This — “it was about the characters” is such a cop out. The purpose of a good mystery, which Lost clearly sold itself as, is that it highlights deeper truths about characters and setting in the story you’re telling!

Uh, from the text:

The Force Awakens was great though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This is a good idea -- for a similar note, I’d probably prefer pickled jalapenos.

I see this complaint a lot, but are smartphones still getting thinner? I think the iphone has been about the same size for the last five years or so.

This is so sensitive...

That tweet... oh my god.

I think this is the take I’ve most agreed with on TLJ ever. I admire what Johnson tried to do more than I actually enjoyed it? The characters felt too emotionally removed for me to connect with as well as in VII.

It’s fucked up that he lied about this but it’s not like hate crimes don’t happen.

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.

Yeah. I’m a big SW fan and liked Rogue One enough to buy it, but a Cassian Andor series kind of smacks of “we don’t have anything else interesting in the tank.”

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