I was thinking “this is really well shot and looks super expensive” but it didn’t really get me emotionally like a lot of the other episodes have. 

This ignores everything outside of the interview itself, which is frequently a sticking point for me in these conversations. IGNORE the “last name got me an audition” talking point. You still get to live in the town where the industry exists. You still have a place to crash just about everywhere you go. You don’t have…

I absolutely get where you’re coming from. After it was over, I said to my wife, “That was basically a 40-minute montage” but I still loved it. Like I said, I get where you’re coming from but it got to a point where I was just in awe of the audacity and confidence in the creative team to keep up that conceit the…

Ugh...but I don’t wanna fight Mohg! That’s probably the one thing keeping me from jumping into this right away. My endgame character probably can handle Mohg, but the damn blood swamp* his temple is in is a pain in the ass to travel through.

Season one was great but it is quite comedic how up its own ass it is now.  Maybe that’s in the criteria.

I’m enjoying the show but the cinematography is a bit off putting. It looks too clean and digital. The padawan’s makeup looks like she belongs on some late 90's sci fi show. I’m enjoying the characters and premise but it lacks some of the lighting/ lensing of something like Andor

Mae said don’t pull a light saber unless you are prepared to kill, which led to that whole “force fight” by Indira. But they used light sabers all the time for all kinds of things. The one dude used it as a flashlight.

Both The Daily Beast and Rolling Stone have published reviews saying this show is boring dreck, and they are both liberal leaning sites so they aren’t starting out with a known axe to grind.

They’re dumb opinions, but it’s not like he’s shouting them at you on the street. He’s saying then on a podcast, that by definition, people are listening to because they want to hear his opinions. You clicked this link because you wanted to read his opinions.

I’d say the Bible beats it by centuries. Many of its fans *today* are still... (ahem)... “obsessed with [its] continuity”.

oh i’m sure even back in the oral traditions days people were like ‘actually when i first heard about beowulf it went down differently’

I don’t care who returns so much as I want them to cut out a bunch of the gimmicks. I’m just tired of the multiple idols, steal a votes, double votes, lose a vote if you risk it, and any other crap you can think of. I just want a simpler game that focuses more on fun and/or interesting people and not one filled with…

People always dismissively ask this question as if they don’t already know the answer.

“The hope is that, like the comics, you can just pop in anywhere and have a satisfying experience.”

Marvel: We’re going to stop diluting our brand with a bunch of ancillary shows.

I’m gonna chalk up a lot of her bad experience to “datapad issues.” But a four hour video praising her time on the starcruiser sure wouldn’t get nearly the attention she’s getting now....so.....

“The interactivity and attention to detail were lacking, so it failed.”

The game doesn’t randomly assign you factions at all.  You make your own choices. 

Pretending to be too enlightened for bullshit clickbait in the midst of vomiting out precisely said form of bullshit clickbait is, sadly, the entire operating procedure of this witless contemporary version of AVClub.

Holy fuck. Just because groping is really common where you’re from doesn’t mean it’s okay. It means where you’re from is fucked up.