Nothin screams “written by ai” like that paragraph whose two sentences both end “has a script that Terrence Malick wants him to direct.”

You mean like do actual journalistic work?

It especially seems like he wants to say “great BIG ass” and pauses right as he remembers he’s talking about Ashley Judd 

Yeah, this article was a journey from “well he shouldn’t be fired just for singing,” to “oh he was taking pictures of himself,” to “no, someone else got pictures of him,” to “he was soliciting photos from the audience.”

....I replied to someone asking if the average fan or non-fan was interested in this show. And if you’re thrown by someone on (as you point out) a public forum expressing an opinion...well, I’d say you may need to acclimate to the internet a bit more, but the way you keep flying off the handle in response to me makes…

The masculine urge to run one’s fingers through wheat fields

I think that’s what throws me about the Snyder fandom: his movies look like ass, yet the visuals are probably the aspect his fans find most defensible.

You’re projecting a *lot* of effort and motivation onto my apathy towards this project, and the adversarial, condescending stance you’re taking towards me saying “the fandom is increasingly alienating” really illustrates my point in ways I guess I’m failing to express.

I mean, taken literally Star Wars implies the existence of ducks, falcons, and hell, among other terrestrial human concepts. At a certain point you gotta suspend your disbelief and accept that not every word can be a made-up word.

I just can’t do it with the speed ramping up and down and back up again.

“Making the prequels work” is just not on my xmas list, and kinda further alienates me from the project.

Like I said, I’m drawing closer and closer to this conclusion. Just need some more evidence, relentlessly and inescapably.

I am starting to think Elon Musk just says things to get attention. I’ll need copious and breathless updates until I’m really sure.

Content on the  AVClub has boiled down to “ let’s overreact to a broad, noncommittal statement” long before the strike or ai came into play 

Right? It’s actually an example of building on previous story/lore in order to heighten possibilities moving forward. It doesn’t explain or retcon; it recontextualizes.

I’m a Star Wars nerd and it’s a hard sell for me. I just didn’t keep up with the cartoons, and the more and more Filoni turns them into the backbone of the non-movie lore (or uses them to shore up flimsy film lore) the less I feel like part of the club.

So unlike many recent Star Wars projects which put unnecessary focus on fan-favorite characters and franchise loose-end-tying, Ahsoka will put necessary focus on fan-favorite characters and franchise loose-end-tying. Got it!

24 is the highest number.

I would say Pattinson is playing more of a “young Batman,” in the sense that Batman’s supposed to be, like, fairly new (iirc). Similarly, I think the question is whether the new Superman movie is going to be about Supes becoming or learning to be Superman. 

Hell, I still do that with my texts. Hitting send and seeing those typos go out if ducking embarrassing.