For all the hate the sequels got, you’d think Disney and the Star Wars creatives would be really careful about their mystery boxes and cliffhangers - but no lessons learned apparently. We spent the length of at least two full movies getting what should have been the first act of one. We’re left with more questions…

Gotta say, you’re weirdly hostile in your defense of this show. 

OK. It’s not that the show is slow or too long, it’s that everything is moving at half-speed. Every line is delivered with a character pausing and staring off stoicly into the distance - there aren’t real conversations, there’s weighted delivery.

So now that the show is almost over, I still don’t really understand most of the characters’ motivations overall or in the moment-to-moment action.

I agree about Andor but you only get half credit for Mando since the series revolves around a force wielder trained by the Jedi and very very prominently uses lightsabers. I’d even argue that the main group of Mandos are just reskinned Jedi (hokey religion in the brink of extinction fighting the Empire - just obsessed…

Don’t hop into the comments or complain on Twitter that I spoiled this big Star Wars moment in the new Jedi sequel.

There are a lot of games out there. Maybe it’s just not fun for you. It’s fun for me - and it meets one of the marks of a “great game” in my book: I think about when I can jump back in again when I am not playing and have other life things going on. Can’t wait to jump back in later tonight.

I have watched a lot of Star Wars content over the years, but I feel like everything succeeds or fails depending on how well it’s able to capture the personal drama of the OG trilogy. Nobody’s favorite moments involved seeing another Death Star blow up - they’re always about character arcs and the small-scale drama…

Isn’t the Mario movie just building on the Pikachu as a Sonic movies anyway? I don't see how more videogamed themed kids movies should affect me one way or the other if I just don't watch them. 

Spot on. Not going deeper is worse than not going into them at all. We’ve seen the religious fundamentalist cult prevail, the Rebellion to turn into a fascist regime, the good guy be a racist cop and the droids happily serve their masters. The show seems aware of all of these things but just accepts them as status quo…

This episode restored my hope for this season of Ted Lasso. I thought the first two episodes were good but didn’t really get me super excited other than to think “Well it’s setting things up but the rest of the season will get better.” I definitely felt like this was the “It’s getting better” installment. Everyone…

I’massuming Theawn will have to be a Big Bad but that seems kind of weak. Maybe he'll make more of a splash when he shows up in live action. And these characters only seem to get less interesting the bigger their role in the overarching saga is, so this isn't really as exciting as it should be. 

I agree simply because it makes things needlessly uncomfortable. Like, the murder, cannibalism, all that, yeah of course it’s horrific, but I don’t know anyone who’s been a victim/survivor of either. But when I watched this episode I just thought of all the people I knew who I should specifically tell to NOT watch…

Same here. I didn’t see it until it came out on streaming but still managed to avoid just about all information about it. A few people said it was good and that was about it. I thought it was probably the best movie I saw in 2022.

I never saw enough to know if that was resolved, but I always guessed it was just the obvious. “God creates man, man creates robot dinosaurs, robot dinosaurs eat man, Aloy inherits the earth.”

Same. I thought it was pretty and the concept was new (even though it wasn’t really my thing) but I really disliked the voice acting (with the exception of Aloy) and don’t remember the story at all. 

I feel like this nails it. For Horizon, I just saw another pretty/empty open world game. If I have to go to dots on a map to find the next thing then it doesn’t really feel like a lived-in world at all, it just feels bigger.

Yeah, I’m still trying to convince a friend that he needs to watch those episodes of Boba before Mando comes out. I assume there will be some kind of recap, but yeah there’s a lot of important story that happens for a completely separate show.

The outrage isn’t because the character called her that - a character can be racist without the creators also having those same views - but because she was actually named that. But I think that’s the only way she’s referred to in the movie. I still don’t really see why that’s offensive other than people enjoying being…

I’m white and I do have a big nose. I’d just be like “yes? Can I help you?”