I mentioned it a while ago, Willem Dafoe.

I’m sorry, but that’s balogna. The Axanar team spoiled the entire ability of a community to make fan films. That’s on them, when they started paying themselves out of the kitty and set up a production company with proceeds from the fund raising to start a studio to rent out CBS were left with little choice. This…

Hell, CBS held a contest this year to HAVE YOUR FANFIC PUBLISHED as official Trek prose.

I guess they just slid it by us. Or it wasn’t to scale.

Read the whole thread. I've explained at least three times why she is different.

Agreed. Ive watched AoU alot with my son lately, and its not terrible in any way. Sure, its not as good as probably half the MCU movies, but its highly entertaining, fun and moves the MCU in the direction we know its going. IMO, its brilliant in comparison to BvS.

Your response has nothing of actual substance for a rebuttal. Matter decays and energy becomes less and less usable e.g. the sun, thermal energy, motion. The sheer mathematical improbability of our earth and moon, let alone our entire solar system somehow attaining and maintaining opposite and perfectly balanced…

This is a great post. I confess I’d gotten a bit caught up in the surface similarities between Rey and Luke and, without thinking about it, had basically assumed they were the same, but you raise some excellent points as to why they are different.

It’s not, the quote goes “So it’s another Death Star” “I wish”

Can I say how much I like Collex? The nerds and their lazy conclusions don’t really know how to respond.

But it was never a mystery. He is the son of Anakin Skywalker. That was stated in A New Hope. At no point was there any question about who is father was. (I’m not counting not knowing who her mom is, because her identity nevers figures in the series). The twist in ANH is that what we knew was slightly wrong, not that…

Not that it appears in the movie later, but that it serves a totally different narrative function.

Boy, you must love losing arguments too. Way to not engage with what collex is saying regarding any of those scenes/settings/character traits serving separate/at times opposite purposes of those in the original trilogy. Like, sarcastically saying “Rey isn’t like Luke because she’s a girl” is straight up the opposite…

Except it’s not. At all.

All things you mention are surface details. Look deeper. Like the Death Star - yes, it borrow a familiar motif,but the fact is that the Death Star, and the attack on it by starships, does not play the role narratively than in A New Hope. The destruction of the Death Star is the climax of A New Hope. Starkiller Base in…

I thought it was more original than many think, yes. Eragon was a total copy of A New Hope. The Force Awakens wasn't. Does it go a little overboard with the callbacks? Sure. But a total rip-off it wasn't. Hell, their main character is the total opposite of Luke Skywalker.

Don’t be so hasty. I did a bit of research and found a still shot from Meg:

Yeah, the whitewashing of Baron Mordo is unconscionable.

I’m not sure I get your “aliens” complaint. The setting is clearly far, far future. So far that much of the tech looks like magic to us monkeys and humanity has become a well distributed and diverse crowd. Nothing we saw in that film is beyond the reach of genetic manipulation and technological enhancement. It’s easy…

I feel like at some point you attributed something to Riddick that wasn’t there in Chronicles...Riddick is the same guy he’d previously been, loner, felon, gifted fighter, highly intelligent, etc...and the over-arching theme to me was that while he occasionally does what’s right, even to the point of possible…