You could just not start every sentence with “Alexa”.

Wait, what? Ghostbusters II might be the best Ghostbusters continuation, but only by virtue of featuring the original cast in their prime. It’s not actually any good. I’m not sure why it would be a touchpoint for anything. It’s not even bad enough to use as an example of what not to do, except in the broadest possible…

Burton didn’t do the movies, that was Barry Sonnenfeld (who also did Men in Black and the first two episodes of Pushing Daisies).

Possibly an unpopular opinion, but at what point do people start accepting that Tim Burton is not a very good director? His aesthetic struck a strong chord in the late 80s and early 90s, but he has nothing else to say and it’s now going on for 30 years since he put out anything that’s really connected with audiences*.

To be fair, I’m not sure the treasure’s backstory is the biggest problem with the Uncharted movie.

“though in fairness it does prevent shows from having to invent such an agency”

I never said horror was the only way. I was offering an explanation for why horror has come first.

people are annoyed that in the hundred intervening years, nobody has an idea on the back burner better than schlock horror

Well, at least it’s honest (even if unintentionally so): in war, even the nominal “good guys” are usually doing horrendous things.

I did the same when I watched it for the first time a couple years back. Really not sure what they were thinking by jumping around.

Perhaps of note, around the middle of season 3 it stops jumping around the timeline and the stories become exclusively chronological, which makes greater depth and longer character arcs easier.

I wouldn’t say so, no. Korg narrates a little at the start and little at the end, but he’s only barely unreliable. As bad as he gets is at one point describing Thor’s one true love as Jane Fonda, before correcting himself, but it’s always Natalie Portman on screen. There’s not really any reason to believe that the…

I thought Love and Thunder was waaaaaaay less deft on that point, in part because the comedy was often so much sillier. The opening action sequence was already right on the edge, but then you had stuff like the bleating goats (which might have worked once, but however many times they went back to the well, not so much)…

No, but only because at some point someone will do a really inspired version of it.

I think you’re arguing that A New Hope is the most influential, and I wouldn’t disagree, but most influential is not the same as best.

Yup. I wouldn’t be massively surprised if it’s quietly corrected at some point.

It was a throwaway line, so I’m not getting upset about it or anything, but to me, it stuck out like a sore thumb as one of the only times Andor has directly referenced a pre-existing element of the universe when it didn’t need to. It’s not like Canto Bight is the only place where gambling is possible.

I kind of see it the other way. When all is said and done, Rogue One will basically act as Andor’s series finale, so the post-credit scene is really just putting Chekhov’s Death Star in place for that.

Had we been fortunate enough for the sequel trilogy to be completed by the mind behind Jurassic World, The Book of Henry, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, and Jurassic World: Dominion, then the payoff would’ve gre— nope, sorry, I can’t complete that sentence.

Yeah, there really wasn’t a weak link in the show. The biggest criticism I can muster is that the penultimate episode lacked a bit of structure (i.e. it was just a series of very good scenes that needed to happen).