“Anakin, you left burned skin all over the couch again, and I have a date coming over. You could at least put a tarp over the cushions.”

Peter Straub should have been mention before the third paragraph. IMHO

Excellent article, all around.

Lets review.

It’s nice of you to take a lighthearted facetious comment and be so literal-minded and extra and melodramatic about it.

HO-

Let’s take a look at that scene compared to previous battle scenes. Specifically, I’ll use the one between the Roci, a UNN destroyer, and the Razorback featured at the end of “IFF”, Series 3 Episode 2. Now I’m only talking about framing and cinematography here.

Rewatching the series and the best Holden parts are his coffee obsession.  When he finally finds the beans on the Roci is the best.

Now we know why Pink was singing about “the worms” on The Wall...

What a trailer. What a lovely trailer!

If you’re gonna go with a modern Star Wars trailer, surely it has to be the Rogue One teaser with the sirens. The film didn’t quite deliver on its promise, but that was a trailer that really excited with new possibilities for where the series could go, whereas The Force Awakens was only ever interested in re-treading…

The Matrix. It was so mysterious. Looked like an action movie, but the bullet time was still intriguing at the time. It didn’t mention anything about the world as a simulation. Then Morpheus’ voice over at the end, “Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.”

One of the ways that you can tell screenwriters have gotten dumber over the years, in the sense that they know only movies and TV shows, is the bit in the 2009 Star Trek where Kirk meets McCoy for the first time and McCoy tells him that he’s just been through a devastating divorce, adding that his wife left him only…

Star Trek has never been particularly successful as a film franchise. Oh, it’s had a few hits, but adjusting on its ratio for hits and misses, well, they’ve been at their best when they’ve been at their lowest budgets. (TWOK famously shot on roughly a TV production budget)

Look, I like worldbuilding and all, but these two paragraphs from M. John Harrison are killer:

I could easily watch 8 hours of the two of them just hanging out and bickering.

Paramount, show some balls and let Quentin make his movie.

It’s the proto-molecule creating the material for the Ring.

Cheryl, can I ask, nay BEG, a favour?