And didn’t TNG even do an episode like this? I think they did, and it looks like it was named “First Contact” just like the movie. As I recall, the “alien POV” was basically that of bland technocrats in a corporate office park with a slightly reshaped nose acting shocked at the appearance of the alien Picard.

Not only did DS9 do this, Wrath of Khan did it when it had a flawed middle-aged Kirk, with illegitimate children, one of whom called him an overgrown boy scout (though, regrettably, did not call him a “Herbert”), confesses to cheating on the Kobayashi Maru test, and basically f’d up the whole Khan situation at every…

So she’s not Meryl Streep.

You know, I never actually believed they really meant a reboot. It makes so little sense to take a concept as infinitely sequelizable as the Slayer and have it as a straight up reboot.

There’d better be an Infinity Mirror from Spencer’s Gifts circa 1982 in there.

Interesting. So Saurian is to Gorn as Vulcan is to Romulan...

I agree. I mean, sometimes I feel I have to just heave a mighty sigh, and roll my eyes whenever an outraaaaageous take on (insert some kid thing) is (needle scratching across record) totally NOT your PARENTS whatever. I mean, I know that makes me sound old, but the thing is even when I was 17 I would have had this…

That will probably not be true in several weeks. SpX-DM1 launches in August, and the first crewed flight, SpX-DM2, in December.

It is clear to me that these “true to the Joseph Campbellian mythic arc” concerns are just roundabout ways of wishing a template of the original with new faces matching up to exact character functions and plot beats of previous installments (like Force Awakens). Rey needs to “just be young Luke” and Luke needs to…

It’s actually very similar to his failure in the cave on Dagobah. Yoda wants Luke to have turned Vader to the light side, but in striking him down he sees his own face as the collateral. Luke is prone to going half-cocked in stopping the dark side at the risk of his own soul.

Because Rey has been disabused of Destiny. Not only in her humble parentage, but the fact that Luke is so unlike the hero she had heard of. It may be that belief in all the Joseph Cambell mythology is itself is what seduces Anakin and prevents Luke from realizing his hand in creating Kylo.

That actually reads really well. You have all the characterizations down pat!

Ah gotcha, yes I can believe that. Thanks for filling me in.

I know this has been hashed out and rehashed, but I still wish we knew more specifically what exactly Phil Lord and Chris Miller had done that was so unconscionably off that they went to Ron Howard. I say this without having yet seen Solo, so I don’t have an opinion either way, but I really loved Rogue One/Gareth…

To all the people grumbling that the term shouldn’t still exist, just edit the Wikipedia page to rename it and let the wisdom of crowds sort out the edit.

TBH I only stopped watching “A Baffled Gardener Inspects his Waterhose When A Mischievous Boy Suddenly Unblocks It” on my kinetoscope when YouTube happened.

100 years seems pretty far flung, IMO. I’d think more like 15 to 20.

Yes, or TLDR, don’t sign an contract where one party is bound to a term of contract and the countersignatory isn’t and later pretend otherwise. Any decent entertainment lawyer reviewing that agreement would have redlined that on first review for exactly this reason.

Because I agree with 90% of where you’re coming from, especially with regard to grimdark and the recreation of the fall of the towers, and your general aversion to movies and claptrap- I’ll just say this about Hamill in TLJ.

Ah, I see. I missed the derivative part. Yea, unfortunately it sounds an awful lot like Gilliam signed something that never obligated the other side to come up with money by a particular date, or something. Sheesh, what a mess.