That’s interesting, but is it relevant? Mike S’s claim was that it was supposed to be a gritty film until Disney suits got their hands on it. The truth is that those suits brought someone in to make it grittier. That it needed to be done because the original creative team had held back based on an incorrect assumption…

“Rogue One was supposed to be a gritty war movie. Suits didn’t like it and made them change to standard SW fare.”

Re: Michael Arndt’s Episode VII

Phase Four should have reminded the audience where the existing characters stand, introduced new characters, and ended with a clear sense of their common goals. But Phase Four didn’t do that.

Completely agree. I thought it was a fuck up when I saw it, and if this is the excuse they’re going with, it makes me more convinced that I was right. Even if Tennant looked absolutely fucking awful in Whittaker’s outfit, they could’ve just done the reveal in more of a close up and not had a full body shot.

He means that it’s critical of those things.

They were apparently called dust bunnies in one of the English dubs.

It’s not that. It’s that overusing references makes everything feel small and incestuous. How many of us could die happy if we never saw Tatooine again?

Churchill allegedly had advanced knowledge of a German bombing raid on Coventry, yet did nothing to prevent it or evacuate citizens so as not to reveal that the allies had cracked the enigma code. The point, in both cases, is not “just” to protect the source, but that by protecting the source many more lives will be…

Except, RRR is ridiculously over the top. That’s its charm (far moreso than any technical skill involved), but it would be incredibly out of place in Andor.

I think you’re seriously underestimating the skill involved in making the action in Top Gun so easy to follow. You’re talking about keeping everything straight when the central action sequences are largely built around multiple visually indistinguishable jets.

Carnival Row will return for its long-awaited second and final season

Outside bet? The Gray Man. As an overall movie it was okay at best, but there was a decent amount of visual creativity on show in the action sequences.

The trailer? For Ambulance? I mean, I’ve seen a few people impressed by some of final film’s drone shots, but there’s very little of that in the trailer — 95% of it is Bay’s usual manic editing, but even moreso, because it’s a trailer and doesn’t have time for a flashy extended drone tracking shot.

Top Gun is full of technically “complicated” filmmaking. Even beyond the flying stuff at times. I’m not sure how it would translate to Andor, but it’s a definite possibility, and it wouldn’t have to be dogfighting (of which there’s not a huge amount in the film anyway, it’s mostly built around a Death Star trench…

I liked Rogue One, it was and remains easily the best Star Wars film since the original trilogy, but it was far from perfect.

And just how long can they or should they go on with Andor? Would one or two more seasons be enough to tell his story and let the show end gracefully before the events of Rogue One?

That’s what some accused it of. It’s not really true. It portrays torture, because torture happened, and yes, some information is gleaned from it, but it’s not shown to be reliable. In the opening scene they torture some guy to find out when an attack is planned, “Sunday” he says, then offers “Monday”, and “Tuesday”...…

The basis in reality is that torture is still regularly used despite knowing that it isn’t reliable. Fiction could do with showing how unreliable it is, but that’s not narratively expedient, so I can understand why examples are rare.

He’s pro-Empire, which probably doesn’t help. It validates Mon’s decisions to keep secrets from him, but doesn’t validate any of his... I don’t know if it’s technically gaslighting, but it’s certainly along those lines. Pretty much every word he’s said on the show has felt to me like it was intended specifically to…