@councilofgeeks As to the length of episodes...While plenty of awesome, game-changer shit has happened this season, it also feels like only about half a season's worth of development has actually happened, like there's been a lot of wheel-spinning, and not just with Daemon.
@AdamSFurman Possibly...though the whole trajectory of the PT's initial reception/prevailing sentiment with time has already turned out to be a very different, in some ways stranger and more telling beast.
@councilofgeeks A Jackson-directed Children of Hurin could be amazing, if he brought his A-game/had learned from the mistakes of the behind-the-scenes debacle that led to The Hobbit. The news so far does not give me confidence in the latter.
@councilofgeeks In the broad abstract, I can imagine how a Gollem solo movie could work...but it would have break from the house style in more fundamental ways than I suspect the powers that be are willing to risk. More likely it's just a bad idea.
@mxgomez78 I once expressed a similar self-deprication to an author who'd been a literary hero of mine since high school, who'd since become a friend. He told me not to sweat it because it's often the stuff compulsively distracting one from "what you need to finish" where the real gold is.
@DemensionRick @councilofgeeks Oh, I love R&M (though I'm way behind)...If anything, though, it seems heavily influenced BY the old Beetlejuice Saturday morning cartoon. There are some cues an adult reboot of the latter would do well to take from R&M in turn...and others it definitely shouldn't.
@Taigan_HSE @councilofgeeks They gave him one in the Broadway musical version, in a way that kind of worked, and felt like a neat way to reconcile the antagonist trickster of the movie with the sort-of good guy from the cartoon show.
@councilofgeeks Tbh, what I'd rather see is a for-adults reboot of the old animated series (something akin to, for lack of a better point of comparison, Rick & Morty). That way, we could have both.