- Quick Warren Ellis brain dump on the current state of social media, and where it might be heading in the immediate future. The recent Instagram ordeal (probably a mostly imagined ordeal) and the applied changes to Facebook seem to be the first steps in a new paradigm for social networking. One that Uncle Warren describes as the entire network “calcifying into Big Media”. Which is kind of a problem and counter-intuitive. It feels good to read that the interest in blogs continues to grow, even if the active number continues to decline. Blogging is the constant, it has always been there and always will. Even after the major news media outlets (print, online, and everything in between) declared it dead more than a couple years ago. Less blogs, more blog interest, good for me. Even if I suck at it.
- I’m hearing really bad things about The Hobbit. Often times I get more of an idea of whether I’ll like or not like a movie based on its BAD reviews. Rotten, if we’re talking RT lingo. The Rotten reviews of The Hobbit could be easily summed up as: “long, overstuffed, and tedious”. Which really makes sense when you think about the fact that it’s a relatively short children’s/young adult novel stretched into a 3 motion picture trilogy, the first of which clocks in at nearly 3 hours. And everyone that enjoyed it keeps saying “it isn’t fair to expect another Lord of the Rings”, while a bunch of critics who think it’s terrible keep saying “it seems Jackson is less interested in telling the story of The Hobbit and more interested in making another Lord of the Rings”.
- Speaking of Smaug the Dragon, I’M ADDICTED TO SKYRIM. Alduin’s way cooler anyways. World eater.
- When it comes to movies, Ethan Anderton of SlashFilm posted his 5 biggest disappointments of the year. I can’t say I agree or disagree because I have not seen literally any of those movies.
- And now this:
-Sonny
