You probably don’t remember it because you’re not going to star wars subreddits on the regular, which is a good thing. It’s not something that entertainment news and blogs have spent much energy on.

The general audience doesn’t care, but the hardcores are fickle as shit. Star Wars fans are always looking for a “savior”…

I AM a digital artist who will absolutely be affected because of AI advances. I began my career as a traditional media artist, became a digital artist in the early days, and have CONSTANTLY had to adapt to new tools and developments that changed how and where I could work.

Futurists have been warning for decades that…

Artists are not unique - “menial, entry level jobs” are generally not heavy creative lifts and have ALWAYS been targets for automation, even before AI entered the picture. And I say this as someone who has been in digital art since the 1980s.

I was a pixel-pusher in the SNES days. When the first Playstation entered the…

To anyone but EU nerds, there was zero groundwork laid for Palpatine’s return in TROS - “Sorry casual fans, but you should have read Dark Empire in 1992" is no way to run a franchise.

The kingmakers in DC are lining up behind DeSantis to be the next Trumpism poster kid, which is honestly a more terrifying prospect.

I echo your experience - I was a visual production artist for many years, but lost my passion and desire to create through decades of soul crushing crunch. Crafting prompts and going down the rabbit hole of image iteration has sparked my creativity and gotten me out of my own head in terms of constructing…

Newsflash: Kids are not exempt from the law, and at the very least he was trespassing. Also, being arrested /= jailed.

It wasn’t word salad, it’s an alt-right/ QAnon talking point. The kid has a history with InfoWars, he’s the next generation of those scumbags.

Just pointing out that you’re asking for a kids cartoon to go as dark as a gritty character drama. The cartoons all have a trajectory of starting out kid-friendly and getting more serious as they go along (even Resistance made some tepid moves in that direction before ending), but at the end of the day the material is…

We also don’t know that this armor isn’t still in use. We didn’t see Scout Troopers on Tatooine in ANH, but Rebels has shown that the armor existed at that time.

Revenge of the Sith introduced a significant range of specialized clone armor variants, and then the franchise started going nuts introducing Stormtrooper…

That’s just something that you’re going to have to make peace with, because it’s a core feature of the expanded universe - gear, weapons, and vehicles that were never in the OT films but apparently existed just off-screen. For example - shouldn’t those specialized atmospheric TIE Reapers from Rogue One been deployed…

Could be a typo, but just noting that Andor will only be two seasons, 24 episodes total. Next season covers all 4 years between S1 and Rogue One.

Andor and K-2SO do already have a canon “first meeting” comic, but it’s lackluster at best and I imagine Gilroy will retcon it.

yup, he’s acknowledged that there are certain “canon responsibilities” for season 2. Cassian meeting K-2SO and Mon Mothma speaking out against the Emperor because of the Ghorman Massacre (from Rebels) are two important moments that will undoubtedly be covered. That said, I assume that Gilroy will ignore the “canon”…

Pointless theory - the Death Star laser in the post-credits scene has four major modules. Gilroy could use that image as a visual metaphor in season 2, with each module representing one narrative arc. As one ends, we see one of the modules installed, ending with this scene in Rogue One:

It isn’t shocking if you’ve been watching Chapek’s decisions. This article was back in March - https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/bob-chapek-missteps-fuel-confidence-crisis-1235122002/

I do follow this stuff and Chapek getting ousted isn’t a surprise, it was just a matter of “when.’ Iger coming back isn’t that much of a surprise considering the stories that were coming out of the early transition period when the two were butting heads.

That is a component, sure, but this time Marvel is doing a horrible job of setting the stage for the next big event film compared to prior Phases.

Feige is great at what he does, but running a global conglomerate isn’t it.

He fucked up REAL bad, consistently, for two years. Shareholders have been calling for his ouster for awhile now.

There isn’t a bigger prize because originally there couldn’t be one, as the show was on BBC (see link below). It’s an integral part of the show’s formula now, so it was kept even after the move to Channel 4.