Holmes_and_Watson

Not having BAME elves and dwarves because "Middle earth was always about a collection of developed people and cultures" came across unintentionally badly. 🙂 I've not seen it, so have no opinion on it's qualities. A quick peek showed a lot of criticism on a ton of differences to source material. But I'm reading that the Tolkien estate didn't give Amazon the rights. So they're basing the show on fragments they do have access to. That they ploughed on, was going to open them up to a lot of flak. Lots of criticism on the plotting, writing, acting etc. which you'd get with lots of shows. Personal taste or objectively well or badly executed. Having characters justify their casting in character is really clunky. Nothing derails a million fantasy worlds and RPGs more than a cut scene to the Orc town, where the little ones ask when daddy is coming home. "Well, those elves are sending scouting parties through our lands, pretending they're on a quest again." "Mommy? Didn't the elves kill all their non-white people?" "That's right son. They're not tolerant like we are. Although they say there's a lone, black one now." "Is that like a Dark Elf, a race always portrayed as evil in fantasy because of their skin colour?" You just don't know your elven lore. 🙂 Fantasy only begins with imagination. After that it's shackled to canon by gatekeepers.

Tell me about it. I read the news in my Fererro Rocher home in horror. Only the sell by dates of each room can help me now.

If it's a Lego house you build, how much tax will you be paying on it? 🙂

I've not seen many of those. Female Ghostbusters - Their marketing campaign on the radio labelled it a feminist take on the original. Not funny, not good in it's own right. Just feminist. So, I missed it as being shown a bandwagon instead of a film isn't for me. I saw it years later. It wasn't that good. I remember one good performance, and not from the person trying too hard to be funny. Star Wars - The pain of sitting through those is partly why I was so pleased to enjoy The Odyssey. No idea about the casting of Star Wars. The poor plots and hours of fan service sunk them for me. Doctor Who - No doubt leaving sprinkles of LGBTQ+ stardust as the TARDIS skips through BBC spacetime. 🙂 Trotting out everyone for a nod was a low point in a Russell Davies series that I was bored with. Nothing to do with the casting. Mark Gattiss watched all the same films growing up, so the writing on those episodes just reminds me of the better plots his are from. I only saw one Jodie Whittaker episode. Trying too hard to be Tennant, but had good moments, so can't judge. The last one I saw, with Gatwa, had a drag queen as a villain, and a musical number at the end. And it was fun.

Casting

Crate

Despoil

Prime

That would be a feather in their cap, if it worked. 🙂

A missile with "1922 Committee" stencilled on it.

Suspicion

Will Dobbin's pay be bobbins? 🙂

Sesay played a lot at left back last season. (Typed knowledgeably, but first found out when @Over land and sea updated the contracts thread. 🙂)

I know! I got all excited to see if I'd made it today. 🙂 I just stopped at Talksport. That would be a "no" 🙂 (In fairness, their European football show was decent the last I heard it)

He can take advantage of those HS2 plans from 2012, that would deliver a high speed link between London and Manchester. That must have been finished a while back now.