“Everything is equally sucky.” That’s a cynic’s way out.
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A LOT of stuff was set up. Abrams ignored most of it.
Yeah, the writers and directors only had to deal with one crazy fan, instead of the entire Twitterverse.
It’s worth noting that Waititi and especially the Russo brothers and Joss Whedon also had nice fat TV resumes. TV is a lot more corporate than movies, thanks to the FCC, and directors in those chairs have to figure out a style while adhering to the iron will of the showrunners and producers.
Peter Dinklage ain’t disabled.
Frank Oz.
Abrams: “I’m setting up some mystery boxes. We get to decide what’s in them later.”
The First Order never made a lick of sense to me. They aren’t ruling anything. They don’t seem to have any plan to rule anything. They just build armies and giant weapons. Their entire point is to be antagonistic for no reason. You imagine if they actually killed all the Skywalkers, Hux and Ren would look around like,…
I’m here for the helicopter shots of high-rises.
Dear J. J. Abrams,
It would have been so much better if Rian had written the first one to introduce new characters and plots, Abrams the second, because, let’s face it, the guy does best with individual TV episodes, and someone like Christopher Nolan or Edgar Wright on the third, because those guys know how to wrap a dozen plot threads…
R2-D2 is a mechanic in the service of the Queen of Naboo. C-3P0 is a protocol droid built by a slave on Tatooine. Now, never mind that those two people end up being Luke and Leia’s parents, but a LOT of contrivance has to happen for BOTH of them to be in the care of a princess of Alderaan while she travels to Yavin 4…
That’s less the fault of either director and more the fault of Disney, who rushed the first movies into theaters without a solid plan of where the story was going. Abrams, correctly assuming “The Force Awakens” to be the first in a trilogy, left a bunch of puzzle boxes around the plot to be opened later, but never…
If the next episode of the Mandalorian featured the main character turning to the camera and saying “Baby Yoda will die in the next episode unless you kill your firstborn child. We need a blood sacrifice of at least 10,000 to give Baby Yoda life,” I imagine people would consider it for far longer than one would hope…
Clearly these fine folks are just organizing a union to collectively be able to say, “Thanks boss! You’re swell!” There’s no way there’s any under-the-surface shitty work culture or abusive bosses to complain about, otherwise it would have shown up on [checks notes] Google search engine!
I think he’s a hobo that’s been altered and brainwashed into thinking he’s Steve Trevor by Lord.
The suggestion that we’ve all been “manipulated” into engaging with these characters feels a bit condescending.