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Thing is, it isn’t The Wire, it shouldn’t really be in the business of leaving things so nebulous. Especially not a pretty critical plot point. My memory is she pleaded with Death, and she said “all I can give you is time” … “How much?” … and she was gone. Why not just stick a line here that explains it? As it stands, Agatha could just as easily have been trying to accrue power to best Death in a fight when she did come back. It was still a good series, not a huge deal, but I don’t really get why they didn’t explain this.

I didn’t pick up on this to be fair. We’ve seen so many other witches live long, and Agatha kill so many other people before and after she had a son, that I didn’t realise there was a link. In fact the wiki doesn’t really pick up on it either;

Why does Disney+ require so long for their credits anyway? My Apple TV doesn’t ever count anything on there as ‘watched’ cos I constantly back out of 10 minutes early so it assumes I’m still watching.

I quite like the reveals of how the witches road came about, but it definitely didn’t need two 45 minute episodes to get there. A lot of weird filler in there.

Wait did they seriously just casually mention that they didn’t even know who he was? I mean people slate Lost for not having a plan but damn… ‘Is Gandalf In Your LotR Show - Dunno’, that’s … quite something.

I still thought it was great, probably the weakest of the season but it’s set a high bar so far. I went into this show assuming it would depict the rise of The Penguin and he’d end up in a position to threaten Batman in a future movie, so I’ve always kinda had my bearings with where it was going. Stupidly small thing that you wouldn’t believe how long my other half and I debated it; do you think the G of the logo is intentionally slanted to look like the comic Penguin’s nose? Like the inside of that letter is a sort-of face?

I’ll watch it if you attend my meeting on going in on a time-share in Aspen? You see, time-share has made it possible for even working-class people like you to say, "I've got a little place in Aspen." Try it. Try saying it. "I've got a little place in Aspen."

I guess this makes the Jackie Chan film retroactively a sequel, not a remake?

I know people seem to really hate this, but I still don’t think it would work to accurately represent the timescales. The show would lose all momentum if they constantly said ‘800 years later’. Nothing’s really changed from when they first announced it; the appendices weren’t designed to be adapted into a show, but that’s what was on offer to Amazon, so that’s what we got. Also don’t understand why the term ‘fanfic’ has been reserved for just this show, they bought the rights so it’s not fanfic. It’s just not very good.

Didn’t really know which thread to put this in, but felt it needed sharing. David Simon:

The other thing with 90s TV, at least in my experience in the UK, is that you sat down at the time you knew it was on and watched. If you hadn’t seen it, then maybe it was new, or maybe you just hadn’t seen it? BBC 2 never did distinguish between new and repeats, it was 6pm so TNG was on. For the vast majority of shows I was in to, I didn’t have the faintest idea which ‘season’ any episode belonged to.

Saw Joker tonight. Purely because, on our road trip in Canada, we assigned a full day to Kamloops and are now struggling to fill that day. I was kinda rooting for it till like, halfway? I think there could be a good movie here, Phoenix is still great, Gaga is really good … but it just doesn’t justify its runtime, it just keeps going without much happening. They don’t really commit to it being a musical (I’m not sure if ‘musical’ has an official definition, but the plot doesn’t ever advance through any songs, and they’re all assumed to be just Fleck / Quinn singing to themselves, or they transpire to have not really happened at all), and really the only plot left is the trial. Fleck doesn’t even really do anything as such, he just shows up and gets shunted around his own movie. The ending was what it was, although both of us were distracted throughout as to what would make a satisfying ending. Should he escape? Be found guilty? Found insane? They all ring a little hollow. So the movie never really justifies its own existence. Which I could forgive if it was a big brass fanfare of a musical, but instead most of its ‘numbers’ are half mumbled, rarely committed to. 5/10, not the worst but wouldn’t watch again.

I will say with Rogue One, though I do really like it, I’m not sure how well it works in isolation. My wife had never seen any SW so I experimented with starting our run through with it, and she wasn’t too interested until the last third. It’s a slow burn at first, but I love the tone of it, it manages to feel faithful to the OT without seeming dated, something the PT completely beefed.

Empire A New Hope Rogue One Return of the Jedi The Force Awakens Solo The Last Jedi Rise of Skywalker The Phantom Menace Revenge of the Sith Attack of the Clones There, now we don’t need to discuss it, for I have spoken.

I did Geography GCSE in 99, and the main coursework was Hengistbury Head (and those words still cut through me like a knife), which did seem to be 80% pretty pictures of layers of rock and what not, the neat colour inners definitely correlated with higher scores. It should really have been called geology, more accurately.

Yea same. Geography was seen as the one where you just colour something in neatly and get an A, History where you actually had to learn stuff.

Eh? Sadly I don’t have the time to go point by point on why neither yours nor @Toth’s description of the plot makes any sense, and are just fan-wanked attempts to force the prequels to make sense, so I shall simply leave a large fucking LOL to this.

I’d never thought about that, funny to think of the voice actors saying “so, should I do this the same or … you know, good?” This is what gets me, I just cannot see how people can say this with a straight face. Phantom Menace was about nothing, it had some people wandering around talking about trade embargos, and Palpatine’s grand plan to maybe kill Amidala unless it was one of those bits where actually she was integral to the plan. Attack of the Clones was Obi Wan chasing down a mystery that didn’t make sense, nothing about Dooku’s and Palpatine’s plan makes any sense. RotS was a side quest, then all the scenes that we actually thought would be in the prequels, except executed FAR FAR worse than we all imagined. I think what people are talking about when they say this is Palp’s plan to provoke a war, forgetting that this isn’t actually THE plot for any one of the movies. Slivers of it make up part of those plots, and they’re all terrible. Maybe there’s some coherent version of it in Lucas’s head, but as I said, he forgot how to make films and as a result, forgot to include any relevant exposition to explain it to the audience.

“Sure, the prequels may be bad at [lists basically every metric a film can be judged by], but at least…” Totally with @mormont, VII and VIII are far better than any of the prequels, and probably IX as well. Show anyone with eyeballs any five minute segment of any prequel and it will be immediately apparent that the dialogue is bad, the acting is bad, the effects are dated. The sequels don’t gel together, but they’re made by people who can at least make films semi-competently. Still blows my mind that Lucas just flat out forgot how to make films.

Oh man I love it when LotR films get turned into more films, that’s always worked well before. So probably a full during-quel to go with the others, 9 film saga.

I know some people are sad he semi-stepped down from doing SUSD, but People Make Games has been a fantastic channel, I’m really glad he’s doing that now.

What percentage of sci-fi shows / movies do you suppose adhere to the ‘no sound in space’ rule anyway? Less than 5%? I don’t know why Star Wars gets singled out for it.

I know it looks intimidating, but in a weird way the fact that so many of those arrows stretch all the way from left to right is a good thing; it means order doesn’t really matter. My personal suggestion would be to finish Oathbringer, then pause for Secret History (novella set during Era 1), then Rhythm of War. By then it’s likely Stormlight 5 is out and it’s unlikely you’ll need to read anything else before that, then with that first SA arc done you’re all clear for Era 2 of Mistborn.

Yea, this isn’t remotely true in the UK. Pretty much all the singles off the first two albums are household names here.

Liam’s voice was never great, he has one of those raspy tones that he needs to put effort in to overcome and actually produce a pure note, I’ve never seen any live footage of him bothering to do that as much as he does on record. I’m not a fan of Oasis, but nor am I mystified by their success. Their singles sound like hits to me, I get it. Although glancing back across their catalogue, I think their reputation pretty much lives and dies on their first two albums. They could probably play both those in full and concert goers would consider it well worth the price of entry.