It’s rare for the director to be fired after production has begun (as in L&M) and rare (but becoming less so) for another director to come on after production has ended to do substantial reshoots (as in Rogue One). However, it’s not rare at all for a director to be replaced during pre-production. It’s just that the…

It used to be exciting to be first, now it’s just sad to see an empty comment section.

Ron Howard close with Lucas too, and they brought him in. Me not sure there that much bad blood between Lucas and Marvel, given that he sold franchise willingly, for huge pile of money, and his protege Kennedy still running show.

Johnson is a guy with talent but no clout. He brings a patina of artistic credibility to the project without actually having any leverage to enforce it. As the Han Solo incident proves, they’ll drop him in a heartbeat if he gets out of line.

Your question about Laura Palmer’s role in the cosmic scheme and the paradox of undoing her murder has raised a possibility for me. It seems like BOB was pretty resoundingly defeated in ep. 17, bringing to a conclusion the Fireman’s complex plan to defeat him. That was in a sense, the “true” ending of the Twin Peaks…

I think in a lot of ways, Lynch’s use of Audrey in this season was a meta-commentary on the character of Audrey herself. If you think about it, she never quite fit into the narrative of the original series despite her best attempts to insert herself. Most of what we remember her character for are things that were more…

For 16 episodes my reaction to The Return ranged from cautious optimism to outright anger. But these last 2 really made everything click in to place. Everything you’ve said is spot on, but I also think there is an element of turning the idea of a reboot back in to the fans that wanted it. In essence, they are…

Maybe it’s Baby’s First Critical Analysis to suggest that Twin Peaks: The Return is an extended meditation on both itself and the original run of episodes, but that’s the most coherent interpretation I have so far. I guess the only insight less piercing than that would be “Dale Cooper symbolically represents the…

Who else could replace Michael K. Williams but Paul Bettany? I’m constantly getting them mixed up.

And sadly, while Sansa clearly really does see it that way, to everyone else, she withheld the knowledge that she potentially had another ally available who could have made a huge material impact on planning, leaving Jon to commit with too few forces and almost die. He tried to gather every ally he could, marshalled…

And considering that that candidate will not have spent the last 20 years being a bogeyman/punching bag for every major Republican talking head and politician in this country, I’d say they’d have a better chance even if the strategy was exactly the same.

This makes me laugh! Nothing happened in post. The wolf’s eyes are clear acrylic and if aligned perfectly you can “see through” them. They are white showing the snow and ice, then black as Jon’s black glove comes out of the water directly behind it.

Point one is definitely true. Thing is, he’s ALREADY done worse than Nixon and his mouth breathing base still thinks he’s better than Hillary so they are happy he is president.

Ok, get this. Jon is a red herring. Dany is Azor Ahai, she loses another dragon in battle, and the true love she needs to sacrifice is her last remaining dragon.

It’s like the people who complain about Doctor Who, someone who flies through all of time and space in a tiny box, being just “too silly” whenever he deals with something like a dinosaur in London. That logic just doesn’t track.

Haha, I just realized this is probably the reason the Maesters in Old Town dismiss magic as idiocy of the small folk.

I have more of a problem with the zombie dragon having holes in its wings and still being able to fly. Unless the undead can undo physics.

How can he fly with giant holes in his wings?

I think the “wait until the sea freezes and walk around the wall” strategy would have been a pretty good one?

She’s been in a dark place.