Not at all. Remember the saying: “The bigger the wedding, the greater the chance of divorce.” Both of the weddings where the marriage actually worked (L&M, T&T) were humble affairs. It was actually a fascinating and heartbreaking depiction of two broken people throwing themselves into a marriage just to prove to…

If anything GOT and HIMYM made the biggest mistake in overestimating their audience. They thought viewers would follow along with all the subtle themes and nuances packed throughout the show.

For example, in Vesuvius it is beyond obvious that Ted is crying because Tracy is terminally ill and he knows she will miss the…

So essentially you have a problem with the showrunners pulling the rug from under the audience. They didn’t ‘build Robin and Barney up’, the audience did. They literally had lines like Ted saying in the 45s episode ‘I’d go to see Robin and Barney fighting over the caterer or whatever it was they were fighting about…

Still, not even close to getting it.

The final moments of the Sopranos is describing the experience of getting whacked from the perspective of the person getting whacked. The process is way too quick and sudden for anyone else to even have a reaction before the main characters demise.

As for Mad Queen Dany, the point…

You certainly cared enough to respond to him, with a clever little quip that instantly negates itself.

Well, the exactly same thing happened in GOT and HIMYM. The mirror was shined on the audience and they didn’t like what they saw one bit:

‘’You shouldn’t root for Dany and Stannis ‘the Mannis’! They are terrible power-hungry people, even when Dany coats it in abolitionism and ‘breaking the wheel’ and Stannis in…

Ah, cultural appropriation... I remember hearing lots about this, progressive folk wouldn’t stop talking about it and bullying whoever transgressed the invisible boundaries between cultures, like hounding two girls who opened up a burrito place out of business or successfully closing a kimono exhibition, at least the…

That’s like asking why someone was more outraged at the allegations they had an affair than allegations they killed Julius Caesar with a photon torpedo.

No, no! Upper-class woke people know what’s best for you. If a character from an ethnic group is behaving in stereotypical ways, they should be removed due to cultural insensitivity, but if they are not behaving in stereotypical ways, then that is ‘whitewashing’ and the character also needs to be removed!

See! You’ll…

While I find omitting Speedy extremely controversial, Pepe perhaps not so much, there are a few other glaring omissions:

1) The Gremlin: One of the few characters to consistently foil Bugs.

2) Dracula: The hapless Transylvanian foe repeatedly trying to consume Bugs’ ‘circulatory system fluid’ while consistently being…

You’re literally languagesplaining Slavic to a native speaker of a Slavic language. If I say it’s not a big deal, it’s not a big f***ing deal. ‘Baba Jaga’ is not big in Serbia, but you could easily imagine a gangster nicknamed after its Serbian counterpart ‘Babaroga’ (Horn Hag).

Slavic languages have a long history of…

Baba Yaga sounds vaguely familiar to western ears, while Koschei is practically unheard of. ‘Baba’ can very much be used as a pejorative, implying terrible ugliness, something akin to ‘crone’. One could totally envision a gangster having a nickname ‘Baba Yaga’. To explain a bit more, every self-respecting gangster in…

For ‘some reason’ ‘’What made the red man red?’’, ‘’When I see an elephant fly’’, ‘’We are Siamese’’ and ‘’Everybody wants to be a cat’’ were excluded, but interestingly ‘’I wanna be like you’’ wasn’t. Hmmm....

I think many movies are now so focused on hitting all the conventional narrative beats that they don’t allow their movies to breathe. Imagine a movie like the middle part of Avatar 2, except in a hellish underworld landscape full of strange creatures with the eerie silence only occasionally punctured by sudden scares.…

Let me be old school...

1) Oh, what I would do for a Monkey Island movie adaption. If it was done right with the humor, puzzles and creative solutions to social situations it would be marvelous. Pirates of the Carribean meets Monty Python.

2) Another great choice would be the movie adaptation of the 7th Guest. A creepy…

It’s easy to forget in the post-Waterworld era just how big of a platinum A-lister Costner was in the late 80s and early 90s, churning out one classic after another. Even Prince of Thieves was a smash hit and perfectly in line with the kind of entertainment people wanted and expected at the time. 

Imagine if Will Smith walked up the stage, threw his drink into Rock’s face and said ‘Now you’re ready to play Aquaman.’

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more biased take on the Depp vs. Heard case. To simply gloss over Amber Heard’s admission of physically abusing Johnny Depp is absolutely preposterous. 

I’m reading... my book. Over and over again.

People should tell aspiring book writers that completing a book is only like a third of the job done. Then come the endless revisions and poring over every last sentence, word and comma. Then in the process of doing so, you get these freak-out episodes where all of the…

I honestly stopped at the end of S2 and never looked back... tonally all over the place.

If they wanted to go on some theme of ‘humans are the real monsters’ they certainly messed it up when all robots except the assistant, yes even Maeve, turned out to be completely unrepentant human-murdering psychos. If they wanted…