I’ve never really understood the issue with this. In my experience, many/most people enter careers related to or adjacent to their parents’ professions. Over 20 years of teaching and I rarely meet students who have career goals that are dramatically different from their parents, or colleagues whose parents weren’t…

Foundation still hasn’t been filmed. There’s an interesting SF show by that name that borrows a few concepts and character names from the novels, but it bears about as much similarity to the source material as the show Hannibal had with the Thomas Harris novels.

Meanwhile, I’d like to see Earthsea get a proper…

I liked the show well enough, but it leaned on too many people making inexplicable, stupid choices like Sabine in the first half, and the viewer being invested and knowledgeable about the Ezra Bridger story in the second half. He didn’t really seem that special in the end, or worth saving, tbh. Why is this guy a…

Google Murderwall. 

No love for Senior Agent-in-Charge Phillip Broyles from Fringe? Reddick owned that role and elevated every scene he was in, especially when on screen with John Noble. And he got to play multiple versions of the character, too. Truly an amazing performer. RIP.

Working from home means my incompetent boss isn’t standing in the door of my office talking about the movie he saw or latest book he read about WWII. I get so much done, and I get a nap. Win win.

Exactly. 

Kaity is clearly the front runner for many reasons, but the biggest is location location location. It’s hard to juggle two careers, so living in the same spot is a good start. For the same reason, I was really surprised he kept Gabi around as she and her sister seem hell bent on raising their families together, and…

Just awful. I feel for him and his family. Fortunately, he has resources and so will have good, professional care that will help alleviate many of the burdens that would otherwise fall on his family.

Jesus H. Christ. So it’s all about the boners of male gamers? 

“Anyone anywhere in this fandom who gives Bella Ramsey a hard time over her casting should now be firmly shut up because she was phenomenal this entire episode.” Is this a thing? I’m ignorant of any sort of controversy. Bella Ramsey is pretty awesome. 

Me too. I’ll go further from you and say it was fucking awful. I watched it just to see what the hype was about and really wanted my money back. 

Top Gun: Maverick sucked donkey dicks. The story was a snooze. The action was alternatingly dull/hard to follow or unrealistic (with waaaaay more CGI than the producers would like to admit). The acting was fucking horrible. The script sucked. Why people are jizzing themselves over this movie is beyond me. 

Yup. Total rural sheriff move.

Supposedly the rings of the dwarves and of men were all created in Eregion before the three rings of the elves, so your guess as to how the showrunners are going to have to twist this to get those rings made is as good a guess as any. 

If the Stranger is really Gandalf, that will almost certainly be a deal breaker for me, and this show will have to finish its run just as Foundation did: without my eyeballs. That’s just a bridge too far to me. There are so many reasons it couldn’t be Gandalf (including Gandalf’s own words) that it would be a real…

I saw him in a comedy club in NYC a while back. His set sucked. Sloppy drunk. Miserable crowd work. Begging to be edgy and just ended up being a man-child on stage. 

Yeah, but not the Bourne Identity that mattered. That miniseries had zero impact on Bond films. 

The biggest sin so far, to me, is that it’s little boring. My wife fell asleep during episode 2 and I can’t really say I blame her. A LOT of walking around checking in with people. That said, the production looks amazing. I just hope the pace picks up.

Spoilers from the books below.