Over the years, I have had some thoughts as to the general Death Note scenario, and how an American version of Light Yagami would be. The teaser we are given now reveals nothing specific, so it might follow the Japanese story more or less closely, but I expect it to be limited in its exploration of the concept by the…

Sounds too plain. Should be something like “And you would be...?”

Call me strange about this,. but I can’t see any of these alternates as better than what they went with. It was pretty much my dream cast for the time. Snyder called it perfectly.

Good enough for me, too. A feature length version would have to bring something to the table, a broader view of the catastrophe with more characters. Not necessarily hard to do... but you know they’ll go with stock character types, flat as paper, which will matter to critics.

So, does this push back the estimated date for the Late Heavy Bombardment?

Having finished the first season, I’m a bit here and there about it.

One thing I’d like to start seeing in the Star Wars galaxy is some indications of the depth of their media culture. There has to be thousands of years worth of fiction and documentaries on the galactic holonet dealing with the Jedi and their powers. Likely this is what Rey relied on to develop her powers in TFA - they…

This just seems to be piling it on. For me, though, it hurts less frankly because of no attachment; she was just another actress from an earlier time relative to my media experience. And it seems much more likely given her age, and losing a beloved daughter is not unlikely to induce a stroke, as seems to be the case…

Wanted to wait a respectful amount of time before giving these thoughts... I’m sure we all were thinking about this when we heard.

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Well, they COULD have had Jyn and Cassian survive. They wouldn’t be in ANH, hiding out on an Imperial-controlled world for a few weeks, but could get offworld and meet back up with the Rebellion later. They’d have to be dead before ESB, though; their absence would be too conspicuous by then. But that’s three years…

she looks faithfully done to me...

Short version: It’s still a kids’ universe at heart. Characters and plots are designed around a child-age audience, with lesser reasoning skills.

It was horrible as a replacement for live-action filmmaking. It was mesmerizing as a new form of animation. That was the real point at the time: a new type of spectacle. It’s hard to appreciate that nowadays, when we have processed it into our media culture and know what we want of it.

I always saw Star Trek’s replicators as more of an energy-to-matter conversion device. Certainly that’s the way they made it LOOK...

If it hasn’t been said yet...

My interpretation: An inarticulate kid trying to communicate that the capsule would not be opened in his lifetime - he would be dead to those reading. Presumably he didn’t expect it to be recovered and opened so soon.

Also seems legit. But getting a good look for the project isn’t the real hurdle. We’ve seen too many adaptations recently that looked like they should but somehow felt off, or had some boneheaded flaw in the script. The devil is always in the details...

Strike Witches is what should come to mind, of course, but one assumes this world didn’t go with a rather dodgy modern-tech “broom” design.

I see lots of speculation about details. Does Pratt wake up first, then decide to get a companion, and wakes up Lawrence? That sounds like it would kill any prospect at romance. “So you realized you were doomed, and decided to doom ME, when I could have lived and made it, just so you could have some companionship? You…