Nah, there’s some worthwhile stuff. Even skipping the stuff on the list here, you should see something from Garage Inc, plus No Leaf Clover, and All Nightmare Long.

Probably Puppets, yeah. Maaaaybe Four Horsemen, because that’s the first song I heard and what got me hooked, but Puppets is the king. It’s still the first thing my fingers want to play if I get a guitar in my hands.

They’ve come back a bit in the last 5-10 years. The lyrics aren’t as strong, the riffs aren’t as exciting, but they still get your head banging.

It’s bold the same way that leaving Stairway to Heaven off a Zeppelin list or Satisfaction off a Stones list is bold.  Just because they’re overplayed doesn’t mean they’re not great songs.

Man, I forgot about Harvester, there were so many other bad choices already.  Fuck this list.

If they were going to include a song from every album, we’d have No Leaf Clover and something from Garage, Inc. (Whiskey in the Jar, Die Die My Darling or the Mercyful Fate medly would get my vote).  Instead we get Frantic and whatever fucking song they did with Lou Reed that six people have listened to.

That’s probably because they wrote the song after watching the Ten Commandments on TV.

Ok, finished reading. I stand by my original statement: fuck this list.

No Sandman at all? Is it overplayed? No doubt. Is it still one of the most badass riffs of all time? Sure is.

Puppets is number one. If I squint on the right day, I could maybe see Creeping Death falling in there, but I think if you took a poll…

One song in, and fuck this list.

With thirty songs, you can and should drop in entire albums (basically anything on the first 5 albums, and most of the Black Album), before you get to fucking “Frantic”. It’s not a bad song, but compared to what came before, it’s not even in the same league.

Alright, back to reading.

For the love of all that’s holy, leave Poltergeist alone. The first film is nigh-on perfect, and afterwards you get diminishing returns all the way down to that godforsaken remake. I love the shit out of the first movie, but it hasn’t been a franchise drawing eyes in over twenty years.

Enjoy it while you can.  In five years, every one of those streaming services are going to be ad-supported.  A couple of them might keep an ad-free model as an extreme premium, but it won’t be cheap.  The numbers just don’t add up.  Every streaming service is losing money right now.

I don’t think he counts.

Van Helsing gets my vote as the worst studio film every made.  Not because there aren’t objectively worse movies ever made, but because on paper it should have been so easy to make that film at least watchable... but at every turn they make creative decisions that are just terrible.

I’m impressed.  No clickbait rankings in the top three here, and the reasonings for where each landed make sense. 

So your problem isn’t that they were horrible choices, which you basically allow as a matter of taste. It’s that fans take those choices personal enough to talk about fictional characters as if they’re real people. I am being unfair there?

And just to reply all in one place, since Kinja is a fucking trash fire...

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Based on the writing we’ve seen in Book of Boba Fett, this season of Mando, and Obi-Wan, to say nothing of the mixed (to put it mildly) effectiveness of the SW features, I think there’s just not a lot of quality control over at Lucasfilm.

His character direction was set down in the first film, but that doesn’t mean Johnson or anyone else did a good job justifying it.

Is there a good story to be made out of turning Luke into a bitter old hermit? Probably. Wouldn’t been nice to see that story, instead of summing it up in a couple minutes of flashback…

If you have some problem with the complaint Gaith laid out, by all means share it.

If you’re accepting that as true- and still don’t consider it a pretty poor handling of the character, then pop culture criticism is probably not the place for you.

It’s a big galaxy. Not everything has to be interconnected.

They missed their chance to do what makes sense with this story: leave Grogu with Luke and let Din go off on new adventures. It was the right choice for that season and the right ending for the character.

But they chose to go back to the well, and now they’ve fallen it with no way back out.