Why can’t more books be standalone stories anymore? Whenever I see X Part X under a title, I’m immediately turned off. Melanie Rawn turned me off to the whole fantasy series idea after the whole Captal’s Tower fiasco and GRRM has since proven me right with ASOIAF which is looking less and less likely to ever be…

“Any guesses how they’ll work time increments of “28" into the titles of the other films?”

Seriously? Asohka guy?  Not the Andor guy?  Fuck. It’s gonna be Rebels all the way down, I guess.

Thanks!

This was a beautiful, well crafted film with a rote, garbage story made from scenes and story beats strung together from other, better films.

And that should terrify you.

The opposite is also true. That’s why we have the presumption of innocence.

It's almost as if he was innocent until proven guilty in a court of law (rather than the court of public opinion).

My biggest thought watching The Creator was that someone really needs to hire Gareth Edwards to direct another sci-fi film that someone else has written.

I was literally looking to see if this was on 4k Blu-ray the other day!  

Fair.  I’d actually be almost pleasantly surprised by that twist, actually.

Absolutely!  And I’m definitely planning to watch the movie, I’d just be more excited if they weren’t telegraphing the ending.  A movie about a completely doomed crew fighting to the last against an unstoppable evil is far more compelling to me.

Calling it now: despite there being no survivors in the book, the black guy, the woman, and the kid will all survive the film.

If you think 90% of the WGA hacks could have so much as conceived of the show without his stories to start from, see the last two seasons of GoT for an example. The moment they ran out of GRRM’s books to adapt the show went right off the rails.

They're busy checking on the progress of their digital actors and AI writers.

“This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the show being covered here wouldn’t exist.”

I had given up on Andor, but someone I trust told me it was worth it, and it turned out it was. RoP was decidedly not.  The visuals were beautiful, the storytelling was generic, and the main character was tedious.  But the worst part of all was how clear it was how a few tweaks could’ve made a much better show.

“Hopefully there’s actually going to be more to their relationship than Gamora 2 telling Peter she’s more than his memory of her predecessor.”

I agree with what everyone else said.  It was super dark, and I loved it. 

Mike Flanagan still has Fall of the House of Usher still to come from Netflix. That, not Midnight Club, will be his final Netflix series.