Amen to that. A GoT episode without, sex, blood and violence (i’m not really counting the pirate bit at the beginning and end) and yet spawns loads of character development, and excellent conveying of emotion from the smallest micro expressions and cadence/tone of their words (props to the actors) complete with a Ned…

What I like about this show is that it has the ‘characters sitting around a table talking about stuff’ scenes that were present in the early seasons of Game of Thrones but mostly went away in the later seasons when they unlocked Fast travel in order to fight ice zombies.

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Movie executives by and large seem to be vastly and fundamentally incompetent. It’s like their only mode of operation is to take some successful prior production and replicate it ad infinitum - bashing any new projects into whatever shape needed to resemble said prior production, thus eradicating anything and…

Bob Weinstein told Jackson, “I see this as Guns of Navarone, but fantasy.” He’d never read the books, had no context for the story except WWII movies. This was always the big problem with studios — they had no idea what it was they were adapting, they always tried to make things fit into a template they could…

And Eowyn would have been cut entirely and never worked again if she didn’t come up to his hotel room.

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Just another reminder of what a massive sea change LotR was for the movie industry and popular entertainment in general. Yes, Jackson and his collaborators took liberties with the material, but but the trilogy mostly true to the source material. Because everyone involved realized that people wanted to see LotR movies,…

I now totally want to see a movie where Gaiman is assasinating potential scriptwriters, directors and producers of bad Sandman adaptions like he is a contract killer (think Gross Point Blank).

It must be so frustrating to be an exoplanet researcher. You get pumped about the presence of carbon dioxide, but all the civilians want to know are when we can meet the aliens.

Dat joke... it kind of went past ya, son.

No you’ve made your point. Right let’s go door to murdering online trolls that we disagree with. Theyre all anonymous so we’re just gunna need to gun down alot of ppl to be sure. Sounds like a rational civilized course of action. Genocide is clearly the right option here! This isn’t detached, unhinged madness at all.…

...I don’t think he was claiming that that list was complete. I mean, he didn’t mention The Legend of Vox Machina, for example.

You think exposing and reporting on toxic behavior is actually a cover for increasing the toxic behavior? You think G/O Media is to blame, and not far right talking heads and politcians?

They went from stalking, harassing and bullying one individual to stalking, harassing and bullying myriad individuals. Who could have ever foreseen this development?

“If you love fantasy, 2022 is the place to be. Not only did a brand new Game of Thrones just roar its way onto HBO, but Prime Video is gearing up to debut the latest installment in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings series.”

I think these people have always existed. Their avenues for following through were just always limited. But the downside of having access to global communication is that it gives EVERYONE access in an instant, including the dicks.

It just really sucks when this stuff gets out of hand and everyone with the power to do…

It’s basically a tradeoff of the good for the bad. The internet is basically ushering in the next wave of true demagogic authoritarianism. But at the same time, the benefits of what it has done to change huge swaths of the way the world thinks are enormous.

It becomes a question of where does the balance break. How…

But is it accurate to say someone with Brazilian heritage was doing brownface?

First third? What? They all die about 80% of the way into the movie. Even Burke makes it as long as most of them.