I think Lucas had a heck of lot to do with The Clone Wars movie. Over the course of the tv series, though, the Lucas-Filoni collaboration seemed to really bring out the best in both of them.

The Filoniverse continues to impress

God, they earned EVERY SINGLE PLOT BEAT. That was a masterpiece. The Filoniverse continues to impress, I can’t wait to see what he comes up with next!

I hate you.

Will it explain why, when she wished she could have Mar-Vell’s powers to fight alongside him, she didn’t want to do it in pants? Or a full shirt? And why she needed that scarf?

I guess they’re re-defining her canon ahead of the movie? After all, she’ll be quite new to non comic readers so it’s good to draw a line and say ‘it starts here.’

I’m not bitter fanboy but it’s pretty obvious this movie failed at the basic script level when a new creative team decided to do away with every plot line from the previous film. Everything else is just window dressing and pretty pictures along with rehashes of the original trilogy.

Holdo: So she both likes Poe and knows he’s a hothead, but is incapable of expressing even an inkling that she has a strategy to him? I assume Holdo’s previous methods in management involve dangling meat in front of starving dogs.

One question remains, though: What was Luke’s third lesson? Johnson said it’s not directly addressed, leaving it open to fan interpretation

I’m compelled to know what drives you to defend a terrible Star Wars movie. Is it because you like the film itself, or because you dislike its critics?

And yet a country that is smack dab in the middle of Africa worshiping an Egyptian Cat God is all fine and dandy?

Yes the Romans literally were like “Oh I like the Greek religion, this is our religion now - we’re just changing the names. Zeus you’re now Jupiter, Ares you’re now Mars”. Until they were like those Christians have got something going we’re them now, except all our old festivals stay the same we’re just going to…

My favourite is the Christian demons were all taken and repurposed from other cultures gods and demigods, as a way to discredit those pagan and polytheistic religions that Christianity claimed to trump with their “one-god” system.

History teacher here, and for the most part you’re right. We see that there is SOME outside contact, and that the tribes of Wakanda are NOT native to Wakanda but immigrated there, so Wakandan culture is itself an amalgamation of cultures built around central ideas or beliefs. I don’t remember if there was any mention…

Exactly! Hinduism has strong followings in Kenya and Uganda, a tribe in Africa following the religion isn’t out of the ordinary. And if nothing else, Shuri is huge into outside culture.

And yet a country that is smack dab in the middle of Africa worshiping an Egyptian Cat God is all fine and dandy? Honestly, this seems like such a stretch. This is 100% a writer taking interesting concepts and adapting them to fit a story, its not appropriation in anyway.

You see it in their language, bits and pieces of clothing and architecture, and their religion...

Yeah, Charles is showing his ass here. None of this is cultural appropriation in the slightest.

I think we saw in the movie that despite Wakanda not exporting their own culture, they most certainly do import it, despite their isolationist beliefs. For some time, more than likely. You see it in their language, bits and pieces of clothing and architecture, and their religion. Don’t forget, Bast was followed…

> It is, in the most literal sense of the phrase, cultural appropriation