It looks good. It has the right feel. But look, movie marketing people... If you want a fantastic setting, don’t use contemporary music, I beg you.

The “somehow” I’m supposing is the “we’ll give ‘em this and they’ll see it in the theater because what are they gonna do, not see it?” gambit.

Mostly, what I’m expecting from this is: new Covid spike.

I want to know which test audiences keep convincing studio execs that live-action versions of animated properties are what people are really wanting.

We’re vibrating between superposed states of “Star Wars, let’s see more of the universe and its denizens instead of going over old material” and “ZOMG LOOKIT CALLBACKS!!!1!”

It is, in retrospect, exactly what should have been: Cyberpunk is (still, somehow) all about the 1980s imagined view of 2020, which included heavy Japanese influences for everything.

The biggest loss from this isn’t a notional third movie, it’s the untimely demise of the Tron: Uprising series.

Rogue One’s Blue Leader, and his awe-inspiring Robin Olds war ‘stache.

For all they’re meant to be the faceless arm of fascist oppression, the way the troopers are portrayed (clone-, storm-, and really even the battle droids later on) they just come off as everyday Joes. You expect to come around a corner and see them leaning up against a wall on smoke break.

Or, maybe, we could wean ourselves off of a game model that has stuff locked away. I never feel rewarded when I unlock something--just resentful I had my gameplay reduced to a chore to get something that should have been there from the beginning.

There’s one little bit, a throwaway gag, towards the end of the first season that I like to point out as a masterclass moment. I’m going to spoil it, so be aware, though it effectively spoils itself for obvious reasons.

I remember this hitting theaters in ‘88 with barely an “Eh?” from the general public. I am baffled by the perception of a demand for this one.

I didn’t go on opening day. It took a few weeks for 9-year-old me to push enough to get my parents out to the old thousand-seat Promenade I in Dallas. My father, who’d done hard work introducing me to all those WW2 movies, recognized the influences immediately. My mother, who had no fondness for the fantastic as a…

it felt like we really needed to make sure that we also had some stuff that was new [and] unknown

It has been stated that DreamWorks Animation will be on board as an executive producer in some capacity

I’ll freely confess to not being a comics person, but I was under the impression that She-Hulk was a lot more... Hulk-y, I guess? Like shouldn’t she be super-ripped, and not just a green, eight-foot swimsuit model?

There’s plenty to like about the prequels: production design being exactly what it should have been, Ewan McGregor’s spot-on Alec Guinness impression, the de-deification of the Jedi, and so on. And the prequels gave us the Clone Wars series, possibly their greatest boon.

Ahsoka is Filoni’s baby. How would he not be directing at least some of it?

Leaving open the unanswered questions of “why was this being made in the first place?” and “who did they think this movie was for?”

She’ll still be a Corsucant socialite at this point, I think. the book made it seem like she hadn’t had the Lothal governorship very long.