Well, the main appeal of Star Wars is the audiovisual impact — the visual designs, the Burtt sound FX, Williams’ score. It’s not really exciting to read about. At least in the comics you have pictures, though historically Star Wars comics art is mostly terrible.

Clone Wars is full Canon, not EU, and the stuff with Satine is a “they could have totally been together in slightly different circumstances” thing. And the thing is, the Order doesn’t require celibacy, it bans long-term attachment.

Canonical Star Wars is basically turning into a live action version of the EU novels. Rehashing the OT didn’t work, so they’ll keep doing a deep dive into the old books, games, and comics for story ideas and characters. The writers are gonna be people who grew up with that stuff so they’ll be happy with it.

I watched the pilot for that and there wasn’t anything remotely funny in it.

Came here to make the same analogy. This article is just rubbish.

Agreed - surely there are less click-bait articles for an agency like this write about. I get that the appendages are sensory, but sensory tie-in and sex are two different things. I’m sure sex can be heightened with the sensory input, but the appendages aren’t sex ORGANS. But if the Na’vi didn’t have actual sex organs…

Sigh.

“Additionally, some Na’vi have sided with the colonizers, looking to plunder Pandora for its resources.”

Hey look people who think it’s cool to make fun of Avatar are here.. What a surprise. Why can’t people just let people like what they like? Ugh. 

I actually disagree, I think that facial animation looks incredible.  I think the issue is going with blue cat people is always going to make our minds say “This is fake” 

The best thing about Picard has been the Red Letter Media reviews of it. There’s a real air of sadness in it as two middle aged men try to process the grief they are feeling because they’ve fallen out of love with something that they’ve been passionate about since they were kids.

Everyone was fine until someone complained. Then call in the clowns.

Basically, had Bruce paid attention to the meeting with the accountants, he probably would've known the Renewal fund that his father left behind was being siphoned by corruption and tied into the very thing he was trying to solve

This. Early in the movie, Alfred and Bruce’s maid make it a point to announce that an accountant is coming over to visit. The scene cuts before we see the accountant, suggesting that it’s a set-up that will be paid off later.

Is there an editorial prize to see who can publish the dumbest story this week?

One of my biggest pet peeves with the movie. Why was The Riddler’s “identity” treated like a big reveal? He’s Paul Dano, that’s it.

“Ummm Birds of Prey was so much more enjoyable than The Joker”

I think I’m done with this website. There’s a difference between unabashed fandom and straight shilling for megacorporations, and I don’t think io9 knows where that line is anymore. So many of the articles I’ve seen over the last few weeks would not read any differently if they were written by their subject’s PR team.…

Having just watched most of the (formerly-)Netflix Marvel shows, I’m only really starting to realize how often TV adaptions of semi-adult properties will blatantly introduce elements to try and make them like every other adult prestige drama.

I’m calling bullshit. I seriously doubt Ezra has anything resembling “thoughts” in [their] head[s].