For the same reason they all need belts and sashes on top of their tights or pants or the underwear briefs they wear as pants or on top of “pants”. Because the artists imagine and want to draw what they each think is cool, aesthetically pleasing, or makes “sense” in their paid-creative head canons, which ultimately…

...all deeply cool shit that I fear will culminate unsatisfyingly with something asinine involving interpretive dance.

Jason Isaac’s role in this gave me strong Lorca / Star Trek: Discovery vibes...Plantae...Fungi...tomato / tomato. Then I remembered he was The Inquisitor and The Sentinel in Star Wars: Rebels, and now want to read / watch an article / video outlining the recently discovered OA-Star Trek-Star Wars Universe…

What’s up with Jason Isaac’s weirdly connected recent casting? What if The OA is a part of the Star Trek-Star Wars (and maybe -Avatar...the good one) linked universe? Someone go write an article or YouTube video on how this works. I don’t care nearly enough to write it, but will devour and repost the hell out of it.

...the Old Night scene... what did I just witness?

100% agree. I just finished episode 8 and am blown away by what I just witnessed. I was fine with season 1, but shocked, sucked into, and fully sold on season 2, which ultimately unlocked story points that make all of season 1 more than worth it.

I want Gunn to lay easter eggs throughout both that subtly set the stage for this breed of universe crossover in the far future...

I’ll take the spoiler snowflakes over the “ladies, melanin, and the gays scare me” set. Maybe we can have a united front against the fandom’s bigots? Ha.

How Marvel Comics would it be if, in their darkest moment against Thanos or whatever this “new threat” is gonna be, the “New” Avengers from the future show up using the same quantum/kree/sorcery tech that our Avengers use to “start over” and fix the dusting. This includes an older Sheri, Stature, and Spectrum, who MCU…

It’s surprising the lengths we will go to in order to make something not make sense when there are simple explanations right in front of us. WE’RE DESPERATELY TRYING TO GET PEOPLE TO THINK WE HAVE SOMETHING VALUABLE TO CONTRIBUTE SO THAT THEY’LL WATCH OUR SHITTY YOUTUBE CHANNEL.

So much this. Not sure why folks familiar with or fans of the franchise wouldn’t watch this. I really dig this film, and it surprisingly had some meaty connections to the larger canon that I really hope they pick back up elsewhere via streaming shows or future films. 

Gotcha! Makes a lot more sense given the comparison between the Ultima Online and WoW approaches. You’re 100% right that this is the at the heart of the issue: “That requires a certain amount of willfully ignoring that we can’t all be the supreme commander of the military.”

I think it’s definitely targeting kids, and as others pointed out, kids today consume stuff very differently. I’m a big Star Wars fan who has 5- and 7-year-old kids. They have zero concept of “X show is only on at X day at X time”. They’re shown stuff or stream stuff when they’re allowed to. I teach high schoolers,…

Really? I guess I’m one of the few who is curious. I mean, aren’t a good chunk of gamers particularly motivated by this sort of thing, where they play a role in the larger story? Like with Halo, there’s Master Chief, but when others are playing, aren’t they just some faceless grunt who is involved in the larger story?…

I think I get where you’re coming from, but I don’t know how else they’d handle an animated series that skews more towards younger audiences. It’s pretty clear that the feature films are meant to be the central story, and that Resistance and the likes (ie novels, comics, etc.) are, as you say, side stories. But being…

You say that, but by starting TLJ right after TFA, it basically makes it impossible to tell all those extra stories that take place between the films.

Also, I think Luke being a wildcard in this impending war was something that both The Resistance (in their desperation) and The First Order (in their desire to be unstoppable) were factoring in. I think that’s why Kylo was leading the hunt for map to Skywalker on Jakku to begin with. Likely the First Order plan was to…

I mean, maybe...? Still don’t think there’s “fault” here. The Empire Strikes Back takes place 3 years after A New Hope, and there’s so much of the war that we don’t see. And that’s okay, because the story that is front and center of the OT is Luke’s, and the Civil War is the backdrop. So Johnson’s decision to start TLJ…

(And it’s not weird or a failing of the movie that it didn’t cut away to show randos battling it out on other planets: the original Star Wars was like, “the galaxy is in a state of civil war” but stayed entirely focused on its main characters.)

Doh. Posted something similar in a new thread, but it makes more sense here. Want to share because I’m curious what folks think about the last bits of speculation at the end of this.