I realize this is a rant but you’re really reaching with

Surely this is a better way to track ticket sales. Inflation moves a lot faster than population growth.

So this is basically signing the start of tor’s demise then given how once you remove key parts of it people move on.

This is a stone bummer.

I never viewed the term as denoting gender either. I’ve often referred to Wesley from Next Generation as a Mary Sue without even thinking about it. I’d never heard the “Gary Stu” thing and I don’t know if it’s really necessary.

Ah look, I don’t disagree with your overall position, honestly, but:

I agree that Rey isn’t a Mary Sue character, but I also feel she’s too PERFECT in this film. And it annoys me. Obviously her backstory can reveal some of the reasons but as it is... We don’t know that. So we are now presented with a character who seems to know everything (she even finishes Han’s statements), she never…

Have to disagree with you re: Rey less of a mary sue than Luke a gary stu.

Huh. Hadn’t thought about it that way. But it’s almost as she’s an audience surrogate, acting out our wish-fulfillment fantasy. You know, someone Charlie would call a Mary Sue.

Am I the only one who feels like quite a few of these are stretching the definition of “science fiction and fantasy”?

I’d like to know what definition of science fiction and fantasy you’re operating under if Kingsman and MI5 apply.

Not going to lie: Rey’s awesomeness at everything bothered me. Not only can she fly the Millienum Falcon incredibly well, she can defeat a (wannbe) Sith Lord in a lightsaber duel, never mind this same Sith Lord has been training since he was a young kid and is so powerful he can freeze laser blasts in mid-air. I just…

Real quick. Leia was always a strong female character and how do they reward Carrie Fischer’s performance? By using CGI on her face. Han’s allowed to look old but not Leia?

One minor aside:

Let’s be honest though...having the best aim of any Stormtrooper is a pretty low bar to set. That’s like being the fastest sloth.

Television seems to struggle when it is tackling depictions of VIOLENCE, both consensual and otherwise. Was it important for you to have a lot of VIOLENCE-positive encounters on the show? Conversely, how did you make your choices regarding depicting or not depicting VIOLENCE?

You need to be commended more for this.

The hunters’ horn. It always struck me as a hunters’ horn. Very fitting.

In fact, the 1988 TV series was a direct (if revisionist) sequel to the 1953 George Pal movie, even bringing back Ann Robinson as her character from that film. They also did a Halloween episode that was both aired and set on the 50th anniversary of the Orson Welles broadcast, based on the premise that said broadcast…

I still remember the 1988 War of the Worlds tv series. It started out fine, but it got retooled into a weird, dystopian future scenario that deviated way too far from the source material.