Yeah, I'm making my way through Iron Fist right now, and as terrible as it is, at least it has serialization going for it, not the boring as fuck 'alien item of the week' format from AoS Season 1.

"but back them, they were just Sciencebaby 1 and 2, moping Hacker, generic robot agent 1 and 2 and this guy from the Avengers everyone cried over even though he barely had a personality at this point aside from being a stand-in for fanboys"

Different strokes for different folks I guess, but personally I thought the acting in those first 15 or so episodes of Season 1 was atrocious. Brett Dalton especially was a lifeless piece of cardboard, which made it absolutely mind-blowing when it turned out that he was actually a pretty phenomenal actor. I guess they…

Unfortunately I can't really agree with you specifically on the case of Lincoln, I never cared about him even once, from introduction to death scene. But if other viewers were able to get something out of it, I'm glad. I do wholeheartedly agree with your larger point about AoS taking characters who seem boring as hell…

Lucifer isn't even remotely on the level of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

I hated Jeffrey Mace with a passion 18 episodes ago when he was first introduced and shed real tears when he died. Good job, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., you humanized a character better than most shows do over several years. Jeffrey was a good person and a true hero, the tragedy of which is that he never would have…

Really, really crossing my fingers hard for Ossoff. Kansas came *this* close, and I know all of us could really use a win like this to keep our spirits up, if nothing else. On another note, does anyone remember a time in their lives when there wasn't some kind of election going on somewhere? Because not only is…

Qui-Gon Jinn was an iconoclast who learned from his time as a padawan to Dooku that the Jedi were not as infallible as they seemed, and preferred a different way of structuring his life in accordance with the force, a less inherently dogmatic approach that he passed on to Obi-Wan. His worldview encouraged a lot of…

Dexter Jettster was at least instantly memorable as a funny four-armed diner-owner who functioned as the Star Wars equivalent of a police detective's shady source for new info.

People often make fun of the 'crazy' fans who write fanfiction online, but to be honest it's usually for this exact reason, wanting to provide a better, more emotionally logical conclusion when the source material lets you down. (Well, that and to make gay porn. Both equally noble causes)

I have a ton of faith in Rian Johnson too, but make no mistake, if The Last Jedi succeeds at all, it's going to be because Mark Hamill carries the film through sheer force of will. And what's more? I think he can do it, he's that good.

Timothy Zahn deserves immense credit for creating Thrawn and Mara Jade, and all his Star Wars novels are top notch work, but James Luceno will always be my favorite Star Wars writer, period. Darth Plagueis is the single best Star Wars novel ever written in my opinion. His recent Rogue One prequel, Catalyst, was also…

Well said. Star Wars is a deep, deep part of my life. I'm going to give away my young age here when I say that I grew up with the prequels, but I love the original trilogy a lot and tore through the novels/comics like a hurricane. The Star Wars universe is probably the largest and most intricate ever created in human…

I live in hope. Rogue One restored my faith that good Star Wars movies can still be made, so I'm still riding that particular high enough to hope that maybe The Last Jedi will be good. I'll never be able to turn my back on Star Wars.

"And having Poe as a leader of the Resistance is totally preferable to ever having him touch an X-Wing, it's not like we ever needed to see the character fly anymore."

What's really telling is that even HE admitted he fucked up royally on that one. They talked to him about it in an interview and he basically said not having Leia and Chewbacca hug or have a moment together after Han died was a huge mistake.

30 years from now, let's ask all the fans of The Force Awakens how they'd like to see a movie all about new people that utterly sidelines Rey, Finn, and Poe except to give them tragic deaths and backwards character development.

You're absolutely right of course. The sheer drop in quality from "Heaven Sent" to "Hell Bent" is the most disappointing case of whiplash the show has had since "City of Death" immediately led into "The Creature from the Pit".

Gotta love "The Happiness Patrol", I would adore if the show ever did a quasi-sequel to that.

They can't, the Daleks have to have at least a cameo appearance once a year in order to keep the legal rights. This season will presumably be Dalek free except for the two minutes they appeared in tonight, so don't worry, you'll be getting your wish as much as possible.