Luca’s gay subtext was so potent it faded into the foreground.

I’ve said it before (repeatedly), io9 needs an actual editor.

hearing (Momoa’s) Aquaman say this line trumps any fish fucking joke.

Yeah, normally I urge people to be pretty forgiving toward typos on this site because of all the corporate crap they’re dealing with, but... that’s a REALLY big misstep.

Just a technical note of possible interest:

You repeated a couple lines

I’m also gonna just come out and say it, the fact this wasn’t some GOP-centric event full of antivax and anti-mask morons probably helped. Everyone else is getting vaccinated, masked and all of that even if they aren’t over-eager abut the thought or principle. They at least know its not actively harming and they only…

Damn, I was hoping JJ would be divorced from the Star Trek franchise.

Keep JJ and the 9-11 truther Orci as far away from that Star Trek movie as they can. Wish they could have given Justin Lin another shot, but at least they have a good writer on board. 

Then the cops and politicians need to step up and end this.

Police are never powerless. If they aren't doing something, it's because they don't want to. 

(Which might actually be fine if Dune wasn’t already a thing, let alone a newly rejuvenated thing...)

That’s how I felt when we had the rooftop chase scene between Fennec and the assassins. Then I realized it was lifted out of Star Wars Batterfront (2004) maps.

The sequel trilogy did earn Disney something like 3.5 billion dollars. Some guys on Twitter might hate those movies, but it doesn’t mean they’re going to be retconned out of existence, any more than the prequels were.

In the end, the real Boba Fett was the Mandalorians we met along the way.

Yeah, but it’s clear from the sequels that in the post-RotJ era Luke absorbed the old-school Jedi ethos lock, stock, and barrel, and we can see that in the episode. He appears to have foregone all of his former attachments, living by himself all alone on an uninhabited planet (or if the planet is inhabited, he lives…

I answered that on a whim but after having given it thought, that’s what I want. I want the next episode to open with Grogu choosing the armor, and Luke saying you passed. Cut to Tattooine battle, yada yada yada... Mando S3 opens with Luke training Grogu in the force and Mando how to use his Dark Saber while Ahsoka…

Also, this:

I appreciate them keeping the movie’s pronunciation of Mordor