re: #200 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I really don’t have time to go into this, but I will note that before covid I saw at least 50 plays a year, and am familiar with what different productions can do, so there’s no need to talk down to me. A play is not a novel, nor is it a complete imagined world.

I mentioned sex because of the reference to LGBTQ, not because I’m worried about it. (Anyway, I will simply not watch the series if I don’t like it, it’s barely on my radar.)

Peter Jackson, among his many sins, took 30 years off of Frodo’s age and turned him into a weak fool. He turned Gimli into a comic foil, also Merry and Pippin. (Beautiful visuals, though.) That’s one kind of thing I’m talking about.

The movie version of Starship Troopers bears no resemblance to the novel. You can argue about whether the movie is good, bit you cannot argue that it is Heinlein. That’s another.

And all that is what I’m talking about when I talk about remaining faithful to Tolkien’s imagined world.