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TV 19 - Simpsons Did It

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French Rage said:
It's OK, he doesn't plan to watch the shows or know what goes on in the shows, he just wants to show he knows something he thinks no one else does, so then we can all bask in how edgy and cool he is.
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Or I was making a joke? Name checks out.

Dr. Mrs. had me watch the one where the whorey woman was a perfect liaison with LBJ. That was good.
 
Peripheral 1.1 was very good. The two leads (the sibs) are solid even if they're a bit YA. It has all the William Gibson cliches, but if you like that (I do) you'll be in nostalgia heaven.
 
Finished up the first season of the LotR show on Amazon. Was entertaining, will keep watching. Definitely got the JJ Abrams' patented "mystery box" vibes a few times that were completely unnecessary, but the main reveal worked.

Don't know if it helped that I never read the similarian or hobbit or any of the other prequels, so I'm going in blind besides knowledge of the 3 main books (and movies).
 
unofan said:
Finished up the first season of the LotR show on Amazon. Was entertaining, will keep watching. Definitely got the JJ Abrams' patented "mystery box" vibes a few times that were completely unnecessary, but the main reveal worked.

Don't know if it helped that I never read the similarian or hobbit or any of the other prequels, so I'm going in blind besides knowledge of the 3 main books (and movies).
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The Hobbit isn’t the prequel, it was the first book written. It was written by Tolkien for his children, and was published almost as an afterthought when a colleague happened to read it some years later. The LotR trilogy was the sequel, and then the other stuff were all money grabs.
 
St. Clown said:
The Hobbit isn’t the prequel, it was the first book written. It was written by Tolkien for his children, and was published almost as an afterthought when a colleague happened to read it some years later. The LotR trilogy was the sequel, and then the other stuff were all money grabs.
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The Silmarillion world was the first thing created. He used the mythology from that, elves, hobbits, dwarves, etc. to write The Hobbit for his kids. Then while deciding on a Hobbit sequel he decided to tie the whole world together.
 
ScoobyDoo said:
The Silmarillion world was the first thing created. He used the mythology from that, elves, hobbits, dwarves, etc. to write The Hobbit for his kids. Then while deciding on a Hobbit sequel he decided to tie the whole world together.
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This is also why the Silmarillion is written like an academic treatise. It is the most careful and the deepest of his works and probably the most difficult for casual readers. Personally it asks more than I'm willing to give to that fantasy universe.

LOTR is so popular because it is so accessible, but without being cheap. That is one reason it absolutely hit the main vein for bookish 14-year old boys from the 50s through the 70s. The popularization through the blockbusters has probably ruined that, since it is no longer transgressive. Nerds are by definition attracted to stuff which the main part of the normal distribution does not know about. That is the perennial Othering value of hip vs square. They moved on to anime but even that's dissolving into the Sargasso Sea of capitalism now. I dunno what's next. Even BDSM is for the dummies, now.

But they'll have found something new, and we will never even know of its existence.
 
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So now that everyone's nerded out sufficiently, was I the only one that actually watched the show or does anyone else have thoughts on it?
 
unofan said:
So now that everyone's nerded out sufficiently, was I the only one that actually watched the show or does anyone else have thoughts on it?
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My wife and I watched it and we both thought it was excellent. I think it’s interesting that, with the exception of Durin, all the best characters in the series are female.
 
"Who was Queen Elizabeth II’s last Prime Minister?" is going to become a top-tier bar trivia question, based on Jeopardy tonight
 
state of hockey said:
Quite the season finale for House of the Dragon. The season gets a solid B from me overall.
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Seems fair.

Spoilers:

The ambush was completely telegraphed.

The dragon dogfight was epic, and the fact that the dragons got away from their riders was a perfect metaphor for war. That was the best moment of the season.

The interactions of the Incest Couple were amazing throughout the entire episode. The looks without words during the war room scene. And then doing the reveal with backs to camera was brilliant direction. Venereal turning back to the camera at the end was adolescent and ruined the moment, but I get they had to hyperventilate for the MCU dummies so I'll throw them that one. The scene itself, magnificent.

The war table was beautiful, and explained why the credits were lame this year -- it was all a setup to that. Also very funny Halloween nod and a joke on those taking this too seriously.

I am so tired of Venereal, I was rooting for her to die with her stillborn Groot baby, but meh, I'll enjoy the Marriage Battle next year.

And I love that Tall Squid Girl is so into her boy. That is a great touch and that actress is so charming.

Finally, the stab into Daenerys face with "I don't wish to be Queen over ashes" was a nice exorcism of the whole tragedy of the first series.

So I'll be more generous. B+. Next year needs more full frontal, right mookie?
 
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