There is a great deal of debate among some as to that. Most think the 1984 appendix was not an “in universe’ test on newspeak but just Orwell talking about it outside of the story. There are few people who think as you said, that it was some “hope” of a future of no big brother, but most do not. (For example, the…

That is why they really have not even attempted a 1984 movie since the one back in the 1980's. Besides being mostly “internal” (the main drama is in the main character’s head and in reading a book..not very cinematic). I think modern adaptions fail (see also the all very bad “I am Legend” adaptions) because they…

I think that constant surveillance (brought on by huge advances in memory power of computers making actual tape or recordings obsolete) now being possible is what would scare Orwell the most. The main thing that haunted people reading 1984 for seventy years is the thought of always being watched, even in your own…

It is the dumbest part of this adaption and it really kind of ruined it for me. Seven or so episodes in and I thought it was really well done..then it puts a matrix computer in it to blame which defeats (like you said) the entire point of the novel. The entire point is that humans did this to themselves. Then with a…

Some of his songs were forgettable pop, especially after 1985 or so. But many were not, especially before that. Songs like “in the Air Tonight” “Mama” “I don’t care anymore” and others are still widely played almost 40 years later. 

true..haha he was always one of those 30 going on 50 guys

I agree about Luthor.  They never portrayed him as dumb (just gung ho) last season and in the back half of this season he inexplicably has turned into a well meaning doofus.

I noticed this too. The only time in this entire run they showed the Umbrella Academy actually competent was one episode last year when they were kids and this year during the russian attack..that never happened. This episode also does that well worn trope of “powers exist or not when it is convenient to the plot”…

Yeah, when someone gets cast to play a fictional character and they are still whining, that is a whole other level of absurdity.

I think actors from Zachary Quinto to Ellen Page to Neal Patrick Harris would disagree with you. That argument has been old and out of date for a decade.

I would say his reputation for “grampa rock” is also very overstated. In the early and mid 80's he was known for music like this which was a staple on the coolest shows at the time, like Miami Vice, which in turn basically set 80's fashion to what we know of today (the sports coat with t shirt, etc..). He was the targe…

It also makes his criticism of race consciousness misguided. In the world of New London, the entire point is they just do not even have the basic building blocks of thinking that way to even begin to see that some betas (or people of the other castes) may be treated differently because of race. If they could…

An actor should not apologize for playing anyone. Why should an actor look exactly like the person they are portraying. They did a movie about Bob Dylan where 12 different people “played” Dylan, including a couple of women. The only thing I see them doing wrong is trying to make her look like Simone. This kind of…

The main way these adaptions normally fall down is dystopias are meant to be a downer. The main theme is that a future society is so broken that there is no “revolt”, there is no “change” possible. Once they change this central theme, it is no longer really a dystopia, but really just star wars of any other story with…

I liked season one but agree this season has been so much better as it got rid of some of the crutches that frustrated in season one. The biggest is they are all nominally getting along instead of the old standby of everyone hating each other irrationally and withholding information from each other for no other reason…

1. I really have no idea what will happen in the finale. This show, for being otherwise so bright and airy compared to the arrowverse shows, has the highest body count of any of them.

I am betting Mike shows up at the final to save the day with “Chekhov’s pen”

Yeah, “the fiddler” is almost a parody of a superhero and she could have been in the movie “Mystery Men” with Ben Stiller.  Violin playing..but eeeevil! haha.  That being said, it was a surprise when they murdered her.  Man, this show has the highest body count of any CW show I can think of outside of the 100 and…

I did read it, and him yada yada-ing his own countries’ colonialism and problems in a second then devoting the rest of the segment on America is just rather condescending.  If he did a show on his own countries’ white washing, or even Europe’s before doing this, maybe he would have more credibility. Britain’s…

Snobby British people..”we sort of, kind of abolished slavery in 1833, 22 whole years before America did, those racists! Of course unlike America we completely whitewash our history completely, even today, throughout England and all its former colonies, with every movie and TV show (see “Downton Abbey”) acting like…