At this point, it doesn’t matter. They’re so far off the books (which isn’t explicitly a bad thing) that even if they were, they’d be effectively totally different.

Hey now. We can't have any nuance here. This is the internet.

If you guys hire any writers on the A.V staff, you should have them watch this and get their feedback.

I’m really upset I know who Andrew Tate is. 

From what I’ve heard, and this is strictly in the ‘rumor’ category so treat it as such, there have been some additional negotiations which allow some material from the other sources to be used or mentioned to some degree. I know that the new compilation Second Age/Numenor book has a big Amazon's Rings of Power sticker…

Its also worth remembering that the show doesn’t have the rights to the Silmarillion, so anything expanded out in that or Unfinished Tales is, with a few negotiated exceptions, likely going to have to be changed or not follow the same path.

According to Gunn, DC/WB basically offered him whatever property he wanted, including Superman. He picked Suicide Squad because he’s a fan of the comics, and also (my speculation here) his writing is strongest with ensembles.

Or Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. They're very similar.

The game had a pretty mediocre to bad story that worked better when it was called Johnny Mnemonic, so I'm glad the show is actually doing something with the potential of the setting.

I loved until the post Stonebridge/Scott seasons. Like the show is kind of over the top and dumb but those two have a really solid dynamic that makes you want to watch through. I didn’t get that from the newer ones.

I think the show looks like absolute garbage. I’d be happy to be wrong, but I was talking to someone about it and they agreed but immediately went into “And Elves were created before there was a sun and moon and dwarves lived underground. They shouldn’t be black”. Then I had to kind of backtrack and defend a show that…

I meant more of sole kingship. Gondor was jointly ruled prior to that by Isildur, as you mention, and his brother, although obviously under the High-Kingship, but Isildur could have fully consolidated his power to be under his line alone. I’m not sure that would have really been politically feasible though.

They knew it was an instrument of the enemy, could control the lesser rings, and couldn’t be trusted, but it’s debatable they knew the true nature of the One Ring and the full extent of Sauron’s power in it.

True enough, which is ironic because if Isildur was taken by the One Ring, he easily could have claimed kingship instead of putting Meneldil on the throne.

Putting people in the direct line of extremism is never a good idea. I don’t think the article is the problem, but sending people to the source, I assume just ‘for the lulz’, is. It doesn’t even have to amplify it for people here. Maybe you watch the trailer and think it’s stupid, which is fine. But you have added a…

Isildur’s failure is pretty overblown and I blame the movies for that. He never stood in Mount Doom and decided not to chuck the ring in. The true nature of the ring wasn't even made apparent to him until later, and nobody (not even Elrond) knew the true extent of it's power. So yeah, he had hubris enough to think he…

This screed might ring a bit more true if Kotaku hadn’t put an link to the film’s trailer in the article. Writing about it on Kotaku isn’t going to do or mean much, but directing people to check out the actual marketing material of the ‘movie’ will, if nothing else, increase it’s visibility on YouTube and that isn't…

I got really baked a couple of years ago and naturally rewatched both those series on Hulu. I think the Tyson joke was in like episode 5 of Tiny Toons. I had to rewind it four or five times to make sure I wasn’t imagining it.

There was also the Tiny Toons joke about how he was a domestic abuser. I remember that being odd.

That kind of brings up a point. How do you get residuals from a streaming only show? I’m not saying you’re wrong, but I’m just curious. Like is it a metric based on viewers for a show? Subs? A lot of these creators do this because they love (loved?) the work, but man. I’d be hard pressed to get excited about a gig if…