Doctor Who mugs and Whedon T-Shirts, and their complaining about GoT?

You're going to put GRRM, the author of Schindler's List, and hell, even Anne Rice in with Dan "Da Vinci Code" Brown? You crazy.

This article is about massive series...the Lord of the Rings is not in that category...unless like me you have read the series 5 times ...any series longer than three books that you gave up on?

Good, let me ruin it for you: OBVIOUS SPOILERS BELOW
In the book world, her white god messianic complex falls apart, she loses control of her dragons who get large & dangerous, the people are getting feisty, those she beat have regrouped & all is not going well. Good thing you gave up out of some kind of white…

This is one reason I have trouble talking to people who have only watched the show when it comes to Dany. I hate her character in the book so much because she does seem to think that she is helping everyone and she just leaves a wake of destruction in her path.

I say continue. *slight spoilers if you dare*

I too was touched by his admission and immediately thought of when many years ago I wondered when movies would make the transition to artificial actors, and I think he was feeling the same thing; that he was seeing it get closer every day - and it hit him hard all at once with the realization it was happening. Or so…

"the people at Weta are absolute wizards"; yes, as far a technical accomplishment. But they are not filmmakers. The Hobbit, like all CGI creations, will never be able to elicit that most essential component of a good film - the feeling of human connection. McKellen's distress at not being able to fake the un-fakable…