God, doesn’t that sound incredible. With her ludicrous gifts, she would make that freakin’ sing. Just thinking about it gets me excited. 

Um, go run out and watch the series. It’s literally one of the best adaptations I’ve ever seen. The changes they make are very smart to help tell the story, nothing done just for the hell of it.

That sounds like a really interesting show idea to pursue right there. There are so many different ways you could look at it and most of them would be far from Orphan Blackish. Write it up!

bring in The Question as his buddy

Bourdain was an interesting and multi-talented guy, but he wasn’t very good at having another writer and artist make comics out of his pretty cliche ideas. I was kind of hoping it was going to be like all those crazily detailed manga about chefs... not so much.

Not really. He goddamn worshiped plenty of filmmakers.

When it goes badly it goes REALLY badly. Can’t blame him for being traumatized. But I’m sure you know what’s best for his career as a filmmaker and artist better than he does.

I mean, he wrote and shot all that stuff with the exception of the stiff prologue. Can’t blame him for not wanting to put his name on a version of it rushed together for TV that didn’t bother to do the Fremen eyes. I’d love to see what he’d do with the footage after a year spend obsessing over the ambient soundtrack.

Christ, just that insane hand-carved wooden set alone was bonkers

I didn’t much care for Villenueve’s bland version. I’d love to see DL recut it, what fun!

That and Eagleheart have to be my favorite-ever things on the channel. Oh right, and On Cinema. Pera, O’Malley, and Firestone are fucking killing it on stage these days tho, you people better go support them!

Millie Gibson is gonna have a great career

Sure, no kidding. I’ve got all the Charlton stuff. So Lindelof could’ve just renamed them all similarly, right? Why not. It’s not outrageous to say making them more original worked for Moore and Gibbons and could’ve worked for Lindelof too? Then he’d be the visionary satirist of contemporary America or something in…

Eh. It’s a great body of work. He didn’t go out like Dave Sim or Steve Ditko. Check out the black and white cheapo POD Ditko stuff from his final decades some time. Whew.

“we’ve always been far more partial toward Damon Lindelof’s TV sequel to Moore’s story than Zack Snyder’s slavish cinematic recreation of it.”

I mean, it’s totally normal for a project in development to change directors a few times. These aren’t passion projects by auteurs here!

It’s interesting how internet reviews so seldom EVER pan an actor’s performance these days. Even in a bad movie, they are always shining. Nobody ever has trouble saying a writer or director stunk the place up.

The one that still kills me is his Marlon Brando going on about “The Island.” Jesus Christ, Chris can be so goddamn brilliant.

I mean, so is actually using the word “woke” without irony or quotes

I don’t even understand what you’re trying to say. They had some strike trouble and creative differences. So it got postponed.