Yeah, I went on the tangent about Galaxy’s Edge because your comments just reminded me of how I felt about it before I saw it for myself. The concept of it being “canon” felt doomed from the start and overly complicated to me, but once I got there, I got swept up in the whole environment. As impressed as I was though, …

I’m working my way through Jenny’s 4-hour video now. I’m not a theme park person, and during the months and even years leading up to the hotel’s opening I was a lapsed SW fan, so I’m seeing a lot of the marketing material for the first time. It’s remarkably bad, and now all I want is a 4-hour explainer detailing why.

I’ll admit, I had similar feelings about Galaxy’s Edge, but once I visited it in person, I got sucked in. Even my partner who struggles to tell the movies apart seemed charmed by the whole thing. I would still prefer to go to a park that let me visit Hoth, Mos Eisley, etc. like you suggest, but I can’t deny that what…

I wanna be snarky but, minus the LARPing elements, the hotel sounds like something I would’ve dreamed of and loved to go to as a kid. I haven’t watched the video yet so I can’t speak to where Disney cut corners, but I suspect that child me wouldn’t have cared. If the hotel had been priced at least somewhat affordably…

If the seques had tried doing new things, they could be mining those for decades.

I’m just not convinced there were ever enough target customers to financially sustain the hotel long-term.

I saw Challengers this weekend and was surprised to see the theater fairly packed.

it’s unclear what a “flattering” portrayal would’ve really entailed, at least in Snyder’s view. Trump’s friends and supporters seem to like him because he’s an asshole and a bully, so it’s hard to imagine Snyder was looking for some sanitized version of his story where he came across sweet and saintly

I’m just calling ‘em like I sees ‘em.

Lucas had already stolen that idea and included it in early drafts of The Star Wars. So in the sense that he’s the one who came up with the name Coruscant and Lucas admitted to using it because he liked it, I think it’s fair to credit Zahn.

Look, we can criticize the media for falsely making an engine failure accident sound like a Boeing issue. That’s alarmingly bad journalism.

It hasn’t been the studios’ job to make good movies since well before they ended up so heavily in debt, sadly.

And yet...

I never have a doubt that if a headline mentions the MCU, you’ll have weighed in with all the things that are wrong with and bad about the MCU, and you never fail to turn up. You’re always on the case.

When Qui-Gon was killed by Darth Maul, Filoni explains, Anakin lost the closest thing to a father figure he’d ever had. Obi-Wan reluctantly steps up to train him, but their relationship is never more than brotherly.

It’s truly damning that the best* Star Wars content under Disney are the ones most closely tied to the Original Trilogy, which indirectly (if not accurately) reinforces the idea that fans don’t want anything new, they just want the familiar Empire vs Rebels, AT-ATs, X-Wings, etc. over and over…

Williams composed some absolute bangers for the prequels, but other than Rey’s Theme I struggle to remember any of the original music he composed for the sequels.

In other words, no. You just feel that victimhood is prestigious. Thanks for the clarification!

It might explain why they didn’t name the actor. Plus in their Instagram post they recount a moment when the actor went into the H/MU trailer to give them a jar of honey “without making eye contact” and when someone asked what that was for, the actor replied that it was a gift, everyone “aww’d.”

As long as you’re sending me things, can you send me an explanation for what’s prestigious about being a victim instead of dismissive one-sentence punchlines?