45-year-old geek here…and I geek hard on the following: Beastmaster. Roger Rabbit. Suburbia. Sleepaway Camp. Wall-E. Killer Clowns. Excalibur. 12 Monkeys. Fifth Element. The Lost Boys. Starship Troopers. Red Sonja. Hook. Running Man. 101 Dalmatians. Sword & The Stone. The Secret of Nimh. Sleeping Beauty. Robin Hood.…

Too logical. Can’t process. My fandom requires ranting and irrational snark. Rawr.

In addition to the Who and Avengers vibes, I sensed another British influence in Terry Gilliam’s timey wimey work: Time Bandits, Brazil, 12 Monkeys. Actually this stuff feels more of a direct influence, though I wouldn’t be surprised if Gilliam wasn’t steeped in Who and Avengers when he was brewing up this stuff. The…

Not sure how familiar you are with MCU films, so forgive if this is condescendingly explaining shit. But the studio’s been pretty good at blending the filmmakers’ unique creative voices with their larger overarching storytelling project. For example, I think Ryan Coogler, Peyton Reed, Taika Waititi, The Russos, James…

Asian cis guy here. I’m with you on Swinton’s appeal outside of race, but I would’ve been much happier if they went Black and gender fluid, or even if it was any color and gender fluid. The notion of an “Ancient One” could have been embodied by one who transcends modern western notions of a gender binary and was…

I have the same setup. Last week though, I had an issue where one camera stopped connecting. (Had a greyed thumbnail in the App, I couldn’t access a live view, and the cam wasn’t recording new events.) I tried to remove the cam and reconnect it, but holding the reset button stopped working. I called Eufy and after a…

Friendly heads up. Coogler’s name is still misspelled at the start of the story.

Cool.

Yes, but most characters are too thick to realize it.  Actually, Geode and other beings from their race were all over the films too. Luke, Rey, and Yoda lifted a few of them. It was awkward.

Yeah, it’s weird. They obviously don’t have a hard rule against things being just games and not canon. There’s that turn based mobile game where all sorts of known film / book / comic / show characters battle it out and there’s no pretense that it’s actually canon. So I assume it was an explicit decision to make this…

They all went to Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge or the new SW Depot in Anaheim and purchased that shit for more than 200 credits each. 

“Yeah...’fact’...right. And you probably wanna defund the Empire, don’t you, you pedo Rebel swamp scum?”

100% co-sign. “Only a Sith deals in absolutes,” and equivocating / simplifying the Jedi vs. Sith dialect is the real problem. And thank you for naming the IRL implications. I actually believe that the Disney-owned era of Star Wars and the fan / troll discourse around the fictional IP has served as a small window into…

Huh. I watched every episode of Smallville when it was on, and I’m genuinely embarrassed to say that I don’t remember Cyborg on that show. It’s strictly anecdotal, but given the tidal wave we’ve had of superhero films and tv since then, let alone the bigger onslaught of great tv and films we’ve had since then that…

I hear you. The only “out” I imagine someone like Filoni pointing out is that Sabine herself didn’t win it in battle. She picked it up from Maul’s home / lair on Dathomir. So technically when she gives it to Bo-Katan, it wasn’t even Sabine’s in the strict must-be-won-by-battle sense in the first place. So maybe that’s…

I hear you. The only “out” I imagine someone like Filoni pointing out is that Sabine herself didn’t win it in battle. She picked it up from Maul’s home / lair on Dathomir. So technically when she gives it to Bo-Katan, it wasn’t even Sabine’s in the strict must-be-won-by-battle sense in the first place. So maybe that’s…

Oh, oops. Didn’t realize someone replied in a separate thread. I pretty such said the same thing directly to mrbofus. I like the idea of this show being about The Mandalorian as a whole, and that it could tell stories at any point in time. So maybe someday we get a season or more about Tarr Viszla etc.

I actually assume the next season of “The Mandalorian” is the book (ie with its own “chapters”) of Boba Fett. In effect, Din’s story could be done for now. Now we move on to Boba. Then when that’s done, we can see what Bo and the return to Mandalore is about. So the show could just be about The Mandalorian [People] as…

Wow. For whatever reason, I completely missed / didn’t internalize the fact that Hailee Steinfield is in the MCU. That’s amazing. Super late reaction, but I’ve been consistently impressed by her performances, even in crappier productions. Most recently I binged the  Dickinson show on Apple+ (or whatever it’s called).…

Who knows for sure. But well before The Defiant, Star Wars related folks were playing with this basic silhouette and shape. Admittedly it’s a very classic Trek silhouette too, well before The Defiant. But “definitely inspired by” feels strong when you round it out with other examples. Kenner played with this for a…