The super hot take here though is that the 19-year-old doesn’t even want to count the Sequel Trilogy of The Force Awakens. The Last Jedi, and The Rise of Skywalker.

“Canon is a fool’s stricture” - wow, what a shitty hot take. This sentiment and statement is why I barely read anything on IO9 any more. Well, that, and the automatic assumption that anyone who cares about canon is a racist.

I don’t think it is due to the pandemic - I think the movie is just so nonsensical and forgettable that it seems like it came out a long time ago.  It leaves no impact and fades from the mind.

I think in part it is due to how the Jedi are used by the writers - these days they are super-powered swiss army knives that can solve any story problem. In the OT they weren’t that powerful - they had abilities but those abilities had clear and very definite limits. Vader almost got killed by Han Solo in the MF. Luke…

It’s always “I just want the best actor,” when it’s a PoC. However, when a caucasian is thrown into a role that doesn’t fit them these same people shrug.

Prefacing this with a note that I’ve maybe read one or two comics about the character and know next to nothing about him, and have no reason to dislike this actor. I am also ambivalent about Nathan Fillion since while he seems charming and a good actor, he apparently was a huge dick to his co-lead on Castle.

That’s a low bar to clear if you say that the plot or arc does not cause the rest of the episode to fall apart in your mind - especially retroactively when you realize that the overarching story is nonsensical. Moffat (as a showrunner) especially suffers from that, obviously. E.g. the “Angels Take Manhattan” episode…

Look at the list of RTD’s episodes, assign each good one a score of 1.0, each OK episode a score of 0.5, and each terrible one a score of 0. Add them up - you can average them out as well if you want to control for the number of episodes. Do the same thing for the other showrunners. See the final result. For me RTD’s…

First of all, if they are getting payed money for it then it’s a real job, pretty much by definition. You may as well say that you will never take advice from anyone who thinks a real job is writing books or making movies. Which is OK I guess? Congrats?

That’s the problem - it is supposed to be an alternate history, not actual sci-fi. It’s what could have been if the US society kept paying attention to the space race, not what could have been if the laws of physics were different. Most of the S3 problems don’t have much to do with the Phoenix or what you listed. They…

Don’t start with Picard or Discovery - there are people who tried that and hated the experience. E.g. watch the Angry Joe Show review of Picard - Other Joe never saw any ST beforehand and was pretty annoyed at the other guys for making him watch that stuff.

No, disagreed. Science in S1 is good despite a couple of anachronisms. In S2 it’s OK except that there several rather large issues that could have been corrected for with one or two lines of dialog. S3 goes completely off the rails from science perspective - the writers just don’t care any more and do whatever they…

Disney+ is missing Orville.  All three seasons are showing up on August 10.

This sounds very similar to Disney yelling about Russian bots who supposedly brought down TLJ review scores. I am sure that there are racist morons, but after Disney has cried wolf, I am very suspicious of Disney claims of something similar. My guess is that this is once again an attempt at damage control. While racist…

The Merovingian was pointless in the movies, but the idea could have been very cool. If you watch carefully, the Merovingian (and his place) is a rare splash of color in a very washed out world of the Matrix. He was a program that was actually having fun instead of doing kung-fu or spouting exposition. I think the…

Unfortunately, the mechs are not that perfect. They have zero armor, which is silly and illogical. The pilots are completely exposed to attacks. It would make sense to at least weld metal plates around the pilot and leave slits for seeing outside.

I think it would be more logical for the machines to present Neo with a false choice - nothing much would have changed in either case, whatever he chose.  That would work if Zion was just another layer of the simulation.  Destruction of Zion would have led to nothing and had no meaning if it was another matrix…

While the implication is that humanity has a system of control built-in, this doesn’t quite work, because the machines would need to somehow destroy Zion and then recreate it. Otherwise the humans outside of the Matrix would remember the previous five versions of the Matrix and the five Neos that came before. Humans…

Agreed - that’s the only explanation I can think of to Neo having powers in the “real world”. Unless the Wachowski’s decided to introduce supernatural powers to the real world at the end of the second movie in a trilogy, Neo should not be able to do anything more than a normal human. He should not be able to see…