SW is a mess because it’s a mess at the highest levels. There’s no planning, no direction, which leads to so many missteps like the latest trilogy. Now their stuck because they want every SW movie to be tentpole, have no idea how to do that, and thus all their current content has to fall in-between stories that we…

Everyone was complaining that all of Star Wars had to have Skywalker or OT connections, now that they’ve moved away from that you’re complaining that the material has connections from other Star Wars material.

The star-snake is swallowing its own wars-tail, and it won’t be long before there’s literally nothing left.

Miller’s public reign of terror came after the Flash movie was already done with principal photography and they were into post. WB was already close to $100 mil in. There was no chance they were going to shelve it or recast and start all over again. Marvel is still going to release Loki S2, that Majors’ is a big part…

What? 

According to Variety and other outlets, multiple alleged abuse victims are now coming forward and talking to the DA. 

Dude, that’s a lot to say, when the obvious truth is fuel lasts as long as the writer says it does to create whatever scenario they want. This show hasn’t been consistent about most anything.

(Axe Woves is there, somehow surviving the crash)

It’d take a lot of effort on VFX teams, audio teams and likely AI use to do the quality full replacement but it’s doable.

It was only a matter of time. Majors was apparently well known amongst the NY acting scene to be an awful human being. 

Majors’ lawyers are good, and they know those texts likely wouldn’t make him look good in most people’s eyes, which means they are flailing about, trying to focus public opinion on the aspect that the alleged victim didn’t want to press charges in those texts. It was an act of desperation, and it didn’t produce the…

There’s been rumors all day on Twitter, mostly tabloid junk but a few accounts that usually know what’s going on with Marvel, that internally they’re creating a shortlist of potential actors to recast Kang but they’re waiting to see how things play out before pulling the trigger, basically for all the reasons you noted…

The more interesting question to me is whether politicians or cops will be able to argue that a real video is a deepfake in order to avoid consequences for their actions.

Not to say AI will “destroy us all,” but LLMs have made massive, and worrying leaps in less than a year. The current GPT is astoundingly good at making fake articles with the right inputs. Down to citations, ISBN and page numbers, which can be entirely made up if you’re telling it to mimic that style.

I play TLoU 2 again, after watching the series. I hadn’t played it again since it came out because, holy crap, it’s emotionally draining (a bit over long). As opposed the first game that I’ve replayed many times. It’s really good, and some distance of knowing what’s coming allowed me to appreciate some things I hadn’t…

That surprise shocker happens at the end of what’s basically the tutorial of a 30+ hour game and drives the entire narrative. To have the be the end of season 2 would require them to have an entire season of the game’s flashbacks, which would be awful.

(Spoilers for a century-old book: Most of them won’t.)

Yeah, that musical choice was awful but I also think this could still be good. As to showing too much of Dracula? That doesn’t bother me. Even in the short chapter in the book sailors keep reporting seeing him at night, just nobody believes each other.

Coincidently, I just watched Robocop again a few nights ago and it’s pretty much a perfect movie as is. The zany, over the top tone, and equally over the top violence, mesh to make something that really can’t be recreated. The sequels didn’t, the already tried reboot missed the point entirely.

As always, read the article linked to, an in-depth journalistic article, filled with things that aren’t so stupid as to say, “but is this pretty obvious failure being seen (or at least spoken of) as a failure over in Bezosland?” Bezoland? Are you a child?