This is wonderful.

Wow. That’s, like, real magic.

If so, they’ve been doing pretty bad character work with C3PO.

I think it’s pretty complicated. If she was just a comic relief, then the pathos of her death is even more unearned than it was, especially given that Lando himself is barely developed as a character and is, at times, a comic relief himself. If she was supposed to have pathos, then she’s underdeveloped.

“And the movie was great”

I think Disney were worried that most of the calls would go like this:

Huh? I’m not a “fan”. I love movies. I love the medium. Describing me as a “Star Wars fan” is the cheapest way to devalue my opinion. In fact, I didn’t like this one exactly because I don’t speak from the point of view of a fan, I speak as someone who, I hope, sorts of “gets” movies, gets how narratives work, what…

The purpose of any movie is to be a good movie. This one wasn’t. It exists only because they thought it’s a good idea to make a movie about young(er) Han Solo.

It still has to come from the place of narrative logic. Harrelson’s character was inconsistent throughout the movie. The betrayal would work if he was presented as less of an “actual” good guy (to Han) before that, if there was ambiguity to his character. I get that this was supposed to sting harder because of that,…

The whole idea of them being “enslaved” came from this movie. From what I recall, no droids ever felt enslaved in any other movie. That whole scene was ridiculous.

You may not like how they went about showing it

It wasn’t necessarily a jab, just a very lazy characterization. She kept sloganeering without any depth behind it.

Yeah. Exactly. They kept repeating it, and then did just that. “I’m telling you I’ll betray you” - “Hey, I betrayed you!” But that’s just it. They had no reason to, no narrative logic behind it. It’s just because the writers wanted them to betray each other.

I guess I walked into the wrong comments section. I’ll be on my way.

Donnie’s gonna have a shitstorm.

This movie was so stupid.

Yeah, it mostly felt like writers panicking and asking each other “why did we get a 10-episodes order? we could’ve been done in five”.

Funnily enough, Marco Rubio, Rudy Giuliani and Rob Ford were all born on this day.

Or a joke. It’s a possibility, but we need some further examination.

Wait, your birthday’s a holiday in the UK? Are you, like, royalty?