Well, in the version of the story they went with Jakku was the site of the last stand of the old Empire before the remnant retreated into the Unknown Regions to regroup. Hence the downed destroyers.

Me. I will. My feral lust for this franchise can never be sated.

No network would give a second season to a show that was “tanking”. That alone tells us it’s been good for their bottom line. A bunch of angry fanboys yelling about slitting their wrists in the shower because they changed the way Klingons look is not actually the groundswell that extremely online people think it is.

I find your lack of faith disturbing.

I don’t know where your narrative is coming from, but TLJ was massively financially successful for Disney. It’s one of the top 10 highest grossing films of all time. As far as Disney’s bottom line goes, the results were not “mixed” at all. Far from it.

A subset of hardcore fans was very angry and loud about being…

I said the same thing about Hannibal and Anthony Hopkins and then Mads Mikkelsen came along.

Route mimicry and impersonation is boring and is almost always a poor use of an IP. If you’re going to give me a nostalgia fuel anthology film that nobody really wanted (like this one) performances are one way it actually…

Yep. Han Solo is a character. Han Solo is not Harrison Ford.

I am triggered, but you’re not wrong.

People need to stop thinking of Han Solo as Harrison Ford rather than an actual character that multiple actors could put their spin on.

He doesn’t need to be Harrison Ford’s clone to do a good job.

Cloverfield Lane had no business being as good as it was.

Yeah, it was like an arcade version of the theme.

Get out the roller skates bitches!

I mean who knew studios monetize their properties with toys until this post?

This looks...........actually maybe good?

Star Destroyer in the storm was metal AF.

It didn’t NEED an explanation because most audience members (myself included) just assumed that there was some sort of guiding tech for the bombs. Not implausible or universe-breaking given all the other technology they have.

I don’t need to be spoonfed Wookieepedia entries about magnetic sensors or whatever.

If people,…

Obviously, we don’t have exact numbers but based on the written sources/records we have they demonstrate the opposite was probably true. Paganism was still pervasive and indeed the practice of the majority of people in the empire as experts like Kenneth Harl and Scott Bradbury have demonstrated in their scholarship.…

Julian’s Paganism was definitely more of a “Make Rome Great Again” and revitalize the Classical ethos (not that he would have called it that) type thing. It was much more than just religion, it was about the overall culture. He even wanted to re-establish the Temple in Jerusalem for the Jews. Interesting to think what…

Even during the zenith of Roman power, the East (what would become the Byzantine Empire) was still where all the money and political power came from and the West was kinda always the short end of the stick. The East was where all the people were. What made it lucrative about the West was the fact that it was…

Love this period and anything Eastern Empire. So cool write up.

FYI, no reputable historians use “dark ages” anymore, mainly because it wasn’t a real thing and moreso a value judgment of Renaissance-era thinkers who were obsessed with all the good parts of the classical world but conveniently forgot all the horrible…

‘Yeah yeah, I know all that shit, thanks.

We’re not talking about how much money a film makes or what studio execs want. The point is the quality of a film has little to do with how much money it makes. Star Wars has never done well in China, that must mean they’re all “bad”. China is not the only market in the world…

What exactly is the point here? TLJ must be bad because it didn’t do well in China?