Do it. It’s good.

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“epical”?

Nope. Another click bait rage garbage article, from no less than Forbes, the shittiest cesspool of shitty shit on the internet.

The show is fine. Looks amazing, sounds incredible, full of wonderful performances and nuanced characters with interesting takes on adapting an incredibly complex source material. I’ll take it over 90% of “prestige” dramas about rich families and murder procedurals any day.

Even if it’s not your particular bag, it doesn’t deserve anywhere near the level of vitriol leveled at it by people desperate to drive clicks to their mediocre blog or reaction channel.

TheOneRing.net had an incisive take on this recently that I think everyone ought to read. https://www.theonering.net/torwp/2024/09/06/119303-dont-kill-content-no-one-needs-your-hot-take/

No doubt this will play well for the idiots who buy extra tickets for shit like Sound of Fury and The Chosen.

Explain to me how you solve the mass transportation issue in non metro areas. I live in Montana, where cities are an hour or three apart by vehicle, but even in said cities, outside of the main commercial areas, people are spread out. Like, really spread out. There is a single bus stop eight blocks from my house, with exactly four scheduled pickup/dropoff times. My kids go to school with other kids who live twenty miles away. Commercial rail doesn’t exist, except for a single cross-country Amtrak line with a station four hours away from here.

Images like this are illustrative, but they completely ignore the physical reality of how vast swathes of the US are laid out. You can’t just flip a switch and have bus stops on every corner and rail lines connecting your major cities and residential areas. That’s a massive undertaking that would cost way more in up front infrastructure than maintaining and augmenting existing highway program already does.

How do you change the culture away from cars where there is literally no realistic way to do it for 99% of people in areas like this? And how do you push for infrastructure change when there is no anti-car culture? It’s a chicken and egg problem where you have no chickens and you have no eggs.

I’m just glad that people with bizarre sexual hangups are channeling those into fulfilling creative pursuits. Still not a fan of how anime girls all have the faces of ten year olds though.

I look forward to seeing the directors Vania Heymann and Gal Muggia at the Oscars in ten years or so. Serious Michel Gondry and Daniels vibes from this one.

You grab what you think you’ll need before you sit down.

They should have re-released Furiosa.

This is true about every armed conflict on the planet.

A better analogy might be shutting off their water because they were using it to make naughty ice sculptures, which are forbidden by the HOA.

And why should eye care if eye’m dead?

“Stupid sexy planters” was right there!

I just assumed that the instance it was hosted on is down for whatever reason. I have no idea if that’s how it works.

I feel a bit of pity for all of you who can’t find it in yourselves to enjoy this show even a little bit. The visual quality is exquisite, the performances are marvelous, and the score is rousing and exciting. The dwarves are entertaining as hell, the harfoots and Totally-Not-Gandalf are charming, the orcs are suitably disgusting and terrifying even as this season attempts to make some of them just sympathetic enough to understand Adar’s angle, and even the growing strife amongst the elves is dripping with pulpy drama worthy of any good tragedy.

It’ll never be Tolkien, and I empathize with those who wanted nothing else from it but a straight-faced dramatization of the tale of years. But taken as a high fantasy with rich characters and lavish production values, I can’t find much to complain about. But I’m a simple man.

Me literally every single time I butter a piece of bread.

Just use a brick.