Smells like arse covering given they still let him accept the award and make a long speech.

5. The heroes continue to shoot at the shielded droids even though it has been thoroughly shown to be ineffective.

Cade derided Boba for trying to go straight. Taking over Jabba’s empire is what Cade thinks is going legit? I mean, Boba does seem to have turned Jabba’s criminal organisation into a local youth group for troubled teens, but there still has to be some level of crime?

Boba Floss

Good lord. I can’t even fathom the amount of piss that fell in the reviewer’s and commenters’ Wheaties this morning to spew this much hatred for a movie that is designed for kids roughly 4-8 years old. You’re looking for character development in a movie built from the ground up for kids who still sleep in pull-ups?…

Well, shit.

Werner Herzog delivered a line in episode 7 about the New Republic’s struggles, how people were better off during the Empire, etc and after he said it, all I could think of is that is exactly the type thing the movies should have addressed. What happens when the new gov’t struggles? Would people overlook the bad of…

I found it very odd for the first 15 minutes, then I started to enjoy it, then I lost interest and stopped after about a half hour.

It wasn’t quite funny or interesting enough to keep me watching, but it’s kinda funny and kinda interesting. That’s the best review I can give it. 

The entire season so far has been 80% farting around.  “paying off down the line” doesn’t make this season actually interesting.  

I agree with your overall take on where the show is heading, but there are things that made ATLA’s structure work that just aren’t here. Avatar used the standalone adventures to slowly develop and flesh out the central group of 3, who all had distinct personalities from the jump. There was also Zuko there as a…

You could basically skip every episode except 1 and 3 and not miss anything in the “larger arc.”

But it is KIND of serialized. Episodes 1 and 3 (and to a lesser extent 2), were all connected, telling one story which was actually pretty entertaining.

This may have been my favorite episode so far, largely because I don’t care much for westerns, and this one was pretty far from a western.

I am very close to completely giving up on this show. It’s really proving again and again that it’s just not for me.

Bill Murray was slated to play him in a shelved 2000 production.

io9 is more directed towards geeks and genre fans. In the i09 review they admit that unless you have read the source material, it takes about half way thru the movie before it makes sense and the pay off happens too late

Every time I start to decide that everyone should exhibit the kind of honesty Neeson showed in his admission, that maybe we should all open up about the times where we have been less than fair with other races, or the opposite sex, or whomever else we’ve wronged, I see an article like this and am reminded why we keep…

“Sure, later we can investigate this mysterious virus that has infected Raccoon City. But first we’ve got to install these microwave ovens. We’ve got to move these color TVs. Move-ah, move-ah.”

I agree, for the first seasons. Season 1 was rough in spots, but came together incredibly in the end. Season 2 was a high-water mark for television comedy. This season has felt lighter on laughs and heavier on piece-shuffling, and it was very unsatisfying.

From an NZ perspective I tend to associate poppies with people dying bravely but ultimately achieving very little, since poppies come out around ANZAC day (which started as a comemoration of Gallipoli which is pretty much the textbook example of lots of people dying for very little).