Indeed. On the one hand, Shogun has the advantage of real history they can draw from, that other mini series who have been in this situation do not. So here’s hoping they can stay strong, in the tradition of other shows that went past the books like The Handmaid’s Tale and The Leftovers.

FX Shogun is uniquely situated to pull off more seasons. The “source material” is real life historic events and people and there’s much more to tell about Ieyasu Tokugawa and William Adams’ lives and early Edo Japan successfully resisting colonization. The first series made homage to James Clavell’s inventions, mainly…

Just wait till after the next film! Villeneuve has been clear he’s stopping after Messiah, but you know the studio won’t. So we’ll probably end up with some amazing weird terrible sequels.

Well, the second movie was just pretty darn clear that what they’re doing is bad.

Look, I wanted to love ROP so badly, I’m a huge fan of the books and movies, I’ve read the Silmarillion, etc., but I just wasn’t convinced by the production of the show, regardless of how money Bezos poured into it. I wasn’t immersed. I kept getting pulled out of it by little nagging details, unlike Fallout, which…

Don’t worry. A bunch of murders and other fucked up shit is in store for this series if they follow the source material (Fire & Blood, vol I ).

Poor word choice by the author, but the Dance of the Dragons was what effectively led to the decline of House Targaryen that eventually resulted in the success of Robert’s Rebellion.

Yes, the Dance of the Dragons takes place just about 170 years before the events of GoT, which itself is set about 20 years after Robert’s Rebellion that dethroned the Targaryens.

“the infamous Dance of the Dragons that put an end to Targaryen rule in Westeros—until Dany trots along” I’m no expert on Westreros, but don’t the Targaryen’s continue to rule until Robert’s Rebellion which sets the stage for GOT?

Interesting, there is a fan film from 2009 with the same title. 

To be fair, Tolkein’s appendices are longer than most author’s entire body of work.

Personally, I prefer TV series with decent budgets for adaptations of novel series.  I don’t think The Expanse would have held up well with each book cut down to a 2-3 hour movie.

much as i loathe STD (aka the Michael Burnham Experience), it can hardly be said that Star Trek is dead. Strange New Worlds is going strong, there’s a new Starfleet Academy teen drama coming. Lower Decks is an animated hit and Prodigy seems to have survived. There’s that extremely random Michelle Yeoh TV movie coming…

It’s a cowardly position to claim as Gould did, that science and religion are compatible. To do so requires having one mindset in the laboratory and a contradictory mindset outside it. I’m also a scientist and think JBS Haldane put it best when he said the quote to the effect that if he trusts the equipment in his…

I’ve read two versions. Narratively, it’s somehow simultaneously disjointed and overindulgent dogshit. It’s a massive, convoluted fucking lore dump that’d make Tetsuo Nomura blush.

America is weird that way. People freaked out when Dawkins published “The God Delusion” as if it was some weird position to question religion. Meanwhile people in Europe were like “Didn’t Bertrand Russell write basically the same thing in ‘Why I am not a Christian’ about a century ago?”

I am an atheist and am excited to learn that, apparently, it now qualifies me as an “edgelord” as well. I also got whiplash from the way this article seemed to keep pivoting back and forth on whether the author thought it was the worst take, a legit take, a weird take, etc. 

I’m sorry, but what makes his take “edgelord”? Are all atheist takes edgelord?

This is always the explanation for the vaults in the games.  Vault-Tec was really good at putting the right (wrong?) people in charge to make sure their experiments got as far as they could before going off the rails (which some were absolutely intended to do).

The point was that no one questioned the system, to the point that questioning the system wasn't even a question.