Comments by "Clogs" (@clogs4956) on "The Critical Drinker" channel.

  1. I still scratch my head over this 'diversity' casting thing. Didn't it used to be called 'tokenism'.
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  2. In fact, I have problems as a woman in controlling my anger when I see half-arsed Woke rubbish ruining my decades of Marvel (and DC) comics reading.
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  3. I have a profoundly deaf friend. When she’s not wearing her hearing aids, she tends to maintain a neutral expression until someone engages her attention. I’ve only seen clips of ‘Echo’ but I guess the actress, not receiving verbal prompts, maintains her neutral face except where she’s been coached.
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  4. You know, no matter how tough the modern young woman is, they’ve nothing on your granny’s generation!
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  5. Perhaps the writers have reached the point where they get maudlin drunk and their conscience manages to get a word in edgeways: I really messed up my life. Then they sober up and deliberately set out to tempt younger women with the same bad choices.
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  6.  @Belerez  you have your take on the story and characters - we have ours. I get that, but methinks you protest too much. Go away, now.
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  7. I saw the suit and my first thought was: a bad CGI version of Transformers' Arcee. Then, I decided that it's just meant to be manga-esque.
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  8. I’m a feminist - one of the real old-style ones - and I don’t see myself as a “girl boss” nor do I like such characters (I use the term loosely: they don’t have characters).
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  9. Buy this man a drink, because he’s articulate, perspicacious and a f*ing genius.
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  10.  @DataMineNo69  it’s not feminism, trust me... it’s virtue signalling on a poser’s scale. Look, they’re even f’ing over our great heroines to prep the way for every art to be diversely led by impossibly non-binary Narcissists who are born perfect, able to do everything without trying and never make mistakes. Kinda like the images on Russian propaganda posters back a hundred years ago.
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  11.  @bob1986  and it still is one of the best.
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  12.  RedDot  hello, infestation bot. Go away now.
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  13. I keep hearing that old refrain: anything you can do, I can do better… because I identify as a woman.
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  14. I’d dispute ‘depressed’. Eowyn was filled with despair and Aragorn represented the hope she’d lost (you know, because he’s called Estel?), so fixated her love on him. When she thought that hope lost, she went to die in the only way she saw as honourable, on the battlefield. Eowyn is a classic Anglo-Saxon heroine.
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  15. I've heard the words 'money laundering' bandied about. Also 'tax-deductables'.
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  16. My first RoP trailer was the Superfans. I thought I’d see other members of the Fellowship, scholars possibly, but instead I was treated to a whole bag of steaming wtf? I watched it all the way through, too horrified to look away in case the real world had imploded around me. That cured me of all hope I had for the series and, so, I’ve watched reviews like Drinker’s, but I wouldn’t touch RoP with a bargepole.
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  17.  @lushingtonbrady9757  yes, Galadriel destroyed of Dol Guldur with Nenya, the Ring of Adamant. I rather suspect Tolkien saw her as a fit young lady taking part in games rather than warfare (and yes, I know that games arose as practice for warfare), so she was 'Amazonian' in the manner of many female athletes rather than encased in steel and waving a sword.
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  18.  @matthewronsson  actually, Lord Dunsany’s ‘The King of Elfland’s Daughter’ that is still considered the finest fantasy novel of all time. I’m an English Lit & Lang graduate with interest in the Old and Middle English periods so, for me, Tolkien is far, far more than merely a fantasy writer and LoTRs is more than a fantasy. I loathe RoP because - well - it’s shallower than a half-dried up puddle.
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  19. Miller's Flash grated after a while, but I still think of the role as separate to the actor. His real life shenanigans are irrelevant to this review. Anyway, DC screwed-up big time without needing some scandal to push them along.
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  20. Sir PTerry had Discworld's Dwarf females bearded and mentioned the delicate politics of trying to ascertain the sex of a possible marriage partner, given that armour, helmets and big axes were de rigeur. The LoTR's text states that female Dwarves were few and looked so like the males that it was difficult to tell them apart. Aragon jokes that: it's the beards - and he isn't contradicted! I'm okay with the concept of beardless Dwarf females, actually, but the actress in the trailer is patently a lady and dressed like a World of Warcraft female Dwarf (and WoW female Dwarfs do not have beards).
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  21. Isn’t the original quote from Plutarch? It’s supposed to relate to the young Alexander lamenting that his dad had already been there and done that, so he wasn’t going to get equal conquerer’s glory. Because, if that’s really where the line came from, it’s more fitting than ever for KK.
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  22. A misquote, yes, but it and the full one will be everywhere soon, thanks to Amazon triggering the Tolkien fans.
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  23. Nicely concluded, Drinker. Tom Baker’s Doctor struggling with an existential moral dilemma: do I have the right to change history just because I’m offered the opportunity?
