Well, in the tradition of Greek tragedy, Anakin’s efforts to save Padme by turning to the dark side wound up causing her death.

It’s kind of weird how a structural problem in The Force Awakens (i.e. Finn meets Poe and then Finn meets Rey, but Rey never meets Poe) caused issues in the following two films. TROS seems to cram the three of them into the same frame every chance it gets, like the Avengers money shot every five minutes, but because…

Palps never actually *said* that Darth Plagueis was his master. He tells that whole story with a sly grin on his face, and we’ve taken it to mean that Palps was the pupil who killed him, but he could be talking about a Sith master who lived a few generations before him.

I disagree on that point, and it’s the primary reason I’m so angry about Rose of Skywalker — it really does make the movies which came before it worse. I watched The Last Jedi again a couple weeks ago and I was struck by just how little I was able to enjoy it knowing that none of the interesting plot twists would…

It’s not the prequels that introduce the idea that the Jedi Purge happened only 20 years prior to ANH, and that very few people in the galaxy know anything about the Jedi or the Force. That’s all right there in ANH. Obi-Wan tells Luke that “a young Jedi named Darth Vader... betrayed and murdered your father” and also…

It’s just nightmare logic. Dom is just a manifestation of the Mastermind telling himself he’s not the real Elliot. The real Elliot looks exactly like Rami Malek, otherwise the story doesn’t work.

I think the inciting incident behind the Mastermind personality was a hoodie sale at Uniqlo a week before the events of the series premiere.

It’s really shocking that with this much on the line, Disney and Kathleen Kennedy flew by the seat of their pants in crafting the new trilogy. Marvel was able to generate the broad plot outline for movies that were 6-8 years away, and required a dozen movies to be successful first. How could they have started…

It was a failure of imagination to not even try to follow up on TLJ, and instead mumble “uh Palpatine clones and Sith magic.”

I was upset that the movie continued the kind of weird Star Wars tradition of sexlessness. It’s a wonder the galaxy is as populated as it is when nobody ever seems interested in doing anything, and in the prequel trilogy, getting married and having sex is equated with a literal descent into hell. Rey and Poe didn’t…

I can see that interpretation, but that isn’t how I read any of it. The Force Awakens set out a template to basically remake the original trilogy with younger and more attractive actors. You can just see the plan to eventually reveal that Rey has an “unexpected” lineage that ties directly to an original trilogy…

Yeah I knew we were in for a long movie when the Resistance exposition chorus just kind of mumbled “I don’t know, clones and magic?”

I think everyone’s heard of The Force in the same sense that everyone in our world has heard of the Holy Ghost. It’s one thing to be familiar with it as a religious concept, but another to see someone use the Force to perform acts of healing and telekinesis. People in the Star Wars universe who haven’t been hanging…

One larger issue with the Star Wars universe is that scrappy underdogs are always taking out massive war machines using simple ingenuity, which means that the machines always need some exploitable vulnerability, which makes them less of a threat.

Well, but Ozy’s plot is so crazy that you can kind of see why almost nobody would suspect a human causes it. If the journal was dated “9/11/01” you might suspect he had something to do with it. But staging an alien attack with a giant psychic squid? The public needs the dots connected on that one.

Yeah it’s difficult to believe that this apparent inconsistency won’t be addressed in some way that’s vital to the plot. We know that Veidt ultimately faces serious consequences for his actions, even if the exact nature of those consequences is still a mystery. The tape was almost certainly made under duress. Veidt’s…

It wouldn’t be the first time right-wingers failed to understand subtext. In this case, they take Rorschach at face value, and do none of the critical thinking necessary to understand the character or attendant social commentary. No less a Watchmen fan than Zach Snyder made this mistake.

In the Watchmen timeline, the publication of Action Comics #1 is the point of divergence. In this world, it led directly to masked heroes fighting crime in real life, which led indirectly to events like the creation of Dr. Manhattan and Nixon serving into the 1980s. The pirate comics only became popular later on, once…

Yeah, the series is predictable and exactly what it’s “supposed” to be — and yet, if it’s predictable to have a whole team of Mandalorians jetpack into a Mexican standoff with Gatling blasters, perhaps we don’t really want anything too unexpected to happen with this series. The adult brain is free to complain about…

Incels just see a former Chad that’s “stolen” a former Becky tho.