You left out that also during his time at The Price is Right that he had a sexual harassment suit brought against him.

I found Jennings better in theory than practice. He doesn’t really have a good voice for it.

Now I want a Jeopardy host who will barrel on stage every time, like Kramer coming into Jerry’s apartment.

This feels like a bait-and-switch. Get a bunch of high profile guest hosts to come in, tease the idea one of them could become the permanent host, generate interest, and then hire the dude you were going to hire all along.

One thing I don’t understand is why there’s no way to watch any of the older episodes, at least that I’m aware of. You would think whoever’s in charge of this stuff would want to bring in the ratings by having 1987 week or whatever.

In my experience, the cool job openings almost always go to the meh person already working for the company.

Are you kidding me I was so jealous of Hermione because of her parents. They were so proud of her even when they didnt understand because they recognized she was good at it and wanted to do it (any kid's dream) they trusted her to handle herself in an entirely unknown world, and they took her on badass vacations. …

Less than 20 hours since I watched it and can't remember his diabolical plan (did he have one)
Cause a high-profile incident that would force war between Muggles and Wizards so that the Wizards would have no choice but to conquer the Muggles. He accuses Newt of it when he's arrested, even.

I think it's more the latter — and she's a first-timer at this, after all; don't forget William Faulkner and F. Scott Fitzgerald both tried their hand at screenwriting, back in the day, and got rewritten into oblivion each time — and those were Faulkner and Fitzgerald!

The WB money machine had to get moving smoothly,…

Yeah, 'worldbuilding' is overrated. As you say, George R. R. Martin put a great deal of effort into it, but even so there are dozens of websites dedicated to picking Westeros apart and explaining how bits of it don't make sense. All a writer should really focus on is creating a setting that readers find compelling and…

If you find the whole idea of magic in the Potter world too exclusive, I get that. But Harry isn't really that special, as magicians go. He's your basic B-student who excels at one subject because he's interested in it. His power comes to him through a complicated series of events that basically boil down to the power…

But it's not like the magical people are living in some sort of Elysian paradise and the Muggles are living in dystopian reality. Yes, some people can do magic, and others can't. But there seems to be a great deal of income disparity and a great deal of cultural and social conflict on the magical side of the fence,…

She definitely trips over herself quite a bit, which is somewhat understandable given the sheer number of pages she put out and the fact that the first book is her first book. One thing that trips her up is that she had a jokier, more kid-friendly tone at the outset, which leads to a bunch of ideas that are a problem…

I wouldn't read a book about people like me & my friends. That would be boring. I'm not a Potter fan either, but that's because it's just not as good (based on the first film and first 4 books) as something like Lord of the Rings.

The author definitively does not have contempt for Muggles. I could not object more strenuously to that assertion. You are bringing some personal baggage to this that just isn't there. Hermione's parents are Muggles and it never treats them mockingly, nor Harry's grandparents. And both Harry and the twins are flirty…

That is not true. Harry's neighbor is a squib and she's not a tool nor an idiot. She's an important ally of Dumbledore's. And the journey Dudley takes through the series (particularly in light of the mention of him in the recent play) is really quite profound.

The only people who hold Muggles in contempt are very clearly villains. To say that the entire world Rowling built does so is madness, seeing as the entire readership, all of us, lack magical powers or special, secret schools. Also, the wizards are mostly rather garbage at science, or at least at engineering (can't…

Fantastic Beasts: What do they know? Do they know things? Let's find out!"

I guess it depends on what qualifies as decent worldbuilding to you. She absolutely created a world people want to inhabit, so there's that.

As far as the books go, they have a more timeless, sincere aspect to them than vanity projects or cash grabs like Twilight, Divergent, etc. Rowling is not the greatest writer and isn't very good at worldbuilding in my opinion, but she is incredibly effective at coming up with neat ideas and tapping into the…