Yea, i’m with you. You can’t expect the police to come to her house with 100 peer reviewed medical studies and go “AH-HA! this treatment has been shown ineffective and harmful, and you should not have followed your doctor’s recommendation!”

Yeah, I can’t help but get the impression that David and Dan rubbed a lot of creative talent the wrong way. Martin seems to have distanced himself from them, and doesn’t seem to have had much, if any, input after Season 4. And you’ve also got actors, even actors that they supposedly adored like Lena Headey, saying…

Hate to say it, but D&D made the right decision and maintained a holistic vision for the show’s ending. Excellent direction would have been jarring alongside piddle-poor writing.

The Shining is a masterpiece of a movie, however it is a terrible adaptation of Stephen King’s novel

Regarding From Russia With Love and Goldfinger, I look at it thus: From Russia With Love is a brilliant spy film, while Goldfinger is a brilliant James Bond film.

When he eventually published a sequel to the book in 2013, Doctor Sleep, he went out of his way to ignore every plot change that Kubrick had made, restoring it to some very particular version of “pure”.

I first saw her in Keen Eddie and I thought she was going to be a huge star. 

Any argument about Kerr being an empty suit is invalidated by the presence of the color guy who’s broadcast the Warriors’ five straight finals appearances.

Storm Troopers are impossible to take seriously either in reality or in their own universe.

Yea, you are correct. It’s useful to keep in mind that most of the people on this site who make references to books haven’t read said books, or at best skimmed them 20 years ago when they were in school. It’s just a lazy way to summarize why they think people like the ASIOF books. In Tolkien’s case, basically all…

One would think that Tolkien would get the benefit ofthe doubt, given that he was in one world war and lived through another one. It’s just possible that his books’ optimistic yet fatalistic tone was a careful aesthetic choice and not whimsical naivete.

This makes me really sad. I once met the good Doctor. I was standing in line waiting to pay at a store here in New York City - this was around 2003 or 2004 - when I thought the guy in front of my who was quietly talking to his wife was very probably Dr. John. I knew his real name was Mac Rebennack, so when he took his…

Finally, a video that belongs on Deadspin.

Dude did a heroic amount of hallucinogenics in the 60s and 70s.  So this is not surprising.  

The legal age in England was 12. My feeling that most got married between around 17- 24ish with some exceptions (I’m extrapolating from the average of 20) on either end. I want to say to say the average age of a girl menstruating was a bit older then now. I remember reading 15-16, I want to say it was due to poor…

Yeah, that’s generally what I’m getting at, but more that if you’re looking for advanced stats or an analytical model specifically built around your gameplan, you’re putting the chicken before the egg.

Watch Screen Rant’s “Pitch Meeting” for Season 8. They pretty much nail it.

The whole Daenerys as Mad Queen thing is strange. Like my definition of “Mad” monarch is based on the book/show interpretation of the Mad King which was that he was insane. I never got that Daenerys was insane. She’s ruthless, but not moreso than Stannis Baratheon or Tywin Lannister or any other major power player in…

As to the former, treating faith as something only concerning the smallfolk is already a shortcoming in my eyes. Not only does the nobility depend on oaths, which are usually given invoking not just worldly but divine powers - a critical psychological barrier against usurpation. The divine have also often been the…

The point is going completely over your head. If Ty Burrell had a cameo in a Modern Family spinoff, would he get “standard guest star” pay? Hell no. If Keifer Sutherland guested on a 24 spinoff, would he get “standard guest star” pay? Fuck no. I would bet the farm they’d get a huge payday and nobody would bat an eye.…