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Man, I could write almost the same exact thing about the original Burton/Keaton/Nicholson Batman. Well, I was more like 14.

I usually watch movies at home (3 year old, often hard to find/afford sitter), so I did get the weirdness of watching all the setup for Winter Soldier/Avengers 2 in agents of shield and only getting the payoff like 7 months later (I remember someone described one of the episodes of Agents of Shield as "it's like

How dare they report entertainment news on this entertainment news site.

It may be just as well. I'm not convinced Sandman is actually adaptable.

"Well there's nothing in the rules that says that a dog *can't* go to space."

Yeah. I don't remember saying "yes!" at the end. More like "well, now they're kinda screwed".

I'm 42. I thought it was great. So did my wife (also 42 and not really even into the Marvel movies - though she did really like Jessica Jones).

The 'actually kind of a hero' thing you describe does not sound out of line with the somewhat recent Brian Posehn run of Deadpool. I never read the Liefeld ones though, so I'm not sure how much of a tonal departure that was.

I sure hope he avenged his father's murder first.

Yeah, I felt like I wanted one more check in on them at the end of the episode so it felt a little less prefunctory - maybe just them driving up to the burning ruins of the Brujo's house or something at the end.

And "Groovy" was in Evil Dead 2 (I believe when he straps on the chainsaw for the first time).

Sure, though really I'd prefer something more relatable than "because magic works that way". At least that would have been *something* though.

How about the goddamn awful looking blue screening in the Rancor fight scene in Jedi. My friend who used to work for ILM (though did not work on these) when he heard about the special editions said "oh good they can finally clean up that awful looking blue screen." All that time they spent adding what was mostly a lot

Vastly so. Are you even serious? Lapti Nek is just kind of in the background - we linger on it a bit like we do the cantina musicians, and also it's suitably alien. Jedi Rocks is just a full on Disney number (ironically) direct to camera that is completely out of place.

It just seems so obvious to me that they could have made Amidala *directly* responsible for Anakin's "death". Have her push him into the lava, have her distract him at a key moment to allow Obi-Wan to strike, whatever. At least then you could have least have *some* basis for the idea that she was so emotionally

Not really. The NRA were all for gun control when the Black Panthers were following police around and observing arrests while legally open carrying.

He keeps doing this, we keep expecting it to finally sink him, and it keeps doing nothing (or more horrifyingly raising his poll numbers). There appear to be an unsettling number of Americans who think "finally a politician who is not afraid to say what we all know: Muslims are dangerous and possibly evil."

"Most of the people who made those shows have said, at one time or another, that because of the way television is dissected and metabolized by the social media-connected audience, it’s no longer possible to tell stories that hinge on a central mystery or an elaborate mythology. "
Umm, Orphan Black would like a word…

I thought even the little bit of added footage from that scene in the special features helped a little - it was only like 1 or 2 extra minutes - not sure why they cut it.