I don’t think any other show is even trying.

Who said it, Jason Mendoza or Mad Max?

The Jonathan Harker Foundation is secretly engaged in illegal activities in some manner though, as Renfield noted from his comment about the mercanaries, so if they went to the police or the courts they’d be risking sending themselves to prison. It would have been better for humanity to leave Dracula locked up, but…

At any rate, I just watched this movie without having seen its predecessor and I never felt confused. I’d seen the original when I was five or six. I don’t really remember it, but I understood the concept of people getting trapped in the game, so it was pretty easy to catch onto the gist of what happened with this guy.

He brought balance to the Force.

I’ve seen other people mention it and one source saying J.J. Abrams had confirmed he was.

Tribalism is a strong motivator. Because that’s where we’re at now. Just avoid talking Star Wars at Christmas or posting anything on Facebook unless you want to hear your uncle complain about those damn Canto Bight scenes taking American childhoods.

Yeah, but we don’t really know how large that part of the fanbase is. The internet’s an echo chamber, the movie made as much money as expected, and Solo was the ultimate fan service, so it failing probably had nothing to do with The Last Jedi. And, without having any reliable statistics, there seems to be plenty of…

Yeah, J.J. Abrams is a hack, but he’s kind of like that scorpion parable by now. It’s simply his nature, and I’d place equal fault with Disney and Kennedy for choosing him while knowing that.

At this point, personally, I’d rather he make a Knives Out sequel or an original sci-fi fantasy than deal with the Star Wars fanbase for another decade, both for his sake and mine. And I’d suspect they’d be better films anyway.

What I don’t understand it why this had to be a trilogy. It’s not like Disney’s going to stop making Star Wars, they had an interesting cast, and more story than three films had time to cover. What stopped them from making a four or five film series except an arbitrary tradition?

I mean... how often? It’s a perfectly reasonable observation, but why do you keep coming back to it?

Because Marvel’s making the gutsiest, most filmmaker-driven franchise blockbusters around. I think if you’re dismissing Guardians 2, Black Panther, and Thor: Ragnarok as pointlessly safe and boring, franchise blockbusters just aren’t a genre you enjoy (which is fine.) Star Wars literally created the franchise…

Then may the Force help us all...

I wouldn’t expect anyone in the real world to sleep with Post Malone, and yet, if his lyrics are to be believed...

These characters with these actors easily could have made the best trilogy of all.

Bring on the Chinese, Australians, and possibly Russians, and now evidently most of the Europeans!

Essentially, TFA didn’t set up a great beginning for a trilogy. TLJ could have handled the characters’ chemistry better, but it was fighting a very uphill battle. For that matter, I think capping this at a trilogy is arbitrary. Disney will keep making Star Wars films and they still haven’t fully passed the torch to…

He also intentionally went into exile out of shame, according to Han. His basic TLJ act was already set in stone by J.J. Abrams homaging Obi-Wan and Yoda’s arcs.

Yeah, I love TLJ while thinking there’s a lot of flaws. But among many of its detractors there’s this inexplicable need to prove that it’s the literal worst film ever made, which makes it impossible to have a normal conversation about it.