's exactly what I'm saying. I don't know why people are so resistant to this idea.

Well, we're talking past each other. Fine; I'll drop it.

None of my counterarguments sway you even slightly?

I'm not saying it's great (or even good). I'm just trying to justify why it is what it is, and how it got that way — and that if was for understandable, ambitious or even noble reasons and not just as some kind of cynical cash-grab.

There are a whole lot of comments about the Hobbit movies all through this discussion. Here’s my take:

Can someone explain to me Rosita's rationale by which she's blaming Gabriel for her having missed her shot at Negan?

Dude, of course I'm kidding!

I don't agree simply because so much of the vibe of the story is what happens when people are fundamentally inadequate to the task at hand, have to handle those tasks. Like pairing up Daryl with Simpy (whatever her name was; Maggie's sister who sang songs) or sending Eugene to Negan's camp — it's frequently "the wrong…

Well why don't you go make a show and get a real deer and see what happens next? You won't like it, pal!

I'm warning you

Being annoying hasn't made her any less hot.

It's interesting, isn't it? In this stage of the post-apocalypse it seems like there's a tacit agreement that everyone plays straight with each other when it comes to trade goods. (The Saviors set this standard by basically enforcing a zero-tolerance policy — doing random searches and murdering people who fake them…

You know who she talks like? She talks exactly like the guy in the bar whom Dr. McCoy buys the "Genesis" information from in Star Trek III The Search For Spock.

I didn't miss the sarcasm! I just realized that, notwithstanding the sarcasm, it was a fair point.

It's a Francis Bacon painting! And, yeah, great comparison. I agree.

Touché. Point taken.

Now I'm picturing a golf announcer covering the action:

That's one thing I genuinely like about Negan, as a character (and it's a quality that withstands the baroque performance): he's genuinely a man of taste; an aristocrat. He admires class, knowledge, bravado, ingenuity, intelligence, wit.

They weren't "misfit lesbians" and you know it—they were a community of just women.