Normally I don’t mind the recasting (I don’t mind it here, either) but I feel like Hera Syndulla should be Vanessa Marshall if/when it finally happens. 

this isn’t a leak. It’s casting. This is 100% not a spoiler.

This seems like a great pick.

I really don’t think it could have. Not if they were going to keep it “faithful”

Right? It’s like a copy of a copy sort of thing. Animation packs a lot of punch and worms its way into your imagination because it’s a representation of feeling, and not so much a recreation of the feeling itself. Watching someone cook in a Miyazaki movie isn’t the same as watching someone cook, but it FEELS more…

I mean... I see people moaning about how terrible this is but I don’t know how you adapt Ed to live action faithfully and not have it look like this. Ed’s character was only barely tolerable in the anime BECAUSE the show was animated, and the suspension of disbelief wasn’t painted onto the floor as part of the…

Why not just do a five-year time jump? Leia has died, but her memory lives on and inspires the galaxy, etc.

Like - imagine trying to jerk tears with GHOSTBUSTERS in the first place. And then deciding the best way to do it is to create a digital recreation of a dead man and make him “act” onscreen posthumously.

I really, really feel like we should maybe stop digitally resurrecting dead actors and putting them in new movies so middle-aged nostalgia addicts can pretend like their parasocial relationships with fictional characters still have meaning and worth.

I think honestly, best case scenario for any animation-to-live action adaptation is that you get 2/3rds of what made the original good. Because live-action is just fundamentally at a loss to translate what works in animation without losing a whole lot of magic. I’m not surprised the show feels almost good, and is not…

You’re what is known in the history of grift as a rube, sir.

I always feel like if it gets to the point where we’re hearing about it in an interview and it hasn’t even started to possibly happen yet, it’s probably not going to happen, because otherwise we wouldn’t be hearing about it in an interview.

Yes. The answer is yes.

I do think it’s very interesting - despite the generations of nerds now raised on a steady diet of behind-the-scenes media and mythologizing of pop-cultural creatives easily, frequently showing otherwise - how people consistently seem to believe there’s some sort of correlation between quality of film (and financial…

But on some level this really isn’t all that different from the review blurbs you used to see on newspaper ads for movies.

A huge part of why online criticism is so depressingly mundane, rote, and thoughtless in so many corners is precisely because Aint it Cool News, for better or worse, set the bar. A whole bunch of people with bylines at publications that should otherwise be respected and well-regarded got those bylines by coming up in…

Pretty sure it’s not a “new coat” it’s just inside out/reversible.

I can still remember being mocked mercilessly on the Star Wars subreddit

Did... did anyone actually think they were supposed to be random? I don’t think anyone watching the 6-episode miniseries with the special title denoting it was all one big narrative to be tied together by the final episodes was thinking “boy, I bet all these big unconnected moments are here just because.”

You couldn’t make a Ghostbusters today.