I think you’re giving Filoni wayyyyyyyy too much credit in terms of his ability to maneuver an increasingly kluge’d together canon.

On the contrary, I think Filoni’s goal is to do an end-run around the ST and find ways to walk back a lot of the dumb shit that Abrams came up with.

Ahsoka’s getting her own movie, so isn’t this kind of main sequence?

The title is The Star Wars, and it’s done up in an extremely ‘70s Helvetica-type font like the one from the original teaser.

That said, it’s not exactly Gravity’s Rainbow - I’m sure a reasonably intelligent person could get in the flow without 20 hours prep time

A crawl would especially be nice for all the viewers who have never seen Clone Wars or Rebels. Which is not an unappreciable number of people.

It would be kinda nice if this one started with an “A long time ago, in a galaxy fr, far away...” and a crawl. 

Last Action Hero feels like a precedent to The Matrix somewhat, in that it’s a straight-up fantasy, almost Roger Rabbit with guns. But it was also a parody of action movie cliches and I don’t think people were ready for that. Demolition Man came out later the same year (1993) and arguably did a better job of…

I never saw Coraline in 3D, but I did see Pacific Rim in 3D IMAX, and watching the movie on TV, even in HD, is not remotely the same experience at all.

‘90s action movies are unified by the lack of any pretense to reality. Rambo, the first Lethal Weapon, and Die Hard at least had some veneer of plausibility, and they were also from era when CGI was in its infancy. At the very least, they didn’t wallow in the sheer unlikeliness of their heroes surviving their…

One wonders if maybe this relationship played a role in Donner and Mankiewicz ultimately being fired... if maybe Lester wasn’t too pleased with things Donner was doing and perhaps was closer to the Salkinds and stating his displeasure... and they listened.

You had comics that wanted to have a “rough” edge to them and present questionable “heroes” doing questionable things and like too much stuff out there, it became boring pretty quickly.

Psst, the past tense of “lead” is “led.”

Especially if it involves said scientists researching the achievements of anybody referred to as “The Old Ones.”

Add in— and this is dark but not unheard of— her relationship with Korby might just mess her up and break her. 

I remember when the Klingons were made MORE evil and MORE depraved in Discovery, they balanced it by digging in and forcing us to spend a lot of time with Klingons to explain why, how, and the nuances of politics that led to these different versions of Klingons.

And yet TNG, DS9, VOY, and ENT all began their runs with entirely new casts (with the exception of O’Brien) that had almost no direct ties to their predecessors.

If only Patty Jenkins had had the foresight to bring Jennifer Holland into the WW movies.

Jack and the LaForges are fairly new, having been introduced in the last season of Picard. Even with Seven and Raffi, that still leaves out a number of bridge seats to fill. It’s a bit like X-Men, which Star Trek often resembles (and not just because Steward played the leaders in both cases). You always have some…

SNW draws on pre-existing continuity but it also reinterprets it for a 2020s audience, many of whom might be new to Star Trek. So SNW isn’t dependent on knowledge of TOS to enjoy or understand most of what’s going on. It’s not even really that dependent on knowledge of Discovery, which introduced these versions of…