I would have considered picking it up if you’d hinted that there was a payoff at the end. As in, the heroes find a way out of their increasingly Crapsack World. A way to make it a proper utopia, so that people aren’t forced to escape into VR for a livable life. Fixing some of the things wrong with Earth, or the final…

Looks decent so far. Casting Paul is a bit tricky; IIRC, he’s only fifteen at the start of the book and it’s only about a year later the Harkonnens take back the planet and send him and his mother fleeing into the desert. So he has to look young, but not too young, ideally should be a new guy around 18 but Kyle…

I wasn’t sure they should ever try to do Ahsoka in live action. I can understand how they might think Eckstein would be quite right to embody the role physically. Dawson seems as good a choice as any; race isn’t an issue when you’re painted orange.

Far too modest. I was hoping for the Imperial Hotel: a hotel built in the full-scale hull of an Imperial Star Destroyer. A hotel a MILE long. Probably the biggest building on Earth, for a while.

My theory on Cap’s private timeline:

What gets me is the basis time of the film is five years after IW.

Hmm. How old is Arya supposed to be at this point? Dangerous territory they’ve decided to tread upon. Moral judges don’t make allowances for an apocalyptic situation where pretty much everyone will end up dead pretty soon.

Doesn’t hold up. C’mon, were they really too cheap for chamberpots?

Only thing this tells us is that Ant-Man is part of this, after being seen to die. So, how would that work?

This is one point that came to me when watching the original. There are a few ways around it, but basically it comes down to governments realizing if criminals have uncontrolled access to superpowers, governments need controlled access - they need to sponsor existing accidental supers, and do research to duplicate…

Could have done a lot more by going smaller with each one. Palm-sized or so. Somebody is going to take up that challenge and have most of the Official Handbook done all over him...

Definitely getting a “It’s never going to happen” feel now.

Not what I was hoping for. I imagined Han and Lando were acquainted, though not close, going into the game - both at least had a sense of each other’s character and recent activities.

I’m wondering why they released so early. Shouldn’t they have waited until late May-early June?

Only made it through the first episode so far, but now I HAVE to binge it. Having the humans use alien tech makes the timeline much less problematic. It seems there’s only two or three years between the Christmas Star and the present. I was wondering, “Are we to assume they went from no interstellar capacity to 24…

If no one has suggested it yet:

I would have made it with about a dozen throwaway references to ‘20s and ‘30s material, and maybe a “current” top 40 hit on someone’s radio. More believable, enough to get around nitpicky issues like this. Even if it makes the final property dated, it serves for a brief moment of worldbuilding when the film itself is…

Stoked for this movie. But it’s strange being on the other side of the generational divide. When I was young the older generations had their nostalgia for WWII and jazz music. I hated it all, because it was so alien to me, so irrelevant, so much of an age that seemed worn out and unlikely to speak to the future. I…

For some years I have assumed they have some really quick language tutoring. Possibly the education headgear we see clones using in AOTC is actually used by humans (and, with some modifications, other species) for education in general, so they get the equivalent of a PhD by age 16 or so, with several required and…

This time I decided to check out spoiler videos on YouTube to get some sense of what I’m talking about before watching. I won’t get a real chance to see it for myself until Tuesday because of my work schedule.