It’s not. In a recent interview with the directors, they made it clear that they still had some filming to do and that nearly all of the effects and post work remained to be done.

I remember a lot of grumbling on the intarwebs about it, but in the way there’s grumbling about most things. While the attempt at a sandbox game was a bit rough, I thought XV had some of the best character work in the series - it’s a bit unappreciated as the more modern FFs go.

Yeah, but he’s got those dead eyes, though. He must be guilty of something, else they’d be all twinkling and lively.

GenCon is interesting in that how you think of it is probably in part related to how you found out about it. I became aware of GenCon during the late 80s via Dragon Magazine articles, when it was all a TSR operation. I still think of it as a D&D/RPG con that happens to have some other geek stuff as well.

The production value and effects for this series look exceptional, movie quality or at least the next best thing. I have to wonder why Kenobi didn’t look like this; Vader and Obi-Wan clash in a SoCal gravel quarry while Andor gets the full ILM treatment?

I know a lot of G/O media writers get unfairly called out as plants and shills, but goddamn, this article reads like a straight-up commercial.

Yep, that did the trick. 

Right. I suppose it’s possible that Suzanne Collins, a then middle-age writer of children’s shows from Connecticut, was secretly into Japanese horror fiction in the mid-2000s, but that doesn’t seem super likely.

I’ve always thought that was a sketchy claim. Gibson’s Sprawl trilogy literally have a Night City in them; what are the odds another creator writing about a high-tech dystopia lands on that exact same name?

Lego’s master plan to turn Gen X childhood into injection molded plastic bricks and sell them to us at a premium lands somewhere between pure genius and utterly diabolical. That faux wood grain hitting me right in the feels.

A lot of original NES games were priced around that level or even cheaper. I remember buying Kung Fu for $29.99 in early 1986.

Exactly. The last film before Nolan/Bale was Schumacher’s Batman & Robin, which is easily the low point of cinematic Batman. Coming from an era of neon decor and nipples on suits, a more serious take was something a lot of people couldn’t imagine.

Good choices! While probably not heavy enough for Eddie, I would have loved Motley Crue’s Shout at the Devil in that scene - just an epic middle finger at the bad guy right til the end.

So just standard issue monster fighting gear for late Cold War Russian gulags, makes perfect sense.

“No disrespect to ST, but all it’s really done is integrate one song (Running Up That Hill) at a few effective moments.”

So, I do have several questions, but by far the most important one is this: what is the Atlantean Sword from Conan the Barbarian doing in a Soviet prison camp in 1986?

Bears, beets, battling Galactus.

That seems obvious in retrospect, since Marvel wouldn’t have blown the big moment of revealing the MCU’s Mr. Fantastic in a one-off cameo

People who complain about how things aren’t like they were in the comics baffle me. You KNOW those stories. If you want to re-experience them reread them. This is it’s own thing that uses the comics as a jumping off point.

With Marvel not even a year removed from Shang-Chi’s revision of the Mandarin, you wouldn’t think this needed pointing out, but here we are.