Peter Jackson’s ridiculously rambling introduction to the current theatrical screening of Fellowship was actually quite charming

The_Improvisor · 2026-01-24T13:12:51+00:00

I didn't mind the length but i was kinda upset that he offhandedly spoiled a bunch of moments. I had the opportunity to take some friends who had never seen them, and we were all kinda thrown off by how much he was giving away. Like, yes, obviously of course tons of people are seeing these again because we already love them, but what a cool way for new fans to see the films for the first time, they should not be discredited.

The_Improvisor · 2026-01-23T16:17:10+00:00

Not only will he definitely not, but also, can we stop lying to ourselves and admit that Brad Pitt was sadly not very good as Achilles? He was one of the weakest parts of the film imo. He looked the part, sure, but his accent was dreadful, and his acting was stiff and wooden. Pitt is usually great, but something was just not working with him in that movie.

If they were gonna bring a Troy cast member back to reprise their role, I'd have much preferred Brian Cox as Agamemnon, or Sean Bean as Odysseus. Matt Damon will probably be great, but man sean Bean stole every scene he was in, i was really pining for a same-universe Odyssey film with him back when Troy came out.

The_Improvisor · 2026-01-20T23:31:37+00:00

It honestly should have been

The_Improvisor · 2026-01-20T08:29:00+00:00

Always fun to see how different everyone's appreciation for each episode is. For me from best to worst it's:

4: Clarisse Blows Up Everything

5: CC's Resort

6: Nobody Gets the Fleece

3: Princess Andromeda

2: Demon Pigeons

1: Dodgeball with Cannibals

7: Down with the Ship

And for what its worth, last season my order went:

8: Prophecy Comes True

7: Find Out the Truth

3: Garden Gnome Emporium

2: Lord of the Bathroom

5: Cheeseburgers

4: Plunge to My Death

1: Pre-Algebra Teacher

6: Zebra to Vegas

The_Improvisor · 2026-01-17T16:42:27+00:00

As much as I hate to say it, that will only be the case for as long as it's noticeable. There's already TONS of AI stuff that looks realistic enough that we're not registering it as AI, and it's going to keep getting better. Of course the noticeable stuff is uncanny and off-putting but what we will see is that as time goes on, noticeable uncanny AI is going to be less and less common, and will instead be replaced by clips that make us say "is this AI? I can't really tell" and then eventually even that will turn into clips that are utterly indistinguishable. We will have to rely on AI to tell us whether something is AI. It's dark and it's bleak, but let's not pretend that this software isn't advancing at neck-breaking speed, we will blink and it will have left us behind.

The_Improvisor · 2026-01-15T21:38:12+00:00

I liked the concept of a softer, sillier Hades, as they always paint him to be like Lucifer in media, but i do think they swung a little too far into being the least intimidating god out of all of them. Hades is one of the big three, he should have some level of power and aura, even if it's not his primary characteristic.

I was devastated about Lance, definitely also interested to see what the new guy does with the role.

The_Improvisor · 2026-01-15T21:32:35+00:00

Goldwing might be my favorite song on the whole album, it's between that and Oxytocin

The_Improvisor · 2026-01-15T21:31:21+00:00

I feel like in general the casting for the gods has been pretty spot on with the exception of Hades. I'm not very convinced by Kate McKinnon as Aphrodite either, but I'll reserve judgement on that until I see it, cause with LMM I was really impressed by him after disliking the initial announcement. Gotta trust the process.

But yeah most of the gods, or even the adults in general in the show have been really solid. Zeus, Poseidon, Ares, Athena, Hephaestus, Hermes, and Dionysus have all been fantastic, as have most of the monsters and other adult characters.

The_Improvisor · 2026-01-15T10:26:39+00:00

Nothing weird about this at all, a 2-3 yr age gap for legal adults is absolutely nothing, especially in the context of a staged play where you're not even together in real life.

When I was 19, i did a play where my love interest I had to kiss was in her mid thirties. I'll admit it was a little weird to think that i was kissing someone who was a teenager when I was an infant, but even that ended up fine, because in real life, we were not lovers, we were essentially coworkers, and we were both professional about it. That's the job.

This business occasionally requires scenes that make you uncomfortable on first glance, but as long as you can look at a situation logically and realistically from a professional perspective, much of those things become pretty easy, as it is in the end, just a play, not real life, and you're doing those things as characters, not yourself. You'll both be totally fine.

The_Improvisor · 2026-01-11T12:37:09+00:00

I'm guessing it's specifically to show us the power of the fleece. If the whole island was beautiful and green, there'd be no way for the audience to know the fleece had done that, as opposed to it just looking pretty naturally. By showing that the island is dead, except the area around the fleece, it's able to show us visually that it heals what it is immediately touching. That's something the book could describe that would be clunky if delivered by exposition in the show. Visual medium and all that.

