They’re not proto-hobbits, they’re just a type of hobbit.  In the second age the three types were a lot more separate, so while these are Harfoots, there’s also Fallohides and Stoors around.  Mostly they’re defined by what other species they’re similar to.  Harfoots are closer to humans, Fallohides to elves, and…

They live in heaven.  They don’t have to work by our physics and shit.  Maybe in Valinor animism is just the way shit works and yeah rocks float because they want to touch the bottom.

Yeah, I found it funny when they said that elf-human pairings had ever happened twice, given that everyone remembers Beren and Luthien, but apparently not Tuor and Idril or Dior and Nimloth, both elf-human parings that resulted in Earendil and Elwing, who are both half-elves and Elrond’s parents.

Slavery leading to enhancements is sadly and strangely a D&D staple. The number of monsters that are “Inventions of a mad wizard for his use as a labor and guard force” is insane. Though yeah, the answer to the question of “how did slavery make them sapient” is it didn’t, it happened the other way. They were made…

Oh shoot, I never thought of that point before, thanks!

No but seriously I get it, but the bit felt out of place, this a legal comedy, not the Fresh Prince.  YMMV, I guess.

And in honor of the death of a great, charitable, and wonderful man, here’s a loose five on how trans people are mean to me!

Does this production have different access to Tolkien materials than the movies did?  They couldn’t use the blue wizards in those, which was why Gandalf just said he forgot their names.

The only thing I didn’t like about this episode was how sitcommy it was about having a real-world guest star. Everyone is all the sudden the biggest fan of Megan Thee Stallion in the world, and they are constantly saying her full name, even both people in conversation with each other would be like “You also love Megan…

He said shiv, not shank.

It’s Sharon, come on now.  Who out there is more suited to try and steal powers than the Power Broker?

I was guessing Val Fontaine or Sharon Carter, the current literal Power Broker.

A broken clock on military time is only right once a day, so there ya go.

I dunno man, politics ain’t Newton’s laws of thermodynamics or whatever, I dunno why some dorks always think it’s gotta be equal and opposite on either side of the aisle. Consider pairing this reading with: a chilling out.

I think the sole shared season for all of those reprobates is 1990. Must have been just all the 80s businessmen dumping their end of an era cocaine and spare money in the Hudson.

Even the funniest guy on Earth can’t make conservative American political comedy work.  The material never coheres into anything but name calling and “kids these days” type grandpa rants. 

The only thing that surprises me about this tasteless predictable bullshit is that it beat the obvious porn film to the market.

Cornered and eaten by feral ALFs.

As a huge fan of shows about veterinarians and a fan of fantasy stuff in general I was briefly excited by the potential of Dragonitis, then disappointed again.

Let’s not pretend that’s entirely China.  China fucking loves the Fast & The Furious Franchise, and they don’t cut Tej out of the marketing.  Boyega was done dirty for American racists too.

The Force Awakens was the one that confused me, because the world fuckin’ loved it, but other than being fine with the new characters, the whole thing to me felt like just a theme park ride version of the original trilogy.  Just rush from thing to thing, do it all again, joke about how you’re doing the same shit again…