I guess I should try to watch it again, but I never got into it. The first couple episodes I watched just seemed… I don't know, so Disney? Too childish? Everything always wrapped up for the best and it never seemed to engage me. OTOH I really enjoyed X-men the animated series recently on hulu.

Oh, as an occasional reader of the Old EU (now Legacy) I can say that Luke's take on the Jedi Order was that it was inherently broken. I LOVED that. He believed attachment could be a positive and that emotions were to be valued and cherished. The Dark side was when one person became RULED by the force in my mind, and…

This is all part of the problem. Palpatine is presented to us as either mystical reader of the future (he knew everything would happen according to plan if he nudged a couple of places hard enough - reason? Force), adept political maneuver and cognitive mastermind (he was trying to cause chaos and take advantage in…

we also get absolutely 0 development on his character. The most interesting part of the movie is an almost entirely out of left field remark about the person we presume was his master. (He doesn't come out and say it, though yes, it seems like Plagueis was his master.) Why is he evil? Is he just evil evil? For the…

that's a good point. At no time is Anakin actually ever a good jedi, EVERYTHING we see him do is COUNTER to the Order's instruction, yet apparently off-screen he performs magic. "Why won't they make me a Master, Obi-Wan!" "Perhaps because you've not learnt a single thing here except how to swing your stick?"

awesome! love reading the review, as wrong as I believe him to be… over so many things, it's quite telling how that film just pissed people off. Yet he was right that Kenobi's explanation would suck! lol. "From a certain point of view" I suppose even ESB could look awful.

don't mention the special editions are 'special' I like to pretend now they are the only edition so that way I don't remember the original trilogy. It's… easier that way.

Absolutely true, Williams score is the thing I'm excited about most for the next film. I'm 30, and yet each day I find myself hoping this upcoming film approaches the quality of ANH or ESB. The most exciting feeling about this is knowing I'm not alone and that there are Star Wars fans 15-20-30-40 years older than me !

You definitely did! I can tell you apparently Sand is not liked, because it's coarse and rough. It gets everywhere, not like you. That's how I'm going to pick up my next girlfriend I've decided.

well my dear, it's about to get much worse. At least before everyone could hold each other's hands and say "its not so, it's not so! it's called prometheus!"… now? Alien: Covenant? He's not even giving us a choice. That title is like saying "Alien, Miiiiiiiiiiiine"

And i ask of you a question, which show do you think i'm going to watch?
Likely you don't know me very well so i shall provide you with a hint, if you like?
Inside my sentence is a clue, find it if you would, if you could.
As for me i know which i'll enjoy it's going to be a great day on the twentieth!
Sitting back and…

All the more interesting. Would the fight for freedom be reborn? That's a show I want to see. "The Phoenix of Liberty"

Why? Because it's too accurate?

yeah it's not a really good alternative fiction for WW2 stuff. So… really this is asking us to watch about a world where the Nazi's win, yet the resistance in that world never succeeds on a physical level AFAIK… so it's painful to watch. With enough real brutality in the world, I find it hard to get involved in this…

Entirely different style of movie, but you are right, perhaps I should requalify my statement as "he doesn't like directing a movie where the main feature is the actors"

OMG this is the funniest description. I feel like I've seen the movie now too.

Note* I should say that when Empire Strikes Back came out, a lot of reviewers did NOT like it for it's tone. It was a movie that in other words was a black sheep at first, gaining critical acceptance over time. It's also the single reason (it's reception) as to why Lucas got so much more control over ROTJ. Hmm, thanks?

I don't think they deserve hatred, but they should be studied in "how not to ruin a franchise" because Lucas really did a series of things that were wrong. I wouldn't call him a lazy man, but he certainly focused only on one type of directing and excluded a great many things from his production. I found the making of…

That's the conflict between Ash and Lucy Lawless. She KNOWS Ash, She knows he stumbled into this not out of merit but accident and now she has a chance to recover the book after he was sucked into a whirlpool (to where you ask? She will never know! muahahaha). Obviously they'll meet, fight, butt heads and then the…

Ehh…. you are looking at Uhtred through YOUR lens. You are much MUCH more educated than he was. Even in thing's you probably didn't realize, like basic governance, managing people. A lot of this stuff is fed to you without you knowing you've even learned anything. You may have even learned some of it WRONGLY. You've…