I hope you’re right about it getting better towards the end. I’m through episode 5 and thus far haven’t been impressed. I’d read good things things about the show but to me it feels incredibly low budget and I think most of the acting is pretty poor. But I’ll stick with it for the last three episodes.

Ah thanks, I missed the part where anyone who drinks dies at midnight. Darn fine print...

My thought was to keep cutting the barrel count in half. Since even a drop is fatal, take a scoop of water from each of 500 barrels and put them in one empty barrel (barrel A) and do the same with the other 500 barrels (barrel B). Then have a zombie drink from barrel A. If it dies then your contaminated barrel is one…

Until I read your post, I actually didn’t know that the villain guy wasn’t from the original MI. I haven’t watched the original in a long time. 

I kind of wish the ending would have shown that everything the MI team did was all part of the Entity’s plan. Maybe letting them chase the key was just a diversion while the Entity worked on something else. This would have shown how powerful the Entity actually is and made for a more intimidating villain in Part 2.

It opened a week before Barbie and Oppenheimer, that definitely hurt.

My point was that it could have continued to try to destroy the key. The good guys were interested in finding out where the sub was, but all the Entity did was send a man to get the key. Based on what the movie had already established the Entity could do, it could have nuked the key, or taken down a passenger plane…

Agreed, what did the Entity even want? If it wanted to make sure no one could use the key against it, couldn’t it have just destroyed the key? It could have easily done that 100 different ways. But it was a fun movie and I really enjoyed the (somewhat fresh take on a) car chase in Italy.

Not to come off as insensitive, but I don’t think it would be that difficult to recast the character. Stevenson isn’t particularly unique looking (get Liev Scheiber or someone) and his character’s story likely needs a lot more than just a few scenes to complete his arc.

Why were they slowly flying Ahsoka’s ship along with the turtle people?!? The turtle people weren’t trying to leave, this is their home. There is no reason, other than to stall for the plot, that Ahsoka and crew didn’t just get on the ship and fly to the Star Destroyer.

I figured the simulants were of the “destroy the head, destroy everything” variety. If they can transfer the consciousness from a dead human into a simulant I don’t know why they couldn’t transfer from simulant to simulant. But you’re right it was a bit unclear at times. Joshua blows a hole in the stomach of one…

Gotta love how they’re able to fix a physically destroyed ship by just welding(?) inside some of the interior panels. Star Wars logic!

Saw it last night and your list is mostly valid. But the AI didn’t nuke LA, it was explained in the movie that the humans made a coding error and blamed AI for the nuking. This reveal could have been much more impactful though if it was saved until closer to the end and the script let the viewer believe that maybe AI w…

I saw The Creator last night. I definitely enjoyed it but still feel like it’s pretty easy to point out ways in which it could have been better.

I read the headline before watching the episode and was pleasantly surprised. It wasn’t the slog I expected and overall was pretty good. That said, why is Hera even in this show? She hasn’t actually done anything and her one storyline was pretty much just handwaved away.

I was pretty shocked that the projections are that low, until I looked up Blade Runner 2049's domestic gross and found out it was only $92M. I’ve been excited for this one since the first trailer, hopefully the movie holds up. I’ll be happy to contribute to that final $40 to $85M domestic total for some original…

Thank you! Just read through the synopsis, what a blast from the past.

Another commenter nailed it. Rogue Planet it was called. Looks like it took place after Episode 1.

Without having watched Rebels and really knowing how Ahsoka is supposed to act, I don’t hate the job Dawson is doing. It’s Winstead’s Hera that is objectively terrible and I can’t get over how phony the character both looks and acts. 

I thought BoBF, Obi-Wan, and season 3 of The Mandalorian were all pretty terrible, but I’m surprisingly not hating Ahsoka. Yes, it’s slow where it doesn’t need to be slow. Yes, most of the acting isn’t very good. Yes, some of the CGI looks terrible (but also looks great in other shots; compare the hyperspace ring…