Yeah I guess if I didn’t want spoilers I shouldn’t have...made the trailer?

Spoiler in the lede! Thanks!

You’re right. I have known people like that and eventually you just stop believing anything they say. I also know that as a former server, people like that do indeed make you jaded towards anyone with an allergy, whether real or contrived.

Not to disagree, but even this mentality implies that “tummy aches” are okay and that certain allergies, because they’re less severe, are acceptable to ignore. When someone gives my toddler dairy he doesn’t die, but his “tummy ache” means explosive diarrhea, vomiting, painful cramps, headaches, and an unwillingness to…

Chekov was simply using a metaphor for fulfilling the promise of the tension you create in the first act. He’s saying IF you create tension and suspense, make the suspense pay off. That’s just good storytelling.

But none of that applies to Chekov’s Gun, because Chekov’ s gun isn’t a rule or a technique or a plot element or a magic bullet. It’s a fundamental part of good storytelling just like using concrete detail, exposition through dialogue, “show don’t tell,” etc. Unless you are deliberately subverting convention ( like…

Well, no. It’s just not a trope. Another commenter said it’s something bad writers latch on to and results in “foolishness,” but that’s a fundamental misunderstanding of what Chekov’s Gun is. It’s advice about good storytelling. It’s not a plot device or a type of character or a specific situation. He just means you…

Yes. Justice for Barb was a really tedious storyline. It was pandering to the fans who latch onto minor things in shows and obsess over them. See: “shipping”, dipping sauce, Brett McKenzie in LotR...etc.

Chekov’s gun isn’t a trope. Just a playwright’s philosophy.

No, it’s Brett.

Not just from New Zealand, Clement is actually half Maori and raised in that culture.

I’ve been cutting onions. Cause I’m making a lasagna...

I’ve heard that one as well. I spent way too much time delving into it one day and came up with a couple different origins. The Wikipedia article would have more weight if it had more than a single blog post for a source.

The spelling is cause kids made it. It’s a deliberate misspelling, often stylized with the ‘s’ written backwards like a child would do it.

You might like T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland (if you don’t love it already) which is in part a response to the post-war grief and malaise of his country. The dead are dead of course, but the living must contend with a death of their own sorts. Soldiers, widows, parents, everyone has been touched by the war and in the…

Thus we have the phrase “dead ringer” or in modern times just “ringer.”

It will be unless he gets that capo set right.

I thought perhaps they were all frozen in fear. I mean a dead person just jumped out of a box. I didn’t think about it until you mentioned it, but yeah the Lannister guards should have checked the box first. Maybe if a Lannister insisted on opening it and then got eaten...might have worked to explain the inaction of…

Not dumb, friend. I felt the same way about The Dark Tower. And I was right. I didnt watch Zoolander 2 because I hear it was trans-phobic and I didn’t want to spoil my fond memories of the first.

My mom, who was my gateway to all things sci-fi, is dying to see it and was thrilled to hear it was almost 3 hours long.