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Well it's not every day that your pregnant wife suddenly realizes she fucked her brother and kills herself along with your son / nephew.

I never got around to reading Children of Hurin, I just remember the Turin / Hurin stuff from The Silmarillion and UT. What exactly does Amazon even have the rights to? All of it now that Christopher is dead? I mentioned earlier that out of everything in the books, Turin's chapter and Beren /...

No. What are they changing about them? I know virtually nothing about this show beyond some pictures and the trailers. Based strictly on those, Galadriel and Elrond largely look fine to me and I have no idea what Celeborn looks like in this so I don't know if I've even seen him yet, never mind...

Not really, because so far I have absolutely no idea what this show is actually changing beyond one obscure character from the lore who is apparently now brown instead of white. It's clear that they are adding a fuck ton of shit, and some (most?) of it will surely be stupid, but even if the show...

Not even remotely accurate. I've said multiple times that I consider Jackson's LoTR reasonably faithful to the source material, despite a multitude of changes. It really seems like most of you have never actually read The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, etc. That's all well and good, but if you...

That's fine, and you should then be in agreement that a faithful adaptation of The Silmarillion is virtually unfilmable.

I imagine this is a very common occurrence for you. I'm sorry. Either you leave it out and somehow still have a compelling narrative-format show (practically impossible), or, at best, you make it up and actually do a good job of it and almost none of it would be Tolkien. You're squarely in fan...

The Silmarillion in particular is essentially an encyclopedia of mythology ordered chronologically rather than alphabetically. There are a few short stories thrown in that in themselves might potentially make for decent standalone TV shows in very skilled hands, but they're the exception. If...

I don't disagree with any of that. If they're truly interested in a "clean slate" then they can go and invent their own mythology and convince another billionaire to bankroll a show about it. It's just that realistic expectations around any dramatic / narrative format show based on these...

Only if you can't read. I'm saying (again) that a faithful adaptation of this particular source material into a dramatic TV format is not possible. That doesn't mean that I expect Sauron's jock strap to be period-accurate at all times or else all bets are off. There are degrees, and in this...

No, you illiterate dipshit. I'll break it down further, since reading is hard. Jackson's LoTR films, particularly Fellowship, were largely faithful to the overall structure, narrative, and spirit of the books. Plenty of material was left out by necessity, the action scenes were protracted, and...

Even if diversity casting was 100% not a thing and every character in this was true to their book descriptions, no dramatic TV show or movie format is going to be faithful to The Silmarillion or The Unfinished Tales. It's impossible. The books are largely made up of huge sections of exposition...

That would mean you've shared the only thing of value in the last several pages.

Umm, I don't know who you have me all twisted up with, but I am not advocating for any of this. I'm simply saying that, based on what I've seen of it so far, I largely don't care. I've said several times that I expect the show to suck for reasons outside of diversity casting. Both of these...

Not in the post that I responded to, which was itself in response to a general statement about "a diverse cast", which would also include the black human who has generated a lot of consternation here. You added your qualifiers later. And again, elves and "men" were capable of breeding with each...

Learn to read. I claimed no such thing. I responded to an explicit statement that connected "basic biology" to a world in which the term means something vastly different than it does in the real one. But even if you limit whatever "basic biology" means in a wholly fantastical world to simple...

I have practically zero interest in Black Panther one way or the other, but there could be a small difference in what I understand is supposed to be a secret, largely racially-singular society by design to the biological makeup of an entire world. But alright, I'll pour a second 40 for the...

There are multiple lines of Dwarves, Elves, Men, and Halflings in Tolkien's writings. Many of them are not explicitly described at all. Clearly there are what we would consider to be black, Middle Eastern, and far-Eastern races that meander in and out of the tales, and interbreeding between...

You mean the character that I explicitly mentioned in the quote you responded to, who no one outside of hardcore Tolkien nerditry remembers from her handful of fleeting mentions in The Silmarillion, but whose physical appearance is suddenly serious business? When they roll out Young Gondorians...

"Basic biology" in a fantasy world that contains walking, talking trees. Okay. All of the key characters from the books that have been shown so far are white. Alright, I guess so far there's that obscure Numenorean queen who Tolkien mentions like three times in all of the source material who's...

What expectations? It'll probably be hot garbage but there's enough that looks "right" that they clearly didn't squeeze every drop of potential from it. Until there's something to go on that wasn't shat out exclusively by the marketing department, it's still all a big shrug from me.

The new teaser looks much more promising than the first one. If it had just fallen out of the sky out of nowhere, I'd be pretty hyped. Hopefully, the prior marketing was simply front-loaded so they can say they gathered up whatever diversity points they think are required. I don't give a flying...

That's pretty much standard Star Wars levels of stupid. Vader can also rip heavy bulkheads and shit from the walls of Bespin in ESB, but can't overpower gravity for a few moments to stop Luke from falling into a pit. It's all silly and inconsistent, but that's par for the course. I thought the...

Those two things are not remotely the same. The nanotech suit was a clear and story-driven evolution for the character. No one who isn't a Star Wars ubernerd has any clue that the little blinky lights and buttons and jock straps on Vader's outfit received light alterations across the movies. He...

JFC This is like being handed an actual shit sandwich and then proceeding to type up an exasperated screed about the pattern of the sesame seeds on the bun being askew. If you really insist on period accuracy, Vader's costume in ANH looked like shit. It was a budget-limited conglomeration of...

I watched a few seasons when it first aired, then suddenly stopped for some reason. I think part of it was that I didn't catch every episode and there was a lot of connectivity between them and I just didn't have the attention span to keep up. I want to try again but I can't get past the janky...

I haven't consistently watched a Star Trek show since TNG, and haven't seen even a minute of Discovery, but I'm really enjoying this one. I definitely wasn't sold on the crew at first, but they're really starting to hit their stride and I'm enjoying all of them. I'll never be fully on board with...

So I noticed right away that Obi-Wan slashing into something and using the smoke to temporarily blind Vader was a callback to Luke's fight with Vader in ESB, I just couldn't remember the exact context. It turns out that Vader sliced into a hose and Luke forced the steam into Vader's face, to...

Yes, surely the cure for companies like Disney who drown themselves silly in the inclusive/wokeness/SJW Kool Aid is to continually splatter the internet with repulsive racist garbage. Yup, that's the key. I mean at least have the dignity to make it entertaining.

Heh, that sounds like my first experience with her. It was late, I was tired, and well beyond when I wanted to go to bed and, whelp, there's god damn Malenia. I have to give her one try and then I'm wrapping up the night. The first attempt was a joke. She opened with her crazy forward charge...

That was just Vader being Vader and throwing his dick around in front of his subordinates. That fit the character fine. His sudden onset of severe dementia on the other hand...

Yeah I'm generally pretty easy going when it comes to these shows, but this episode was really irritating, especially as James Earl Jones sails in to give you a full nerd boner and then a minute later the show clamps down on your dick with its teeth. It's clunky fan fiction that scrounged up a...

I really tried to like the episode and it wasn't without its good parts, but it really came off like they segment the writers into two groups: Group A, you come up with some nifty Star Warsy things in isolation. Group B, you connect up the nifty Star Warsy things with plot and dialogue and...

With no link to the outside "world", even if it was primarily one way? Again, that's just silly, especially after the ending of RoTS where it's made pretty implicit that the remaining good guy crew would stay in contact and coordinate an emergence when the time was right. I've never watched any...

I just watched a few minutes of RoTS, and it turns out my memory isn't total shit. When Obi Wan watches the security footage, Palps calls him Lord Vader, and Yoda refers to him as Darth Vader a few seconds later. So either Obi Wan is a complete moron (either for not making the connection or...

Yes, I get that. But Anakin had been Darth Vader well before the lava BBQ. So a big bad jedi master in a life support suit with the same name shows up working at the Emperor's behest for 10 years and Obi Wan can't make the connection? Or was the Vader name just kept between Palps and Anakin...

Didn't he know Anakin had turned to Vader well before the black suit? To be fair my memory of Episode 3 is shit so I'm open to being completely wrong. But yes, point taken. He's also shit at giving advice. Oh, you're being hunted by professional Jedi killers nearby? Best go back into town so...

It was a little clunky at parts but I really enjoyed the first two episodes. It was very pleasantly notbadobama just like the start of The Mandalorian. But how does Obi-Wan have no clue that Vader survived? Yeah, I know, hermit life and all, but he's clearly doing more than creepy peeping on...

After a couple months of slow late night filthy casual runs, I finally decided enough was enough and took down floppy Loch Ness Monster penis over the weekend. Kind of a shit fight as a pure melee, especially having to deal with half-naked blacksmith tranny after each failure (I may or may not...

Yeah. Certainly weapon types play a huge roll as well. I'm stubborn so just kept on keeping on with the BB. Tiche took me about 30 seconds total: 5 seconds for her to shred me to dust the first time I ported in, and 25 to rethink my strategy and beat her no problem the second time.