Ehh dunno... it seems like the real challenge is that IX has to restart the plot again, after we just did that in TFA. I liked much of what Rian Johnson did, but a lot of the plot came from essentially turning the middle chapter into an ending (Snoke dies, Luke dies, the Resistance is whittled down to 12 people --hard…

You’re a moron. On one side is the guy talking to the cops and putting this all in a police report; the other side is a bunch of internet contrarians typing out “Hmmm white supremacists attacking a minority, seems too on the nose!!” from their basements.

Made the mistake of scrolling to the comments on the TMZ article (I think they broke the MAGA angle) and it’s just hundreds of toxic comments about how this had to be fake. It’s scary.

It’s really, really good.

This doesn’t mean everything, but the general reaction seems to be pretty meh

Ehhh just keep two of those at any given time... most people who cut the cord aren’t subscribing to four streaming services!

After some rewatches and a year later, this is my takeaway. I like both of the new episodes for different reasons, but TLJ is a bit of a slog in ways that even Empire wasn’t. It’s also a little harder to me to connect emotionally with it -- everything feels a bit more removed, maybe, compared to Force Awakens?

I’m not a fan of “check out this piece of media!” as a response to unanswered questions, but the four more recent Snicket books (the noir mystery All the Wrong Questions series) ended up having a lot to do with the Great Unknown in a roundabout way... and more importantly, were really good in their own right.

Counterpoint: The Defenders was still wheel-spinning at 8 episodes or whatever it was. I love JJ and DD but the flaws with regards to the plotting in these shows ran deep.

Her amazing Jennifer Garner circa Alias hair... I’m reeling.

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?

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

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.