The Holdo maneuver got through the Supremacy’s shield due to hitting at the EXACT moment that the shield’s refresh cycle was refreshing. If the Raddus had hit at any other moment it would have blown up relatively harmlessly against the Supremacy’s shields.

Incorrect! It was used in the previous movie, as Starkiller Base’s energy beams travelled through hyperspace. This is the only way the beams could move between systems fast enough to hit the Hosnian system before it was evacuated. It’s also how people could see the beam from other systems.

You’re right: Vesper’s fate is a fridging that’s so fundamental to James’s character that it’s hard to be mad at it. It makes perfect sense that falling so deeply in love with a woman that turns out to be an enemy spy would inspire Bond to view love and sex as highly useful tools that can obtain all kinds of results…

Why?

Call it a nonlinear platformer or NLP for short. Not only is it a concise description of what the genre is, but if the abbreviation becomes popular enough it will displace the bullshit pseudoscience in google search results.

Pokémon games don't even contain all the pokémon anymore; I'm not sure why we care about trees.

Not sure “hero” is the word I’d use. He did Din a favor but has now gone back to the criminal life and has even installed himself as the new crime boss of Tatooine.

I think season 2 is getting the tone right more than season 1 did, and this episode is a microcosm of what the difference is.

I think anything that can be used as fungible currency, including gold pressed latinum, falls under the category of money.

There’s a section in “Save the Cat!” on this. The upshot of it is that this isn’t Hollywood lacking creativity. It’s Hollywood responding to the fact that we as an audience, including me but also definitely including you, have made it clear with our viewing habits that we are averse to trying unfamiliar things.

Goddamnit first Sean Lock and now this.

The entire reason she wants Flagg saved is because he knows too much. How much do you think she wants a live Flagg in the hands of the Corto Malteseans? If Harley spills the beans on the team’s US affiliation Waller can laugh it off as “she’s an escaped criminal and is insane to boot”. But Flagg is a US soldier in…

Yeah when I saw “Lenny Henry (Lord of the Rings series)“ I couldn’t remember him being in the series of movies so I had to google if there was a second Lenny Henry I’d never heard of. But no! Middle Earth has a black dude now apparently! I’m still never getting Prime, but I’m vaguely curious now.

I’m not familiar with this story and the article is pretty vague. What did this guy do?

Hey, remember when Trump was president? That wasn't a nightmare! It was real! He was president at the start of the year!

Well, look at it like this: in the Hollywood screenwriter’s guild, screenwriting credit is determined by who came up with the substantial story points. An actor who tweaks dialogue gets no credit, but a writer who came up with a version of the script that introduced the main plot and character elements gets the…

Well, he’s A voice of Mario. It really depends what they want: Martinet’s take is good for the “yoo, woo, WAAHAA” stuff but to my recollection they’ve never given him dialogue lengthier than “so long eh Bowser” or “thank you so much for-a playing my game”. For little soundbites it’s cute but for an extended…

By that logic copyright is censorship. I want to make a Marvel movie too.

Disney are idiots who couldn’t correctly assess how many people were actually bothered by Gunn’s past. The people who cared are allowed to care. Once again I will point out that people are allowed to not buy things they don’t want (for example tickets to a movie by a director they don’t like). If the world had decided…

That's just wrong though. Censorship is the thing on the left. The things on the right are merely phrased in a scary way like "bend the knee to their values". If I go to a restaurant and a waiter punches me in the face and I say "I'm not coming to this restaurant again as long as that waiter works here", I'm not being…