For me, the Emperor isn’t a big deal because in the OT he’s the Emperor. But the new films carry the baggage of the OT so the questions about Snoke’s identity (for me) is moreso how he managed to come to power, create a cult of personality, and corrupt Luke’s nephew out from under him. Everyone in the movies seems to…

I think the Outer Rim support ended up not really existing though since no one showed up (thought for sure we’d get a Lando going “yee-haw” kind of moment from it).

I don’t think so. I think the Harry Potter books describe him as blonde, but the Fantastic Beasts version of him felt extremely over-the-top Depp, down to the wispy little mustache.

I have mixed feelings about Jacob coming back because while they were great together, I thought the bittersweetness of the ending was one of its best parts.

He’d be SO good. And he was one of like three actors in it who felt like they were giving 100% the whole time. So odd to throw him away in a Professor Quirrell role.

I feel like whatever this movie is, it’s going to end up being the “actual” first film in this story. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them felt like they had written a standalone movie and then went back and rewrote one final draft to add in elements they could spin out to more movies. I feel like this is backed up…

My theater legit groaned when Farrell transformed into Depp, with a few giggles interspersed in and one guy who yelled “Oh, c’mon!”

Two things:

(I think EA’s practice is here is extremely shitty and predatory trend, but it’s also kind of incredible that of all the awful shit that’s ever made its way onto Reddit, this is what achieves the perfect confluence to be most downvoted.)

Well, it does say it’s going to be about new characters and the stories will be unrelated to the Skywalkers, so here’s hoping.

Fuck yeah.

Think of the lack of revenue a four day late review of the newest Star Wars will cause! Four days of THE LAST JEDI ads covering The AV Club, but not one single review to tell people whether the movie they bought tickets for months in advance is actually worth watching or not!

I found that super creepy too. It’s not even like they graduated. They’re in the first half of their junior year of high school.

My favorite thing about this show is how I started out thinking Steve was a douche and during this ep I’m just shaking my head and thinking, “Girl what are you doing? Steve is amazing.”

One of the nice things about last season is that it felt like they had the typical 80s bully antagonist in Steven and then undercut it in the best way. Not sure why they wrote Billy to just double down on what they seemed to be smarter than.

Gizmo was definitely a reference, but there was a part of me that was hoping they’d go further with it and endear us to Dart a little more before making him a monster.

The least interesting aspect of it is the “why” for the Upside Down / Eleven / etc and more about this well-written, well-acted characters confronting “stranger things.” Trying to go all LOST with the mythology feels like a real bad idea.

When the first scene of the season finished, I thought, “Huh. I hope that’s just like a nod at other stories out there and not a Chekov’s gun, cause that kind of widening feels like it’d really fuck things up.” Then along came episode 7 to prove it’d fuck it up harder than I could’ve guessed.

I like the idea of it a lot—and think they should have been doing something like it more throughout the season—but thought the episode itself largely sucked because the performances of the gang were just too broad and awful while the look of it veered far too towards atmosphereless Schumacher.