Not since... I don’t know, maybe KOTOR 2?... have we had such a morally murky take on the Star Wars universe. I love it. Wars have casualties of all types, something that the movies rarely actually engaged with.

Yup. De Laurentiis has the rights for Red Dragon, Hannibal and Hannibal Rising while MGM has the rights to Silence of the Lambs. That Clarice show was hysterical in that they couldn’t mention Hannibal Lecter by name and only vaguely alluded to him. Now that Amazon  owns MGM, I could see them doing a TV-MA adaptation…

Also, they never had the rights to use Clarice Starling (which is why we got that crappy Clarice show).

Jesus fucking christ. “Queerbaiting” refers to the homophobic act of putting in queer subtext to lure in queer viewers (or give hetero women fetishistic gay ships to obsess over) while considering the suggested relationship to NOT be canon, and definitely never actually reifying it, and it’s almost exclusively done…

I can’t add to any of the positives addressed here save for one. I thought the beach resort was spectacularly well realized. You note the buildings are built atop large retaining walls sloping to the beach, as if to mitigate a violent storm season? But just the design of a corporately planned beach community,…

I’ve thought since the Aldahni storyline began that the restraint the show has had with not showing the iconic stomtrooper armor even once before now was a terrific decision that also just made sense. They’re soldiers, they’re not deployed for everything. It made their appearance now raise the tension in a way that…

I don’t know your definition of ‘dark’ sci-fi, but if you’re leaning in the ‘gritty’ Blade Runner direction, Andor is in fact not that, and why I feel it’s refreshing not just for Star Wars but the current cyberpunk-obsessed grimdark sci-fi landscape in general. Andor is an ‘adult’ ‘mature’ show insofar as it...…

George Lucas has always said that Star Wars was a fairy tale for children. That certainly tracked with the prequels, particularly Phantom Menace. The Abrams sequels were Star Wars for adults in arrested development.

The decision to hold off on showing us stormtroopers and star destroyers until now has really made their appearances here pay off. We just get a little bit, and it’s enough to actually make them seem dangerous. Same with how the show handled the TIE fighters on Aldhani. I’m glad to see a Star Wars property treating…

The birds flying alongside it give a sense of scale and menace that’s lost in the big laser space fights.

Man, I’ve been reading that the views on this show are terrible and that’s really, really depressing. I think this is the best written Star Wars anything. That scene with Syril and his toxic mother was so well written and so well acted you could have set it in a NYC apartment and it would have still worked. I hope…

So people didn’t go see Freaky in theaters ‘cause it was released on VOD a month into its run, not because it was “released in the very heart of the pandemic lockdowns”?

Sorry, but no. I saw Freaky in theaters, I loved it, but it was in theaters for 4 weeks before it hit streaming services. If it didn’t make money by then, it wasn’t going to happen.

Halloween Kills is why this isn't doing as well as expected 

Y’all are gonna let this show off the hook for its wacky sitcom miscommunication not once but twice? Bad enough we had Criston confess his and Rhaenyra’s hookup in this dumbass fashion, now we have a whole war kicking off because of it? Surely there are better ways to complete Alicent’s heel turn that this. It’s corny…

Am I the only one who thinks the casting for Aemond was really off? It looks like he’s in his mid-30s while everyone else has aged appropriately. Kind of reminds me of SNL sketches where they use whoever is around to fill in roles resulting in some characters looking wildly older than others for humorous effect. 

*sigh*

I am not well versed in the lotr lore, can you tell me in what big way is the show departing from the books?

So I’m confused by Numenor. They’re supposedly a militaristic island nation, but they only have five ships to use for an invasion force...? And if the fire had gotten to all of them they would have been fucked? Really??? And Galadriel mentioned five hundred soldiers. In the ending shot of the ships leaving port, there…

At this point, it doesn’t matter. They’re so far off the books (which isn’t explicitly a bad thing) that even if they were, they’d be effectively totally different.