The title presumably refers to Gandalf and Aragorn hunting down Gollum in order to figure out where the Ring came from, which is a minor subplot in the book that the films more or less omitted.

Mariko wasn’t supposed to die, the Shinobi were trying to restrain her and carry her away, presumably to be secretly imprisoned until Toranaga had been dealt with. Ishido wanted to prevent her from dying so that she couldn’t become a martyr and instigate a rebellion with her death. 

“Maybe” is the original, granddaddy Fallout song. That’s what played in the opening of the very first Fallout in 1997. 

Live-action has a higher budget, and therefore more meddling from the executives. Plus directing real actorsis very different skill from directing an animation.

It’s an anthology. Yaddle’s story can happen before her death. 

Apparently it’s been sold to a new owner, so the Kinja comments might give way to yet another medium in the near future. And who knows, maybe the new owners can get some improvements through, too. 

The Dune books were all written as self-contained stories, so whether any plot threads are left hanging at the end is entirely at the discretion of the script’s writer, whether they choose to make call-forwards to the future books or not.

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.