some lazy writing but still enough good stuff to justify watching.

Though I'm worried that we are delving into late-GoT territory. These mysteries they are teasing have hooked my interest. But if the payoff doesn't live up to the expectations (Thrawn) then it's all gonna come down like a House of Cards on them.

Juliana Crane from Man in the High Castle

early on the show seemed headed in that direction but never went there

what the psychic said last week could be interpreted to be about Ted or Sam

Breaking Bad / The Wire / Sopranos / Better Call Saul

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlszaPPffaA

I'd say that the sitcom format is too constricting to keep up with modern viewers' tastes and expectations.

In the 90s, it was easy for a network to pump out a sitcom that followed the procedural format because that it was viewers expected and were comfortable with. But now writers have a different bar to meet. There basically needs to be a serialized element to the plot, which makes it harder to fit things in a comfortable 24minute run time.

Only Murders in the Building is a great modern show that probably qualifies as a sitcom. But its main hook is its long mystery arc. Many of the jokes rely on callbacks to what happened 4 episodes earlier.

Poker Face is largely procedural, but it relies on longer run times and isn't focused on comedy, so it doesn't really qualify as a sitcom.

Sitcoms struggle because they just aren't easy to pull off in the modern streaming environment where audiences expect to consume content by binging whole seasons as a time.

it's unfortunate spoiler material but it doesn't ruin it.

when a book is adapted into a series, it generally preserves most of the major plot points. Is it "ruined" by being an adaptation? No, because most of the audience hasn't read the source material. That's even more true in the case of cast lists, because even fewer fans would bother to dig out that info.

and I'm sure even the radio people grew up in a world where cliffhangers had already been an established storytelling strategy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheherazade

it peaks with the Ed Kemper scenes

Milly Alcock left the most memorable impression on me from House of the Dragon

since no one has mentioned it yet, I'll toss out that the most laughs I've had recently were from S1 of Only Murders in the Building

Juliana Crane got me to stop watching Man in the High Castle despite the fact that I loved just about every other character

I can totally understand why your interest in BCS would fizzle out during S2. It's a relative low point for the series. But I will say that things pick up after that S3/4/5 are each better than the least and it scratches the ceiling of the best TV ever.

He's Cal El minus Jonathan and Martha Kent. He's what would happen if Superman had been raised by abusive parents instead of loving ones.

that's a valid theory that can't be disproven, but it doesn't explain what's going on with the connection between NK and Bran inside his visions/flashbacks/greensight/time traveling/whatever you wanna call it

and then there's the deal that NK had with Craster implies something more going on than just being thoughtless beasts

I happen to prefer other theories and hope that the books make more of the scene when Bran looked back and saw the creation of the first White Walker

that weird episode of Stranger Things where they met the other girl with powers

The Night King was killed without them having revealed with he was all about. As far of the rest of the characters listed I agree with you.

But one of the other big problems was that in S2 the show mentioned Azor Ahai (the prince that was promised) and never resolved it.

I guess it's 'pick games that translate well to a movie instead of picking games that have a really strong brand'.

Zelda has been a strong brand for decades but it doesn't lend itself to the screen. There are little to no personalities among the characters. The game consists of exploration, puzzle solving and collecting.

I think Blizzard made this mistake when they chose to adapt Warcraft instead of Diablo. Diablo translates to a linear story so much better.

The Rehearsal would be in my Top 25

>a thing against Ted Lasso.

if anything its the opposite. That have a thing for Ted Lasso and is trying to help it by chiding Brits for not watching in order to drum up more ratings.

well in that case the answer to your question is that studios would shift their content to fill the gap by replacing with non-traditional supes who still use supernatural/sci-fi powers to pull of cool action sequences

Make it a personal drama about a futuristic "plumber" whose job it is to install and maintain the 3seashells bathroom systems.

He's lured into a web of betrayal and deception as he uncovers the unethical origins of the company who harvested these shells and developed the technology. His loved ones aren't the people he'd always thought. They'd been planted here to make sure he didn't learn too much. Kinda like Truman Show how the people in his life were they to keep him on track.

As he goes through this arc, the movie continues to tell the audience absolutely nothing about the shells or the technology itself. It's just kept off-screen or obscured by some loud noises that pop up to cover the dialogue whenever the characters are talking about it.

>As for non-binary actors, why not just nominate them in the category that’s best fitting for the character they’re portraying?

that just delays the problems for the next generations to deal with when more roles feature characters who don't clearly fit in the box of 1 gender.

>I don’t see why we should change nearly a hundred years of an awards category just for rare fringe circumstances.

Because the cases will become less rare over time. Might be better to reform the system beforehand until waiting for the problem to spill over. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

how nitpicky are you about the definition of superhero? Would Samus Aran count as a super hero if she was featured in a movie where her super suit could do cool things like drop bombs, fire lazers and shrink to a ball? Does Mario count as a super hero if he is going to do cool things like jump high and shoot fireballs?

It's impossible for to imagine a market devoid of character who use some type of cool power to do action. Within that framework, I guess it just depends what you mean by superhero. If all supernatural/sci-fi powers were banned, then Hollywood would just move one tier down to have more characters like James Bond, Ethan Hunt or John Wick who just perform unrealistic stunts that are presented as being within the laws of physics.

no idea if this is what you mean

but during certain action sequences in Spiderverse and Puss in Boots The Last Wish switched to different type of animation that felt "faster" and was really cool.