The problem is movie execs almost never look at the source material for what’s popular, they look to what other movies are popular and successful. Which is sorta defensible, because those other movies are almost always much, much more recent reflections of what people are interested in spending money on, but it’s…

He’s not saying that a FF movie that’s true to the source won’t work, he’s saying that it won’t get made. Studio execs really, really don’t work on normal person logic; they are looking only at appealing to their lucrative demographics and making money. Good art, and especially good art that bucks their money-making…

That line of thinking is why most female characters looked like supermodels until very recently, and it’s pretty gross when you stop and think about it. It’s changing, and that’s a good thing, because comics are not just for teenage boys to fap to. Better get used to that.

How did you write this post and entirely leave out Sif?

What happened is that the artists realized it didn’t make a ton of sense to draw a fomer fighter pilot turned flying brick as a supermodel, and stopped going so heavy on the cheesecake in her design. There were pretty much only a handful of female body types in comics back when she was introduced, the most common one…

Yeah, I’d give even odds that the next time we see him he’ll have already mined the dragonglass and is heading north. If not the next time, I bet he’ll be heading back the time after that; there’s just not that much interesting about him mining a bunch of obsidian, unless he finds something else.

and if enough people complain about the validity of waiving it for “national security”

Even the DoD has to deal with the Endangered Species Act, and their needs are infinitely more real than this thing, even when they’ve been sketchy. I’d be very interested to know when the various Public Comment Periods get scheduled, because most of the agencies involved are required by law to address complaints.

Actually, it’s kinda useful in one regard: this project will require a Public Comment Period, and something of this scale *demands* a very comprehensive Environmental Impact Statement. There are dozens of bureaucratic hurdles to clear, during which members of the public can raise concerns that have to be addressed. …

Construction runoff would be a huge problem for a project of this scale.

I really don’t understand the logic of “don’t block the line of sight”. It’s a 2" metal pipe. It’s not blocking the view of anything, move your damn head an inch. The inconvenience is minuscule compared to the benefit of actually protecting against accidental falls.

Maybe someday Against the World Crime League can explain what that watermelon was doing there...

I’d at least stick it out for the Lewis Tan scene, he’s great, and even manages to elevate Finn Jones’s lackluster martial arts.

One can only hope. She’s badly in need of a better strategist.

After how long he was left in the snow north of the wall without covering exposed skin, I’m beginning to think the first power he gained was immunity to cold.

Hurm.

The Middle East and India/Pakistan are basically a case study in How The British Empire Was Awful. There’s plenty of other examples for the rest of Europe too, and America, but the British were astoundingly good at ruining the lives of peoples they colonized.

It’s okay, I didn’t need this water anyway.

Generally speaking, the number of people in the US (where High Castle is being made) that think “Gosh, that Hitler fellow had the right idea”, or further, will actually say so out loud, is very small. Not that they don’t exist, but generally American society has come down pretty firmly on the side of “The Nazis were…

Yeah, trades are just way more practical. I really hope the industry can figure out a way to actually count trade sales more highly.