It’s the same reason why they never got Timm or Dini to write a live action Batman film, there’s this idea that TV is a totally separate domain and what works there won’t work in movies. Gustin is not a movie star, so he doesn’t have the charisma to play the lead in a $250 million blockbuster. All BS, of course.

Yeah, Children is basically Leto II’s story at that point, though there are also older characters from the previous books in it.

how is that the end of paul’s story?

It’s baffling to me that the studio just didn’t recast the part, because Miller is not a star, and apart from that one cameo on the Flash TV show, the last time they’d played the character was in 2017's Justice League, a movie that was not a hit. And yes, technically they were in the 2021 director’s cut of Justice…

Technically Clone Wars started out as a kids’ show.

Gonna guess no. 

I thought the stuff with Poe, Leia, and Holdo felt like a bottle episode from a sci-fi TV show. The plot with Finn, Rose, and DJ was marginally more interesting because we actually got to see a civilized planet instead of a bunker or a wasteland environment but it was short-lived.

It’s not really a question of pacing, it’s just that the B-plots with Poe/Leia and Finn/Rose are just not that interesting.

Yeah, Mitchell was Kirk’s best friend from his teens and you get the feeling that losing him was a major emotional blow and probably the impetus for his forming a bond with Spock, who was completely unlike Mitchell. That’s something TOS could never do, because it was an episodic series from the ‘60s, but an SNW-style…

The one thing I think Villeneuve and his collaborators understood was that they had to get to the emotional core of Paul’s relationships with his house, especially his parents, and once that was threatened or lost the audience could empathize with his desire for vengeance, and how that would kick off his interstellar…

Yeah, I kinda feel sometimes like the wikiafication of genre movies and TV has created a really stupid kind of viewer who needs constant infusions of “lore” to follow even the simplest plots.

I would be genuinely surprised if the DCU doesn’t get partially or completely shitcanned, like all the other ambitious shared cinematic universes from the past decade that failed to make it beyond one or two movies, such as the Dark Universe, the Hasbroverse, or the Valiantverse. (It’s so weird that there was actually…

Strange New Worlds is the most fun I’ve had watching a Star Trek thing in decades, so if they want to just roll over into a TOS quasi-reboot with Wesley’s Kirk at some point in the future, I’d be fine with it. This is a great cast.

Were there Kree in Endgame? I don’t remember any, but I haven’t seen the movie in a while.

I’ve been a big fan of Rian since Brick and just preordered the Blu-ray of Poker Face, but parts of that movie are immensely boring. 

I finally got around to reading that book a couple of years back, and I think it’s probably adaptation-proof.

And of course this assumes that his third movie won’t be a mash-up of Messiah and Children, as the Sci-Fi Channel miniseries was. Definitely more of a higher note to go out on. 

Also their sabers are orange, not red. Not Sith.

Villeneuve has said that Messiah would be his last Dune, since that’s essentially the end of Paul’s story. I don’t think he’s as interested in Leto II.

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