“Yeah okay I need good human shit. The human shit in Andor is fantastic. The human shit in Pacific Rim, you’re right, was awful.”

I had an almost identical scenario, but the reason it’s painful on the second run-through is that there’s too much “human shit”, sorry, but that’s a cold fact. Those are the bits that drag. Those are the bits that don’t work.

No surprise this site has lost all objectivity about this series. If you know nothing about the books they are pretending to follow then you might like it. Otherwise you are in for a disappointment.

correct i’m just a weirdo with a platform to be a megafan on

Nah pretty sure Linda is just a huge fan and not getting paid (extra) for the coverage.

It really is *very* good. I think ‘The Peripheral’ and ‘Andor’ are the only genre shows giving it a run for best of the season at this point. 

I don’t think they were lightsabers. They looked more like the beam weapons the LAAT gunships are armed with, just red instead of green.

Not an unpopular take, just a bad one. 

I think Godzilla (2014) and Pacific Rim got it right - kaiju are forces of nature. Fighting one is like fighting a hurricane. The best you can do is batten down the hatches and hope it doesn’t hit you.

I admit it’s been a long time since I read the books, but that’s how I remember it as well. Lestat definitely made a point about how some of Louis’s assumptions about him were inaccurate and characterized their time together quite differently.

Next from Pixar:

See, you say that...

Gamera is perfect for you then! He is a giant, spinning, flaming space turtle of DEATH!

Some shoot lasers.

A lot of that depends on how common the model of ship he drives is, and whether it has any significant visual modifications.

Yeah. It’s a great story, but you can imagine, at 13 I was wondering “WTF did I just read?”

That’s the one indeed. I got rid of my collection of magazines about a decade ago but I kept that one, ‘cause who wouldn’t! ;)

I wasn’t digging the fantasy aspect either. The last third felt like a D&D game, it had that same self-conscious “look at my references” thing that made Ready Player One unbearable. I just was not that impressed by Grossman as a novelist.

I don’t have $145 to drop on it but it’s still gorgeous.

I’m not holding out hope for a bunch of Oscar nominations (apparently India didn’t even enter it for foreign film) but can Naatu Naatu pleeeeeaaase get a best original song nomination, if for no other reason than getting a huge dance number during the ceremony?