Lucas was involved in writing both sequels. He has the story credit on ESB (and it’s generally accepted he reworked a lot of Leigh Brackett’s original draft), and he has both story and screenplay credits on RotJ, the latter shared with Lawrence Kasdan.

That clear understanding is in large part because they have Kevin Feige - someone with creative oversight who makes sure everything is on the same page. To some extent, he’s the MCU’s version of ESB/RotJ George Lucas, a singular vision who makes sure the writers and directors are making something that works.

I think Abrams was a great choice to produce and direct TFA, and he did a great job in capturing a lot of the original trilogy experience. He just shouldn’t have been allowed to write it. The moment Disney decided to let Michael Arndt go and have Abrams crank out a screenplay to meet their timeline, that’s when the…

What Rian Johnson tried to do didn’t work for me because of when he tried to do it: chapter eight of a nine chapter story is when you build up for the big finish, not start tearing the mythos apart. TLJ’s tone would have been great to experience in a standalone film that didn’t have four decades of narrative baggage…

It might be that Abrams did intend for Snoke to be a giant, right? We don’t actually see him in the flesh until Johnson put him on screen in TLJ.

I’ve never agreed with this. Snoke’s abrupt removal halfway through the story felt like being handed a gift-wrapped box, only to open it and find out it’s empty. It absolutely subverted my expectations, no doubt, but I didn’t find anything in that to enjoy.

Right - while the OT had three different directors, they all worked from one singular vision. That’s the only reason it actually worked; Kirshner and Marquand didn’t have nearly the creative control that the ST directors did, and were working directly from the scripts Lucas gave them.

She should have been a vergence in the Force, just like Anakin was - a complete nobody but just as powerful and significant as the previous ‘chosen one.’ And since RotS’s opera scene implied Darth Plagueis might have had some hand in Anakin’s spontaneous creation, it certainly could have been suggested that Sidious…

I don’t know that it detracted from anything; Luke’s arrival wasn’t until the very last scene of S2, and it capped what had been the primary story arc running through both seasons. Stories like the darksaber were always going to be secondary to that.

Straw men, of course, are naturally immune to COVID-19.

I had no idea the ‘rising sun’ icon was considered a fascist symbol - you see it in use all over the place in modern Japan (it’s even the logo of one of the country’s biggest newspapers.) The Japanese navy actually still uses it as a flag on their ships, which I think they’ve done continuously since the imperial…

“For onlookers, this might seem like another ploy for attention”

When Loki is reading through the TVA files that Mobius gave him, the name of the variant on the page he’s viewing is Sylvie Laufeydottir. Sylvie also happens to be the first name of the Marvel character Enchantress, a powerful magic user from Earth. How did Enchantress gain her mystic powers? They were bestowed upon…

The guy who cast Leslie Odom Jr. as Aaron ‘White Priviledge’ Burr is getting dragged for not putting enough Black people in a movie? I’ll admit I did not see that coming.

Melee usually suffers in first-person because of issues like this, the limited field of view making it difficult to gauge your position in the environment. It astonishes me that CDPR earned their rep making a series of third-person melee combat games, and then threw that out to tack clumsy melee combat onto a…

To that point:

back in the late 90s when it was a mainstay on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim programming block.

Real communism is the friends we made along the way.

“I dunno, maybe this is my British heritage shining through, but some kind of...line?”

Why not just make a better sandwich using your own food before you do all the yardwork?