There is a Batman villain or tragic anti-hero named "Manbat" whose real name is Kirk Langstrom. Perhaps Wayne Bruce was confused by being called by the name Langstrom's alter ego.
Frodo and the party at Weathertop - in the books Frodo shouts Elbereth's name as a war cry and stabs at a wraith, rather than cowering and falling down as in the film.
Ent moot results and dramatic reversal - in the books, the Ents knew what Saruman had been up to and decided to go to war at once. They didn't passively decide to do nothing then change their minds.
Faramir bringing Frodo and Sam (and the ring to Osgilath). In the books, Faramir recognized the threat the ring posed and let Sam, Frodo and Gollum go on with their quest without hinderance.
The books had no nonsensical scene with Gollum framing Sam for illicit lembas consumption.
The books had no stupid dwarf tossing jokes.
While Aragorn has periods of self doubt in the books, none of these inhibited him from taking action. In the film he has a long sequence of scenes where he's basically paralyzed by self doubt.
No scourging of the Shire in the films. These scenes were crucial to showing just how much each of the hobbits had developed as characters and in what ways.
I could go on, but hopefully these are sufficient to illustrate the point.
The films were great with respect to casting, cinematography, art design and location. Jackson and Boyens seemed to have forgotten however that Tolkien was the master and they the students with respect to writing.
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Eh, it's no more problematic than the many canon retcons we've gotten. It may be there was an element on both earth and the Lanthanite homeworld that maintains Lanthanite immortality, but that element was lacking on Flint's planet.
It's an appealing theory, but how would you square it with the end episode reveal that Flint was no longer immortal since having left earth? Was McCoy just wrong when he reported that readings from the earlier tricorder scan show that Flint has been aging normally since he left Earth's environment, and will soon die?
We know little enough about Lanthanites in general, and Pelia in particular but it is implied that they are an alien race, so their long lifespan isn't likely to be linked to remaining on earth, unlike Flint's.
Perhaps it wasn't leaving earth that cancelled Flint's immortality, but some element on Holberg 917-G?
Regarding The example given in the article, lying to get out of a social obligation , memorize this phrase: "I have a prior commitment."
People seldom challenge it or ask for details. It isn't a lie, it is merely non-specific.
That prior commitment could be as simple as "I made a commitment to myself to not do things I don't feel like doing" or "I need to walk the dog" , descale the tea kettle or keep an appointment.
It's nobody's business but yours or perhaps your spouse's which applies.
"I was convinced up until the reveal that the "alien" was a sort of scavenging species 0 of the Borg, with the robotic look and the ability to adapt to phaser fire."
I suspected the Pakled myself. That would have been an even bigger tonal mismatch, so I was glad to find that I was wrong.
Totally agree about Mitchell. Rong Fu is really good in the role and deserves some love from the writers. Mitchell is a recurring character rather than a regular, so it may not be an apples to apples comparison but still, she's been there from the begining.
I felt this hard. I spent far too long this afternoon trying to get some useful troubleshooting ideas out of CoPilot for a baffling WordPress SVG problem, but it kept losing the plot. Live and learn.
SNW has been overusing it as a plot device. In TNG it was a one off gimmick to bring back Scotty. Still, I wondered why they didn't buy Batel time from her Gorn egg infection by putting her in the pattern buffer. It seems like an idea that ought to have at least been discussed, but I don't recall that it was.
To be fair, it was used the way in the TNG Episode Relics, when Scotty spent 75 years stuck in the Jenolan's transport buffer, so quiite a long precedent.
There is a Batman villain or tragic anti-hero named "Manbat" whose real name is Kirk Langstrom. Perhaps Wayne Bruce was confused by being called by the name Langstrom's alter ego.