I’d honesty like the see the machivellian scheemings of a bunch of Slitherins at the ministry of magic. Think of it as House of Cards, but in the Harry Potter universe.

All of Bond and Stargate in one place would be pretty sweet.

That’s a really shallow reading.

Ten years later, we usually forget he was a massive risk for Marvel.

He was hired to play Stark because he was cheap.  That he became so well loved and famous for the role probably wasn’t expected and, hopefully, he has his life’s savings from the Iron Man role so it won’t really matter that much if he’s in clunkers/doesn’t work much for the rest of his life.

I saw Spies in Disguise with my kid last weekend and had a blast. We also watch the LEGO movies frequently and I’m not entirely sick of them. Kids movies don’t have to be garbage.

Poe’s relationship to Zorri was written in specifically to quash anyone’s thoughts about the obvious relationship between Poe and Finn. Oscar Isaac clearly did not care about what was written in the script because he totally played up Poe’s love for Finn, you can see it in every shot of Poe talking to Finn. Seriously…

Oh my god, that’s is so true. And the single most frustrating part of the ST for me. The First Order is a fascist, fringe regime... that has the resources to build both a planet sized super weapon, a 10 kilometer wide super ship, AND hundreds of Star Destroyers?

On the whole I think I would be less annoyed with the ST if they’d had entirely new designs. Like why would the First Order still be flying around in Star Destroyers and TIE Fighters? Wouldn’t the state of the art have evolved somewhat over the last thirty years or so?

Isn’t Clone Wars lost season coming soon?

I do feel sorta bad for the Nü-EU writers, because you get the feeling that they assumed there was a plan. Case in point: Snoke’s identity and origins. If you look at the early books there’s the sense that he’s supposed to be the real Big Bad of the Star Wars Universe, sort of the Morgoth to Palpatine’s Sauron, or…

The overall impression I get is that there was no plan for the ST. Abrams, Kasdan, and Kennedy didn’t really care about the wider universe, they just wanted to make an old-fashioned Star Wars movie that didn’t remind people of the prequels. Worldbuilding was never part of the plan.

It only comes up on Kijimi, and it served to explain why Poe had a romantic history with Keri Russell’s character. Also, uh, “backstory.”

I think you make a great point about not know the state of the universe and to me THAT has been the biggest mistake of the ST so far (other than all 3 movies ignoring the physics of the SW universe established in 6 earlier films). ANH made it so simple.
There was an Empire.
There is an Emperor who disbanded the Senate.
…

Mandalorian is set maybe 24 years before TFA. Rey and Finn haven’t been born yet, Poe and Ben Solo are kids, the Imperial Remnant hasn’t reorganized into the First Order, and the New Republic is running things. It’s more OT-adjacent than ST era.

I think they should pull any project containing Star Wars-related story lines where Dave Filoni is not directly involved. I don’t have confidence any one else can handle the job at this point.

Exactly. The older diamonds screwed over far more beings for longer than Pink. AND Pink through all of her screw-ups eventually learned to self-reflect and consider others. AND it took Pink’s child, her diamond heir, to get the other diamonds to stop being genocidal, authoritarian maniacs. They never considered …

I mean, i’d label her as full on Chaotic Good, but to each their own.

Marco coming out of nowhere and then having nothing but success after success for most of the book made it really easy to dislike him in ways that diminish the enjoyment of the book.  He was very Villain Sue.  Giving him a little more build up was the right call here, but hopefully they also make him less unreasonably…

I was going to say much the same thing about the visual narration. Dunkirk does much the same thing with possibly three pages of dialogue for the entire film, and Fury Road isn’t that far behind. It’s a remarkably difficult thing to accomplish in a film.