The 5th elephant is a damned masterpiece.

I’m just so disappointed that this article didn’t begin “Avril Lavigne isn’t dead--she’s born again.” It was RIGHT THERE! 

I read the first volume of this and was so underwhelmed. The angsty teens were so generic in their supposed fucked-uppedness and had no real character to speak of, so it was impossible to become invested in anything they were doing. Plus the whole thing was drenched in quirk-for-the-sake-of-quirk.

So three things. First of all I literally don’t get how you thought that was what was I going for in my comment, but whatever. Second, you do realize all of this applies to Jonah as well? Third, Sam was one of the driving forces for the trip and them looking for that island in the first place.

Here’s the thing, I completely understand why they stuck with Jonah as he works better as the companion both from a character and physical perspective. So writing Sam off is reasonable from that point of view, especially since there is a limited amount of resources to spend. Just the utter ruthlessness they used to do…

“Shit, we’ve accidentally written such great chemistry between these two characters everyone thinks they’re a couple. Should we maybe roll with this and see how it leads to new narrative arcs in the games?”

I almost wished that they went with that ending, although I can also easily understand why they wouldn’t as they didn’t want to tie the ending too hard on what happens next or where the games go, if they do. It’s just that I thought the ending was lacking that something.

Why isn’t everybody calling it the batawang?

Diminishing Returns: A Star Wars Story

I WANT AN EWAN McGREGOR OBI WAN KENOBI “STAR WARS STORY.”

Slow down, speed up, it won’t matter. People are out of ideas with Star Wars because it was never really the sweeping epic the name would suggest. It was about the Skywalkers, with a couple of colorful characters mixed in, giving the appearance of a huge, sprawling tale across the cosmos. And now your options are “Do…

Yeah, as we get farther from the OT, younger audiences just don’t care.

I’m not a “Rian Johnson ruined Star Wars” type and generally like what TLJ did with Luke/Kylo/Rey despite kind of a dour tone, but the plotlines that were purely his inventions (the slow-speed chase, Finn and Rose’s side adventure, Holdo and Poe’s clashes) were the weakest parts of the movie for me, so I’m not…

“This kids franchise doesn’t have enough moral ambiguity for me, and these heroes that everyone loves so much need to be brought down a peg or two.”

One new major film every two years was plenty. The big problem with the “anthology” side of things is that they decided to chain it to the original trilogy, limiting what stories could be told and how they could be presented. They really should just not have even considered side movies unless some promising director…

Boo big disappointment game.

I am excited to get this game and start playing it but I have an important question.

So once again it avoids the Lara/Sam questions that were the most interesting thing about the first game of the reboot and just goes with Jonah, who is an ok character but does little.

Well that sucks, more so for McHale since I found that had it’s own distinct flavour whereas Wolf is just another show in the din of political comedy but that’s just me.