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  24. Well, Evil-Lyn finally gets to enjoy a Skeletor boner. NB: it's just his head that got skeletised; the rest of him is, apparently, fully functional.
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  25.  @SammEater in other words: Blackrock. But I don’t reckon they can do it on their own [cue the WEF friendship song].
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  26. Yeah, no. As a Tolkien fan and a woman, I’d prefer not to work with any directing team who knew sweet Fanny Adams about Middle Earth. It would be hard work scrubbing the blood off the walls.
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  27. Michael Morbius fan here - I feel your pain.
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  28. Love ‘Hook’: Peter grew up and had to find his inner child again in order to find himself (the child is the father of the man, as Wordsworth put it). I even liked the new Lost Boys and how real death taught them about the reality behind their eternal fantasy, flagging one of the more subtle themes of the original story which was keenly felt come WWI.
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  29. I’m a female and manga definitely doesn’t appeal to me, but neither does the mainstream. I am invested in The Ripperverse and the new Image Transformers, though.
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  30. It's kinda Zen to witness the self-unaware unaware they're proving it.
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  31. Ah, the civilising influence of mothers (on boys). My two can eat politely, speak nicely and duck preemptively.
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  32.  @bromododragon2252  the risible 'fight' scene with Titania is proof that no man was ever allowed in. No heavy rain or mud, for a start...jk. That said, there's a lot of competent stuntwomen and lady writers who were not invited to contribute, either.
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  33. This explains why I’ve been mocked and vilified for pointing out that, irl, women are not in the habit of physically abusing men. Actually, I pointed out that the opposite was true… only it isn’t, anymore, apparently… I suspected the guy who argued the toss was in his late teens, maybe early 20s. The first time a woman tells him ‘no’, he’ll feel justified in back-handing her before she follows through and throws him a hundred yards down the street, through a plate-glass window and into a huge vat of soy milk.
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  34. We need more nerds and nerdesses to stand behind that line in the sand, smile, and say: go Woke, go broke.
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  35. Well, at least Chibnall remembered the Master's compression weapon... I'll give him one point, but that only leaves him at negative 999...
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  36.  @louiethepitt  it’s not an adaptation. Amazon’s banner clearly states that it’s based on the works of JRR. Which made me smile. I am looking forwards to them including snippets from his glorious translations of Beowulf, The Pearl and Sir Orfeo.
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  37.  @zionleach3001  being labelled is a badge of honour these days. It means you’ve upset a SJW.
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  38. I rather think we’re at the point where navel-staring Hollywood is grasping at straws in an attempt to remain relevant. We’re fed up with the fan-baiting and fan-blaming, the name calling and vanity posturing. We just want a good story with great characters and, if it’s added, CGI. The Flash is just another film that fails to deliver.
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  39. Loved the costume, liked the premise... I’ve got the original comics and thought this might work, more fool me.
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  40.  @kyleellis1825  that’s the thing: if you’re hit, you know it and you can show the bruises. But emotional and psychological abuse can be so subtle that the victim might not realise their position and, if they eventually suss it, may not be believed because they don’t have bruises. That’s one reason why the term ‘domestic violence’ was replaced with ‘intimate partner abuse’. I suggest reading ‘Why Does He Do That?’ by Lundy Bancroft.
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  41.  @aaronjustice9020  I’ve never played RE or followed the lore, but I know you’re going tell me it a s**tshow. Expectations subverted and fans declared racist yet?
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  42. I've already got a bet on Sauron for that characterisation.
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  43.  @lushingtonbrady9757  gotcha. But I did wonder if the total obliteration of Dol Guldur, every trace of it, was the ravages of time visited on it.
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  44.  @jimjimmy680  oh, no disagreement there, but not in full plate.
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  45. As a fan of Baum’s original books, I won’t be watching this.
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  46. Surely the odd one out is Marvel Zombies? How the heck will anyone get that on screen with all those... oh, hang on... Resident Evil. (PS: I love the early MZ with its fun and gore, but not the weak later stories.)
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  47. Psychology recongises a behaviour it refers to as 'deflecting' which is part of the parcel called 'gaslighting'.
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  48. I’m a WoW player. I saw all the hate turned on Blizzard a few years ago and wondered if there might be more to it. Then Dragonflight came out… Don’t get me wrong. The idea that non-breeding drakes might shack up together is reasonable, but I’ve no idea how the Maruuk Centaur have a future because we never find any foals running around. At least the Tuskarr know that one plus one equals baby makes three. Was SBI involved here, too?
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  49.  don't be surprised  reported you several times. Go away, now.
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  50. Remember how they ‘improved’ the original Star Wars Trilogy? Quite.
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