Yes, the last two seasons are especially terrible.

The first four seasons are solid. Five is where things start to slip, six has its issues, seven we all forgive because we assume it’s in service of season eight, but… It isn’t.

I’m so excited for this series.

I was a huge Game of Thrones fan and between the break of season 4 and 5 read all the main series books and novellas. I’ve been excited for the possibility of a Dunk and Egg series ever since, especially the first season sincerely I think that’s the best of the three released stories so far.

The ending of Game of Thrones hurt more than any other show I can think of. House of the Dragon did pull me back in, especially with the strong first season. But it wasn’t the show I wanted, it just happened to work well.

But Dunk the lunk? Based on all the media I’ve seen, they’ve nailed this show. Based on the reviews, this show is what I expect it to be.

I think the lower stakes of the show might be tricky, and at 30 minutes spread over 6 weeks, it’s a different vibe than previous shows in the series. But I think by the finale, everyone will be onboard.

It also has huge potential. As we learned in First Contact, the Earth was coming out of World War III and it was the event of first contact that caused the world to come together. The Burn lasted about 100 years, which is at least a few generations of humanity and now we’re coming out of that.

Once again the Earth is moving from war to the Federation. Sure it’s a little easier this time, but no transition at that scale is a fast one.

I’m guessing one of the first big themes of Starfleet Academy will be getting to know and understand the “War College”, initially as rivals. Then in the future (later seasons) I expect they’ll begin to merge.

I watched the first episode. It was entertaining enough that I’ll probably watch the second. But if I forget about this show and don’t… I won’t be surprised.

The first episode sets up the premise and the stakes are up, but I’m not fully pulled in yet.

The movie itself is excellent. However there is one horrible almost meme like scene where dalmatians run into a fancy party and kill Cruella’s mother. If you ignore that scene, it’s a great movie.

In contrast, Linux won’t stop you if you try to use a command that deletes every file on your PC (“sudo rm -rf /”).

Actually AFAIK it will stop that specific command nowadays. I don’t have a VM handy to test, but without the “–no-preserve-root” flag it should give an error.

(Don’t actually run that command on a machine you care about, I’m only 80% confident.)

I missed this show existing but found it over this past Christmas break and honestly really enjoyed it. This show should be a 20 episode per year sitcom, so 8 episodes after 2 years is a wild break.

But also Ted (the film) came out in 2012 and the sequel in 2015, so this series is coming out about 10 years too late.

But also Seth MacFarlane is a talented man. Why is he working on Ted when The Orville is just sitting there waiting for someone to write it.

So yeah, I’ll watch this, but I wish it was The Orville.

There is, however, one potential problem for the show’s future. “The big issue is that I have only written three novellas, and I have a lot more stories about Dunk and Egg in my fucking head,” Martin says, looking a bit shamefaced. “I’ve got to get them down on paper. I began writing two at various points in the past year. One is set in Winterfell and one set in the Riverlands …”

There aren’t least two additional problems.

The first is actors ageing out of their roles. The actor who plays Egg is 11(ish?) and assuming the rumor is true and they shoot the next two novellas back to back, he’s still going to quickly age out of the role.

Maybe the later stories take place with an older Egg, certainly there are plenty of stories to tell about an older Dunk and Egg. We know the adventure ends at Summerhall, and while the details are missing, the general idea could be written by any competent writer. The only catch is if Martin has some specific magic he wants to add.

The second problem however, and it’s highlighted more by the later part of the interview, is that the Dunk and Egg stories aren’t the meat of the story. They’re an appetizer. They exist as a fun little series of tales between the main stories. The interview highlights that George isn’t confident in season 3 of House of the Dragon. Season 1 was excellent and Season 2 was mostly good, but ended abruptly. It gave similar vibes to Game of Thrones season 7. “It’s ok, I can forgive a lot as long as next season fixes it.”

If there is no main course “Game of Thrones” or “House of the Dragon” show… I don’t see Dunk and Egg getting the ability to continue. There is plenty of mythos to pull from, but they need to find someone who can actually turn it into a TV show.

Season 1 of this show was excellent and the COVID specials, especially the one with Coleman Domingo is truly something else (and I was glad to see him in the trailer).

Season 2 struggled a bit, but storylines with Maude Apatow and Angus Cloud (RIP) shined.

This trailer for season 3… makes this show look wildly different from season 1 & 2. The themes seem the same, and the characters seem to fit, but i think the shift from “high school” kids to adults just really changes the tone.

It could work. There really isn’t a different direction to go, although the drug plotline seems cranked up to 11, which might be a bit much.

We might get it someday. “Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord” comes out this year and covers the post Clone Wars era. Solo is a bit beyond that, but could get there if the show runs long enough, has time jumps or a follow up show.

I mean things do change.

Starting with Pluribus, Vince Gilligan has said he expects about four seasons from Pluribus. He’s also said he could probably keep going after that. So he has an idea of how things end, but it isn’t set in stone.

Also look at How I Met Your Mother, it’s clear they had an idea for an ending from the start. However the show got renewed and extended and eventually outgrew the originally planned ending. Unfortunately the finale then had to undo a bunch of things just to get that original ending.

Going back to Vince Gilligan, if you watch Better Call Saul it’s clear that the first season was shot with the idea that if it didn’t get any more seasons, it would be a decent ending. Once it was renewed it started to expand and setup where the series would end up. The result however is that season 2 has some season 1 retreads.

It’s deceptively worded, because it kinda happened (at least according to Clarke).

From https://ew.com/tv/2019/05/19/game-thrones-finale-interview-emilia-clarke/

“What, what, what, WHAT!?” the actress recalls thinking. “Because it comes out of f—king nowhere. I’m flabbergasted. Absolutely never saw that coming.”

“I cried,” Clarke says. “And I went for a walk. I walked out of the house and took my keys and phone and walked back with blisters on my feet. I didn’t come back for five hours. I’m like, ‘How am I going to do this?’”

She never says she dislikes the script and makes it clear that she found the story surprising and emotional. Which is true, the story is surprising (not in a good way, but it is surprising) and for her character it is full of emotion.

I agree with basically everything you said.

For the age discrepancies, I think they pushed them so young for so long I couldn’t see them ever as aging up. The “adult” older kids scene just felt so weird.

Why won’t Apple and Google pull it?

Google will pull it as soon as Apple does, they’re a follower not a leader.

Like smothering a loved one with a pillow.

You also get to salute the spaghetti as it lowers itself into the pot.

Agreed and a much better choice than Scarlett Johansson.

I don’t think we’ve ever seen Scarlett do a Mother Gothel type role versus Kathryn Hahn who could adapt Agatha and boom gold.

It is but if Natasha Lyonne wasn’t returning it would have been a whole different show. That being said if Rian Johnson and Peter Dinklage want to make a show together, I’m interested.

It also says “Franchise properties must be considered as a whole and awarded as such.” So would “Star Trek” as a whole just be one nominee?

The article mentions “All in the Family” would qualify, does that include “The Jeffersons” as part of the franchise?

I agree completely with your first half, Poor Things was weird as hell, I liked parts of it, Emma Stone is great, Jesse Plemons is great, return of Yorgos…

But I was a HUGE fan of this film.

The story was a simple one. But this was Plemons vs Stone in the best way. We had a few side characters like the cousin and the police officer, but mostly it was each character trying to convince the other and the audience.

We know Plemons is a crazy conspiracy theorist. We know he can’t be right. But there are moments. Stone tries to be reasonable. She tries every imaginable strategy to convince Plemons he’s wrong.

And of course the twist. He was right. It forces you to reexamine everything Stone said during the film.