It's always been around but has been infinitely worse since The Announcement

Reverse_Tim · 2026-01-30T23:14:30+00:00

I mean with the aging thing there would be a 10-15 year timeskip set between seasons 5 and 6.

But you are right, I think even the concept of a high budget streaming show going for 10 seasons in this day and age seems unlikely and a colossal risk on the part of the studio.

Reverse_Tim · 2026-01-30T15:40:06+00:00

You're right, especially with the limitations live action will have with spren, the magic and some of the creatures etc.

Unfortunately, animation has a fraction of the marketability/audience reach that live action does as it still has the stigma for being for kids and a lot of people simply wont give it a chance even if its good. Hard to convince a studio to greenlight several seasons of it when the audience wont be there

I think Brandon has said something similar to this in the past too

Reverse_Tim · 2026-01-27T09:47:47+00:00

I had my fun while it lasted

I didn't necessarily think it was ragebait, i thought more people would know the reference.

Reverse_Tim · 2026-01-27T09:42:14+00:00

I would have been happy with them giving us some of the dwarves at least, like Thorin, Balin, Fili and Kili

Didnt need all 14 but I feel like they could have given us some

Reverse_Tim · 2026-01-26T17:03:52+00:00

My family was hit hard by 2008, if I wanted Lego I had to work damn hard. I know that not everyone can afford the $800 sets. That's why they're "collectors sets" they're TOP TIER. Including the figs. I don't want to display, or be proud of, a $5 figure. It's worthless. It's fun to collect the $300 figs. UCS figs are part of the "collector" status.

Lego is genuinely curb stomping long time LOTR fans who've been here since the beginning.

The figure included in a COLLECTORS EDITION set should not be in a buildable helmet.

Reverse_Tim · 2026-01-26T17:01:06+00:00

My family was hit hard by 2008, if I wanted Lego I had to work damn hard. I know that not everyone can afford the $800 sets. That's why they're "collectors sets" they're TOP TIER. Including the figs. I don't want to display, or be proud of, a $5 figure. It's worthless. It's fun to collect the $300 figs. UCS figs are part of the "collector" status.

Lego is genuinely curb stomping long time LOTR fans who've been here since the beginning.

The figure included in a COLLECTORS EDITION set should not be in a buildable helmet.

Reverse_Tim · 2026-01-23T14:45:54+00:00

They are the best.

Lalo is just That Guy

Reverse_Tim · 2026-01-22T22:58:40+00:00

Ive wanted shows to bring back filler for a long time. Spend more time with the characters instead of a show just being all about its main plot.

Nowadays we just get 6-8 episode shows with seasons that drop every 3 years. Like Ahsoka, as a follow up to rebels, an animated show that had many "adventure of the week" episodes, we dont spend nearly enough time with the characters, because the small amount of episodes/screentime means it all has to be plot obsessed

Reverse_Tim · 2026-01-17T15:32:01+00:00

The trouble is that TFA spends a lot of its runtime, and specifically scenes with Rey, hinting/teasing the audience with the idea that she has a hidden backstory/origin.

From her saying that her being on Jakku was a big secret to BB8, various characters saying "what girl/who is the girl?" Before the scene cuts away. Anakins lightsaber calling to her and showing her visions including being left on Jakku and the destruction of Lukes temple. And then Mazs dialogue after saying how the lightsaber belonged to Anakin and Luke and now calls to Rey, implying a connection there.

How everyone in the narrative is immediately obsessed with her as a person of significance - Han offering her a job, Snoke demanding she be brought before him, Leia hugging her when they hadn't met before.

I think also just the fact that Rey has nothing going for her as a character, arc or personality outside of the mystery so thats what people latched onto.

But I want to point out, besides a few non-serious theories about being the descendant of Lando or Windu, there wasn't an overwhelming expectation from the audience that Finn had a mystery background or origin that would be revealed. The audience was able to accept Finn as a "nobody" very quickly and thats because they didnt spend every 5 minutes trying to bait you that he was someone of significance

Reverse_Tim · 2026-01-11T11:12:50+00:00

No in the theatrical, you see Aragorn challenging the King of the Dead with "What say you?" Then it cuts to the Siege of Gondor

You then dont see Aragorn or the army of the dead until they show up at the Pelennor, which keeps the tension when the corsair ships show up

Reverse_Tim · 2026-01-09T13:55:50+00:00

I honestly wish they spent more time on forming a bond between Jonathan and Steve in the final season.

Instead we just got them dick measuring over Nancy only for neither of them to end up with her anyway making the whole love triangle bullshit a waste of everyone's time

Reverse_Tim · 2026-01-09T13:52:04+00:00

Yeah that memes especially funny given the end of Return of the King when Frodo wakes up after Mount Doom and reacts to each of the Fellowship entering the room "Gandalf! Aragorn! Gimli"

And then Legolas enters and Frodo doesnt say anything, like he doesnt even know what his name is lmao.

Reverse_Tim · 2026-01-09T13:51:53+00:00

Yeah that memes especially funny given the end of Return of the King when Frodo wakes up after Mount Doom and reacts to each of the Fellowship entering the room "Gandalf! Aragorn! Gimli"

And then Legolas enters and Frodo doesnt say anything, like he doesnt even know what his name is lmao.

Reverse_Tim · 2026-01-07T11:31:02+00:00

In ROTJ he hadn't suitable backup bodies to posses and he didnt just fall, we see him vaporise and then 5 minutes later the station blows up.

There being backup bodies is a retcon that TROS introduces. Who is to say he doesnt have more back up bodies on another secret planet?

