Five bucks says this gets an ‘unrated cut’ on the Blu-ray, with a bunch of CG blood and a couple of alternate dialogue takes with f-bombs.

Most action movies pitched at a mainstream audience are PG-13: all the Marvel movies, all DC movies other than Joker, all the Fast and Furious movies. all the Star Wars movies, all the Jurassic Park movies.

It’s hardly random, is it? They’d already encountered him on Tatooine and brought it to the Council as a Big Fucking Deal because he was the first Sith anyone had encountered in ages.

Not to speak for all boys with absent or problematic dads, but if there’s a decent adult man in your life at a young age, you tend to latch on pretty quick (Watto was hardly decent).

It’s the best interpretation of a climax that Phantom Menace has (because it certainly isn’t when Anakin blows up the Trade Fed ship by accident).

Yeah, I am rather dubious if this is anywhere close to what Lucas was consciously intending versus a bigger, badder, “MORE INTENSITY!” (his trademark direction) lightsaber battle.

I think Filoni maybe gets a little too much praise these days but I will always appreciate him fleshing out the clone troopers. In the prequels, so little time is spent with them they feel almost as robotic as the actual robots they’re fighting. By doing things like giving them names, having some have genuine…

I guess I don’t really see how things being expanded later on in other series really “redeems” the flawed original. Like it’s entirely possible for one thing to better than another without the other thing really affecting the other’s quality. I get this in the sense that the prequels and its off-shoots more or less…

IMO that’s what makes Visions so awesome. Without the shackles of canon, people did some amazing storytelling.

Yeah, it’s definitely a fine line. I do, sincerely, love what Filoni’s done filling in the gaps between episodes of The Saga but also love when folks like Tony Gilroy and Rian Johnson are able to play in the sandbox and do something completely different.

imo a franchise’s canon should be messy and inconsistent. Art/media means different things to different people, and Star Wars especially has a bunch of influences, ideas, and themes with no one really comprising what “makes” Star Wars. Placing that under the purview of one person who’ll then decide what Star Wars “is”…

But not that type of black, so it’s okay.

You are so correct. Likewise, the concepts of nuance and subtlety are lost on most people. And, even when something is drawn in such bright and bold colors that it is clearly over-the-top and meant to be considered with tongue firmly in cheek, it is lost on them.

Everything I know about Warhammer comes from Stuart Wellington, one of the hosts of the bad movie podcast The Flop House. He’s a hardcore fan (and even worked at Games Workshop’s store in NYC when he was in his twenties, where he once sold a bunch of materials to Sigourney Weaver), but mainly because he understands it…

Battletech is weird like that. There’s a large contingent of players who bridge over into the historical miniatures crowd and want to treat the setting the same you would the Napoleonic Wars or WW2, with all the minutia and accuracy and often unbalanced armies because “history.” Then there’s a crop of newer players…

“I, a person with almost zero interest in WH40K, have come across a ton of fan art of female characters, including Custodes. Some of it isn’t even pornographic!”
Lies! Nothing but sweet honied LIES! :P

I think with GW and Warhammer40K the issue isn’t quite as cut and dry. A large majority of the whiny babies do fall into the camp of “I don’t want reeeeeeemales in muh hobby!” neckbeardies, gatekeepers who think you need to know lore to paint models, and the ever-so-lovely purists who think there’s one way to read the…

Exactly this. For whatever reason, 40k and the Imperial faction in particular, is like cheese to a rat when it comes to a bunch of authoritarian fascistic types. They project their own ideology onto the game, it’s characters and factions in truly disgusting ways. GW needs to take a much harder stance against these…

The company could gave said, “listen, nazi neckbeards, we are retconing the whole game, because it sucks. There have now always been PoC, female, trans Custodes, shut the fuck up”. But no, that would lose them all the nazi neckbeards - and I suspect they are legion. So, instead, Warhammer does some excellent tokenism.…

I, a person with almost zero interest in WH40K, have come across a ton of fan art of female characters, including Custodes. Some of it isn’t even pornographic! Clearly there’s some interest there.