I was going to say, “Who among us does not find naked ninja clones sword fighting compelling?”

Maybe it was just because my expectations were lowered by the crappy trailer and mediocre reviews, but I actually kinda enjoyed it. Maybe it’s also because my wife and I went to one of those all-inclusive resorts in the Caribbean a couple months back, so I was primed for this sort of satire. I don’t think it stacks up…

I’m not saying that she doesn’t have serious problems (I voted for Sanders in the 2016 primary because of them), but I have friends on the left who voted for Stein or wrote in Sanders in 2016, because they thought Clinton would be worse than Trump. That’s the sort of unfair, extreme vilification from the left that I’m…

I voted for Clinton in the 2016 general election. I think I also voted for her in the 2008 primary. And I think she is unfairly vilified by both the left and right.

I think they could do an anthology type show focusing on different areas of the world without necessarily following the continuing stories of the characters from this season that closely. For instance, they could do a season set in Vietnam and have Ozymandias’s trial every once in a while pop up on some TV news…

So this is only going to be on Hulu? I get FX and have been able to stream some things through their FX streaming app on Roku, but not everything is on there (for instance, I wasn’t able to watch Atlanta or What We Do In the Shadows). I’m guessing I won’t be able to stream this on the normal FX app? 

My problem was that I don’t understand what the plan was supposed to be before they figured out Dr. Manhattan was in Tulsa and they could steal his powers. There was supposed to be some non-super power plot about how the 7th Calvary’s attack would force police, controlled by Judd, to wear masks, which would somehow…

Yeah, I watched up to that moment tonight, hit pause, and said, “You know, I’m gonna go check the review of this episode on the AVClub, because if the rest of it doesn’t knock it out of the park, I just can’t watch anything so aggressively stupid.” I genuinely enjoyed the first two episodes too and thought the jump to…

Do they do nudity on the BBC?

I’m kind of torn on the political angle as well. On the one hand, I liked that the first several seasons showed how even well-intended revolution could have unintended consequences and end up hurting the exact people you were trying to help, while providing the powerful with new avenues to consolidate power and…

I get the sentiment, but I fall on the other side of the line and am pretty OK with the ambiguity. There was that light touch of something surreal popping up at various points, primarily with Whiterose’s schemes, that to me added an extra layer of intrigue and depth, but wasn’t so strong and so confirmed that it…

That’s what I’m hoping too. It wasn’t a good trailer, but it just seems like the cast is too good and Ianucci has such a good track record that the show has to at least be above average.

This was my feeling too. As someone who wasn’t familiar with the source material, it took a while to get a handle on the characters, the timelines, and what the stakes really are...and then just was things were coalescing and starting to get good, the season ends. I definitely could have used a couple more episodes to…

I fully endorse your list of nitpicks. I’ll add riding the horse-like creatures across the surface of a star destroyer. If the ship started moving at all, wouldn’t they all just go flying off?

I was really hoping this last one at least was going to be about Kylo dealing with being the new leader of the First Order going up against Rey as the new leader of the Resistance/Jedis. I think that was an interesting enough dynamic to hang this movie on. We didn’t need Leia, Luke, Han, or Lando, and we sure as shit…

It was really funny when they asked Rose to go with them, and she gave some lame excuse about having to study plans for old star destroyers. They might as well have just put a title card on screen that said she died on the way back to her home planet. 

I put a similar comment in the thread for the original review of it too, but this movie made absolutely zero sense. I’m not sure if this is supposed to be a spoiler-free space, so I’ll refrain from list particular absurd plot points, but it felt like a Star Wars parody to me at times, or a Star Wars made by a Tommy…

I just got back from seeing it. Granted I was really stoned when I saw Attack of the Clones and remember basically nothing from that movie, but with that caveat, I think this is the worst Star War of them all. The plot made basically zero sense. With every other film, at least it was clear what the goal was and what…

I noticed The Parmenides thing as well. It’s been a long time since I read that work of Plato’s, but I know it’s famous for including some serious criticism of Plato’s theory of the forms. When I went to read the academic cliff notes version on the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, I found this line: “The Parmenides…

I know there’s been some backlash saying that he’s not as profound as he think he is, but I do think it’s a special talent to be able to take some serious intellectual issues and package them in a blockbuster form that appeals to the masses and gets some of them thinking.