but that would seem a bit like cheating

Vince Gilligan in no hurry to make a third show in the Breaking Bad universe

“Tolkien had a limited imagination” is not a fair critique!

I desperately want a Crusher/Pulaski team-up episode.

I fucking loved the Disco Klingons, and I’m a hardcore old skool fan. Like, it’s not like we haven’t been though this before. Changing the Klingons in a radically confusing way is practically Star Trek tradition.

Sounds like you really do want them to address it.

LOTR was written in the style of a medieval romantic epic. That means it is primarily focused on men’s heroic journeys and the platonic love between men, and where women are involved at all it is primarily as objects of chaste love for said heroic men. That’s the context.

The “named” requirement is because lots of movies would squeak by based on the murmurs of background extras, 3-second scenes with a waitress, or those opening scenes of Law and Order where two unnamed people banter for 6 seconds before finding a body.

Dwarves were meant to be an proud ancient people akin to the Jews

it often is

Since that’s not how it was intended to be used, I’m curious as to why you think that was how it was supposed to be used.

No one is saying that. It’s more “how dare we pretend like it’s fine today because he was born in the 1800s.”

Bludgeoning your neighbor to death because they didn’t mow their lawn last week would bring joy to some people.

I would argue it doesn’t make it a misogynistic movie, just not a greatly feminist film

I’m pretty sure Silence of the Lambs or Alien barely pass

It’s still very useful to see it presented so starkly. There’s a lot of “oh, well” about this stuff, as if just knowing about it is all the reckoning you think we have to do.

I like the show, but I’m really waiting for the big reveal because the slow burn of this thing has not been a virtue, and I’m very concerned that they payoff will not be worth it. It somehow has been spinning its wheels for weeks yet it moved some plots along too fast, and it keeps introducing new wacky non-sequiturs…

Strong disagree. Herman Miller certainly makes expensive products, but they hold the fuck up.

Maybe you weren’t around in 2001, but that’s when this movie’s rehabilitation among fans began in earnest. The Director’s Cut, combined with the exploding DVD market (people bought DVDs when previously they mostly rented VHS tapes), is what changed the movie’s reputation from “the slow and boring one” to “everyone thin…

Well, first, allowing porn invites regulation. Does Amazon really want to be on the hook to moderate a “Teen (18+, we promise)“ category on Twitch?