No, it was fine. If you get that upset over jokes then I’m really not sure how you make it through day to day life.

“Reader, I wrote “I hate this” in my notes, which I don’t believe I have done since I was reviewing Netflix’s horrific live-action Cowboy Bebop adaptation.”

You have to put yourself in Kennedy and Iger’s position in 2012 and honestly evaluate the state of Star Wars at that moment. I can’t fault them for the overall direction they decided to take. They HAD to do a soft reset. They had to shutter the old Expanded Universe.

Yep, this is absolutely right. According to Lucas’s quotes from the link below, for episodes VII, VIII, and IX, he planned a space (soap) opera with Anakin’s grandchildren and some more digging into the biology of the force mixed with components from the EU lore.

You have to put yourself in Kennedy and Iger’s position in 2012 and honestly evaluate the state of Star Wars at that moment. I can’t fault them for the overall direction they decided to take. They HAD to do a soft reset. They had to shutter the old Expanded Universe. It was just too bloated and restrictive for telling…

Compared to the OT, the PT definitely had more complex worldbuilding, though a lot of it was implied rather than shown. The OT, on the other hand, is pretty much a straightforward good vs. evil story. We never learn how the Empire is run, beyond references to the Senate, and that’s dissolved halfway through ANH. When…

I think you could probably put a lot of the blame on Iger and Kennedy as well. They wanted to make Star Wars movies like in the old days, with nothing that reminded audiences of the prequels — i.e., no complex worldbuilding or political discussions — and took that mandate to literally mean remaking the OT as close as…

I fear it’s biggest hurdle to longevity will be the long term viability of P+ rather than anything directly related to the show.

Does no-one on these websites proof read ANYTHING anymore? Every article has at least one glaring grammar mistake.

Yeah, but that’s less a question of how long it takes to get around as just bad filmmaking on Abrams’ part. The space battles in his movies are a chaotic mess — for one, they take place mostly over planetary surfaces, which is dumb — whereas the ones in the Lucas movies are extremely well-choreograped. You always know…

Why does Jacen look like a full human with a bit of hair dye? Would he not also have contact color eyes? Shouldn’t he have like one lekku growing out of the back of his head?

I dunno, hyperspace travel times were never well-defined in any of the pre-Disney movies either.

I dunno, hyperspace travel times were never well-defined in any of the pre-Disney movies either. In ANH, the Falcon travels from Tatooine to the Alderaan System pretty quickly, just long enough for Luke to get some Zatochi in. In TESB, Luke seems to get from Dagobah to Bespin in maybe a matter of hours. The Falcon…

Its not that the sequel trilogy depicted as instant per se, its that the sequel trilogy decided that time and space (distance/where things are...not literally space itself) were worthless concepts and got rid of them entirely. Everything in those movies happens now.

Even the people who enjoy the KJA books will admit they’re schlocky fan-fiction and not particularly deep or interesting. It’s like Dune, if it was turned into a cheesy ‘90s syndicated sci-fi show.

Ain’t nothing wrong with getting paid.

And after that there’s Children of Dune.

The clip, at least that opening clip, makes it sound a lot more lighthearted than genuinely being upset her cameo amounted to being quickly killed off

What was interesting about that scene was that Scarlet Witch killed each hero with their own signature power. And before you ask if Captain Marvel’s power is “being hit with a statue,” her actual powers include energy absorption, and Scarlet Witch absorbed enough of Captain Marvel’s energy/power that a statue could…

I was meant to be annoyed that a scene served the story being told, rather than stroking an actor’s ego or giving the audience another 10 minutes of mindless fanservice action to squee over?