I honestly never got the appeal of The Office

and that stupid hat.

Yup, I said it. I hated that thing.

produce a clearly inferior product anyway.

Just to play devil’s advocate for a bit here:

I wouldn’t say they’re trying to fool anyone any more than they’re just trying to appease audience demand.

The audience complained that there isn’t enough colour and humour, so they bring those in, but then the audience is like “who you tryna fool?”

Nervous Michael Cera…

I’m not even bothering to read your replies anymore lol.

All these examples you’ve listed show that you still don’t understand the point.

And all these examples make it clear that the Shadow of Mordor series should not have been a licensed product and should have just made up their own names for people, places, setting.

Be inspired and influenced to create your own, yes.…

Now that you mention it, do we know which studio Jessica Drew belongs to?

You missed the entire point.

Adapting something is wholly different story from writing your own sequel (which is essentially fan-fiction). Scroll back and read where I said adapting is fine and it’s writing fan fiction as sequels that stupid.

In the long history of literature, how many sequels have we gotten that…

“There’s a whole half of Middle-Earth we haven’t even explored yet”

And I’ve never, ever wanted this exploring to be done by game developers with licenses. I was fine with Peter Jackson adapting Tolkien’s books into film, not only because “adapting” is different from what these game developers are doing, but because…

Yeah, I had to look it up on Google to refresh my memory on what happened to it, but I remembered specifically enough that it wasn’t the original RV because I remembered that they did a LOT of walking getting to Terminus after the prison home got destroyed, and if I recall correctly, only Glenn and Tara were in a…

Yeah, I saw all their back and forth responses with you (as well as their response to my own comment), and then I was thinking, “Wow, this person does not know how to discuss well.” So I didn’t bother responding to them again lol. I should say thanks for saving my energy

Big difference: both the book and movie are protected by copyright. Reproducing copies of those, digital or physical, is illegal.

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Wow, thanks. I’m not alone!

I guess this part explains Tumblr’s weird obsession: “the bespectacled, freckle-flecked Barb looks more like someone you might actually meet in real life.”

Agreed. It was enjoyable, but no masterpiece.

You know what else wasn’t that great that everyone seems to clamor about but I don’t get? Barb.

She was just a guest character that was red-shirt-fodder for the monster. Then suddenly everyone on Tumblr was all like, “She da best, I can relate, she mah hero.”

I felt like…

I’ve been visiting this site for 7 years, and whether I post a lengthy, well-thought-out comment or a simple reaction gif that gets 3 stars, I’m still default-ly grey. Maybe I should try being more like Burl.

“Not!”

He states this a lot in his interviews and podcasts and such. He mostly only ever says it to compliment the actors and the crew (he’s generally a really generous guy when it comes to complimenting his peers in the industry).

In a humble way, he always says something about how when he directs Supergirl/Flash, he’s like…

“it just took the world an awful long time to get acknowledge the memo.”

Fixed that for you ;) Roman Polanski, Corey Feldman, Drew Barrymore... The world already got the memo a long time ago, but it kept getting buried under our stacks of dvds and tubs of popcorn.

A lot of reviews praise these games, but no one really makes any point in addressing how well or badly they really relate to Tolkien’s fiction. So thank you for bringing up the points where this series fails in regards to the source material.

Most of the negative points you mentioned are exactly why I’ve been…