By year end, this government will be behind the Conservatives in polling, maybe well behind. (View Post)

A premise of Enders Game was that good ideas would drive out the bad, via the internet. The reverse is true. There's an incredible amount of useful information, just a click away, but many peopl… (View Post)

One adaptation from book to film that I loved was Villeneuve's Dune. I take @Foxy 's point about films about history. Perhaps, too much accuracy drives away too many viewers. There's a… (View Post)

IMHO, the two worst parts of the LOTR films were the butchery of Denethor’s character, and turning the Dead into the green soap bubbles of death. The first two films were great, I thought. The third,… (View Post)

I'm fully on board with the idea of Sauron as deceiver. But, this is what the Director said of the Season: "Sauron, I think he even really loves Galadriel and you see that at the very end. … (View Post)