If there is a God, then He created Barbieland out of anger. The dream houses portend nightmares and agony. In Weird Barbie’s eyes I see only a blank stare that speaks of a half-bored interest in fashion.

I don’t know who you mean by “Carl.” Are you talking about Rick’s son, Coral?

My take is Herbert used that as shorthand for desert culture, not that Arrakis is populated by the descendants of Arabic/Middle Eastern Earthlings.

Also, it doesn’t seem like a critique of the character’s place in the film so much as a critique of not getting to see enough of a famous person onscreen. Most of the critiques in this review evince a feeling the critic failed to just sit and take in the movie itself.

Sadly Pugh fares worst out of this quartet since her part is small and the character ends up being just a forgettable plot convenience.

Dune is a story that takes place 10,000 years in the future. Commenting on the presumed improper ancestry of the actors playing the main characters is more than a little silly.

Marty being in China in perpetuity is the kind of totally dumb thing Einstein would have loved. It was the right call. 

“So, he’s overly fixated on the time period shortly after Rebels ended, but that’s not where the Star Wars timeline is anymore.”

It’s not too odd. Star Trek, by comparison, had Final Frontier and Undiscovered Country come out on top of the second and fourth seasons of TNG. So it’s not strange to have a sci-fi series…

Not that Lucas is some supergenius planner for leaving year long gaps in the OT, but it did create space for additional storytelling. He was just aping episodic short filmmaking from the 40s and cheekily skipping episodes for the fun of it. But just because it was incidental to his goals doesn’t mean it didn’t do a…

“None of the Disney+ characters appear in the sequels, so either they all die in between ROTJ and TFA, or they were alive in the background of the sequel trilogy and did absolutely nothing of note”

If the only story you that you think matters is who’s running the government, sure. But that’s the inherent problem with…

Remember when First Class ended with The Brotherhood, and Magneto in full on Kirby costume, and then the next one was like LOL never mind?

Until I see otherwise, I’m convinced that Ahsoka and Grogu will end up in a time vortex that brings them into the present day of the upcoming Rey movie, thus allowing Filoni to keep them the most important characters in the franchise despite not appearing/being mentioned in the ST.

yeah exactly. they spend 5 years getting me invest in a brand new time period and then immediately retreated.

Yeah I would love it if Favreu and Filoni eventually moved on from their current time period and started making stuff in that New Jedi Order time period. Filoni has such a hard on for his old Clone Wars and Rebels characters though, I don’t see it. Maybe the secret is to make Filoni make a new animated series in that…

honestly, for all the shit that the sequel trilogy got i was at least looking forward to more new stories in that new timeline. i don’t even necessarily need to follow-up with any of the characters, but i thought the point was to give me something new.

I’m not saying he did it, but it’s also the least shocking accusation that we’ve seen.

I think it helps that the deaths last time didn’t happen at the hotel. It’d be a big news story but I don’t see why anyone would mention what hotel the dead people were staying at.

Murder mystery shows are inherently unrealistic, but I think they get enough fun mileage out of the “who will it be” that I don’t mind it so much. Especially since they sidestep the boring question of whodunnit (everyone else does that) and instead play a game of “guess which narrative thread ends in death.” Also,…

I think that’s basically right. I also think alt-right celebrity provides a world that feels more insulated from failure.

You do realize that there is a middle ground between “everything Marvel does is amazing” and “there’s some superhero fatigue so everything Marvel makes is an unsalvageable mess,” right? Yes, recently some things have been underwhelming (Quantumania, Secret Invasion), and some have underperformed (The Marvels), but…