It was a fantastic episode. The tattoo scene in particular struck me as an instant classic.

Did she get $10 for getting second place in a beauty contest?

TPM is pretty boring if you don't have someone to watch it with. It has two all-time great Star Wars sequences (the pod race and the Darth Maul fight) but the rest of it is pretty much a snooze. I still enjoy watching it, but mostly because of nostalgia. Objectively it's not good.

Seriously, Luke's facial expressions combined with John Williams' score is an all-time great cinematic pairing.

God damn it, this boner is making me mad!

Yeah, and truthfully, the cut mission with Liquid did not seem essential to me (and would have felt like an anticlimax after the Truth mission. If anything it should have been the mission before Truth)

I disagree. It's not just the mechanics of the game (which I think are remarkably versatile), but the structure of it. Every mission starts from scratch. You do recon, study the enemy base, their patterns, when their shifts change, what kind of gear they have—and form a plan accordingly. The fact that the mission…

I don't know, man. By Clones he's really nailed the Alec Guiness swagger, and in Sith he has some really great moments that rise above the material. His final confrontations with Anakin obviously stand out, but I also love his cockiness in the General Greivous fight.

I think SLJ sleep-walked (slept-walked?) through those movies, but he's still an enjoyable screen presence. I do love Liam Neeson's Qui Gon and would be thrilled if they found an excuse to bring him back (which, considering he achieved immortality as a force ghost, he reasonably could)

Clones is the Star Wars movie I've seen the most times. It's probably objectively the worst one, but I find it so fascinating to watch. The romance scenes are so believably, astonishingly bad that I find them hilariously watchable. But Obi Wan's detective adventures are as fun as anything in Star Wars. And I think the…

To be fair, his acting in those thirty seconds was better than anything he did in the OT, and he didn't even say anything. Those facial expressions gave me the feelies.

I'm sure it's been mentioned a bajillion times, but the lack of Bob Odenkirk is surprising. Even with the chops he showed on Breaking Bad, I don't think anyone expected the dynamic, tragic, lovable performance he ended up giving as Jimmy McGill. I guess that's just a testament to how much good TV there was this year,…

Although not without its flaws, MGSV was undoubtedly my favorite game of the year. There has never been a better stealth game. Not even close. Kojima has always given players tools which which to experiment during espionage, but because of the linear structure of the stories (and sheer AMOUNT of story each game had)…

McGregor's performance in those movies, particularly Sith, was genuinely fantastic. He and McDiarmid were the only people who really showed up. But if they're going to bring back a character from the prequels, definitely make it McGregor's Obi Wan.

Yeah people criticize Abrams for never going beyond "good," but I think people overlook how good of an "actor's director" he is. He's like an even-better John Favreau. Even in something as run-of-the-mill as a mission impossible movie, he was able to get an all-time great villain performance from Phillip Seymour…

Nah. All the Star Wars movies "borrow" from each other constantly. This was no different. There was nothing lazy about the performances or the production. Sure the basic story is similar, what with blowing up the Death Star and all, but I think you're being weirdly critical of this movie in a franchise where every…

Absolutely. Did you see the trailer for fucking Warcraft? That was the most visually jarring thing I've ever seen. Those trolls looked unacceptably awful.

It was super obvious that they were airbrushing her. Every time they cut to a close up her face was vaguely out of focus.

I feel like you're missing the point. There's no coincidences in Star Wars, really. It was fate—or the force, or destiny, whatever you want to call it—drawing her there.

Rey is easily the greatest protagonist the series has had. Without fucking question.