I’m happy that the fans found depth in the Star Wars universe, but I never did.

Because he failed, and the next movie should have shown him learning from his failure. Failure, and learning from it, was the entire theme of the movie - Poe failed as an officer, Fin and Rose failed on their mission, Rey failed to redeem Kylo, and of course, the whole story was set in motion by Luke’s failure as a…

I think the demand for an outline is unfair. Lucas made up most of Star Wars as he went along. Johnson went in a without an outline on Last Jedi. For me the problem isn’t that the lack of a plan, it’s that they weren’t willing to take any big risks in the third one. Combine that with a rushed production and the death…

The rabid, vitriolic, vocal hate that TLJ got probably ended up hurting the franchise than anything in the film. It basically signaled to everyone running the show to keep their heads down and make the fans happy as easily as possible.

Current Lego kits are toys you assemble yourself. I was able to track down some big block sets that my kids used the old fashioned way, but the results were so much less cool looking than an imperial shuttle.

The voice actors have a way better union than the animators do. TAG is run by people who don’t know how to get leverage and how to use it if they accidentally stumble upon it. The only thing you get as an animator in the union is the health plan that is attached to IATSE. That’s it...and the health insurance isn’t…

I loved that Kylo didn’t turn good. Rey wasn’t related to a famous character, her parents were "no one". And I especially loved that it opened up to how The Force could be tapped into by anyone if they could sense it, which channels into Obi-Wan’s explanation of it back in A New Hope (and again played into Rey’s…

So Kylo isn’t really responsible for Holdo’s maneuver working. He actually is responsible for being fooled by Luke, but by that point the Resistance is (apparently) down to just a tiny group of survivors, and saving them costs Luke his life.

TLJ just opened so many possibilities that I assumed, clearly incorrectly, that they had mapped something interesting for ROS. I’ve posted this before, but it only makes logical sense that there is some ability in every person to tap into the Force if it is indeed what binds us all together. Some corral and control it…

Star Trek fans are like this, too, and it’s exasperating. 

Recent Star Wars movies: The Force Awakens; Rogue One; The Last Jedi; Solo; The Rise of Skywalker

Hasn’t the last 6 years of American politics proven how dangerous an emotional, ill tempered, unskilled person can be?

People talk about athlete salaries as if they’re working 40 years like everyone else before retiring. The average NFL career is 3 years, and the minimum salary for practice squad players is only $165,000 (with active roster players making at least $660k). Careers in other leagues tend to last longer, but not by a ton,…

TLJ said “you know, Star Wars can tell a lot of different stories” and RotS responded with “nah.”

This, exactly. Yes, TLJ had problems, but it also surprised me in a way no Star Wars movie has since 8 year old me sank back in my seat in bewildered defeat and confusion when the credits came up at the end of Empire Strikes Back. That alone puts it as my favorite of the sequel trilogy. It went new places. 

Exactly my point. What pisses me off about this Ukraine situation is that they’re just lazily reusing the same bad guys from the old crises we all have nostalgia about. Really? Russians? Again? There better be some surprising twists coming or I’m cancelling my CNN subscription.

I feel like Star Wars is way too beholden to nostalgia to ever grow in the way that it could.

Toys really don’t sell much anymore.  Kids don’t care nearly to the degree our generation did. They have electronic devices.  They age out of toys faster.  The market is shrinking rapidly.  SW toys are marketed primarily at adults these days.

Have you ever met a Star Wars fan? They don't want to be challenged, they just want to be wrapped in a familiar blanket.

Nothing about this is new. Literally everything in all of the Star Wars universe since Return of the Jedi has been about toy sales rather than coherent storytelling.