Downtown Khazan: Ice Cold Utopia

[master of read]

qutting D. job. best of all the Ds.

[master of read]

I've only experienced the show through recaps from a podcast I listen to but it is certainly something.

They have a show that purports to not be supernatural/set in a real place but also does things like randomly throw in literally a D&D style tabletop game that can alter reality and allows the cast to solve a problem in a ridiculous fashion, which they then proceed to never use or revisit again.



Gotta be honest, after RoP I'd have more respect for the show's creators if they leaned into the soap opera. I don't mind a tv show that at least understands it's trashy and just has fun with it. The show after Sauron reveal is at the point I'd actually prefer them to just completely YA alternate universe it

considering the talent of the show runners, they might actually do that. let's go all the way and have galadriel and sauron have sex on mt. doom.

[Cthulhu_of_R'lyeh]

Gotta be honest, after RoP I'd have more respect for the show's creators if they leaned into the soap opera. I don't mind a tv show that at least understands it's trashy and just has fun with it. The show after Sauron reveal is at the point I'd actually prefer them to just completely YA alternate universe it

I'd have more respect for them if they just stopped making it.

[Iron_Twister]

i watched some of it through disparu.

words can't articulate how utter garbage it is.

....Yeah, I need Ghost Jonathan Kent to make me know that despite all the crap that goes on, there's still hope put there despite the garbage that's being on.

[Sharpandpointies]

at least jackson wanted to keep the story true or as true as he could get it to the books. ROP was................well, we all know.

In the case of the Hobbit, what you say in your post makes sense. For the LotR movies...Jackson did like to talk about how he wanted to keep it as close as possible to the books, but really, he didn't actually do that. And unnecessarily so; there were some changes I totally understood, even some glaring changes that made perfect sense, etc, and ones for which I could raise a glass to him and say 'yeah, good choice man, and you still kept the feel and the themes.' But the majority...did not do that at all, and were rather unnecessary.

I'll warrant, though, he did keep CLOSER to the spirit and actual wording of the book than RoP ever did. Like, by a lot.

...granted, that's a low bar.

I'd have more respect for them if they just stopped making it.

This. This, this, this. ^_^

Like, give the money to charity or something worthwhile.

[Postmania]

I'd have more respect for them if they just stopped making it.

Ha, not possible in the world where sequels are Lord unfortunately

[master of read]

In the case of the Hobbit, what you say in your post makes sense. For the LotR movies...Jackson did like to talk about how he wanted to keep it as close as possible to the books, but really, he didn't actually do that. And unnecessarily so; there were some changes I totally understood, even some glaring changes that made perfect sense, etc, and ones for which I could raise a glass to him and say 'yeah, good choice man, and you still kept the feel and the themes.' But the majority...did not do that at all, and were rather unnecessary.

I'll warrant, though, he did keep CLOSER to the spirit and actual wording of the book than RoP ever did. Like, by a lot.

...granted, that's a low bar.



This. This, this, this. ^_^

Like, give the money to charity or something worthwhile.

his galadriel was a kind, elegant, wise woman who's power was more implied than showed as opposed to ROP galadriel who was a murderous, racist psychopath who'd rather shank a guy than actually talk with them. so yeah, he at least showed the desire to keep the spirit of the work, success not withstanding. (i'm sorry faramir).

as for the other thing, as long as IRL lex luthor keeps throwing money at it and folks keep staning it, its gonna be around.

[Postmania]

I think in terms of money the billion dollar pricepoint named for RoP is actually for 5 seasons...so they are going to keep going for a while probably.

[master of read]

oh good lord! phil just took shots at mutah.

ooooooh. ooooo i'm gonna enjoy watching how bad this is gonna go for phil.

[Len Ikari145]

Just finished watching the first episode of Undead Unluck, and David Production and TMS did an amazing job with the adaptation.

[bruceleegreyhulk]

[master of read]

just don't go down that rod.

[Sharpandpointies]

his galadriel was a kind, elegant, wise woman who's power was more implied than showed as opposed to ROP galadriel who was a murderous, racist psychopath who'd rather shank a guy than actually talk with them. so yeah, he at least showed the desire to keep the spirit of the work, success not withstanding. (i'm sorry faramir).

No question he got some of the characters a whole lot better than RoP did, and even hit pretty close to the mark with a few of them. There were characters he did poorly to some level or another, totally the point on them, but then I consider RoP Galadriel (valid point with that one, though I'm not sure what the business about her going plutonium was, it seemed a tad heavy-handed ^_^), RoP Elrond (okay, it's kind of a tie-game between both Elronds, as neither of them really at all resembled their book-selves)...ugh.

I think in terms of money the billion dollar pricepoint named for RoP is actually for 5 seasons...so they are going to keep going for a while probably.

Yikes.

Give the money to charity, jeez.

[master of read]

No question he got some of the characters a whole lot better than RoP did, and even hit pretty close to the mark with a few of them. There were characters he did poorly to some level or another, totally the point on them, but then I consider RoP Galadriel (valid point with that one, though I'm not sure what the business about her going plutonium was, it seemed a tad heavy-handed ^_^), RoP Elrond (okay, it's kind of a tie-game between both Elronds, as neither of them really at all resembled their book-selves)...ugh.



Yikes.

Give the money to charity, jeez.

oh i'm aware how.........not good jackson elrond. (no hate on hugo. i love hugo). though there was one good thing that came from ROP elrond.

"gimme the meat and give it to me raw."

[Sharpandpointies]

*reads the newest issue of Doctor Strange*

Again? Really?

.....

Well, spoilers:

'Stephen Strange has gone all dark magic'

end of spoilers isn't as overused as 'Stephen Strange has lost his magic and needs to find it again.'