I disagree. Turning off the comments is probably a desperate attempt to save it.

Given stuff like R2-D2 losing the ability to fly between episodes III and IV without explanation, I might go so far as to say it involved actively anti-planning.

I don’t think that was it either. As I read the scene, he absolutely knew it was Mariko. He was taken aback when she claimed otherwise, but understood that she didn’t want to (or wasn’t in a position to) openly acknowledge what happened.

“English cuisine is crap.” — Absolutely.

I took the knives thing to be a case of not wanting their cooking implements to be infected by rotting pheasant meat. But as he apparently didn’t use the pheasant, was never aging a rabbit (or anything else), and I don’t recall any suggestion of him having the inclination to hunt or forage for himself, then logically…

Yes, as others have confirmed, he was aging it.

I’ve never gone back to rewatch it, but I suspect if you spoiled the twist for someone (“You remember what happened in The Winter Soldier? Yeah, well, the main ‘hero’ guy is actually a Hydra mole.”), that extra level of tension might result in the first season playing a whole lot better. As I understand it, they did…

Yeah, I somehow missed the “TV” part when you said “perfect for TV movies”.

Yeah, season 1 of Russian Doll was fantastic. I only watched one episode of season 2 and it didn’t grab me in the same way (although I do mean to get back to it at some point), but I don’t think Headland was directly involved in season 2 anyway.

I suspect a theatrical release is beyond it, unfortunately, but it would be great if we could have a Werewolf By Night / Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special style Agent Carter one-off on a semi-regular schedule.

Let AoS die already.

Aside from Andor, this is the only Star Wars I can bring myself to be excited about right now. Good showrunner, really strong cast, and seemingly telling something approaching a new story.

If he made it about specific politics it might work for people who agreed with him, but the other side would refuse to engage with it on any level. If he has a broader message to make, the only way to get the people who need to hear it to listen, is to make it a non-partisan allegory.

As opposed to when they insist something is “for the fans”, which is invariably just a weird way of saying “don’t waste your time, this is gonna be awful”?

If you tell a story that’s explicitly about those rifts, you immediately limit the audience to people who are already fully aware of the problem. Whereas, if you make it more of an allegory, then maybe, just maybe, the message will get through to some of the people who really need to hear it.

Yeah, but that’s not in isolation is it? After a trilogy of “badly written” movies about Rey, people aren’t interested in the character. It doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with Daisy Ridley.

Skull Island is not a Godzilla film, no. I didn’t claim it was.

It’s the Godzilla franchise’s first nomination at the Academy Awards in its nearly 70-year history

Assuming what Justin was trying to say is something to the effect of...

Theaters do not get “half” the money