I’ll be extremely interested to see if HBO actually completes this “ten year long series”. Somehow I think not. The videogame succeeded largely through latent demand, which had been unmet. Any sequel to it will sell significantly more poorly, because it wasn’t a good game as a game, and there’s not a lot you could add.

It’s easy to see how if you didn’t actually look into the issue, especially if you were outside the UK, you might think that.

Good summary there - there’s also outright transphobia from Rowling but weirdly it’s mostly directed at trans men (i.e. AFAB people who have transitioned). For example her essay was basically dedicated to claiming that “girls” were being tricked/manipulated/forced into transitioning by evil doctors. And she’s…

It’s not overblown.

Her tweets are definitely not the worst transphobia out there, but please note two points.

What an incredibly petulant and childish response from a man trying to set himself up as an authority on journalism. You have no genuine criticisms whatsoever, just a lot of ill-tempered nitpicking.

That’s not a bad idea at all.

This would work much better as an argument if it wasn’t already made in 1987. Seriously.

“If the -D could always fly/shoot like this, it makes its original destruction seem preeeetty silly.”

Just one problem.

“In my mind, Ed Speleers looks about 35 as a consequence of hard living and his horrid Borg nightmares. Prematurely aged him. Somehow.”

Oh Volume. I thought this was something novel. That’s not what I took from the poster’s claim. That’s just in-camera, not something the actor can see.

But but but the Elon Musk superfans on Twitter were insisting that this launch was a total 100% success and the pad was almost completely undamaged!

More big misses than hits, sad to say. This is not the Hellfire Gala’s finest hour. Haute couture this ain’t, or even the Oscars Red Carpet. Most of the male characters manage to look like they have zero fashion sense and unable to “werk it” sufficiently to pull off their outfits. Wilson Fisk being one of the few who…

I feel like Star Trek has a large number of major characters across multiple series who show that being “stiff” is something that can be acted convincingly. Virtually every show has at least one, often more. I dunno what is happening here but it doesn't seem to be working as well.

I think you might be confusing the International Red Cross and the American Red Cross. Different organizations.

That’s distinction without a difference. My point stands - they dramatically changed the plot of the episode after spending some effort/money/time on the previous approach. You can see they often do minor changes, from previous episodes, but I think this is by far the largest.

Me too! I honestly have to believe they planned it, and then thought better of it, because dramatically it’s just a weird mess otherwise.

I genuinely liked both her and Jack Black’s performances, and I felt they brought of colour to Star Wars which is often implied to be there, but rarely gets focused on at all. Also it was nice to see a world doing okay outside the Republic, instead of being a hell-hole. Sure it was all a bit weird but it was fun.

Right? I’d blame the director, that’s usually the cause but they’ve had a bunch of directors and she’s been consistent in SNW. Maybe she’ll warm up - I know in S1 TNG Brett Spiner’s performance as Data was a lot weaker than later seasons, and a couple of others were a bit broader than later.