A good story doesn’t necessarily rely on some big surprising twist or “surprise”.  

yeah no one should have to do that, this isn’t like the jump from B&W to Color TV. I have a TV that’s younger than D+. So much of their new stuff is so dark on it even after turning off the power-saving options. Andor wasn’t this way, though

In the broader canon, they’ve really hinted that Palpatine was involved in Anakin’s birth somehow. They may have by now confirmed he and Plagueis brought him into being using a Force ritual. Elsewhere, I’m also pretty sure they’ve hinted out (or outright stated) that Palpatine had an uneasy relationship with the Night…

Yeah, especially that last bit was obviously leaving important things out for us to discover later. Serialized TV (which I’m getting really tired of personally) but that’s what TV is now. I don’t think dropping that oil lamp/brazier thing burned down that whole structure, but I don’t see how the fire could have gotten…

So... just like the other two movies? I liked the first one OK but yeah I feel like it has one schtick that you either love or hate. Like Dave Matthews Band

You could say I hate watch it, but I really think it improved after the time jump in one major way: It gets to have breathing room to be itself. Those first two seasons felt locked into being a prequel. Of course, where they’ve chosen to go (The Burn, whatever Season 4 was about that ended with Stacy Abrams being…

Saru and T’Rina’s “fight” reminded me a lot of Odo and Kira’s “fight” in DS9, except that one existed for Odo’s growth.  I’m not sure what this one was other than “Some plot needs to happen over here”

David French in one of his books created a legal scenario he called “Cal-exit”, and it centered over some national gun legislation iirc. It wouldn’t shock me if something like that scenario played out, and Texas just joins in. I could imagine afterward they’d split apart (as others have said here) or they might…

I’m going to go to bed content tonight knowing that everyone who cried “injustice” over The Marvels’ performance and the Oscars Barbie “snubs” will be buying tickets to this movie this weekend to support woman-led films.  

This would be like the ENT finale, but it’s what fans actually want

Oh lord, you missed the big reveal at the end of S4 where former Rep. Stacey Abrams was revealed to be President of Earth (this is not a joke, this really happened on the show)

So with the addition of Judd Apatow’s opinion, the original commenter’s sentiment has increased by 100%. I guess that counts as “far from the only one”

I don’t think his wealth really had to do with it.  The first cut of Star Wars, and just about everything else he tried to make that’s NOT Star Wars, falls pretty flat.  He’s got great ideas but he needs people to mold them properly into something that feels, well, human

I don’t know what’s bothering you in your life (the holidays can be rough) but you should deal with it directly instead of returning a month later to a disagreement with a stranger over a movie the world has already forgotten

Are you from Texas?  I moved here five years ago and although the Evangelicalism and Catholicism are hugely influential, I’ve found the biggest cultural driver is its mythology of rugged individualism bordering on reckless selfishness.  Red, Blue, neither, it doesn’t seem to matter- that’s what they all have in…

Yeah but private-school educated people who’ve never set foot in a flyover state don’t know that

For what it’s worth, sorry the movie you like didn’t do as well as you wanted

Wait a minute... how baseless?

I have no data, but I suspect most people wanted to see it so they wouldn’t miss anything important leading into Endgame.  

Moffat’s arguably worse. The absolute ham-fisted condescension of his social commentary was part of what made me drop the show sometime in the Capaldi years.  I’m not even that interested in this, and that’s such a weird thing given how much I loved the Tennant years