“Watch as Luna effortlessly slips back into Cassian Andor”

The continued insistence that Rogue One’s Cassian Andor was a character with dimensions and interiority instead of a guy whose stood around and frowned a lot baffles me. Andor is easily the least interesting thing in Rogue One.

I have never been able to judge the movie because it physically makes me nauseated, and I’m not someone who experiences motion sickness.

It’s no longer canon but there was a surprisingly goo book called Tatooine’s Ghost wher Leia and Han have to hang out of Tattooine for. while and Leia learns that Anakin Skywalker was beloved by the people of Tattooine in his day because he was the local boy who made good - that decades on pod racing victory was still…

“ i’ve never played a game i understood less than this one”

Did you ever play Glover on the N64?

It’s a bit tricky to hit the sweet spot because the game breaks-ups its ability across three separate trees—gadgets, suit powers, and skills—and the skills tree itself is ALSO split into three different trees, and far too many feel like they should be things you start with.

But I’ve been thinking a lot lately that…

I mean that really wouldn’t shock me— for all its warm colours and determined characters, the underline premise of Shirobako is that the state of the animation industry in Japan is dire: it’s an essentially unliveable work schedule that leaves you unfulfilled and the only way to make it is to fling out s many…

Oh they’re fun, but I find their fun when you ignore the setting. It’s fun to just fuck around as Batman swinging from buildings and swooping down to punch some bros. It stops being being fun whenever you have to click on a story mission, which are both not terrible interesting as missions but also not good as story.…

I did not expect to love that movie and now keep demanding a Red Guardian limited series.

I mean if we’re grading on the curve of superhero games, it’s only got one competitor which is the Arkham games, a series that has a very solid combat but even by its second game got completely lost up its own asshole, presenting a vision of a beloved character and his pals (The Bat Family) in a grim, scowly, joyless,…

Cassian’s open scene establishes that he’s a hard man who will do whatever it takes to get the job done.

He then spends the rest of the movie not doing this so that ultimately it makes his opening scene seem like he just panicked.

A group of people convinced themselves, against all available evidence, that Rogue One’s deeply silly ‘and then they all died for FREEDOM’ story was Very Moving Actually, so of course we need a Cassian Andor movie, a man whose opening scene was also the only notable moment of his entire story.

“Deeply mediocre and utterly forgettable” is 3/4s of Rogue One’s run-time and certainly encompasses its lead cast members.

I mean these are all ordinary Spiderman characters - Norman Osbornes, Doc Octavius, MJ, Aunt May. I think Yuri might be the only new character, though character is a stretch because she hasn’t much to do other than role her eyes at Parker’s Spidercop schtick.

And to be clear I haven’t beaten the story - I’ve just had…

I picked it up on sale last week and I’m playing it for the first time. Swinging around Mahattan feels... perfect. The game has its issues - the combat takes a bunch of levelling before you get the right powers to not feel like you’re a fragile porcelain doll, the island of Manhattan cuts-off dead at Harlem for some…

“Trying too much” is how I would describe it - it tries to do so many things that it ends up being uneven, and some sections suffer noticeably more than others.

But if, like me, you managed to go in completely spoiler-free (which is so fucking hard these days—I go to the Guardian for news about Russia and front page…

Maybe something two hours long that completely ruins the mystery and fear of the series biggest threat?

Flirt.

Leia looks horrific and to this day I remain utterly baffled by people gushing about her appearance at the end of Rogue One, she looks creepy!(Also it’s a deeply stupid storybeat that doesn’t in any way mesh with the opening of a New Hope, but I’ve just given up pointing out all the ways it’s a goofy, underwritten…

Oh good, we can finally start preparing for Connie Willis novel Remake to be real, which is definitely great and not horrible and disturbing.

I’m still hung up on Eternals repeatedly needing to stress that DC comics exist in the MCU. Why? Why, movie? Also, in a world where the blip happen for five years and there are alien invasions and literal real life superheroes, is there still a market for Batman or Superman?