Here’s an idea that you might curse me for after you’ve wasted, er, spent a weekend binging Roswell: just watch the intro/credits sequence. If you can resist, more power to you:

Awesome launch to a feature that I really look forward to following, Tom. I’ll echo everyone else saying good things about A History of Violence, an I’m probably not even as big a fan of action films as superhero films, so this is great to see.

Yes, Routh has nice presence for the character but not the same sense of maturity as Reeve.

Ha, I wrote down Mirren’s name on a piece of paper after I posted that comment.

My idea is for Linda Hamilton to be Leia. With some contact lenses to match her eyes to Fisher’s she could do it. Similar vocal tonality, sci-fi heroine bonafides. I really think that she’d be great for it.

It’s funny, because after reading the comment somewhere here in which someone mentions Portman having to speak like a Japanese robot in The Phantom Menace, I found myself thinking about Ghost in a Shell and wondering if Amidala’s first outing might be draw some whitewashing criticism today.

AotC is more watchable from an action and pacing standpoint, but I see it was also containing some of the worst individual things and scenes in all of Star Wars. It centers itself on the prequels’ great failure, the romance.

It’s just basic telekinesis, right?

I’d offer the alternative recommendation of Ahsoka Tano. She already did in The Clone Wars what Padme didn’t manage in the prequels in being (in my estimation) a better torchbearer for Leia’s legacy and specifically being a better counterpart for Anakin Skywalker, even without any romance.

I don’t know what it would be ridiculous for her to not be a nobody. I’m not particularly interested in wild theories of parentage, but it seemed strongly hinted at in TFA that she was somebody, which seemed reasonable to me.

I haven’t rewatched The Force Awakens yet since seeing The Last Jedi, but just in reading here and thinking—and sorting through my thoughts of the past month—I don’t think that I’ll enjoy TFA more. It and TLJ almost feel like mirror-universe episodes relative to each other to me, and I preferred the universe in which…

The Luke finale works fine for me, and I say that as someone who generally is not happy with his characterization in this film. It’s a pretty great final act for my money.

People who act like they’re above everything can certainly be obnoxious; at the same time, I think that some conversations get pushed so hard into a stark A/B polarization that a lot of people don’t find their middle-ground perspectives represented, and it’s easy to make observations from that position.

This show definitely has the ‘make it seem like something is about to happen, but never stop teasing’ thing down to an art. Victor is a good distillation of that. I thought that he was dead last week because I didn’t see clearly that it was his shoulder, not his chest. And then it looked like he was going to be saved,…

Ah, I felt like the ‘Bite me’ was probably equal to the reaction, myself.

Would a troll say this:

Yeah, that’s true. I’d feel disingenuous saying things like that, but a lot of people are saying them.

Maybe I can clarify. By “astonished” I mean surprised. Why have I been surprised? Because to me, this film seems very unlike Star Wars and again, closer to the prequels than I expected it to be. Star Wars is a widely popular franchise based on what it traditionally feels like (which this film, to me, doesn’t) and the…

If one is simply generating opinion based on personal vision, I would agree.

That’s a good way of putting it, although while appreciating the parts that one likes is healthy—I like some parts of this film—overall enjoyment depends, for me, on whether or not I enjoy the majority of something. I can really like a few scenes without enjoying the film as a whole.