Then I want to see his parents suffer. Show me their deepest regrets and self-flagellation.

That wound will never fully heal

"But it has rained, hasn't it?" Smug look

An example of why arguing with idiots is impossible to win.

The key phrase here is "low effort." These movies generally take a semi-decent premise and then run it into the ground faster than a nepobaby's inherited business. That's why they all end up as schlock and give the genre a bad name.

It's not Frank Herbert material.

"The prequel series based on the 2012 novel Sisterhood of Dune by Kevin J Anderson and Brian Herbert, the son of Dune creator Frank Herbert."

People who like understanding the bigger picture like knowing where and why major plot points come into being.

Example: Arachnophobia showed us where the giant, deadly spiders came from. There was a clear line of causality from jungle to mating with a house spider (easy enough to suspend disbelief) to infesting the town.

If you're introducing a biological monster, then having a backstory, an origin, if you will, adds the necessary layers of credulity for any reasonably critical viewer. Otherwise it may as well be the hand of god coming down from the clouds and making a tree, a deer, a bush, a xenomorph, etc.

I don't trust HBO to make shows with full arcs and endings. They bombed GoT so hard that the echoes still reverberate from the walls, and House of Dragons did absolutely nothing to rekindle the simple joy of watching a well produced, written, and acted play.

If anything HoD solidified that HBO has lost the thread of entertainment amidst the wash of CGI, fanciful scenery, and dreadfully dull, plodding characters. Viserys was the only shining light of the show and with his passing, the remaining cast and characters desperately attempt to fill time and space with plot that feels tedious at best.

HBO is desperate for a hit to pull themselves back into the hearts and living rooms of the world, but they seem to think that the calculus is pageantry and computer generated fluff, rather than cornerstone fundamentals of story telling. And that is why I expect they will continue to fail.

They are, but if you're only focused on one element, without seeing the whole picture, than any solution is temporary at best.

It's not just that billionaires are bad, their existence is a symptom of a larger broken system. And within that same broken system are millions of cogs that perpetuate and solidify the system's processes. So without addressing the Professional Managerial Class and petite bourgeoisie's complicity, the system would simply create more billionaires after enough time has passed.

To say that these other elements are "a distraction" is dismissive of larger root problems. So consider that your perspective is too narrow.

Another movie(s) nobody asked for.

Have you considered wearing pants?

No one should be making permanent, lasting decisions with potentially major impacts on society until after their brain has fully developed- so roughly around age 24.

By which I obviously mean no one under 24 should be allowed to have kids.

cue the Church's self-righteous and unbearably self-serving indignation

Sit still? Be quiet? Fine.

Consciousness falls inward, a galactic space battle with sapient dinosaurs ensues