ICantDoThatDave

I watched By Perjury, the one where the lawyer testified against his own client saying he didn't allow smoking in his office which led to his client getting the death penalty. Cutter's "trick" of smoking in the lawyer's office to show he committed perjury doesn't make any sense. Think about the amount of time that had to have passed since that incident: The lawyer testified that he didn't allow smoking because he had recently quit. So this incident would have happened before the client was even arrested. Then a whole murder trial takes place. Numerous appeals happen, then the execution, then several months. So we're talking years, at a bare minimum let's say 5 years have passed. "Your Honor, for a couple of years after I quit smoking, I didn't allow it in my office. I do now because it's been so long since I quit that it no longer bothers me." That simple. Done. He goes home.

That's certainly... a take. Is Connie Nielson not aware that... 1) Wonder Woman 1984 happened? I mean, Joker made a billion dollars, but there's certainly not going to be a Joker 3 either. 2) James Gunn is rebooting the whole DCU?

To be fair, in regards to the various Superman movies, he did do this in Superman Returns, where he spied on Lois's life. Granted I think that movie was... poop, so in general I agree that that's HOW he should be portrayed, but there are absolutely instances where he.... well hasn't been portrayed... well.

I quote myself, from back in 2023... stand by this. /\

Thank you. I honestly couldn't have illustrated my point better than you just did.

Of course they can. That's literally the whole point of fiction. Very much disagree. The more filmmakers allow the real world to constrict their story-telling, the more their story suffers, as we see here where the natural, expected "in world" story beat was simply not allowed to happen. Also: "...chose to act against it"? Act against what precisely? What "potential consequences"?

I disagree. Changing what makes the most sense in your fictional world (Dr. Strange investigates a huge magical disturbance caused by someone he knows) based on the real world generally results in bad writing. Anytime "why didn't this very logical thing happen in your story?" is answered with "because of real world issue X", you've undermined your story.

It wasn't that they couldn't shoot it, it was a Feige decision based on real world "optics". “Some people might say, ‘Oh, it would’ve been so cool to see Dr. Strange,’” Feige said. “But it would have taken away from Wanda, which is what we didn’t want to do. We didn’t want the end of the show to be commoditized to go to the next movie — here’s the white guy, ‘Let me show you how power works.’”

It is though. It's used in the exact same connotation - a dork who lives in his mom's basement & can't get a date. It's used in the same dismissive way "nerd" was used in the past, to imply the person is a loser & so can be dismissed. Consider the following two quotes... They convey the same meaning. Same bullies, new terms.

Are there any* fans of Stannis or Melisandre? I have not encountered them, fwiw. * meaning after that event, so present day - I grant they had fans before that Well, to be fair to Dany, she also had terrible writers crafting her story at that point.

To be fair, we only realize it (sorta kinda) because we're watching a TV show we can rewatch & connect the dots. And I doubt any of us could have predicted the actual events that eventually happened based solely on her words. She's "predicted" that for Aemond to gain a dragon he would lose an eye (waaay before it happened), a "beast beneath the floor" was a danger (way too vague - if this wasn't a line we were explicitly shown in a TV show, among the many things she must say every day that we don't get to hear, I don't think we would put much stock into it either), & she's afraid of "the rats". That last one, even with hindsight after this episode's events, I don't see anyone in-show making the connection. They are mostly only vague, weird things she says which we, the audience, can subsequently connect to events.

Yeah, "we beat Echo" is not quite the brag they're trying to make it sound like it is.

[decided it was better to just ignore it - my bad]

[decided it was better to just ignore it - my bad]

Why did you quote me on this?