This also bugs me in movies whenever someone is kicked off the boat, but they’re given a small rowboat and some provisions. Like, that wasn’t an extra boat. It serves a purpose on the ship, and everything that takes up space on a boat is precious. A “spare” rowboat could be the difference between life and a horrible death. It could be months before they find a port where they can buy a replacement rowboat.

I remember the one where somebody killed themselves but tied the gun to a rope so it would slide down behind a wall and disappear

Bear anatomy does not permit a bear to speak with a Peruvian accent.

Autumn approaches.

Farklo kills Dhalareon.

That’s why you have eyebrows.

It is a fascinating story, but no, the book was not the beginning of the mania because the book did not sell well at all in advance of the movie. Movies always boost book sales, but the novelization of A New Hope had almost no sales until two months after the movie came out.

George Lucas wrote the screenplay. He shared the screenplay with a ghost writer, Alan Dean Foster, who wrote a novelization of the screenplay. In parallel to the book being written, Lucas made the film. The book was published before the movie was released.

It’s really an interesting part of the Star Wars history, because Lucas made changes and rewrites during the filmmaking process, and Foster took some minor liberties while adapting the original screenplay. Foster also published his own sequel to A New Hope which had nothing to do with The Empire Strikes Back.

I don’t know what this title is supposed to be about, but it seems like they are trying to say that the movies are all based on a book, which isn’t true. Lucas did not consult with Foster about changes to the movie, and filming was mostly complete by the time the book was published.

I didn’t doubt that for a second. I just think it’s a stupid question. Unless, are you suggesting that the question was intentionally stupid?

What was the biggest challenge in getting it made?

“Well, Trevor died,” Brown says.

What the fuck even is that question?

I have blue eyes, and my wife has brown eyes. Our daughter has blue eyes. We also have a son with brown eyes.

Recessive genes work that way.

Bb x bb

____B___b
b___Bb__bb
b___Bb__bb

Yes, but imagine how much better CG and practical effects will be in 20 years! Maybe they build a giant animatronic, fully articulated Ungoliant for the movie!

I think it’s a good sign they are bringing back the actors. It tells me they respect the source material enough to at least tie the new show together with the old ones. They could have recast Bullseye or Karen Page, or written Foggy off the show entirely. The Multiverse gives them every option to keep or leave everything that happened on Netflix, and so far I like the stuff they kept. Echo made great use of the Kingpin, and D’Onofrio fell right back into the character. It was every bit as brutal and menacing as he was on Netflix. And Charlie was good in She-Hulk, even if he was just there to be a side-piece in every meaning of the term.

So I’m hopeful. The new shows have been mostly good on balance. Secret Wars was bad, and Falcon and the Winter Soldier was fine except for Mackie. But everything else, WandaVision, Loki, What If, Ms. Marvel, Moon Knight, Hawkeye, She-Hulk, Echo, and X-Men '97 were all good enough. None of them were perfect, but they were taking risks and respected the source material. That’s like a B+ average for their offerings so far, so I am excited to see what they do with the man without fear.

I’ll also take some more specials, like Werewolf by Night and GotG Christmas Special. Maybe we get a Daughters of the Dragon special, or an Alias P.I./The Pulse miniseries where we catch up with everyone that made it back to the MCU.

I’m inclined to agree with you, except if it’s good, I’m happy to enjoy a well-produced bit of fanfiction. If it’s bad, I won’t bother and I will forget it exists entirely. It’s not even like an adaptation of something I love, because they’re filling in gaps between the written stories.

Of course, there’s a worst case scenario, where they make a film people love, but fuck up the details of the greater story, and I’m the only person who seems to care that they have shat on the legacy. Like they somehow reveal that Gollum was the physical manifestation of Morgoth, and was subconsciously working against Sauron to prevent being overthrown by a lesser evil. That would upset me, but worse still would be if it’s a huge success and I have to hear people talking about it all the time, and see people wearing t-shirts with Gollum in black Valar robes, sitting on a throne made out of Sauron’s iconic helmet, wearing all the Rings of Power.

Like if that became a cultural touch point, I’d hate it. But that’s really the worst case scenario.

I think the studios and Peter Jackson are engaged in a protracted legal battle over the rights to the IP, and it’s complicated. But I bet that they have to keep making films to retain the rights, and Gollum is a LotR character that is not in the Similarion or other unpublished writings, and the character was a cultural phenomenon.

There’s no reason to think Peter Jackson and Andy Serkis will make something as bad as the Gollum videogame.

Everything’s gonna be ok.

Trust me, I know what I’m doing.

You’ll understand when you’re older.

Hang on, almost figured it…

Caspar Babypants.

What did you think the babies were running from, comrade?

What’s the most verbose attempt to eschew obfuscation on record?

Some day you may not mind so much.