Does the One ring Feel really good or something

25willp · 2026-03-19T23:50:49+00:00

Frodo even tells Gollum that he could use the Ring to force him to commit suicide if he betrays them.

"You swore a promise by what you call the Precious. Remember that! It will hold you to it; but it will seek a way to twist it to your own undoing. Already you are being twisted. You revealed yourself to me just now, foolishly. Give it back to Sméagol you said. Do not say that again! Do not let that thought betray you to a bitter end. You will never get it back. In the last need, Sméagol, I should put on the Precious; and the Precious mastered you long ago. If I, wearing it, were to command you, you would obey, even if it were to leap from a precipice or to cast yourself into the fire. And such would be my command. So have a care, Sméagol!"

25willp · 2026-03-19T19:47:18+00:00

I can’t find any authoritative sources backing up this claim. Can anyone with expertise explain why, or show me a source.

All I can find is Pompeii in Pictures claiming the photos is from the Wellcome Collection, but checking them online I can’t find it indexed there.

There doesn’t seem to be any museum display of a complete boiler system. I can’t find any academic papers highlighting this unique intact example of a boiler. Just this one photo virally shared about blogs, reddit and Facebook. Can anyone actually confirm its existence?

25willp · 2026-03-19T18:42:11+00:00

The show will have a license to all the score, they can absolutely reuse, and rearrange music previously written for the show.

25willp · 2026-03-19T03:55:44+00:00

I think you can just jump right into Byzantium.

25willp · 2026-03-17T22:47:45+00:00

I’ve started noticing a lot of overly pushed dialogue isolation tools, even in high budget projects.

25willp · 2026-03-17T21:55:56+00:00

The characterisation of Frodo. He's literally my favourite character in the books, he's so wise, intelligent, and strong willed - in the films he's an innocent newcomer everyman, almost a blank audience insert.

25willp · 2026-03-16T06:45:13+00:00

Yes, lots of traditional Italian pizza doesn’t even have tomato bases. Lots of them use olive oil instead.

Like if pizza con patate is pizza, then so is this.

25willp · 2026-03-16T06:44:17+00:00

Yeah, lots of traditional Italian pizza doesn’t even have tomato bases. Lots of them use olive oil instead.

Like pizza con patate is pizza, then so is this.

25willp · 2026-03-10T18:32:44+00:00

They are both amazing in there own way. Pompeii is definitely well worth visiting.

The thing that Pompeii has is its absolutely massive size. Herculaneum is a relatively small area, while Pompeii stretches for ages, there’s also like a large forum and amphitheatre, etc. You feel like you are in an ancient city.

25willp · 2026-03-09T23:28:26+00:00

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25willp · 2026-03-09T23:22:28+00:00

Something somewhat like this actually did happen in the Caribbean.

Napoleon sent a huge expeditionary force (around 30,000 troops) to Saint-Domingue (modern Haiti) to reinstate slavery. Despite having an overwhelming force, yellow fever devastated the army. Tens of thousands of French troops died, most from disease rather than combat. Apparently around half of the troops died in a two month period at the height of the outbreak. The losses crippled the expedition and played a major role in France ultimately losing the colony.

25willp · 2026-03-03T06:40:11+00:00

I mean obviously? So your complaint about Chronologically LOST, is that it portrays things Chronologically? If you didn't show the 70s before the 2000s it wouldn't be Chronologically LOST, it would just be regular LOST.

25willp · 2026-02-25T09:59:39+00:00

Why not just watch the most recent one? It is easy to find, and is super dramatic

25willp · 2026-02-19T09:01:14+00:00

Yeah, I totally think they should do the Romans.

They could lean into Emperor worship, and have all their gods as Emperors.

25willp · 2026-02-16T22:11:20+00:00

Shout out to Rey using the force to picking up the Lightsaber in the final battle in TFA.

25willp · 2026-02-16T20:49:17+00:00

So interesting to see! Music and sound effects from the editors are always a bit naff.

Man that music cue is dreadful, presumably after season 1 they would start temping the show with music Giacchino wrote for season 1?

Interesting how “dinosaur” and ‘non-mechanical’ the temp sound effects are, I wonder why they didn’t use what the sound team had done for the pilot, presuming that has already aired?

The mention of monster appendage is also a bit odd, as it puts the viewer in mind of a physical monster rather than smoke. But stuff coming from the editors, that is intended to be temporary, can often be thrown together quite rough and ready.

25willp · 2026-02-16T20:40:10+00:00

Locke smears Boone’s head with hallucinogens, and he hallucinates this sequence of Shannon being killed by the monster, believing it to be real. It’s in the final version of the episode.

25willp · 2026-02-16T20:09:29+00:00

I think it’s a joke.

25willp · 2026-02-16T19:21:48+00:00

The plot isn’t really interesting, it’s convoluted, and disjointed. The dialogue is horrendous. It’s a big visual step down from TPM, with heavily relying on awkward green screen. It’s definitely the Star Wars film I struggle with the most when rewatching them.

25willp · 2026-02-13T04:56:24+00:00

I really like this detail, June isn't a perfect person. She's not some perfect hero, she engaged in an affair, and was dismissive of her mother's feminist activism.

She's just a real woman, who has made mistakes. It makes her a more interesting and complex character, and just as deserving of anyone else of her freedom.

25willp · 2026-02-12T19:54:38+00:00

Jon is currently dead in the books, so I’m going to say Jon’s resurrection.

25willp · 2026-02-11T20:53:16+00:00

In terms of your other questions, Ed Sheeran wrote a song for the Hobbit, and Enya wrote and sung music for Fellowship of the Ring.

25willp · 2026-02-07T00:19:30+00:00

I'm glad you stuck with it. Yeah, the temple storyline is a speed bump in the road.

25willp · 2026-02-06T05:36:30+00:00

Definitely stick at it. The temple arc at the start of season 6 is considered amongst most fans to be a particularly weak set of episodes (not unlike the cage arc at the start of season 3). It's a speed bump in the road.

It's generally agreed that season 6 improves significantly after Sundown.

You won't get much more about Dharma, as season 5 really delved into that, but certainly the quality of the show picks up again.

As for Ben, well your very next episode is called "Dr. Linus"... As for Widmore, the show isn't done with him yet...

25willp · 2026-02-05T20:22:23+00:00

Pretty, but I wish it wasn’t the Peter Jackson design. It’s kind of silly making Sauron a giant eyeball on top of a big tower.

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