I felt the same way about the EU novels in the ‘90s, which Filoni and Favreau’s stuff draws heavily upon, especially the Zahn material. They were fine, but they didn’t feel like Star Wars to me. I don’t think it’s a universe that translates well to prose. You need that audiovisual ambience.

Like, what’s the reason to watch an Ahsoka series as a standalone now? FOMO? Why does anyone who’s not reviewing it for a living care if they can catch up before it starts airing? Why does someone who dgaf about cartoons want to watch a show where the entire premise is “here are the cartoon characters”?

If a movie is based on a book, the people who haven’t read the book ARE NOT GOING TO HAVE the same experience as those who have, for better and for worse. This is like that, except the source material is available in the same medium and the same location as the new thing.

A crawl would do the trick. 

That’s kinda... their problem though. One can watch The Mandalorian without having any knowledge of the dark saber lore. Or knowing nothing about the Night of a Thousand Tears. That doesn’t mean the experience isn’t more reach for those who do. That’s just life. You make choices; those choices have consequences and…

In the mid-’90s he was suffering from burnout and tried to commit professional suicide with Schizopolis — a self-financed, micro-budgeted movie shot in his hometown of Baton Rouge with non-actors, brutally satirizing Scientology and corporate doublespeak — and it restarted his career.

Ahsoka Tano voice actress Ashley Eckstein stated previous knowledge of The Clone Wars, Star Wars Rebels, and Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi is “really gonna matter” before watching Star Wars: Ahsoka on Disney+

I just think people are kinda bored with a lot of this stuff? Like especially the whole notion of reboots of something that just wound down a few years earlier. I mean, there’s been a Transformers movie every couple of years for the last 16 years. At some point it just gets old, regardless of the approach. 

I saw a guy on Twitter who was angry that the movie wanted him to care about a Batman from what he angrily and hilariously described as an “underground” movie — like Burton’s Batman was a thing people watched in basements on 16mm.

*presses finger to earpiece*

Morning Spoilers for the foreseeable future:

Yep, streamers are still a source of revenue (however paltry) and canceling the services is just more punishment for the actors and writers.

I have to assume that a big part of the Snyder Factor is simply due to the fact that Warner Bros. was always embarrassed by the DC characters and never had any idea what to do with them. The Reeve Superman movies were independent productions licensed and financed by the Salkinds and later Cannon, and the studio had…

I kinda feel like Warner Bros. was banking on the success of the Snyder Cut, because apparently there are things in The Flash that reference that version of Justice League and not Joss Whedon’s. At any rate there seems to have been this belief that the recut version would ignite a new wave of interest in the…

Yeah, but the key distinction here is that not only was Kubrick still alive and working for almost all of the ‘90s, his films had enormous cultural reach. Strangelove, 2001, A Clockwork Orange, and The Shining were among the first big movies released on home video and they were widely shown on cable in the ‘80s. Many…

Everyone makes fun of Sony for getting gaslit by shitposters on Morbius, but I feel like with Warner Bros. that delusion extends to the entire DC franchise. Marvel wanted its movies to appeal to as wide an audience as possible, and you can see that approach in things like casting and marketing on their earliest…

Simply put, there wasn’t anything else. Batgirl had been created for HBO Max, so it wasn’t intended to compete with “real” summer movies. Barbie was the other big summer release and they needed to save it for July. Wonka was their big Christmas film, as was Aquaman 2. Blue Beetle wasn’t as familiar a character. Dune 2…

Maybe they can put a few more ruined studio logos in there when shooting resumes. 

This movie is like a supercharged magnet for the dumbest people on Earth. 

You’d wish you had a time machine so you could go back and stop yourself from seeing it, I guess.