I think that privately the Lucasfilm powers that be might well agree with you; that seems to be why they’re giving Johnson, and the Game of Thrones guys, a long run-up to making their films. 

To be fair, all indications are that on Rian Johnson’s pitch for his planned follow-up trilogy is exactly that. That’s how I see TLJ’s treatment of Luke as a man burdened by his past, feeling he can’t live up to it) as being about this exact problem. I feel that ending (where other people are talking about Luke…

I’m really sorry you had to encounter this utter fuckwad. I don’t know whether to hope that they are just saying awful things for the Lolz or not. Either way; fuck them, hope you feel ok.

I hope this response isn’t going to sound facetious, because I do think that there’s clearly a problem with pesticides and insect populations, but I can’t help but wonder if the increased curvature and aerodynamic effectiveness of cars hasn’t contributed to that ‘windshield splat’ decline. Maybe more bugs are being…

Redundant statement but this is clearly going to be so much better than Baatman vs Superman.

I love that REM referenced World Leader Pretend in that tweet. 

Yeah, it’s a fair point about the rights. I still think you run into a Gotham problem with Young Aragorn though, and another more fundamental one that I feel a little bit more skittish about; What you’re describing has more scope for new stories to be told in it, but, well, I kind of see Tolkien’s stuff as hallowed…

As long as they do the Lay of Thrym somehow, I’m in favour of this...

Yeah, I can see that approach could be good, and I sort of agree with you about individual characters. I tried to imagine what a Silmarillion show would be like a while back (apart from Metal as heck!) and what I came up with as plausible was a sort of anthology- snapshots of key moments in different periods, loosely…

Oh, ok. I did wonder how accurate my info was there.

I just think you could do something so much bigger. Also, wouldn’t this have a Gotham problem; Aragorn wouldn’t get to do all the cool things which conclude his story arc (unless at some point they transition from original Pre-LOTR material into the story itself, which, well, how would that feel from a suspense…

That’s where the first Men awoke too, at least according to Wikipedia. Are we looking at something set a long time back, or simply a new ‘ancient place’ for Moody Young Aragorn to visit that hasn’t been seen already?

Impressive.

He needs to remake Taffin next. WIth Brosnan if possible.

Impressive.

Multiple, cyclical culls by the purple one himself. I think that would be a good twist for the next film- he realises he’s basically cursed himself to become the endless reaper of the universe, for the rest of time.

Furthermore, all rumors are ‘wild,’ even if they are something akin to ‘JJ Abrams wants next Star Wars film to be a good conclusion to the story,’ ie totally fucking obvious.

Which of course is something that never happened the first time around, something we know to be true because Luke’s obvious incestuous desire for Leia is totally what Lucas was going for all along with his heroes.

I think this is just another of those cases where the way we talk here is not quite the way you talk there.

In a British context, ‘boy’ really doesn’t carry racist connotations, and I say that as someone who cringed at the optics of the way the Doctor treated both Mickey and Danny Pink; I think there are some old…

I’ve been assuming they want Robin Lord Taylor for a while: