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The Lord of the Rings
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Gavinmad
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Gotta shove in lots of pointless filler when you're stretching a relatively short book into three movies. There was no point in turning the Master into an inept joke of a villain either except to stretch out the runtime farther.
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PS-- I had a massive network outage thanks to Xfinity. So, I watched good old fashioned over-the-air TV. You know what you can watch over the airways without cable or subscriptions? Buffy the Vampire Slayer. You know what? I watched the episode that introduced Angel to the franchise. Gee-zus Key-rist was Joss Whedon smart. Dialogue, conflict, character development, charisma, pacing, and risk. I can see in that one episode a great singular story with a dozen seedling tenets that would take months and years to develop because he is (was) a brilliant story teller and writer.
That's just not present (yet). And having re-watched the last episode I have a feeling I am going to have to eat a lot of crow when the show continues on it's current path of aimlessness.
I suppose it is possible to take a lithographic plate of MC Escher's and hand it over to an 8-year old with a screwdriver. And, like the thought experiment with monkeys and typewriters, it may be possible for a greater work of art to come from nothingness like in the tiniest spaces of the quantum world.
But yeah-- the show is suffering from lack of writing. It oozes visual creativity frequently (even if, even in many of these instances, it lacks originality). But how hard is it to hire a talented WRITER?!? Joss, my hat's off to you for doing more hard work creating Buffy than a billion dollar crew has yet to achieve.
That's just not present (yet). And having re-watched the last episode I have a feeling I am going to have to eat a lot of crow when the show continues on it's current path of aimlessness.
I suppose it is possible to take a lithographic plate of MC Escher's and hand it over to an 8-year old with a screwdriver. And, like the thought experiment with monkeys and typewriters, it may be possible for a greater work of art to come from nothingness like in the tiniest spaces of the quantum world.
But yeah-- the show is suffering from lack of writing. It oozes visual creativity frequently (even if, even in many of these instances, it lacks originality). But how hard is it to hire a talented WRITER?!? Joss, my hat's off to you for doing more hard work creating Buffy than a billion dollar crew has yet to achieve.
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Elves are immortal (unless killed).
Dwarves are just long-lived, probably 200-300 years for the older ones.
Dwarves are just long-lived, probably 200-300 years for the older ones.
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Daezuel
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Ridas
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Soapy bullshit, teenage Galadriel and mysteries. I hope they disrespect the lore enough to just let the orcs win. This and the hobbit I just root for them, because they are the least annoying and have a clear cut goal, they work towards.
In LotR there were no mysteries and soapy crap. Conflict arised from understandable motivations. Sauruman out of fear, Boromir to protect Gondor, Frodo and Gollum under the influence of the ring. Not because someone failed his math test or didn't visit his friend for a few years. This story is as epic as a school play at times.
In LotR there were no mysteries and soapy crap. Conflict arised from understandable motivations. Sauruman out of fear, Boromir to protect Gondor, Frodo and Gollum under the influence of the ring. Not because someone failed his math test or didn't visit his friend for a few years. This story is as epic as a school play at times.
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Sevens
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Gavinmad
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Funny how his career was fine until a American Inventor decided he didn't like him.
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Chukzombi
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you know thats what these morons are thinking. "the show has terrible ratings , not because it sucks, but because of bad reviews. delete the bad reviews!"
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BrutulTM
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That's the British way of saying it. Even some Canadians say it that way. It is wrong though.
Khalan
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I know it is, this isn’t the rickshaw. It’s still annoying as fuck but thanks for the explainer
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Chukzombi
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its ok, you're just an uneducated "yank". probably dont use "u" when spelling color either!I know it is, this isn’t the rickshaw. It’s still annoying as fuck but thanks for the explainer