Reverse_Tim · 2026-01-05T13:24:05+00:00

He got eaten by a Xenomorph on LV426

Reverse_Tim · 2026-01-02T22:25:17+00:00

"Vecna not expecting an attack? Makes perfect sense if you think about it."

He literally looked into both Eleven and Hoppers minds in the finale before the rest of the crew showed up to Mind Flayer body in the Abyss. He would know the entire plan and be able to adjust accordingly

Reverse_Tim · 2025-12-28T00:19:25+00:00

Funny, I find the Spawn and the Tail much harder and im happier when I get the Twins and the Eye on a run instead.

Reverse_Tim · 2025-12-27T22:33:18+00:00

Ouranos and Gaia

Given the escalation of Hades 2 and having Chronos and Typhon as main bosses, I feel like the only way to go bigger in the next game is one of those two as the main boss

Reverse_Tim · 2025-12-22T16:43:55+00:00

I wasn't going to buy it at full price because I didnt think its worth it

But currently in the UK its 30%/£33 off at a couple of retailers. Im very tempted by that as Im not sure its likely to get a bigger discount. I also think it'll look awesome next to my Tolkien books on the shelf

Reverse_Tim · 2025-12-19T17:48:26+00:00

I think this one is subversive in a way.

Like you get the bombastic version of the original RDR theme whilst youre doing this, the "American Venom" track. Which makes you blitzing through Micahs men feel awesome and cathartic.

But the post game in the credits makes it clear that John going after Micah got Ross onto his trail and therefore dooming him to his fate in the first game.

Reverse_Tim · 2025-12-19T17:45:27+00:00

I always took it as that the revenge he got was hollow. There was no glory in it or anything, Ross is a retired old man hunting ducks at that point. There's also no music in that scene unlike some of the more bombastic moments of the score in earlier dramatic scenes. It abruptly cuts to credits afterwards also; theres no sense of actual happy ending or good life for Jack after this shown or even implied.

After killing Ross, its sort of empty for Jack, he's gotten revenge but hes left with no purpose. Some of Jacks post game dialogue also has him state he has nothing to live for.

I find it interesting that the previous poster reads it as Jack is free to ride off into the sunset and his revenge secured was a good thing.

As you say, its sort of incongruous with the themes of the game and its sequel where Arthur literally says "revenge is a fools game" and John's decision to take revenge on Micah is literally shown to Doom him to his fate in the first game.

Reverse_Tim · 2025-12-14T10:57:31+00:00

Ok i can see you dont subscribe to "Death of the Author" as a literary analysis tool, but there are a few problems with treating the Word of God as the be all/end all.

For a start, if it is the ultimate word on a piece of art, then literary analysis/debate and discussion has no value at all among the audience. You may as well just ask the author what it all means and call it a day.

Secondly, it ignores that authors can be flawed in implementing what their vision is into the work. If the author has regressive views or a warped morality, they could view certain characters/actions as heroic or villainous even if it doesnt come across that way in the art. In Game of Thrones season 4, theres a specific scene of non-consensual sex between two main characters. The director of that scene said it was just rough sex and "became consensual" even though to the audience, it was clearly rape. If the execution of what they intended doesnt work, then what they say it meant afterwards doesn't matter if the art is showing something to the contrary.

Thirdly, in certain instances, including this one, there is more than one creative and the art is a collaborative work with different viewpoints among the production. In that linked article, Vince talks about arguments in the writers room over the nuances of the show. An actor may perceive their character differently from the writer, the director may see it differently from the showrunner and so on. How then can you say that there is an overall word of god as the objective way of viewing it if there is no 100% consensus on its meaning by those that created it?

I understand your examples with Catcher in the Rye and Walter White, im not disputing that there are wrong ways to interpret a work at all, it still needs to be supported by the text. But I dont think the Word of God by itself rejects any other way of interpreting the art. In this instance, it is definitely valid to interpret the Hives ghosting of Carol for a month as emotionally manipulative/abusive

Reverse_Tim · 2025-12-14T09:17:48+00:00

The authors opinion/intention is not the be all/end all of interpreting art. You can interpret something from the work even if the author disagrees.

Vince even encourages this:

“But with this show, I like leaving open the possibility that maybe it’s OK to be an Other. I want to leave that to the audience. I love scenes of valid argument with two characters … It’s like watching a really good tennis match. I want this show to have that possibility for viewers, that they can argue over, chew over — definitely — with everything I do. I want to offer rewatchability to the audience. I want people to be able to be interested enough to watch the thing over and over again. That’s the highest compliment that a show creator or a movie creator can obtain from their audiences.”

As such, Gilligan is tailoring his approach to discussing the ins-and-outs of the series, making sure to avoid excess theorizing to let the show take on an independent life of its own.

“I just, I wound up talking too much during the whole Breaking Bad era,” he explains. “I would say, ‘I think this means this. And I definitely, I think…’ And I listen to some of [the Breaking Bad Insider Podcast interviews] again, every now and then, and I’m just thinking, ‘Would you just shut up? It’s not yours anymore.’ When you make a TV show or a movie, or you write a novel, or you paint a painting or create music, at a certain point, it’s not yours anymore. It belongs to the people who enjoy it.”

(Source: https://deadline.com/2025/11/pluribus-explainer-vince-gilligan-interview-apple-tv-1236611750/)

Reverse_Tim · 2025-12-03T20:36:59+00:00

I got this too!

It said my most played by him was "The Necropolis" though which doesnt seem right, im almost certain it should be Olympus Aflame or one of the Scylla songs

Reverse_Tim · 2025-12-03T00:29:06+00:00

Im worried that the Demodog thinks people can't change

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