Yeah, I love Luke’s arc in Last Jedi, but that beat’s always been a stretch. That said, Abrams was the one who said Luke went into exile, and I don’t see a plausible way Luke would have done that while Leia was still out there fighting unless he’d done something terrible and feared himself. So I think Rian Johnson had…

I believe the idea is that he used up all his energy doing the projection trick. Like, he had to give himself so far to the Force that he wasn’t able to come back.

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I haven’t watched this since the one where Omega got kidnapped by Cad Bane. I didn’t really care for it enough at the time. I liked the worldbuilding with the Empire and Kamino, but the characters felt thin to me, and the dialogue wooden. Would anyone say it’s gotten better and that I should keep going, or would you …

HOW is this unedited?!

I knew him from Lovecraft Country and I knew he’d been cast as Kang for Ant-Man, and I still didn’t recognize him immediately. It’s not even like they covered his face or anything, he just completely changed every movement in his body.

I like the merry bank of monks. Never trust merry monks with your financial system.

Yeah, I hated the idea that they were going to introduce a major (pun unintended) new villain in the final episode. I was very happy to be immediately proven wrong. (Though in my defense, I figured this was a miniseries.)

Agreed. And, honestly, WandaVision might have improved its finale if it split it into two parts, as well. I’m happy they’re not making them too bloated, but I think they went a little too far in the other direction. Plus, they’re so short they barely feel like TV shows. And despite all the showrunners out there…

Yeah, those are fan speculations, purely. I believe they even considered putting Doctor Strange in WandaVision, but decided against it for creative reasons: They didn’t want to distract from Wanda’s story. Which makes a lot of sense to me. Fans get excited by cameos and dramatic villain reveals, but that doesn’t mean…

Everyone seems to think their relationship is a done deal, but that wasn’t the look of someone who reciprocates your romantic feelings.

It feels like it’s another victim of the internet mistaking unpredictable plot twists and surprise cameos as the endgame of all storytelling. Loki is a phenomenal character study full of excitement, humor, emotion, and interesting ideas. It’s “failed” to have a dramatic twist reveal of a new comic book villain 90% of…

Yeah, if you figure Ned is the father to the real main characters, his death is one of the most standard tropes in the book. It just wasn’t obvious that was the case at first.

Dr. Wong was both a couples therapist and an expert in coprophagia.

While I loved this episode and really liked the Madripoor one too, I’d say that COVID definitely seemed like a factor in all three of these episodes. The ending here definitely would have made more sense if they’d originally designed it for there to be masses of people shoving and rioting to get on the ship, making…

Taiwan considers itself to be a part of China. The dispute is over which government is the legitimate government of China (the one in Taiwan or the one in Beijing), not over whether Taiwan is independent. (There are some people in Taiwan calling for independence, but that’s an escalation that’s never been the island’s…

I think nearly all of Marvel’s movies and TV shows fully stand on their own, plus an occasional tease exiled to after the credits. It’s internet pop culture sites that try to turn them into puzzle pieces for clicks. They’re rarely right, and even when they are, it occurs much more organically in the story than stuff…

A Dustland Fairytale is my all-time favorite song, but honestly, this version mostly made me realize how old Bruce Springsteen has gotten.

Yeah, I feel like asking this movie to give some nuanced consideration of climate change and its psychological ramifications is basically just asking for a different kind of movie entirely.

I’d say it was firmly an action/thriller. I honestly love that they never explain the conspiracy. It’s like the briefcase in Pulp Fiction; the actual details aren’t the point. Though this is a much more low-brow film than that one, so here the point is that the kid’s dad discovered something sinister and now the…