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In the One Ring's defense, the odds of ANOTHER Hobbit getting the ring when the first Hobbit who had lost it a hole underneath the Misty Mountains which was now home to a Goblin town in the Great Goblin's cavern was probably pretty low.

I haven't seen the last Predator film yet (its on my to-do list), but so far the only ones I really disliked were the AVP films, particularly the 2nd one, which managed to be both poor Alien and poor Predator films. Edit:

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587, according to the same site the poster used. That said, it could just be that Titanic and Avatar fans are posting their fanfics to the listed site.

I'm assuming you're making a joke. But I'll leave this here, anyhow...

If you'd told me in the 80s that Nuklon, Black Adam, Hawkman and Dr. Fate were going to be in a big budget action effects film, I'd have thought you were crazy. Ditto in the 1990s when Nuklon changed his gimmick to become Atom Smasher. I'd probably have been more sympathetic by the time Cyclone came around in 2006 that it was possible and you weren't cray-cray. Pretty much all 'woke outrage' is unnecessary. I'm almost tempted to say all outrage excepting that over grievous miscarriages of justice or similar serious topics. But being mad about the lead of a film? Silly.

Weird complaint*, I'm pretty sure that most major cultures had warrior women examples even if, as is typical around the world, they were not the norm in their respective societies. Bíawacheeitchish of the Crow, Pi'tamaka of the Piikáni Piegan, Buffalo Calf Road Woman of the Northern Cheyenne, Dahteste of the Chocen Apache are some women who engaged in battle, at least, if not hunting in the Americas that I've heard of. I believe the film Prey characters are Comanche and while I can't think of warrior or hunter woman from that culture, that doesn't mean they didn't exist (i'm no expert) or that it would have been impossible either, just like it wasn't impossible for any other culture where we can name warrior women from. *Then again, this is the internet.

They are poor adaptions of the game, but as an excuse for Milla Jovovich to kill zombies in increasing improbable situations with a generally likeable cast of zombie-fodder surrounding her, its a pretty fun series.

Its on my list, but I'm woefully behind on everything. A volume of Junji Ito stories, Kazuo Umezz's Orochi, and a few others. I think I may be a volume behind on Glepnir. Going to try to priortize getting to it - I've wanted to read it for years but never have gotten to it.

Will it be as good though (I still haven't started reading the series yet...)

Enterprise: Strange New World Another solid episode, if you get past the rather cavalier attitude the Captain and crew display to the dangers of space travel. While not a great fan of post TOS Vulcans-just-suppress-emotions-rather-than-not-have-them, I greatly enjoyed T'Pol's barely concealed contempt for the dumb human antics. Quibble - they stayed behind to monitor nocturnal apes. So where were they? Why did they feel safe enough to not set a watch given there was clearly wildlife? And why did nobody spot the giant destructive weather system?

The Klingons weren't in the Federation when they were a stand-in for Russia, though. Non Federation worlds are fair game to have the failings of modern man. And I still disagree that the Federation would colonize worlds in dispute enough to lose, and I dispute that Federation people who'd been freed from want would be so possessive of material things not to be willing to move even if the first part had happened.

In TOS, the people of the Federation had eliminated the darker side of humanity (I can't remember the exact quote, but after the Eugenics war humanity had pulled together eliminated materialism etc) TNG would have me believe that the people of the Federation would want to settle planets that were part of the Cardassian empire (why?) and that after doing so they wouldn't want to give them up. That doesn't sound like members of a better society that no longer is materialistic and driven by their baser wants. The maquis stuff is very much using the Federation to talk about Earth in the 1990s, not about the future Roddenberry envisioned.

Majestic, you make plenty of fine points about Picard, as I said I understand why people hated it. Re: the Federation as Trumps America in Picard, all I can say is that nobody past Roddenberry has seemed to want to work in the better tomorrow he created. The Federation as Roddenberry envisioned it would have never had the Maquis exist within it, much less be a major faction. So that bugbear is a something I've had to live with, but it grates (and should for ST fans). But I've begrudgingly accepted that fact that is where the series is so Picard didn't bother me in that respect as it just furthers this discontinuity with TOS. My problem with this episode is somewhat rooted in my feelings that Troi didn't work as a character as conceived because TOS had already established counseling as a part of Life Sciences, so there's no reason for her character to exist outside of the normal command structure. But for Troi to take bridge officer training in season 7 means that I have to believe that Starfleet knowingly gave her an equivalent rank in Starfleet that could put her in command of the ship (as happened in Season 5's episode 'Disaster') without offering her any training to be in command of the ship. And since they'd established that she wasn't a part of the normal structure (hence the equivalent rank rather than a real rank) unlike TOS, it further makes no sense she'd be eligible to take bridge training for a promotion since she wasn't an actual member of the crew in a structural sense.

My understanding is that the elements don't exist because DS9 wasn't shot the old way TNG was. So it's possible but would be more expensive than TNG, which as Bartimaeus points out was already expensive. That said I suspect it will happen at some point, if nothing else so they can stream it in HD and make it a selling point for P+

I liked it too. It has some issues, but it had some fun ideas and was overall a good follow-up to Dark Castle's House on Haunted Hill remake. I liked the idea of the Black Zodiac, the house was a neat invention and they used the glasses gimmick better than the William Castle original, IMO. Shout! Factory's blu-ray is really nice looking.

