But doling it out piecemeal as exposition is not particularly great storytelling, and it could’ve been covered more effectively in a short prologue.

Ahsoka is not The Wire though. It’s not even Andor. It’s not sophisticated storytelling that expects the audience to keep up. Ahsoka is more like “what if Obi-Wan, but we hide the first episode for three-quarters of the audience”.

The interim agreement is basically accepting all of SAG-AFTRA’s demands, therefore demonstrating that it’s entirely affordable for studios to do that too. The more movies that get made (and are successful) under those terms, the more ridiculous it looks that AMPTP are refusing to sign up to them.

I would argue that the difference is that the backstory in A New Hope is much broader and less specific — characters are introduced as if you don’t know them (in part because it’s the first time anyone’s being introduced to them).

Oh, that makes much more sense. Bringing him up in the first place was such a non-sequitur that it didn’t occur to me that you were talking about him (plus Kinja doesn’t let you know which comment is being replied to if you’ve made more than one in a thread).

Not sure that I agree, I found Batman V Superman to be a real drag too, albeit nothing like as bad.

What does Abrams have to do with anything?

Given the circumstances, and the fact that he gave Steppenwolf a visual overhaul anyway, it’s mindboggling to me that he didn’t make that switch, and instead chose to add even more sequel bait...

My favourite part was when Darkseid came to Earth with a space armada, found his life’s goal here, but got his ass handed to him and retreated... and then simply forgot where Earth was for the next few millennia.

It is a better movie than Whedon’s version, but it’s shockingly inefficient. Every scene goes on way too long, often just because he didn’t even tighten up the gaps between characters speaking, so there are weird pregnant pauses between lines of dialogue all the time. And that’s before you get to shit like (all taken…

Netflix insisted that shorter films do better on their service, which is why it got split in two. The initial release is apparently a pair of ~2 hour films and the really self-indulgent version will be ~5 hours.

Oh, I’m sure he tried, only to have an actual editor tell him. “No, Mr. Snyder, I cannot put everything you shot in the movie, I do have to do my job and cut stuff”

Snyder’s cut for when you just want a movie to waste your time.

I doubt it, given how much of a fuss he’s already been making of it being “adult” Star Wars.

her being an Inhuman was clearly because of the MCU not having rights to the X-Men

correct me if I’m wrong but no one really cared about the source of her powers

All of Pixar’s best movies are 100% “green screen”. What’s your point?

I don’t believe he’s ruled out going further, just indicated that he sees Messiah as the end of a trilogy and would like to get at least that far. I’d be absolutely gobsmacked if he did make a fourth film though. Hell, in spite of what he’s said, I’ll be pretty surprised if he directs Messiah himself.

Those instances, and the fact he now had to write a whole show about her, probably made him think “I can’t just jump to this robed, wise, older Ahsoka. There’s too much that needs to happen in the middle.”

I saw it. That’s bad enough.