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Like it's clear we are meant to care deeply about Raenyra, but the show has never given us good enough reasons to do so? Whereas people all loved Arya after just the first season of GoT. Admittedly it took longer for Sansa to get fans.

I'm judging Andor on its quality and it's a very well-written show with a very enjoyable and charismatic cast. I have no interest in what Disney might have done wrong in the past. Not everything has to be part of some broader cultural discussion.

Still not fully on board. Paddy Considine's Viserys was the best thing about the show. Wondering how they will cope without him. Collectively GoT had many, many more interesting characters than House of the Dragon does. Perhaps it was foolish to think they could make so many compelling characters twice.

Damn, Hannah is thirty years old? Time flies!

Andor is great and if you enjoyed Rogue One, you'd probably also enjoy this.

I'm up to the most recent episodes for both of them. I think both shows are underwhelming but I slightly prefer Rings of Power. Last episode of House was good, mostly thanks to Paddy Considine's epic performance in it. Of the newish shows I am watching, my favorite currently is actually Andor.

Seems weird to blame this on Zelensky when it's Putin who has threatened to use nukes every five minutes or so since February.

Thanks for the new stuff! Gloria has an amazing body!

Very pretty, would love to see more content of hers.

Yeah, that will be part of it. Also, for whatever reason it seems to give her face a more sophisticated air.

I don't know what it is but for whatever reason I think Robin is significantly more sexy with this hairstyle than with longer hair.

OMG, she is absolutely gorgeous!

Well yes, modesty rules for women are invariably sexist and are usually the result of extremely patriarchal societies repressing any form of female self-expression.

But they have always been race-swapping so what is different about it now as opposed to ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, ... years ago?

I have no idea what you are talking about. I will start with "blame-shifting from Hollywood", since it's the first thing on your list. Who are they blaming? What are they blaming them for?

It's not just 100 years ago. I gave examples from movies that are less than ten years old. My point is that non-white-to-white casting has always been common, so why the sudden concern about white-to-non-white casting? Arguments/ideas have to be internally consistent for me, otherwise I don't see why I should bother.

Thank you! Gorgeous as always. Her freckles are adorable!

The woman is a walking piece of art.

So can you explain to me how black elves are "problematic" but Hollywood's 100+ years of race-switching isn't? Because I don't understand how any one person can have both of those beliefs at once.

I have no idea what you are talking about. The entirety of the debate has been like this: You: I hate it when they change the race of characters from their source materials in movies and TV Me: But this is not new, Hollywood has always done this

You are the one who brought this up!

I gave two examples because those are the first two that came to mind. There are so many more. Not just in classic Hollywood either. Jake Gyllenhaal playing a Persian. Scarlett Johanssen in Ghost in the Shell. Johnny Depp playing native America Tonto in the Lone Ranger. Anyway, I digress. I don't really care about any of those. And I don't see why I should care about black elves either. The thing I don't understand is caring about one and not the other. Either you want characters to conform to the racial identity in the source materials or you don't.

Do you think that that San Antonio PD would bother opening an investigation if they had absolutely no reason to believe that things weren't above board? If you are fine with politicians using taxpayer money for political stunts, that is up to you, I find it distasteful and frankly far beneath the level of seriousness I would expect from even a local politician, let alone a Governor.