Assuming that Flim-Flam is with them, then the Scooby gang is hunting for the thirteen ghosts released from Vincent Price Van Ghoul's Chest of Demons. Otherwise, someone was probably hedging their bets to end the haunting whichever way it turned out.

Not yet, but its not for a lack of trying... Seriously though, I was expecting a real train wreck, but it wasn't really that. Definitely some of the same structural problems that Discovery has; I can only assume the writers rooms are struggling to come to terms with long form episodic television. And it wasn't boring which is about the only problem I can't forgive in a movie or TV show. Can't really talk about Picard-Q since I've only seen season one. Not trying to change your opinion, but a lot of what you talk about really didn't bother me, to whit - I just got through watching all of TNG, the series that conveniently has Data relearn the exact same thing about humans a few times; that has Picard endanger himself and his ship just to communicate with an alien for the first time; who has experienced another lifetime and become more spiritual, who Q challenges to represent the best of humanity....and who also wants to let a planet die because of a whack interpretation of the Prime Directive; where Worf manages to be totally security minded and yet he also keeps his position as head of security despite being quite possibly the least effective member of the crew with just about everyone waltzing in and out of the Enterprise (and not all of them had superior tech); where the ship's counselor often blatantly disregards obvious signs of people in psychological trouble or gives specious (and perhaps dangerous) advice and also has to take bridge crew training despite being part of the bridge crew for a plot point that goes nowhere. Out of character is kind of their brand. Moreover, I understand where they're coming from within the context of the show (whether they justify how they got there is another thing entirely). The characters are all 'lost' in a way. Each of the characters have trusted someone or something and had that trust violated (Picard and Starfleet, Rafi and Picard, Rios and his Captain/Starfleet, Soji and her first romance, Jurati and Oh, Elinor and Picard, Seven and that lady on the Star Wars planet). So it makes sense that Picard at the start of the show isn't the Picard from "All Good Things..." or "Nemesis". And it makes sense why this group is the one that gets together thematically (and why Laris and her husband don't make sense to join Picard). To my mind, then, the problem with the end isn't Mass Effect Reaper\Synthetic-Cthulu in a Portal, but the fact that they don't really follow through with the theme about misplaced trust and recovery. I feel that they wanted to have the tie in to Discovery (which is why the Synthetics-from-Beyond seem to mirror the Control Ship from S2), but that misses the thematic point that I see in the show's narrative, and its why much of the conclusion isn't satisfactory from a thematic position, in my opinion, even though it wraps up the story nicely in a strictly plotting way. Because they never come back to the theme of trust, completely. This is why Seven of Sparta as a final confrontation doesn't feel satisfactory because the characters had never met to that point; the better confrontation between Romulan-Tal-Shiar-Sister would have been Romulan-Tal-Shiar-Brother affirming his choice to trust the right people (Soji) over the wrong (his sister, the Zhat Vas).* Its why its unsatisfying that Sutra never gets a comeuppance, really, for pushing her people (who trusted her) to side with what she thought was right by killing one of their own (who also trusted her). Its why, thematically, the call that Sutra put out should have never been answered, because in the end the Zhat Vash should have been shown to have spent centuries trusting in the truth of a message that had long ago become irrelevant as time swept away those long gone players from the board rather than trusting the things and people they saw before them. Its why the show needed to have some resolution for Sutra violating the trust of the people she led. Its why Riker's return to help Picard in the end should have shown the triumph of putting trust in the right people to defeat the misplaced trust Starfleet has had in Oh. Without these thematic elements satisfied, the team's 'return to adventure' scene doesn't feel earned, really. So don't get me wrong, I think the end is a mess. I totally get why people would dislike it. But I think at an entertainment level, its fine; but not everyone is going to be able to just ignore such problems. As an aside, I don't think they were dumping the Borg to necessarily kill them (although it would, probably, kill most of the xBs) but to delay the return to operation of the Borg Cube. Unless I missed a bit of dialogue where they specifically said they were terminating them (and of course, we don't know if the Romulans put in a fail safe that would ensure if the stasis pods were blown the Borg would be killed, so I guess even then, we just don't have enough information because they spent 100000% of the time on the borg cube with the sappy Soji/Romulan-dude romance). EDIT: To follow through on my thought, Data put the ultimate trust in Picard and was rewarded for that trust; that's what made those scenes work - they actually thematically fit the show. *Seven killing Romulan Zhat Vas lady is very much a direct 1-to-1 plot element; Lady kills Hugh, Seven kills Lady. Its supposed to elicit an emotive reaction of "hell yeah!" from the audience, but it can't because the confrontation isn't earned. So I understand the temptation to go with it from a plot standpoint, but its a good example of where I think the writers were struggling with long form television. It makes sense from a plotting level and maybe even an episode level, but its missed the overarching story themes and I feel like that's a re-occuring problem with the new ST shows I've seen -along with structurally wasting time on things that aren't ultimately important (Soji's time on the Borg cube could have been halved, and the Klingon stuff in S1 Discovery ultimately isn't very important to the show for how much time is spent on it).

If it helps, I also didn't hate Plan 9 from Outer Space, Raging Bull, Hawk the Slayer, The Black Hole, Blue Velvet, Gladiator, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Have Rocket Will Travel, Touch of Evil, Mr. No Legs, Shakespeare in Love, Forbidden Planet, The Warriors, North by Northwest, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, etc. So me not hating something is probably different than other people not hating something.