I can respect the kid has some serious psychiatric problems and needs help just for the safety of himself and others, but a life sentence smacks strongly of “We could solve this problem, or at least try, but we don’t want to.”

Yeah. The final season would be, what will Guillermo do next? I assume the vamps are all going to think about the future and then ultimately fall back into their old rhythms (one of the show’s ongoing premise-jokes being that vampires have a huge amount of trouble changing as people).

Bam Sarbanti is doing a piece to ca-me-rah!

First of all, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

This is a good run and I could sort of tell it might be winding down since Guillermo’s storyline essentially ended last season

Fer cryin out loud, if they’re genuinely upset over this, then they have too much time on their hands.

That’s very much a “them” problem. If you stop catering to that crowd over damn near everything, many of these so called problems wouldn’t exist. It’s a movie, not your entire life. Recast and let the complainers shout into the void.

Best approach: Recast Kang, and simply don’t comment on the fact that he looks different. The characters don’t need to acknowledge it. It’s the same character played by a different actor, it’s happened before, it doesn’t need in-world explanations.

I agree. I was so excited at the end of TLJ about where they could go from there. Whelp

People give Abrams a lot of grief for shitting on everything Rian Johnson wrote, but to be fair, he also shat on everything he himself wrote. Chewie’s dead! Nah, he’s fine. Finn has something super important to tell Rey! Don’t worry about it. C3PO’s memories are lost, because we know R2D2 doesn’t do regular backups!…

It’s a daring move to make a film that actively gaslights the audience.

While I know it’s useless to argue about pop culture opinions as if there’s an objective right or wrong, it drives me a little nuts when people say ‘The Last Jedi’ left Abrams with nowhere to go with the characters. To me, the film opens up so many intriguing directions. What will Rey do with the remaining knowledge…

That little “come at me, bro” gestures he makes as he faces down the Knights of Ren is one shining moment in a sea of dreck.

One of the things I love about ‘The Last Jedi’ (a legitimately great Star War, in my opinion) is that it humanises Kylo just enough that you start to have hope for him ... and then brings that hope crashing down as he tries to convince Rey to join him as head of the new evil empire. It shows that someone can be hurt…

She’s an executive producer on a lot of projects, but if you specifically look at what she personally produced on the ground?

Rey force-pushing Finn in annoyance after her spending two movies constantly wondering where he is and begging him not to leave her and then jumping into his arms the moment she sees him was to kill the Finn/Rey ship.

Kylo going full MacBeth is the end of The Last Jedi. Then they just kind of forgot he gave a speech pledging to murder Rey, destroy the Resistance, and scour the galaxy turning it into a fascist bloodbath.

I don’t think it’s what most of the audience signed up for, either. And Episode 9's “Ladies, your local angry fascist is actually a nice guy deep down, you should kiss him” ending has already aged incredibly badly.

she was introduced to put a pin in the ‘poe and finn are in love’ shipping.

I assumed they wanted 3 different directors because they wanted the movies to come out every 2 years, and that’s hard for one director to handle (unless they’re filmed simultaneously). That still doesn’t excuse not having an overall plan for the story, though.