I have a feeling people are learning all the right lessons from Into the Spiderverse. The visual style, at least from the trailer, is fantastic.

Same.  I’m still not convinced he isn’t....

My head-canon is that Will Ferrell’s character here and in the live action portions of The Lego Movie are the same character.

I want that poster.

I want this to be amazing. I need this to be amazing.

All of this.

1. Rebecca’s defense of Jack is in character for Rebecca. They has often excused/dismissed/ignored other’s abusive emotional behavior, including their own. Making excuses for bad behavior is a common theme in Rebecca’s life. That is Rebecca’s flaw.

“we’re supposed to find it romantic that her ex-partner would keep sexual content of her even after the end of their relationship. That, at the very least, is debatable.”

I do not ask anyone about their religion, so Mr. Cruise is no different. If someone wants to bring up a Bat Mitzvah story, that is up to her, and I will listen politely.

I read and loved the books in my youth, and enjoyed the show a lot. After season 1, I re-read the first two books and...well, concluded that the books just aren’t very good. I still get how groundbreaking they were idea-wise, but the characterization is so thin that to call the characters two-dimensional would be too…

longish reply. The tldr: it’s fine if you like sci-fi (and aren’t actually meaning that you like action thrillers in a sci-fi setting - like for example I, Robot), there are plenty big ideas introduced and enough going on that you can engage.

I also never read the books and very likely will not, so just watched the show on its own merits. A little bit exposition-heavy at times but amazing sets, costumes and space ship designs.

I think the consensus is that it’s a better show if you haven’t read the books. I keep bumping up against that uncanny valley of “almost like the thing but not the thing” and get sort of grumbly about how the story is being told and a bunch of other stupid details that get in the way of me actually enjoying it for a…

Glad to help.

I’ve not read the books. It’s still not a great show. It’s not completely without merit, but the boring and bad stuff far outweighs the good.

Yes

I haven’t read the books either, but thoroughly enjoyed season 01. Its a sprawling space opera, set over the span of 100's of years across the galaxy. Its scope is huge, and its world building is epic. To that end, you really need to stick with it through 3 or even 4 episodes before you get hooked. Its production…

Not really.

I’ve read the books, and yes, it’s a good show. I never thought you could really do the books correctly if you did them exactly - but this keeps the ideas of the books while making it work in both the medium and for a modern audience.

This was my thought, too. One of the big appeals to the original was the stop motion and the practical sets of the underworld. I have no desire to see the Sandworm-infested afterlife as this overblown CGI spectacle.

That would be nice if they used stop motion in the sequel.  I didn’t think there needed to be a beetlejuice 2 but also I’m part of the problem since I’ll end up seeing it in theaters. Hopefully Alamo Drafthouse does a double or has a movie party again for Beetlejuice.