Yeah Elrond and Durin were great, and Galadriel had major chemistry with everybody. Even sad human healer and distractingly hot elf were good. The acting was let down by poor story choices and weird pacing. Still, it was the best of the two big epic fantasy shows. It’s a pity it lost out to Fire and Blood which was…

I thought the Harfoots were the boring parts. Arondir was fine, if a bit wooden.

The Elrond/Durin relationship was a high point for me.  The rock breaking contest where you know Elrond is a half elf that can go all year if he needs to but has to let Durin win is friggen great.

The show shouldn’t have waited until episode 6 to get good.

I don’t even think I finished the first episode. It just didn’t grab me and I loved the LOTR movies and have read the books (not the Silmarillion).

I liked it but it was perhaps not the greatest

I saw it all and mostly liked it but I can totally see why a lot of people bailed. Those first three or four episodes were slow as hell. And because of the weird way that Amazon only owns some very specific rights to a bunch of ancillary parts of Lord of the Rings lore, the superfans didn’t like it because it changed…

That is the problem with Men.  With their short lives, they never finish what they start, leaving us to clean up their mess.

Upon reading the headline, I was going to comment “No, book bannings were worse in the 80s”, but upon further thought, I think I agree with her. Back then, they were (mostly) not *explicitly* political; rather, they were usually kicked off by some concerned citizen’s group (although I suppose some of them might have…

The ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ show ended up being better than the movie. So maybe this can work.

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Huge between ‘allowed to’ and ‘should’. I said publishers shouldn’t do it, not that they should be legally banned from doing so. Publishers are legally allowed to do a number of things that are morally or ethically objectionable. In my opinion this is one of them.

But again, I imagine you’re plenty smart enough to diff…

I mean, the whole point of that storyline is that despite everyone finding Hermione’s activism annoying, she’s actually right, and the wizarding world’s narrative of the magical races living in harmony with humans is a self-serving falsehood. “The fountain we destroyed tonight told a lie. We wizards have mistreated…

I feel oddly like I’m crossing some sort of political aisle to say I’m against both the edits to old authors and the stupid Florida Bill. Both are bad things we shouldn’t be doing. 

Oh, I’m sure I’ll poke my head in on this, if only because my children are starting to enjoy the books. I feel like there was more potential in other stories in the HP world, though.

1) The Marauders, also known as, “Can We Finally Accept That Snape Was A Fucking Dangerous Entitled Stalker and Stop Loving Him Because…

The game just sold massively for having a basically accurate Hogwarts.

Amen! I hope we’re on the backswing of the pendulum of this nadir of critical thinking. I’m not even a fan of Harry Potter or JK Rowling, but I’m rooting for this show to wildly succeed just put an end to the power the shut-down mob thinks they have over media they disagree with.  Let them go find some other industry…

I’d watch it.  If I didn’t watch any shows that had a problematic aspect to them I’d never watch anything.  Plus, I think there’s a lot of material that could be good if done right.  

I get what you’re saying (“Dumbledore was gay, y’all, srsly”), but didn’t Magnitude on Community transfer to Greendale from Hogwarts? Am I imagining that?

I first saw the trailer for Renfield yesterday and I’m all in on that one for sure.