Andor was also just way better than Rings of Power.
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On the one hand, it’s too bad because the last episode or two were in a lot of ways the best of the season. On the other hand please for the love of everything let this be a wakeup call that they need to hire actually competent writers next season.
I don’t know that I’d call anything about The Rings of Power "excellently crafted", nor did I find the silly revelations at the end to be a reward.
I thought Andor was very good and worth the investment. On the other hand, Rings of Power was pretty tedious from start to finish. If I wasn’t a nerd with fond memories of devouring Tolkein as a child, I would have bailed as well.
There’s “slow boil,” but there is also spending 6 hours of 5 or 6 completely different unrelated storylines (heck the pre-Hobbits never link up to anybody else in the end, did they?). And I’m not even sure some of the storylines developed beyond pushing pieces around on a board. (Though the plot of why the orcs were…
Basically any good director - and some mediocre ones that happen to sell well - get dragged into the Star Wars/Marvel bagel of darkness.
Changing Ash is one thing, changing what is essentially your company’s mascot entirely by benching Pikachu from the anime has got to be terrifying.
That’d be nice, but I’m not holding my breath. You don’t get loving tributes in new TV shows when the associated game has a sub-50 Metacritic score and didn’t even crack a million units moved, even if the cartoon was friggin’ amazing.
Goddamn stop teasing us already and do a Mario v Sonic movie.
That’s what the original was like as well - sets it apart from overblown fantasy as one that doesn’t take itself too seriously. (see: House of the Dragon, and especially The Rings of Power for faux-Shakespearean pretentiousness overload)
It’s probably less about nostalgia and more financial risk aversion.
Disney wants a return on investment. That means safe projects. Familiar projects. Fan service projects that keep the Twitter shits happy.
Buzz Lightyear (Chris Evans) and his robot dog Sox in Pixar’s Lightyear.
Solo was good
IDK, this feels different enough from Solo. I mean, this isn’t a prequel, it’s a different story than what we knew of the character previously. If anything, it looks like he may START with his green-and-white armor and ditch it by the end. I think they’ll spin things enough to make it worthwhile.
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She’s great as Nebula, that’s all I got to add.
I really hope Nebula starts becoming more like the variant seen in What If?
Yeah this is a SONY misfire, not a Marvel one.
A Marvel misfire? Seems a bit like blaming the parent who has visitation one weekend a month for the poor quality of their kid’s homework.