I agree with everything you said, but how much does a casual viewer actually even care about missing something? If a casual viewer wants to go see Multiverse of Madness because of all the CGI multiverse weirdness and standard MCU quips and Benedict Cumberbatch are they perfectly happy just accepting that Wanda is a…

I’m incredibly bored watching characters shoot energy beams. I miss the early days when Iron Man’s suit had to make power compromises and fired rockets. I get that Marvel feels like they have to keep upping the stakes, but you’re right, all the universe destroying stuff somehow just feels so inconsequential.

The “the television shows have become too much to keep up with” argument is kind of BS though isn’t it? Marvel puts out like 20 total TV episodes a year. If you’re interested then watch. If you don’t watch then you’ll maybe miss a few Easter eggs in whatever MCU movie you see next.

Gosling in dopey-charm mode is pretty much unstoppable.

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.

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 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…

Probably 20 years ago I read a Star Wars book and in it they built/grew half-organic ships customized to the pilot. Any idea what that book was called?

I actually think the lightsaber fights in this show are really well done. And the whole show just looks so good (that shot of the ring coming out of the clouds!). What gets me are the logical inconsistencies like how the bad guys know where Ahsoka’s ship landed in the forest but instead of just bombing it, they send…