I wouldn’t use Fury Road as an example of being better. They drove one direction for half the movie, and drove back the direction they came from for the other half. I love Fury Road, but if you were going to boil down that plot to the most basic thing in one sentence, that’s what it would be.

The problem with the Casino sequence wasn’t that it was tagential—it was that the characters and the plot seemingly forget for long stretches why Finn and Rose are there in the first place.

No, I was trying to imitate downplaying a lot of character and plot development. There was a lot of development in both Empire Strikes Back and The Last Jedi.

especially in a movie where Leia is drifting in the vacuum of space but Force pulls herself back to the ship and is largely fine within < a day. I don’t expect realistic space physics whatsoever. It’s just something to note.

Well the Rebels did lose all their ships, an extremely fortified planet and most of their members... They don’t have the near-infinite resources + soldiers that the First Order has.

Why do Poe and Rey need to meet ever? Fans like you have so constructed your own narrative that you don’t even realize when your complaints make zero sense.

Oddly enough, that is exactly how I felt about the original series after watching it recently. This new series had me hooked immediately after Rey and Finn first escaped in the Falcon. It was a ‘These are your heroes” moment that just worked for me. From what I’ve heard, Poe wasn’t meant to survive the crash on Jakku…

Or... how about roughly the first 45 or so minutes of Return of the Jedi? Seriously, Leia’s (and Han’s) rescue from Jabba’s nest, as well as the execution on the Sarlacc Pit, was ridiculously long and unnecessary. Should’ve lasted 15 minutes at most.

“It was a relief then that Rian Johnson did what needed to be done... I hear those criticisms, but find them easy to forgive in the face of how brave some of Rian Johnson’s choices were.”

And like most hacky comedians, he also has a tendency to repeat a punchline or quotable phrase OVER AND OVER until he gets a bigger laugh. He just seems to wear the audience down with his energy, in my opinion.

Okay, but if you’re going to say that about Che, you had better feel the same way about Kate McKinnon, who has performed roughly 200 sketches doing essentially the same thing and pointing out how charismatically stinted and awkward Hill Dawg has been throughout her entire political career. Just be consistent is all I…

“Also, since I’ve NEVER watched an episode of SNL in my life”

The point of the show having hosts is that it allows for the show to have a different energy every week, but more importantly: RATINGS. Shows are never built around their host, mind you, except in trying to work with what they do best: in this case, the episode and Hart’s baggage just allowed Dennis a nice lil’ thesis.

This one was hard to watch with my dad. He and mom are much like Rosa’s parents, without the bit of hope at the end with her dad. They blamed me for upsetting them and that I was just confused. I just wanted to self harm that night.

B99 has the best character-parent-stuntcasting ever. In addition to Trejo, Root, Bernhardt and Smits, can’t forget Bradley Whitford and Katey Sagal as Jake’s parents.

For me it was “We remain unbeefed”

I can’t believe Jake didn’t just sing Doug Judy’s Rosa serenade!

That casting was almost as perfect as when we got the one-two punch of Stephen Root as Boyle’s dad and Sandra Bernhardt as Gina’s mom.

Danny Trejo was scarier this season as Gypsy’s father on The Flash, but Jake did seem appropriately terrified of him. Rosa’s love of big knives makes more sense now that we know her father is Machete.

I would assume union rules (WGA, PGA) prevent them from removing CK’s name on an episode he actually worked on. It’s my understanding that the only way you can do that is if the person requests it (e.g. for uncredited cameos) and even then there’s a process with the union to make sure the person wasn’t pressured into…