Yeah, I guess I could see that. He did need to constantly reinforce his glamour on Celebrimbor and it seems his loss of influence on Galadriel is permanent. It seems unlikely that most men would be able to shake off that sort of influence though.

The only real issue with that is that canonically he only really needed to subvert the eminently subvertable Ar-Pharazon to dominate Middle Earth. Which is in some ways a bit of a problem with the source material. If Sauron wanted to dominate ME, why send the Numenoreans off on what he must have known was a suicide mission to attack the Valar instead of just using them for the job? Because that's what happens in epic sagas, same as the perils of magic rings...

7 hours ago, Gfted1 said:

The Friday Night Lights sequel looks interesting.

Great, more shark movies.

At least Sharknado is supposed to be silly. Does everyone understand that Sharks don't do well in shallow water? At least not these monsters that they are showing in the movie. Highly unrealistic. :p

Good to know the scorpions didn't get Frankie Muniz. They were after him for a while.

The Pitt/HBO, ssn2, eps 8-9

Finally starting to get more interesting/compelling. Both in terms of hospital staff chrs, some patients, and a "tech/digital vs. analog" situation.
Robby's arc (lead/Noah Wyle) this season is seeming fairly dark. Not in an over-dramatic way, it's more of a continuation of his 1st season state.

Boyfriend on Demand/Netflix/k-drama
--I only tried this one because of the cast list. A rom-com, where lead gal goes through usual IRL trials while testing this virtual-reality-bf tech (you wear a skinny eyepiece, maybe it connects to your brain, not sure). Apparently the best VR ever. The first episode was IRL setup, then the VR boyfriend stuff takes stage for a couple episodes. Those scenarios are big visuals and sometimes funny for ppl familiar with kdrama or k-romance webtoon tropes - more often it just feels like retread cheese. Beyond the stacked/pretty cast list, not even really guilty-pleasure/lulz binge worthy. I won't continue.

On 3/12/2026 at 3:14 PM, Gfted1 said:

That looks good, a Jaws theme integrated into a massive flood disaster 🦈

TLDW: a new proposed animated Firefly series, most of the surviving original actors as VA's (including Adam Baldwin, who was not at the announcement panel). Set after Season1, before film Serenity. Fillion doing some writing. Whedon not involved. Still in development/does not yet have a distributor (they're shopping around for one now). I'd prefer live-action but animation is the only way to get Wash back I guess (actors got old, like me, after all). Can hope it doesn't turn into another pipe dream.

Edited 12 hours ago12 hr by LadyCrimson

14 minutes ago, LadyCrimson said:

I'd prefer live-action but animation is the only way to get Wash back I guess (actors got old, like me, after all).

I don't see it, Wash and Zoe could just play their old married couple spiel without being too young for it, and Alan Tudyk's still a total nerd at heart. Nathan Fillion on the other hand looks like Walter Sobchak and the Dude had a love child. Guess Captain Hammer didn't lie when he said he doesn't go to the gym. :p

Realistically, they've all grown too old for their roles. Inara could still work, because Morena Baccarin has this timeless beauty and charisma, but being young and quirky is a major part of Kaylee's and River's character, and Simon's just too old to be the idealistic young doctor.

Edit: Also, while there are some posters here who probably think it is a good thing, not having Joss Whedon attached to the project is also questionable.

Edited 11 hours ago11 hr by majestic

41 minutes ago, majestic said:

I don't see it, Wash and Zoe could just play their old married couple spiel without being too young for it, and Alan Tudyk's still a total nerd at heart.

Edit: what I meant, live-action and a storyline where they're simply older/the future, like original-cast Star Trek movies. But Wash died in Serenity while looking young. You cannot have him (canonically) back in a post-Serenity timeline looking way older without some Star Trek Khan-blood/alt-universe shennigans or something. Series is supposed to be set before Serenity, during the inbetween years I guess, so they'd all be "young".

I dont' really care about the Whedon thing. I think he got burnt out after the Marvel phases and even if not, I wouldn't assume he's "the same creative force" as during his popular heyday to begin with. Time can change things for anyone.

Edited 10 hours ago10 hr by LadyCrimson

I wasn't that keen on Whedon as a writer, but the group of writers he used was top notch and his shows were overall, excellent. He suffered hugely retroactively from (apart from the obvious, or other obvious) being so often imitated, badly. Not least by:

Marc 'Felicity and Friends' Guggenheim. Who is a colossal step down from Tim Minear as showrunner. And not just because that means a lot fewer Blake's 7 references.