It’s not dangling. He’s a man who can’t swim trapped in the middle of the ocean with imperial soldiers who will kill him the second they find him. Just because we don’t see it happen doesn’t mean it’s not a rational foregone conclusion. (I say “rational” because this is Star Wars, where falling thousands of feet never…

It’s a weird review. Also very short. It heaped mostly praise and then gave the episode a C+? I dunno, I think I’m done reading these. The coverage has been erratic at best since the new writer took over. 

In the same story, Green claims that when Murray had him in the air, Green was flailing his arms and hit Murray in the balls, which is the point when Murray dropped him.

He’s right, but what he says applies to most of late state capitalism. Like the corporation that lays off a thousand workers not because they didn’t make a profit, but because they didn’t make *enough* profit, we’ve gotten to a point where movies don’t get made not because they wouldn’t make back the investment plus…

I’d heard that about ATMOM/Prometheus as well, but I don’t see the similarities, at least not any glaring ones. There’s nothing particularly Lovecraftian about the Alien series outside the first film.

SNL’s been doing sponsored skits for years. They get away with it (in my eyes anyway) because the skits are usually pretty skewed takes on product placement, like the “My hungry guys” Totino’s pizza roll spots, or the White Castle one from a few years back that was centered around a “Most Evil Invention” mad scientist…

Lee’s HULK is one of the only superhero movies from the last 2 decades that I go back to for re-watches. I must not be Marvel’s target audience, because I find most of the rest of their output to be at best entertaining in the moment, but extremely forgettable beyond that. HULK stuck with me though. 

“He’s getting older and falling into the trap a lot of comedians do.” Bullseye; I’m almost more offended by the laziness than the subject matter. That, and he’s increasingly punching down because he’s forgetting how to punch up. Funny how that happens when you spend enough time at the top.

Ferguson basically DID do whatever the fudge he wanted. My uncorroborated hunch has always been that he decided to hang it up when he got word he wasn’t remotely in consideration for Dave’s chair.

Except they already did that with Luke in TLJ and the fanboys lost it, even though he did end up literally saving everyone. I’m actually surprised there’s not more complaining about Obi Wan not being presented as an all-powerful swashbuckling Jedi right out of the gate.

Right. Heck, we’d already seen Vader extinguish those flames once. I’m at this point giving the show some benefit of the doubt and thinking he allowed Obi Wan to escape for reasons yet to be revealed.

The meatball sketch won the night. Everyone seems to agree the show could use more absurdity, so it seems contradictory to also ask for motivation: the point is there is no point.

It’s interesting, I actually felt like this reviewer was trying to find things to LIKE, which is a maddening pursuit with this show. The flat fact is that it has been wildly uneven at best and wretched at worst, and this season has really bottomed out. When I ask myself why this ST is so much weaker than everything…

So the actor who voices Bender won’t sign on AND is stirring up foment against the resulting necessary recasting? Screw that guy for trying to sink the boat when the rest of the cast is onboard. The reality of voice acting is there’s probably 500 guys out there who can do it just as well.

Not skin, spine. Basically arthritis of the spine. Extremely painful. I actually respect him for keeping going through that. He seems to be the one dude in that band who just wants to play. 

Solo was solid. Not great, but solid. There were two major mistakes: One, I think it’s relative failure (it still made money after all) can mostly be chalked up to the decision to release it 5 months after the last Star Wars movie. I really think the conversation around Solo would be different if they’d stuck to one…

I don’t have time to scroll through all the comments to see if someone already mentioned it, but that’s a quote from Black Sabbath’s “Heaven And Hell” in the graffiti behind the soldier-looking types.

I’m in. 

So I’m not big on Kelly, but the AV Club should really take this down or print some sort of retraction in the wake of Brokaw’s explanation, one which happens to undermine the entire thrust of this article.

Yes. Less. Much.