It’s a wonderful show and I highly recommend it.

Too bad they’re trying to invent an unnecessary second season instead of filming the second book, Tai-Pan. It’s about Western trading companies in Hong Kong at the beginning of China’s so-called century of humiliation that followed the first opium war.

I can’t get the vibe of this movie. Is it “W” or is it “Bohemian Rhapsody”? Or, god forbid, “Reagan”?

What a voice, what a life. Sad to see him go.

It’s based entirely on the appendices from The Lord of the Rings, so for legal reasons anything that was in The Silmarillion but not the appendices had to be altered.

I haven’t watched the second season, but I remember more than one sigh during the first one. I really liked the costumes and decoration, but I just kept thinking, “Why did they need to tell this story?” I didn’t hate it, but I thought the entire exercise was pointless and unnecessary: apathy is worse than hate.

The question is rhetorical, of course. They couldn’t get ahold of the rights to the Silmarillion, and the machine hungers.

I wonder if they include the conversation between Reagan and Nixon where Reagan called black people “monkeys.”

Or the Lee Atwater quote where he talks about his strategic use of dog whistles and starts it off by saying the N-word three times.

Man, Reagan sucked.

Martin is a character-first writer, which is nice, but I also like plots that gallop forward with mystery-style page turners at the end of every chapter. Roger Zelazny is that style of writer, and one of my favorites. Take a look at The Chronicles of Amber and Lord of Light.

The Dying Earth series is fun.

A friend recently recommended The Clan of the Cave Bear and The Sharing Knife to me, but I have yet to read those.

Just move on. He owes you nothing. There are plenty of great fantasy series out there that are well-written and complete if you need something to read.

The Force Awakens of the Alien series. Take that as you will

It’s literally based on his Dunk and Egg novella series, collected in a book.

https://gameofthrones.fandom.com/wiki/Tales_of_Dunk_and_Egg

Executives are the worst

As the WSJ reports: “Benioff and Weiss, who have been friends since grad school, weren’t crazy about HBO’s then-owners, AT&T, whose executives once asked whether ‘Game of Thrones’ could be shot vertically so it would fit on your phone. The company also openly discussed the idea of snackable mini-episodes of the series.”

The problem is he likes the status of power and influence more, he just wants to also be rich. But honestly, this is actually a good deal for him if he were thinking about retiring.

And the guy is 75. His maternal grandfather lived to be 76. John probably wouldn’t be on the hook for very long.

Conveniently split so that the back half airs after they started showing ads

I still get two-day shipping, along with one-day and often same-day, so definitely worth it to me.

I forgot about The Boys. Maybe I’ll wait for the next season to come out and then pay $3 for exactly one month in order to binge the whole season.

The value proposition of Prime Video for me as an existing customer is so low at this point that it’s not even worth paying for it at all, let alone the extra $36/year to watch their shows ad-free. I’ve watched everything I’m interested in and the shows I liked have all ended, with one heavily qualified exception (Rings of Power). I’d cancel it entirely like I did with Netflix and “Max” if the shipping benefit didn’t make Prime itself so worthwhile to me. Maybe I’ll just delete the app from my media player and move on with my life.

He should really take a page from Michael Caine when he talked about Jaws 4.

I have never seen it but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.

He was paid well and got a year to transform his body. That’s a fair trade for a mediocre movie. Every actor has films like that in their career, and Eternals is just boring, not the worst movie ever.

This kind of hyperbolic negativity for movies, shows, and games is rampant on YouTube, and it’s so exhausting until you say “don’t ever recommend this to me again” for the laundry list of popular channels that do it.

I think the best analysis of this movie I’ve seen was the Plinkett review. I never really processed prior to that that the movie has no protagonist.

Every time I see “backlash” in a news headline it’s always just Twitter culture warriors who are always angry about something

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