It got so much worse in the Clone Wars animated series. I never expected I would see that many clones sucked, screaming, into the vacuum of space in a show aimed at the children’s demographic, but there was a surprising amount of that.

I thought the pointlessness of Han’s death was the point, really. Kylo didn’t want to kill him, he even told Han that he wasn’t sure he was strong enough to do it. He killed Han to impress Snoke, and Snoke made fun of him for it. That’s what pushed him over.

There is a good point about the marketing hyping up characters that overall end up contributing very little to the actual movie, but honestly anyone who thinks that’s a new thing that Disney brought to the franchise either wasn’t around or wasn’t paying attention when the original trilogy was new, and might need to be…

45% of “dislike” clicks on the user section of a review aggregation site is definitely NOT the same thing as 45% of movie-goers.

I think the movies are still about the Skywalkers, in the form of Ben Solo, who’s half-Skywalker.

Anakin’s mother was also a nobody. It’s not even unprecedented.

That costume change into the tuxedo was great! I also loved that they later showed how it was done in one of the segues into commercials. I love well-done costume changes in live shows.

Yeah they both handled that line flub like a pro. It was so smooth and in-character that it almost seemed scripted and added some extra levity to their interactions.

There was also that bit earlier on where the thing hanging on the door fell off and he was just like, “Can you get that, dear?” which was a totally…

15 crafting parts instead of 5 is only the daily free crate. The crates bought with credits have something like 75 crafting parts in them IIRC. Somewhere thereabouts.

And with crafting parts, you can just make the cards you want. It’s not nearly the nightmare scenario that people are still pretending it is.

It’s extremely unusual for any multiplayer-based games to give you anything towards MP progression for playing offline. The fact that it was ever possible in the first place was a bonus. It’s just a bigger bonus now, depending on how badly you feel you need to farm credits from Arcade mode.

Totally! I spent the whole commercial break after he took the mask off thinking it was David Giuntoli and thinking I was pleased to see him on TV again.

And also the “haven’t you people ever seen a movie?” bit, which he used in a similar situation last season in regard to LMD’s and the Terminator franchise.

Especially since we know he’ll fight Eobard Thawne at some point in the future.

Well Thawne said they were watching them all, waiting for the perfect opportunity to strike. Fuhrer Ollie decided that having them all in one place for a wedding WAS the perfect opportunity, but didn’t mention this to Thawne.

Fox only actually has exclusive rights to the Super-Skrull. Apparently Skrulls in general are fair game for Marvel Studios, and they’re going to be the baddies in the Captain Marvel movie.

Building a game from the ground-up to convince players to “waste” money on it is in no way something invented by EA. If you think designing games to manipulate people into spending money is a new thing, then you aren’t old enough to have spent much time in arcades and you’ve never played an MMO.

The 4000+ hours claim is spurious at best and doesn’t even factor in the question of whether unlocking every single thing in the game is even a desirable goal.

The upgrades you get from Star Cards in SWBF II are not “large advantages” in the game. They’re minor incremental upgrades. Having a grenade with a 7-foot…

How are they forcing anyone to buy lootboxes? Yes, they created an incentive to buy loot boxes, but there’s a vast chasm between that and “forced.”

See, I think that the paid lootboxes were an EA mandate, and I think the developers thought it would dovetail nicely in with their plans to release all DLC for free - paid DLC balkanizing the player base was a big problem for the last Battlefront. Obviously, that was a pretty far-off assessment of how it would be…

I think it’s eminently fair to describe it as an “arcade game.” I’m pretty happy about that fact, since I’m not really into hyper-competitive hardcore shooters.

This game, though? I’m having a ridiculous good time in this game.