“it offset the clunkiness of Ragnarok’s final fight, an all-too-common convoluted swirl of fists and CGI.”

“I want to know that there are little force-users here and there all over the galaxy, looking at the stars, just waiting to be trained.”

I mean, that was the status quo for thousands of years before the Skywalkers came along, so it was true before TLJ anyway. 

I agree with a lot of this (TLJ was deep!) and disagree with some (most of TFA’s dialogue and tone is better than that of the previous six movies)... but man is it exhausting to decide you’re going to hate a movie based on speculation from a 90 second trailer.

Holy Adam Driver!

I agree, Ian McDiarmid is pretty hot.

Challenging, deep, and fresh? TLJ was a remake of Empire Strikes Back, except with the Hoth battle at the end instead of the beginning and with the climax of Return of the Jedi awkwardly jammed in there. 

No iteration of Star Wars ever claimed you had to be from a magical dynastic lineage to make a difference.

You know what? Fuck it. I love Star Wars and I’ll see all of them. I didn’t even mind the Last Jedi. Right into my veins.

“No one’s ever really gone.”

I still think the first Thor was underrated. It was funny, but also a little operatic with that Ken Branagh vibe, it brought the stakes down to one small town in New Mexico... good stuff all around.

I love Scarlett in this movie for a lot of different reasons. My second favorite Black Widow hairstyle (first is obviously the straightened Winter Soldier look), that dope-ass suit, the hallway fight where she makes Favreau look like a fat old man, all of it. Say what you want about the rest of the movie, but she…

I think it’s more “Meh” than very bad. It’s actually amazing they haven’t made a movie I wanted to skip during my recent re-watch of them all. This and Thor 2 aren’t great but they’re still totally watchable and have moments.

It’s been getting pretty good reviews from other outlets, so I’m pretty disappointed that Dowd didn’t care for it.

Perhaps...

That said, I think it still works. As a story, it looks like it provides some depth to the character. Also, depending how they work it, they could provide enough ambiguity so that it is just the recollection of a mentally ill criminal making sense of his past through the lens of somebody literally insane.…

Hey it worked for X-Men Origins Wolverine! 

I’m still waiting for the reveal that Tilly is Neelix’s great grandmother (as well as Wesley Crusher’s).

Huh. I guess I’m in the minority. I enjoyed this episode every bit as much as I have the rest of the season. (Though not quite as much as last week’s, which I thought was a real series high-point.)

i’ve never been a fan of time travel shenanigans in star trek, but I legit rolled my eyes when Leland actually said “time crystal”.

What. The. Fuck.

couldn’t even bother with some patented star trek technobabble nonsense.