Either you have a very low bar for the term “excited” or we’re going to to see a repeat of Ghostbuster’s’ messianism and resultant demonization-driven polarization. We were through three before there was one that wouldn’t be more properly described with “dreading,” and halfway through before seeing a film I’m not wary…

Yeah, it seems like heavy odds that Marvel asked for a scary, horror infused Dr. Strange movie, he presented one, and they said, “But we didn’t really mean it! Like maybe a jump scare or two, but some people might not like this!”

“It’s too different, Scott. You gotta stick to the formula.”

I was once called a racist by a commenter on this site because I wanted Finn to be MORE involved in the A-Plot of Last Jedi.

I dismissed your comment because it had nothing to do with anything I wrote beyond cherry-picking points to argue against, without arguing against the argument.

In NoGas’s...defense, I guess? I saw this blanket attack used to dismiss criticism of TLJ more than once; hell, I’m pretty sure someone said similar shit to me when I dared express displeasure over something in the movie (on one of the GMG sites).

There’s a very real trend toward pathologizing all male heterosexual desire. You can see it in the comment sections of any even marginally left-leaning website (including io9) where some (presumed) male commenter makes the mistake of remarking on the attractiveness or sexual desirability of a female public figure,…

Why?  If people are interested in details of a rich universe, why would you not let them?  Interested people who see a deeper universe pay more attention to it, buy more books/toys/comics, go to more movies, etc.

Absolutely - agreed completely. Before SW IO9 was my go-to site for all things sci-fi and for interesting opinions. In the last several years especially since they started pushing certain narratives, I decided that they kind-of suck.

No offense to io9 or the writers here, but: you guys kinda had a strong hand in stirring the pot on this one.

“Rhapsody in Blue,” by George Gershwin

One of his final movies (from 1965) was an art film called Samuel Beckett Film (Beckett wrote the screenplay). It is purely arthouse, but using Keaton’s strengths to create a surreal masterpiece.

Thats not what happened here though; Dench made a throwaway joke, so not even the “creator” at that, with the author openly admitting she’s likely joking - yet here we are. It just reads like the author searching for offence over an issue that doesn’t exist. With Cats. If nothing else, fair play for manufacturing a…

I’m not understanding what that guy’s problem is with what was said. The actual writer of the comic is stating that the vision is intentionally misleading to manipulate Vader, as we’ve seen done before in Anakin/Vader’s story. He’s basically just reminding idiots not to take everything at face value.

The character didn’t come out. You acknowledge yourself that Dench was just joking, and not seriously suggesting the character was trans.

In the early seasons, that was fine. With medieval travel times, some vague amount of time (but probably weeks or months) between events was fine. It’s not Lord of the Rings. We don’t have to travel across the hills and dales in real time.

Just going to put this out there for all those commenting on this, there seems to be some confusion. There are plenty of cultures that would mark their calendars by “eras” I mean look at the fun Terry Pratchett has with that.

Old authors advise young authors not to do that for good reason.  It takes the reader out of the narrative when they read “It’s been many bleems since my people were enslaved by the minions of Lord Varlock.”

Cool kids use the Treaty of Coruscant epoch.

> And the rhetorical gesture of it—centering the Star Wars series on the new trilogy, instead of the original, feels odd. Like a weird in-fiction power play to center Disney’s contributions over, y’know, Lucas’s.