That interpretation would certainly explain why an Army Chaplain felt compelled to tell me I was going to hell for reading Game of Thrones and similar such books.

The Last Battle was completely ruined by the blatant insertion of Christian ideology. Then there’s what’s been called “The Susan Problem”. Why was Susan kicked to the curb simply for wanting to actually grow up?

You’re mischaracterizing my post. I never said that stories were created in a vacuum, devoid of any social or political context. My point was that non-genre readers and writers tend to misunderstand the practice of worldbuilding — specifically, that they confuse science fiction and fantasy with allegory or myth, and…

Just look at that picture. I think what they’re saying to each other is,

In a world where everybody gets a trophy for partcipating, you can put any amount of batshit crazy jumbles of words on paper and call it “young adult”. and any number of “young adults” will make that work of fiction their cross to die on as they argue “you just dont understand it because youre old”.

And it’s amusing that people think LOTR is an allegory when Tolkien has said several times that it’s not. Hell, he says it it very clearly on the sixth page of the book’s Foreward.

The movie adaptations have been disasters, but the sales numbers for the genre have continued apace even if the underlying stories are getting very long in the tooth.

It’s almost like a Mad Libs.

I’m just kind of sick of the entire genre. It was played out in Hunger Games and that’s been how many years now? And this just sounds bad at face on top of the uninspired “young girl/boy may hold the key to everything because they're SPECIAL” trope which over simplifies the plot instead of the writer having to craft a…

This movie High-Concepted itself into oblivion.

that plot synopsis is too damn many things for a start

I didn’t realize Jane Espenson and Doug Petrie were both writing for the show, too — which is awesome. They were some of the best Buffy writers. Petrie went on to write some of the very best Daredevil episodes and Espenson probably wrote the best episode of Firefly (“Shindig”) and co-created Warehouse 13.

I thought Tron Legacy was pretty impressive, though it helped that the de-aged Bridges wasn’t playing a younger Flynn but rather CLU, so small inconsistencies might actually make it more authentic.

I should’ve known it would be nefarious because it’s Clive Owen. 

Wow. So, he got in one little fight and his mom got scared. She said, “You’re movin’ with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air.”

That’s because the young man is Henry Brogan, a much-younger clone—also played by Smith, digitally altered to appear younger—who was created by a man named Clay Verris (Clive Owen) for seemingly nefarious purposes.

You know what would be cool for the humans to have if they want to join the fight this time? Some robots, preferably of the giant variety, from some folks working on something call the Jaeger Program. I would sacrifice the next MCU film to watch that crossover.

I’d much rather see him realize that there are a ton of people who can punch. But only he can use the power of the camera, and the press, to help save the world.

C’mon Gotham you can do a better Gordon mustache then that. You’re Gotham - if the upper lip doesn’t threaten the rest of his face you’re not living up to your crazy potential.