My whole reason for enjoying assassin's Creed is because I like history to the point that I wanted more representation of less culturally popular eras.... Crusades era Mideast the Italian Renaissance, the American Revolution all have lots of serious representation, AC gave us the chance to enjoy that history in a more…

Wondering if HEXE could be Northern European/Baltic based. Plenty of history in that part of the world that would rekindle the first game’s focus on Crusade zealotry and mostly unexplored in gaming and wider pop-culture.

True, Japan when America was pushing to modernize japan and the Satsuma rebellion happened would make a good setting. Templars come over with the Americans, the assassins fight with/for Satsuma, etc.

A while back the BBC did an Attenborough nature series called Dynasties. Each episode follows a single group of animals raising a new generation.

The Lion episode tells the particularly impressive story of a lioness leading a group of adolescent cubs alone after the dominant adult male abandons them. It’s an amazing…

I get that the point was to contrast her with Halbrand who can be diplomatic and likeable even when clearly angry (speaking fair but feeling foul, maybe?). But I’d expect someone who’s been alive since the literal dawn of time to have a little more self-control 

Halbrand’s story will probably a Boromir story. He is probably one of the kings of men who gets tempted by the power of the rings and becomes a Nazgul. There’s nine of those guys and we barely know anything about them.

Well that was decades of imagining Numenor completely exceeded by a production team that clearly spent as long wishing for it. Absolutely thrilling. And they’re using at least some natural landscapes for it. Production photos show the beach scenes are on location and really look like that (if a bit color enhanced.)

I’m enjoying it well enough.

Were they using the Straight Road? If that term was used, I must have missed it. Prior to the fall of Numenor elves could just sail back to Valinor and be accepted, which is I thought they were depicting. Though they obviously changed it up in the sense that Galadriel got that close and jumped into the sea rather than…

I doubt Halbrand is being set up to be Sauron. He’s a king remember. Him and eight other guys are about to receive some pretty impressive designer jewellery.

“Somehow every man she talks with gets pegged as her love interest against all evidence.”

They have admitted as much. Their reasoning is that the show is going to cover more than a thousand years and they don’t want to have to introduce a whole new cast of humans every time they jump ahead a few centuries. I mean, we met Isildur in this episode and he only lived to be 234. This show is currently exploring…

It’s for budget/quality reasons. They have a certain budget, and they can use that to make 22-25 really cheap episodes, or 8-10 higher quality ones. Lost was a fairly high budget show by the standards of the time, but it also didn’t require a lot in the way of sets, costumes, or special effects (though those did come…

I mean, I don’t find this particularly “Disney-esque,” but I do think they had to keep things somewhat conventional. Unfortunately, you probably can’t spend billions on a show that experimental. 

For what it’s worth, I actually found the change there made Dee more unsettling, not less. He felt more mercurial and, yes, unhinged than in the comics. The Netflix version felt like someone I really wasn’t sure what he might do.

Her attitude was baffling to me, too. But anytime a character— especially one meeting with strangers— leads with negativity and hostility, I’m always confused. Like, haven’t they heard the saying, “catch more flies with honey?” lol. It just didn’t track with what she’d just gone through. Saved from the open seas,…

The Gray Havens are not to the west of Middle-earth. They are a harbor  city within Lindon, also called Mithlond. 

The timeline is sped up. Which makes practical sense, I guess. If you want the human characters to be consistent over several seasons, you have to speed up and squish the timeline. Since the canon version is defined by the lifespans of deathless elves.

Well if Halbrand isn’t Sauron, he and Theo (they may be relative) definitely going to turn into Nazgul.

There’s little expected to be accurate in this film, it’s a joke biopic.