I’d believe you if the people doing the loudest complaining had waited to actually watch the show before complaining about the writing and the quality. It’s almost as though they all pre-judged the show for some reason, making their opinions... what is the word for when you pre-judge something?

“So there may as well be black and brown Hobbits, Dwarves, Elves, and all nations of Men unless you think “white” is the only normal option and anything else must be justified.”

FUCKING THANK YOU.

The world needed the Daily Show during the Trump years to be the lifeline that it was during the Bush years, but it wasn’t. They dropped the ball and hired a guy who was not in any way even remotely up to the job. I’m not sure that anyone except Jon Stewart could do it, but I know for 100% sure that Trevor Noah…

John Oliver isn’t the host of the Daily Show?

He’s very obviously mentally ill. I am sympathetic to that, as it’s not something that’s really under his control, and I don’t believe we should look down on the mentally ill for their outward symptoms any more than we would look down on cancer patients for theirs.

87 hours seems really low for a completionist run, but maybe, IDK. I must have made around 10 completionist runs myself, and easily more than twice as many aborted attempts at the same, plus some speed runs (not like hardcore speedruns, just straight-to-the-point, skip everything but the main plot type runs). I’d be…

Any man who has to capitulate to other people’s conception of masculinity in order to be a man is already probably failing at being a man by his own standards. There’s nothing funnier than a guy trying so hard to be “masculine” that he emasculates himself by trying so hard to impress other dudes.

Yes, this should have been one of the points in the article. You know how you like to play with your phone or read something while you poop? Well, you can do that when you pee too. And if you’re one of those fragile-masculinity types who think that it makes you less of a man to pee sitting down, the good news is that…

YES.

About Graham McTavish, I was wondering the same thing. I have to assume he’ll have something to do in the second half of the season? Because other than one scene in the first episode he hasn’t done literally anything. Has he even had lines since then?

“anything that makes Jordan Peterson cry I will gladly support”

“It’s not good, at four and a half hours.”

They shouldn’t be fired, they should be fired upon.

Rape culture, yes. Absolutely. But it’s also part of the general trend of police officers being petty bullies who prey upon society and believe themselves above the law. ACAB.

I don’t understand why this point isn’t obvious to more people. A society where the authorities get off lighter than common citizens (if/when they are held accountable at all) is not a free society. You are living in a police state - whether or not the USA was ever a free country (it’s never really been), it’s…

It’s an inelegant way of saying that she don’t talk real good.

My wife and I had a good laugh about Daemon apparently standing there for like ten minutes before deciding to run after his wife who just abruptly up and stumbled out of her birthing chamber.

No one’s side. That’s one of the biggest problems here. There’s not one remotely likeable character.

Average? This show is awful. Like, truly, mind-bogglingly awful.