I answered that on a whim but after having given it thought, that’s what I want. I want the next episode to open with Grogu choosing the armor, and Luke saying you passed. Cut to Tattooine battle, yada yada yada... Mando S3 opens with Luke training Grogu in the force and Mando how to use his Dark Saber while Ahsoka…

Good call. It’s certainly not like Luke succeeded by forgoing his attachments. He never would’ve defeated the Empire without his connection to friends and family.

That’ll probably line up with (checks note) whatever school Rey sets up. (I still think it should be made canon that “jedi’s” are called “skywalkers” afterward)

“Your father wanted you to have this when you were older, but your uncle wouldn’t allow it, probably because it was a murder weapon used to slaughter twenty small children. Or was it thirty? I could never keep track of the little blighters, that wasn’t my department. Anyway, what were we talking about? Oh yes.”

Afterwards, she still sees that Anakin is a good guy at heart.

The lesson/takeaway from these situations is always the same: nothing does more to restore your reputation and ameliorate the damage caused than a simple and genuine apology.

Joss has been in a Hollywood bubble his whole life and I think it’s led him to think that people find his snarky “just kidding, not really” asshole routine charming, when in reality people put up with it because it was his name (or, when he was younger, his dad’s name) on their paychecks.

Did some of these twitter users read the same article I did? The Vulture piece very effectively erases all plausible credibility from Whedon. Shapiro sets him up from the most sympathetic starting point he could possibly have, then systematically outlines the toxicity of all his relationships, romantic or professional…

You bring up a good point. It’s really gross for one fandom using the toxic/shitty Whedon JL situation as a victory lap or supposed proof that Snyder’s DC films were always amazing and unfairly criticized by the studio/critics/general audience. It’s also really gross for those saying Ray Fisher was coerced/manipulated…

The whole interview is the interviewer giving the Whedon’s rope and Whedon’s hanging himself with it.

Does Whedon really think the interview was about fixing his image? The whole thing is just him digging his own grave. It’s almost like did a hit piece on himself, literally attempting a career suicide.

Wow wow wow...wow!

“So then Black Krrsantan shows up.”

Fuck easter eggs. We’re getting lore. We’ve learned more about Tuskens than the past 50 years (less if you count Phantom Menace) has ever shown. We learned that there’s such a thing as Tusken craftsmen, for example. And that their ceremonies involve a psychedelic lizard that likes your brain.

...is it REALLY that different from Uma Thurman doing Poison Ivy?

I don’t agree. Both of Burton’s films have great scenes of Keaton as Wayne, such as Keaton being eccentric and charming at the party in the beginning of Batman and Keaton and Pheiffer figuring out each other’s identities in Returns.

They can explain and re-explain it seven ways to Sunday all they want; there’s still no justification for including it as a post-credit scene.

So if Tom Holland has taken the Nathan Drake role thanks to production stalling on Sony’s part, does this mean he’ll also take the Malcolm Reynolds role in the inevitable (inevitable I say!) Firefly reboot?

Nathan Fillion did it better:

Into The Spider-Verse is the best Spider-Man movie.