I now hope there's a scene of Vader chopping through Rebels on that beach, while James Earl Jones repeats Anakin's soliloquy about about sand.

Each and every one of those would have been the best line of dialogue (not to mention, best line reading) in the prequels.

I feel guilty to admit that the first thing that came to mind when I tried to envision this was Trump inviting Mike Pence to go with him for a colonic.

I think it's a sad story about how the high price of getting rimmed on the regular by Anna Farris is a slightly less warm relationship with Nick Offerman. A true American tragedy.

Oh, c'mon! She said, "Respond however you like." That was bigly magnanimous!

The question is, could Neither have done with less genital mutilation, or more? It didn't seem to hit the happy medium.

You've got it a little backwards. By all accounts, Lucas spent lavishly on TCW, out of proportion to its profitability on Cartoon Network. So TCW looked a lot better than any weekly animated series had a right to. Lucas also basically had complete creative
control over the show, so if he decided they wanted to do a
fou…

Savage Oppress was no big loss, as characters go. His main character trait, prior to Maul showing up, was that he was big. He was also supposed to be really powerful, but in the end, he wound up being something like the fifth or sixth most powerful Dark Side user in the Clone Wars.

The season started so promisingly for Ezra, with the show finally paying more than lip service to the idea that Ezra could go to the Dark Side. It's a shame they've ditched that premise to restore the old, blandly decent Ezra we've come to know.

One other thought on this. For a comic book company, it kind of makes sense to specify that Peter Parker is white for the movies. Marvel Comics had (at the time) thirty-plus years of back issues invested in Peter Parker as a white guy from Queens. If Sam Raimi had cast Marlon Wayans as Peter (which I think was…

Once more, with feeling…

I think it's important to look at the licensing agreement in context. As I understand it, Marvel didn't have approval for casting, script, or final cut on Sony's movies (at least, not until they basically got control of the character back and folded him into the MCU). So restrictions like these were basically the only…

The contract's not so old (I think Gawker claimed it's 2011), but these sections might be legacies from the original 1990s licensing agreement that brought us the Sam Raimi series. IIRC, they issued a new contract right before the Garfield films went into development, because Sony needed an extension of time or else…

I wanted to double-check that, but I couldn't find the actual text of the agreement on a quick search. It's actually that he can't have sex until he's 16, and not with anyone under the age of 16, which is a lot more reasonable. Also, he can't abuse alcohol, but he can use illegal drugs. The thing Marvel was worried…

The movies sucked because the writing and directing sucked, not because the actors did a bad job (with the possible exception of Jaime Foxx, but I don't think there's anything he could've done with that dogshit character). It's a lot like the DC Universe movies, where they're putting a lot of great actors out there in…

"Andrew, I advised Kevin Feige. I never thought you were a bad Spider-Man. I thought Marc Webb was a bad director, rest in peace. Kevin has all my
confidence as do you. But there are reasons why you must have nothing to
do with what's going to happen."

Technically, it's still Sony's movie. That shouldn't keep them from making Peter Parker another race or making him gay—since Marvel can agree to let them do those things and since Marvel's effectively in control of this movie. I'm pretty sure that all those terms in the Sony contract (which include Spidey not being a…

I get what you're trying to say, but I think you're taking empathy a bit too far, in defense of people whose defining characteristic has been a lack of empathy. Sure, they're desperate, they want to take a wrecking ball to the system, they feel betrayed by Washington, etc., etc. But it's more than a little gullible to…

I have the opposite reaction to STID/Nemesis, because Nemesis is a sendoff, and those tend to emphasize either the best or the worst of the series that's being concluded. So in Nemesis, you get repetitions of all the worst things about TNG: Troi gets mentally raped one last time for the road; we get janky…

If they weren't Star Wars they would've been about as successful as Jupiter Ascending.