Reclaiming the throne now that that bitch Betty White is gone amirite?

ok boomer predecessor.

The Last Jedi was made by a competent creative with a vision. It was free of the burden of launching the franchise and could do its own thing. (It also wasn’t crammed to the gills with dumbass fan service.)

Reminiscent of the Onion article from the Game of Thrones years “Just Once I’d Like Hodor To Say ‘Women’s Rights’.”

I really think some of the hatred of Rey being “nobody” has a lot to with some people finding the notion of hereditary superiority way too appealing. I also think the whole Wuthering Heights in space thing between Rey and Kylo was fascinating, and it still has a lot of purchase with certain female fans. Reylo fanfic…

The final scene is probably the strongest and most moving segment of any Star Wars film, and I say this as a huge fan of the OT. Akbar silently watching events unfold from their ship and the blast overtaking Jyn and Cassian was powerful stuff, staged perfectly. Then for dessert we finally see Vader going apeshit…

I didn’t have any trouble with the sound, but I watched it at home, so had some control of that.

Agree fully. The direction TLJ was taking opened up so many possibilities. Obviously the Force exists but the Jedi didn’t necessarily have a permanent exclusive on the light side, or being the galaxy’s police department. The suggestion that they did things the way they did things because that’s always been the way…

Also known as “the Snoke Effect.” It amused me that so many people thought that Snoke was one of J.J. Abrams’ “mystery boxes,” when at no point did anyone in “The Force Awakens” question his identity or origins. The fans were the ones who made him a puzzle to be solved, and they weren’t happy when their own pet…

It was just painful to watch Solo check the origin story box for everything we know about Han via the original trilogy. So he met Chewbacca, met Lando, won the Falcon (as his very first ship), hung his dice in the cockpit, made the Kessel run all on the same adventure?

Especially because that element of Delvey’s story is already front and center.  There is no subtext here - she was able to pull it off because she was a believable German heiress (white, attractive, reasonably sophisticated).  Making it any more explicit would have been groan-inducing.

They say Covid causes loss of taste... in movies!

Obviously what the story of Anna Sorokin needed was to have the script written by the similarly named Aaron Sorkin. That way we would have many witty exchanges among the characters!

The answer is to have each episode focused on a different invented BIPOC character going about their lives *not* being an attractive white woman pretending to be a wealthy heiress while occasionally snippets of news reports regarding Sorokin play in the background.

I for one am stunned and offended by this series’ abject failure to address the ongoing Uyghur genocide! And would it have killed them to include a discussion of Awkwafina's cultural appropriation of AAVE?

There does seem to be a trend these days of demanding that every mystery is solved, every possible angle is discussed, etc, in tv and film and I don’t get it.  Part of watching something is engaging with it - I can use my brain to fill in the gaps or answer the outstanding questions; it doesn’t need to be handed to me…

I’ve never really understood this whole “It’s supposed to be fun” argument with blockbusters like these, the presumption that there’s no art to making well-constructed and well-written fun. Like just because it’s supposed to be this rollercoaster ride it’s absolved from any criticism or analysis. It just seems weird…

For sure, I guess there are ways to show Anna moving through the social ladder quicker than POC, but we also have to remember this is a Shonda Rhimes production. She has her own way of portraying POC that doesn’t always reflect the lived realities, and it’s an intentional decision by her.

Smug is not a disqualifier. I mean I know people who still love The West Wing, which was wall-t0-wall smug for what, 30 or 40 seasons. 

Yeah, I don’t get all the criticism either. I was interested in seeing it from the start but held off because I heard so many negative things. Once I did see it, I really enjoyed the plot, the satire, the acting. Did I bust a gut laughing? No. But a lot of it was funny, and the ending has stuck with me for weeks. All…