I really hate this excuse. Certain cultural values absolutely need to be respected; any cultural value that positions one human being as lesser than another on the basis of sex, gender, orientation, or much of anything else that isn’t an open and direct crime against other people deserves no respect.

Human beings are…

I remember the Superman story that really made me cry:

Obligatory.

This is the quality stuff I come to io9 for. Thank you, Mr. Narcisse.

Look, I like the character, I like what they’re doing with her, but I fucking HATE technobabble. Technobabble undermines a character’s intelligence. People who want to SOUND smart like to use big words to explain simple things; people who are ACTUALLY smart can use simple terms to explain complex problems.

The problem is when sequels keep treading the same ground. It almost felt like Rogue One expanded the universe more than Force Awakens did.

So how did they escape? Cause there were still undamaged star destroyers in orbit and they could still track through Hyperspace, and they mentioned that it would just be activated on another ship if it went down on one, so aren’t they all still screwed?

The new Star Wars trilogy takes a long time to get its heroic trio together. Finn, Rey, and Poe don’t all end up in the same room together until the very last moments of The Last Jedi, and while that meeting is poignant, it’s not nearly enough for passionate fans. Do they hit it off? What do they chat about? Where’s…

I don’t care about this comic because the last movie killed any affection I have towards Star Wars.

At least one of Marvel’s go-to artists has a habit of tracing faces. It’s particularly bad in the main Star Wars series >_>

Umm...what’s the with the facial expressions?

To say nothing of the fact that fans liked the past. It’s what made them fans in the first place. It’s the Rian Johnson version of “present” that is the divisive horseshit.

“You can’t dwell on changing the past. Concentrate on the present”

That’s a pretty good vibe going there. I find that to be a problem in movies with large casts, you don’t really seem to get that feeling of camaraderie unless you caught the cast interviews or read the comics or were exposed to other multimedia spin offs.

The advantage of Amazon, Apple, et al. is that they’re all run by ex-nerds who read this stuff when they were teenagers. So it’s not like the dumbshits running traditional studios who don’t have clue one about genre projects. Example: Bob Weinstein, who, when Peter Jackson told him that LotR should be at least two…

This, in conjunction with the news that Apple is working on a Foundations (by Isaac Asimov) series, means that that all the epic fantasy from my childhood can finally be seen on big-budget screens. I am pleased.

They say that a company’s social media presence is like the window into its soul.

It’s partly why I laugh when Disney complains about pirating (despite boasting record breaking box office numbers.) They’re the biggest culprits. They make literal billions off creations based on public domain properties and then fight tooth & nail from contributing absolutely anything to it all while saying they’re…

I’m sure they’re already hard at work lobbying to further damage copyright laws beyond the absurdity that they made them into decades ago.