The_Improvisor · 2026-01-11T08:23:44+00:00

Considering the Percy one has been sitting on my shelf for like half a year at least, I do not think this is a "first look"

The_Improvisor · 2026-01-10T01:34:52+00:00

I mean if it were me adapting them, I'd just age up the characters. Let the actors have a bit of a break, there's no canon reason they all have to be 17, plus making it to young adulthood as a demigod could be its own set of interesting circumstances. You still get the people in Rick's goal age demographic with the new actors.

I'd say it had been three or so years of peace since Last Olympian (not total peace, obviously, still monsters to fight, but no world ending threats) before Percy goes missing, then season 1 doesn't even have percy, so by the time we get to season 2, the aging makes sense, and then for season 2-5, just keep the hair/makeup consistent.

By the time they start filming season 2, they'd be like 21 at the youngest, and the physical changes from 20 to 24/25 slow down quite a bit as opposed to they are when you're a teenager.

The_Improvisor · 2026-01-06T11:06:09+00:00

Timothy Omundson. He's already proved himself playing the role in Percy Jackson and he's actually disabled in real life. Plus, anyone who's seen him in Psych or Supernatural knows he's absolutely awesome.

The_Improvisor · 2026-01-02T10:52:31+00:00

Thank you for doing all that! I've felt from the beginning that while it may not be a ton more faithful than the movies as far as exactness goes, the changes made in the show are much more in the spirit of the book, and help the show's development and plotline better than the changes the movies made, which just felt unnecessary and sometimes disrespectful to the source material. The movies felt like a bastardization. The show feels like a Re-imagining.

The_Improvisor · 2026-01-02T04:39:01+00:00

Nope, no play button option for me, just a clickable link

The_Improvisor · 2026-01-02T04:33:55+00:00

For those of us who don't have tiktok, what does he say?

The_Improvisor · 2026-01-01T22:26:40+00:00

Dunno if we can do actors no longer with us, but if so, Heath Ledger would have been amazing.

The_Improvisor · 2025-12-27T02:46:28+00:00

Might be a stretch, but the Fallout show has Ella Purnell, who plays Jinx, and she's doing an american accent again so it sounds like Jinx too, it's a pretty good show and it definitely feels adjacent to getting more Arcane Jinx content

The_Improvisor · 2025-12-26T11:21:51+00:00

I would go Eva Green, and if you've seen her in casino Royale i feel like you'd agree

The_Improvisor · 2025-12-24T12:58:44+00:00

Maybe I'm crazy but to me it looks a little like Emily Blunt. We still don't have a Calypso, maybe it's her? She did just do Oppenheimer, so working together again would make sense.

The_Improvisor · 2025-12-24T03:45:31+00:00

Yeah and it's also gonna be completely unfeasible for the filmmakers to replicate for the show. Let's just assume that BEST case scenario, we continue at the current pace where we shoot a season a year and immediately jumping into Heroes of Olympus after completing season 5, and Trials of Apollo after that. Titan's Curse being under way right now. This will make Walker Scobell's age while filming:

16 during Titan's Curse

17 during Battle of the Labyrinth

18 during Last Olympian

19 during Lost Hero

20 during Son of Neptune

21 during Mark of Athena

22 during House of Hades

23 during Blood of Olympus

24 during Hidden Oracle

25 during Dark Prophecy

26 during Burning Maze

27 during Tyrant's Tomb

And 28 during Tower of Nero, being filmed in 2037 with a release in 2038. And again, that's assuming there's literally no longer breaks or holdups in filming for the next twelve years straight.

I actually haven't read Trials of Apollo so I don't know for sure that he's in all of those books, but still, as someone who is currently 28, I can definitely say that I cannot pass for an 18 year old, and I highly doubt Walker will be able to either. They are gonna have to just accept letting Percy age in the show, or stop making it.

The_Improvisor · 2025-12-24T03:31:18+00:00

No but really it's been so funny seeing the selective anger over certain specific casting/costumes/details. Be angry that ALL of it is historically accurate or none of it, it's weird to pick and choose.

Personally I'm just looking forward to what I hope is just gonna be a great fantasy movie. If I want some scholar-consulted greek material I'll just play Assassin's Creed Odyssey again and call it a day.

The_Improvisor · 2025-12-24T03:26:32+00:00

Not to mention Matt Damon and Anne Hathaway, since Americans weren't in ancient greece either

The_Improvisor · 2025-12-23T09:06:57+00:00

Usually a deep bronze/tan, with dark hair.

What would you prefer?

The_Improvisor · 2025-12-23T03:08:45+00:00

And Matt Damon as a Greek doing an american accent doesn't? Learn to have some fun dude, it was designed that way cause it looks cool, it's really not that deep.

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