This for sure. It’s mind-boggling that these shows about superheros in NY struggled to fill 12 episodes (or 8 for the big team-up season!).

It’s looking like this will be a subscribe-for-two months-a-year type thing (unless you have kids). 

I’m a pretty big Star Wars fan but these shows... meh. The first one is set juuuust after ROTJ, and now we’ve got a prequel series to the closest prequel to ANH.

I’m no Hillary stan and didn’t vote for her in the primary. It’s both true that she fucked up and there were other bad actors who affected the race significantly.

Chappelle on politics is the woooorst these days. I saw him last year and he was still ranting about how Hillary only had herself to blame for every aspect of 2016, while soft-pedaling anything Trump has done since.

Baffling for sure. And splitting AD is probably worse because there was already a 5 year wait for a new season, and on top of that the comedy really relies on repetition, contrast, and building to something over a whole season.

Girl, how old is this?

It’s not complicated — at any given phone size, you get more screen with which to watch movies, read articles, etc... the stuff that people use their phones for.

I’m not going to miss this as much as I would if it was happening after the first four seasons.

Worse... running the VA out of Mar-A Lago https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/08/civilians-from-mar-a-lago-drive-us-policy-on-military-veterans-report.html

You’re a moron.

Yeah... ended up liking the movie overall, but the Rogue One trailers were really bad as far as teasing awesome-looking scenes that it turns out weren’t actually intended for the movie (the TIE fighter cornering Jyn on the beach) or were cut early on.

omg

Comments critiquing this blog for being moderately lefty and not straight journalism are one of the more exhausting parts of kinja-era AV Club.

Yeah, having watched it a few times now this is where I’ve landed too— there are great individual scenes but it’s such a drag overall. Empire was dark but had an adventure aspect to keep things enjoyable that TLJ didn’t.

in which each party will support absolutely anyone and anything in order to get a win, any win.

St. Lucia also!

Yeah, as we get farther from the OT, younger audiences just don’t care.

I’m not a “Rian Johnson ruined Star Wars” type and generally like what TLJ did with Luke/Kylo/Rey despite kind of a dour tone, but the plotlines that were purely his inventions (the slow-speed chase, Finn and Rose’s side adventure, Holdo and Poe’s clashes) were the weakest parts of the movie for me, so I’m not…

This. Also, people who acted like Trump could somehow never win a two-person race were always useless and should be ignored going forward, but it’s simplistic to pretend that the Comey letter and Podesta leaks didn’t happen in those last days and materially change the race.