Wait, wouldn’t they use Finnish mythology? You know - Ukko, Ilmarinen, Loviatar et al?

I’m curious how Messiah can work without Chani back with Paul

As I pointed out before, the Fremen’s jihad would have to have a per-person kill rate of 20,000:1, assuming the Fremen took no significant casualties.

When Paul drinks the Water of Life, he essentially all but loses his humanity to the maelstrom of ancestral memories and foresight that he has to deal with. From his new perspective he sees many possible futures, and the one where he’s in charge of a galactic Holy War is one of the least terrible, at least from where…

Finnish and Norse mythology are quite separate beasts, though Alan Wake draws from both. And Saga’s family history happens to draw from Scandinavia and she’s closely related to Tor and Odin (the characters, not the gods for any third parties wondering). 

Sorry, but that plot would have been much worse by far. Whether you like the existing plot or not, at least it has internal consistency to it. The original, if it really was a thing and not something made up by the “leakers”, would have the Reapers using the Mass Effect technology and actively teaching it to the races…

Everything from Black vikings, Black Cleopatra and Black Dwarves in LotR is just absurd

Netflix tends to cancel shows if their viewership drops significantly before the final episode, even if the numbers are still respectable. That implies that a major portion of the viewers did finish this show. 

Even with just three seasons there’s a good chance that Aang will be over 18 by the final season. 

As others have noted, it was probably Count Fenring whose wife features fairly prominently in the finished product. 

two decades ago sexist characters were just delivery systems for sexist jokes

Netflix doesn’t cancel randomly, but based on viewer retention. If the show’s viewership drops significantly before the final episode, they’re likely to cancel the show even if the final number is still respectable, since they expect the number to keep falling for the season 2.

Huskies like to spend time in the snow and complain incessently if forced back inside prematurely. They can go to sleep on the bare ground, let the snow pile up on them and get up right as rain in the morning.

While there are shows that play with perception, I’ve never seen Azumanga Daioh as one of them. What character say and do is what they say and do. The scene where Kimura demands to drink pool water doesn’t even have any of the main high school characters in it, it’s from Ms. Kurosawa’s perspective. And the manga has…

Kimura did do a whole bunch of objectively creepy things, like in the culture festival episode where he first tried to argue that the cafe run by the swim team should have the girls serving him in swimming suits and then requesting a glass of pool water that they had been swimming in. 

But Fallout: New Vegas is esteemed more highly than Fallout 3, even though it was outsourced to Obsidian, as Obsidian is actually considered a better company at making RPGs than Bethesda. 

Mr. Kimura from Azumanga Daioh? He was both a creep and a loving husband, the whole joke of his character was that at one moment he seems like he belongs in jail, but in the other he seems like a misunderstood saint. 

Yeah, that’s not true. The chest/torso is a bigger target and you’re more likely to hit it. Hollywood has people thinking its so easy to hit arms or legs in firefights and that’s just not true at all.

They literally had one of the protagonists see the black stars of Carcosa in the finale of the first season. While the show wasn’t explicit about supernatural goings on, it strongly hinted that unknown forces were at play in the background. 

They really love watching The Thing in remote outposts IRL. The researchers love the irony, I guess.