I could say, “Wait to see the actual show.” But then I remember thinking the same thing when I was first fighting my gut reaction to the Inhumans trailer. Fool me once...

Thanks so much for this. That was a great way for me to take part virtually.

Oh no need to apologize. Still can’t wait for your improved version though.

I think you should crowdfund your own, improved version of the poster.

Counterpoint. As a parent of two little ones, I get what you’re saying generally, but not having a Kryptonian child who’s nigh indestructible and super strong sort of changes things. My oldest is pretty mellow and highly sensitive both physically and emotionally, while my youngest has high energy and intensely…

“I surely am not the only person who does not understand DC’s strategy.”

Me, a few Walking Dead seasons back: “Bored now.”

I hear ya, but that’s only if one assumes that their understanding of the lore is correct and therefore assumes that the storyteller made some grand error or took way too much narrative license. On the other hand, some of us just watch and assume that the storytellers are telling...a...story... And that we’re…

Ah sure...on that level. Post apocalypse or the inevitable next Capitalist crisis, I’ll take food, clothing, and shelter over my old DVD collection or my hard drive of (completely legal, I swear) movies.

Dang. Guarantees? Well, maybe. But if so, their prop dept really sucks, cuz that was not the alienesque crystal skull from that Indy film...

I hear ya on the sarcasm. I do feel like this movie did a decent job of balancing new characters with run-ins with established ones. Some of the call backs are necessitated by the fact that Solo is an origin story told after the character’s been well established, while some of it has to do with the reality that…

Ah! Never been a ship model name person. Very cool.

Well, how about this? Jabba is technically the head of a crime family. “The Godfather” doesn’t “star” Marlon Brando’s Godfather character per se. So maybe it’s actually called “The Hutts” and it’s less about the slug as much as it’s about gang wars between Crimson Dawn, Black Sun, The Pykes, and The Hutts, and Solo…

And can this body please help identify the references that Matt Martin alluded to here? Most pressing for me is the possible presence of The Ghost.

And do we have any idea if that’s one of the Two-Tubes from Saw’s Partisans, or another of their species? I assume it’s one of the egg mates we know, given that the Cloud-Riders are proto-Rebels. Love that the Two-Tubes have made their way across the comics (Star Wars), novels (Leia), and now other films.

I think there’s a lot potential in this film. Even though it’s not part of The Saga proper, Solo has galactic repercussions, but in a different neck of the woods than we’re used to on the big screen. This is hopefully the start of a trilogy of SW Story films giving us insight into the “scum and villainy” of the galaxy…

Now I’m doing my post-new-SW-viewing-ritual of reading the “guide/visual dictionary” and Art Of books. So damn geeky. Fun fact... Beckett was a member of the anti-Separatist militia group, Sons & Daughters of Freedom, dying the Clone Wars:

Yup. But maybe not for the reason some think. It wasn’t an Indy reference...a deeper cut...

Watching it again in less than 3 hours.

And for me, apparently. Had a great time. Second viewing tomorrow.