Mae said don’t pull a light saber unless you are prepared to kill, which led to that whole “force fight” by Indira. But they used light sabers all the time for all kinds of things. The one dude used it as a flashlight.

That is actually wild to me that he learned English FOR the role, he sounded pretty fluent to me. Granted, he was reciting lines from a script! But it sounded really natural.

AV Club got sold to Paste. It and io9 no longer have any connection to each other besides Kinja, which I assume will go away eventually. I bring it up because while AVC shared Jenny Nicholson’s viral 4-hour critical video about the Star Wars hotel, io9 pointedly did not, but has been posting articles about it lately…

I mean, I’d argue that it’s a lot better than kidnapping children.

To be honest that isn’t much better.

I read the prequel disdain as more a callout of bureaucracy, not the ideals of the Jedi order.  

It’s not just Disney, the “Jedi bad, actually” concept has pretty much been the defining viewpoint on the Jedi Order for most of the franchise’s lifespan at this point. A little introspection is welcome in any long-running series, but this has been like the one idea for what to do with the Jedi since it was first…

“Honestly”? I don’t think that word means what you think it does.

I thought he was really good and I’m generally unfamiliar with his work. He just seemed like a guy with an accent to me. 

I wish I could point to the exact line in whatever novel it probably came from, but I only have a hazy recollection of it being spelled out somewhere that no, they weren’t kidnapped. They were taken with their parents’ permission. And if the parents said, “No, you can’t take away our precious child,” the Jedi would…

“Kidnapping” is a provocative way to look at it and used in bad faith really.

When the prequels were coming out the line between good and evil was clear and unquestioned. Becoming a Jedi was how you made a better life for yourself. They didnt kidnap Anakin, they freed him. There wasnt some nefarious hidden agenda. The…

The whole “training Jedi from birth” is seriously one of Lucas’ single worst ideas. 

I did enjoy this review and it left me more intrigued about the show than I was before, but I do wish it had delved a little more into how the performances were. Like, with Lee Jung-jae, I’ve only ever seen him in Squid Game and I know he apparently learned English specifically for this show, so I’m really curious…

And Andor!

my current Star Wars hot take (esp after watching the prequels) is there’s too much exposure to the Jedi. They’re overpowered, and too self-serious. It’s like reading Lord of the Rings, finding Gandalf to be awesome (correctly), and then making all subsequent Middle Earth media about groups, councils, cities of…

They could just have her in permanent alligator-with-tongue-eyeball mode.

Points off for the slowed-down “Banana Boat Song” at the beginning of the trailer, but that decision was probably made by people who have nothing to do with the actual film.

All I hope is that the movie starts with Beetlejuice finally reaching the front of the line in the waiting room where he tried to swap his number 3 billion (or whatever it was) for number 2.

I build puppets for theatre sometime, I am so excited about the practical effects on display here. omg.

This is a much better trailer than the teaser they released earlier.  Catherine O’Hara giving a lecherous Keaton an “ewww!” at the end of the clip made me laugh out loud.  In.