Dear Mr. President of Comics,

This season is so little rooted in anything of the Tolkien I’ve read that I don’t think rereading anything will make a big difference in your enjoyment of the show.

Well, you’ll certainly have the time? Be forewarned that this isn’t a show that rewards your having done the reading, though.

Well, they’ve already blown past it, but there’s a version in the Silmarillion you could work with if you wanted to, where Sauron’s sufficiently regretful after the War of Wrath to ask forgiveness of the gods, but not enough to face punishment. So he stays in Middle-Earth and ostensibly means well, but the Elves never…

It’ll be amazing if the wizard spends the next season or two saying a bunch more Gandalf lines, but then turns out to be Saruman.

Disseminating hyperbolic stories about people passing out during horror movies or posting “doctors” by the auditorium for distressed audiences is an age-old hype technique. And judging by the ages and tweet history of some of these “fans…” this is just another iteration of the same thing.

That Sauron scene was from the very first episode of the show. There’s very little new footage in this trailer.

I believe you have described “George of the Jungle”

The late 19th/early 20th Century was still fascinated with Africa as a dramatic literary device and, unfortunately, it was a fascination of “how can we put our White Colonizer Entitlement on this” which begat Tarzan and a host of imitators in Pulps and Comics. In 2016 when the last Tarzan film came out, a friend…

Joe Camel

Hey, I did the same thing once (shaved half my beard off)! It was actually work-related for my... job as a software engineer. (Yes, really.)

Just got done watching the trailer. Fuuuuuuuuu...

stars H.E.R. as Belle

Yeah I don’t know what the hell that nonsense is. Maybe it got it’s name from the street featured in the second movie, which came out eight years after Cloverfield.

For the unfamiliar: the Cloverfield franchise gets its name from the Cloverfield Station

47-year-old Charlize is hotter than 27-year-old Charlize.

her early directorial notes onset were more focused on making her “fuckable”

Tom Hanks, That Thing You Do!

I’m an alligator

My review of this review: not enough exclamation points!!!