Sigh. Yeah, this is the sort of absurd grandiosity that makes everything worse for everyone who isn’t absurd. Fair enough for it to be mocked.

Yeah, in terms of taking cues, I feel as thought the first two movies are a perfect model for how to put a story together, and then how to evolve it without too much redundancy. If you do what those films did, in terms of process, it should yield a Star Wars experience that most fans will enjoy.

As was specifically pointed out in, if I recall correctly, the review of The Force Awakens on this very site, Star Wars used to be a pastiche of external influences like Flash Gordon, Lord of the Rings, etc; it has over the years switched to being primarily a pastiche of itself. That’s a clear difference, for my…

I’ve discussed the film online with plenty of people who weren’t trolls, but it’s in the context of ‘let’s talk about this film’ and not prompted by provocative taglines like this one.

A bit part of them dominating the conversation is writeups like this one continuing to credit them with the lion’s share of the anti-TLJ sentiment.

I’ll be one of those people: I would genuinely rather have seen whatever crazy Whill-driven biochemistry epic George Lucas might have dreamed up, than the what the current sequel films have turned out to be. I’d rather hear my longtime favorite band attempt to pull off an ambitious, perhaps ponderous concept album…

Well, I read your first sentence as a notification and was afraid I’d said the wrong thing.

I’m a huge fan of the increased presence of female characters in Star Wars. It’s a great thing. The writing of those characters has not greatly impressed me on the whole, which bothers me because they (in my opinion) deserve better.

People are definitely taking things too far, but I don’t feel horrible about the sentiment that Kennedy might not be doing the best job running Star Wars. Of course, I’ve unfortunately observed that ‘fans’ often dispense with even a modicum of diplomacy when talking about that.

It won’t pass the Bechdel test that way, but worth it.

I wasn’t impressed with the character, either, but the notion of connecting that to the actor just does not compute for me. It seems to be perhaps the worst part of Star Wars fandom that people like Tran or Jake Lloyd are treated so horribly, either as the undeserving scapegoats for fan disappointment or as…

There will probably be a Cats reference, given that Cheetah will be the villain.

Wasn’t there a deal where they had a different story and then scrapped it?

They should totally recreate that Apple commercial.

Yeah. I think that the Marvel films are better in general and a lot of points can be made, but Superman pausing to think before answering, and then the film leaving it there? Reading that as negative or deficient strikes me as a reach, or at least one of multiple possible valid interpretations. I like the shot,…

Are you faux real?

I saw Thandie Newton in that fur coat at first glance. Alas, it is not her.

The Christopher Robin trailer definitely earned an emotional reaction from me. I’m not sure what to make of that being the model-example for this Q&A.

I can confirm as much, having become attached to the characters earlier in the film, myself.

I think you’re right that a certain degree, perhaps majority of the reaction was gay panic (along with simple departure from Batman-as-scary; other more conventionally hearthobesque male heroes might not have seemed so odd given the same treatment).