No one seems sure about the ending. The Astartes seem to have found some kind of chaos corrupted Xeno (40k term for aliens) gizmo that sent them to an alien world after killing a ship full of rebel heretics. The guy in the robe that was hooked up to the orb thing was an Inquisitor that got possessed by a Daemon and go…

Yeah, at this point, sadly... who really gives a shit?

It says a lot that I can't remember the Dark Rey scene at all beyond what I remember from the trailers.

I think the biggest miss step in the Disney movies was not making a set of movies that allowed Ford, Hammil and Fisher to be in screen together again. I realize they wanted new characters for a new generation but Han and Luke should have met once more before this wrapped up.

“The Rise Of Skywalker’s script is holding some incredible story secrets”
Just kidding.....it’s a trite, shallow ,pandering piece of sub-fanfiction.

And so many PR dollars spent after the fact to try to polish the turd.

He has always been a real class act. There are some real good interviews with him where he honestly talks about how he never really felt typecast after Star Wars. He just knew that he didn’t really need to work that hard the rest of his life. It also opened him up to do what he really wanted to do which was voice…

It’s a bit painful to read these RoS BTS. So much love and care and detail in service of such a shit finale.

There’d be something deeply ironic about Star Wars doing a series with noble heroes being paragons of virtue and overall paladins while Star Trek is busy dirtying the Federation and its heroes.

Getting Musk off this planet hardly classifies as non-essential. 

Manufacturing generally is considered essential in all the states I’ve seen. SpaceX has DOD contracts, so especially in that case.

It is for Israel.

“The hunger for facts above all else leads to things like “filler episode” becoming a derogatory term for stories that don’t advance the larger ongoing plot of a narrative or don’t include some shocking new revelation that someone can add to a list.”

If I was to, for example, offer Tony Stark a choice of licorice or an ice cream bar for dessert, I know not only that he’d take the ice cream bar, but I can imagine the snarky comments he’d make at the choice being offered.

I don’t recall there being much fan rage in the days of BBSes and AOL and whatnot. Usenet had its flamebait forums and that was about it. Also, I’ve never been that invested in fandom so a lot of that passed me by. Fine. Even in the early days of the actual internet, the occasional forum post? The occasional…

I’d add in that, however much the MCU contradicted itself, or looped back on itself and retold the same story, or retconned itself from one movie to another, it nevertheless all hung together because it remembered that character is king. From a strictly plot perspective, the Iron Man films were pretty maddening,…

Yes, io9 totally does this too. Like I said, discussing canon can be fun, it can add a lot to a series!

This is where accountability comes into play. You can’t stoke the anger and then be shocked at the rage. This site isn’t as bad at others but they’ve never really reached out to educate or change the conversation. Comics are the best place to start since they’re the leaders in this industry. There’s a fine balance…

“I have become increasingly irritated by authors or directors or whatever...”

But where canon—or, rather, our hunger for it—goes terribly wrong is when whether Something Matters or Not becomes the base standard for how we consider a piece of media.