Yeah, that puzzles me every time I see it come up. I was EXPECTING Family Guy-style humor, but it never materialized. Occasionally there’ll be slight brushes in that direction, but they always pull back. Take the episode where both MacFarlane and Adrianne Palacki fucked alien Rob Lowe. The fact that there wasn’t even…

Im very very happy about this. The Orville was probably the biggest surprise to me of this season, and honestly, the biggest surprise tv-wise i;ve had in years. I really dislike MacFarlane’s sense of humor, but Orville landed with me more times than it missed. Knowing season two will have less ex-wife jokes and…

I started watching it this week, and honestly I love it. I expected something dumb and repeatedly kept putting it off, but truthfully the Family Guy meets Star Trek comparison - while expected - is both entirely inaccurate and unwarranted. It’s never anywhere near as crass as McFarlane’s other work, and it’s honestly…

I’ve watched every ep of this except for the finale, and so far, it’s way more of a Star Trek show than Star Trek: Discovery. I actually enjoy Discovery, maybe more than The Orville, but as far as capturing the Trek ethos, the Orville does a way better job. If I woke up from a 25-year coma and saw this show, you could…

This movie is not for “the fandom,” and it shouldn’t be. The worst mistake they could have made would have been to gear these movies toward the prerogatives of the hard core of obsessive Star Wars fans. Not only for the cynical reason that it would have carved away like 80 percent of their potential audience, but for…

We’re going to have to agree to disagree about that. I think it would have been ruinously absurd to try to attach significance and emotional resonance to the death of a squid-faced puppet that once notably yelled “It’s a trap!” in a movie 30 years ago.

Kylo didn’t tell Rey that her parents were nothing. She admitted it and he confirmed it.

Right on. Ackbar is a background character who fueled a popular meme, nothing more. So many people are acting like he was some integral part of the story who needed to go out in a blaze of glory.

I was thrilled to see so many female extras in this movie. First Order officers, X-Wing pilots, mechanics... It was awesome.

Exactly. It was a great way to connect the audience to what Rey was feeling. 

Even bringing back Muppet Yoda (or at least a MUCH better CGI Yoda that mimics his original Muppet-ness) was basically telling sleek Prequel CGI Yoda to eat shit.

Dang, I love this.

Here’s one! It seemed to me that the roughly half a dozen old Jedi tomes symbolically represented the first 3 trilogies and maybe force awakens. If this is true Yoda cast a whole lot of shade on them saying they weren’t exactly page turners right before lighting them mothers on fire with his ghost Muppet lightning.

Yeah, these things were callbacks to the original series, but the story itself—the actual things that happened, and more importantly why—twisted and turned in ways that were completely new to the Star Wars universe.

1) Other people will have their own theories, which I suppose the third movie could prove or disprove, but to me it seemed as though Rey was not surprised by what Kylo said to her, because she already knew it was true. Also, having it be that he just told a lie there, rather than wielding the truth like a knife, would…

Yeah exactly, Rey fell prey to what orphan kids have always done when they are abandoned by their parents. Imagined a scenario in which they were really coming back and they were super stars they just had to leave her there for reasons...

No, you’re right. Admiral Ackbar is basically just Peppy Hare telling everyone to do a barrel roll.

It was perfect. And the suggestion that Rey had known it all along, but had been telling herself a different story, was a great touch.

I feel like a jerk for saying this, but to me right now the very dumbest part of the very dumb backlash to this silly space adventure movie is people rending their garments over Admiral Ackbar, as though he were an actual important character in the series—or, really, even a character at all, as opposed to an…

• When Kylo Ren, with like ten seconds of icily savage dialogue, revealed that Rey’s parents were nobody-ass losers, pissing on both George Lucas’s sole storytelling move and all The Force Awakens’s hints about Rey having a mysterious and auspicious background.