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The Last Jedi is a rather good film because it "subverts expectations" the same way the franchise as a whole has done from the beginning. The damsel in distress is actually a take-charge military leader? The way to take out the massive technological terror isn't with technology but commitment to...

For the Q&A: -Did you get ownership of The Big Picture's back catalogue when you rejoined the Escapist? -Whether yes or no, do you still feel compelled to go back and update older entries? -Are you planning any more "If I pitched it" videos? Would you do those here or on your own channel?

No, if you're in the moment, you don't care about the reasons for X and Y. Rather, the film has successfully pulled off its magic trick of making you care about these fictional people (or heavily dramatized real people) in this fictional (or heavily dramatized) situation without stopping to...

Welcome back to the Escapist, Shamus!

Just dusted this account off and it still works! I followed you after you left this site Bob, but I'm glad I'm able to follow you back to where I first saw your stuff.

The hell they weren't. The Western dime novel is the original American pulp format, predating both comic books and the science fiction/fantasy/horror pulp magazines like Amazing Stories and Weird Tales. There's a reason one of the first films ever made [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000439/] was...

Maybe, if the gold coins were a fiat currency [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money]. If they are, what government is guaranteeing their face value? The defunct kingdom of Erebor? If nothing or no one is guaranteeing their face value, they're valuable only for their gold content, not as cash...

The very real threat of human trafficking that disproportionately targets poor, vulnerable immigrant women from Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America--basically anyone except rich, white American tourists 5 minutes after they get off their plane? Seriously, was the lothario who gave them a...

I love the environments in DAI, but I don't like the character models. They're too photorealistic, they fall right into the uncanny valley. Their hair look plastic, and I really don't need to see the veins running through Solas' bald head. I much preferred the more stylized character designs...

The closest I can find is Bifurcated Weapon [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BifurcatedWeapon], which has Blackstar (the Filmation cartoon in that image Bob used) as an example.

I love the contrast between Ramsay's UK series and his American-set ones. I'm sure a lot of it can be chalked up to cultural expectations (e.g. UK reality shows that don't have Simon Cowell as a host feel a lot more leisurely and documentarian in approach, while American reality shows are full...

Well, I guess one advantage of living in the suburbs of the Canadian heartland, where a single corporate conglomerate owns every multiplex for hours in each direction, is that I almost never encounter problems like this. When I do, it's almost always one-off special events, e.g. a live event...

If they'd actually planned this out, instead of making it up as they went along, they could have dovetailed the future story and the past stories better. Instead of the more interesting past stories being glorified scavenger hunts for the less interesting future story, they could have told a...

Regardless of how you feel about feathered dinosaurs, the book provided two "outs" they can easily incorporate into the movie: 1) The Jurassic Park dinos aren't 100% authentic natural dinos. A big chunk of their DNA comes from modern-day amphibians and reptiles, which can account for their...

No, because Katniss isn't the Chosen One of a Campellian Hero's Journey. She's a survivor trying to keep herself and her family alive in the face of social forces that want to break her, kill her, own her, or use her to their own ends. This trilogy is more like The Long Walk or All Quiet On the...