Even if it has stood the test of time (for whatever reasons) I still kinda wish people were more steady in their opinions, positive or otherwise. I just saw Fanny and Alexander in a theater over the weekend, and it was interesting to look up reviews for it after and see how contentious some critics were about Bergman.…

Not that I want to throw the movie under the bus myself (I caught it on TCM a while back and found parts of it interesting, parts creepy, most of it boring/annoying) but why all the hemming and hawing on the grade? If you don't like a movie, go ahead and not like it. There's no need to make excuses simply because it…

How is her AOTC design NOT the start of her? Let's not pretend she has any deep character or rich backstory in the Tartakovsky series that went on before the visual look. She's basically a female Darth Maul, somebody else who didn't really have a character beyond the look (which is fine with me— asking for more nuance…

The Prequels didn't come out until I was in high school.

By pointing out that Ventress began as an AOTC design. Again, the influence from Tartakovsky's series is minimal. The biggest link isn't even Ventress (again, AOTC) but the little bits of clone armor type stuff that Obi-Wan and maybe Mace wear. In terms of pacing and direction, the two shows are very different.…

I think it's more that you were agreeing with me.

I never said that the character as a whole was from AOTC. Only that the design was generated at that time for a female Sith, one that Lucas ultimately turned down. And it isn't a simple matter of it "influencing" her design. It's the same damn design in animated form.

That's exactly what I said.

Actually the design originally came from Lucas' crew for AOTC. One of the guys pitched him the idea of a Sith Witch as Palpatine's next apprentice, but Lucas already had his mind set on Count Dooku. So they repurposed her.

Heavily is saying a bit much. It influenced some of the early character designs, or really the wardrobe design (Obi-Wan's clone armor) before they had a revamp midway that gave everyone wardrobes closer to the films. Besides that, the styles couldn't be more different, even if you take out the CGI thing.

Correction— Tartakovsky did "Star Wars: Clone Wars", the micro-series that totals about two hours, not "Star Wars: The Clone Wars". the series that lasted 5 seasons on Cartoon Network with an additional batch released on Netflix. That one was created by Lucas and Dave Filoni, who's currently running "Rebels".

I'm frankly glad that the Clone Wars turned out the way they were. They're so much more powerul being this subversive false-flag war.

It's almost absurd that the obligatory "Here's how the SW Prequels should have been" description actually winds up sounding exactly like the actual Prequels, after the second sentence.

I think he's only interesting in the comics, where the whole point of him is satire. Ciphers can be used for that sort of thing, sure. But if you try to apply an actual arc to that sort of character, the potential for satire kinda breaks down.

I hope they don't. Like I said— ciphers are boring.

That fight is now the only thing I really care about regarding Fett. Everything else about him is basically, yeah, the cipher effect. And once you're old enough to see past that, ciphers are stupid. It's nice to actually have a "there" there beyond a blank slate to project onto.

On the other hand, it certainly could've been a stronger feature. Early on it reminded me of Roujin-Z, Otomo's movie about an elderly man trapped in an experimental robotic hospital bed that goes on an action-packed rampage. The most interesting parts of "Up" for me are where the old guy is trying to get out of the…

Hm, I'm disappointed they're trading out Hannibal's tragic backstory for something a little more conventional, as in he just started killing and eating at an early age. There was something I always liked about him taking the sadness of his past and trying to recapture what was lost elsewhere, in Abigail and (maybe)…

I might've been trolling a tiny bit when I said I liked the Family Guy Chicken fight sequences better than most modern hollywood action movies… but only by a hair. It's a very slight exageration.

I think it needs to be a little over the top in its set-piece choreography, because it's just two people this time and it doesn't have a double-saber to spice things up. The Darth Maul fight has three people from the start, which really makes it interesting on a level the others aren't as much.