While I could certainly be wrong, I assumed the title was a deliberate attempt at emulating Lone Wolf and Cub, the wandering samurai manga that seemed to inspire (some of) Mando S1. I don’t know if that really works now, as the series turned into just another riff on Clone Wars/Rebels stuff, but I could see that being…

This was in 1998, almost a decade before the concept of “likes,” and this was also before social media existed in anything like a modern form, and Internet fandom existed in a largely inchoate state, with most fansites being amateur operations rather than professional, heavily monetized businesses owned and run by…

Just reminded of how so many fans were upset to learn that Episode I was going to be called The Phantom Menace.

Hold on - we are ignoring the biggest thing here, potentially.  Is the Stacker just an alternate version of the sorely missed Meximelt?  Because, if so, that’s a pretty big deal.  

It would appear that ‘exciting’ has different meanings to different people.

28 Daves Later

Where a zombie is cured of the virus after eating twenty eight guys named Dave.

I remember when I was twenty, trekking out to Toys R’ Us in a snowstorm, so I could pay $75 for a copy of Shadows of the Empire for the N64. That’s 1996 dollars, so that’s like $150 today. And you know what it is that drove me to do that?

I want the absence of two thing:

As a child of that era, I can absolutely assure you that ewoks did not carry the franchise through the 80s. They didn’t even exist until Return of the Jedi, and at that point the franchise was already a juggernaut. Yes Ewoks were a thing and marketed, but not like r2d2 and the rest. The ewok spinoff was a complete…

My thought is it’s a play on Lone Wolf & Cub.

“before your parents even knew how to make you, there was The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall.”

Mangold is explaining why the production costs were high, not why the box office receipts were low.

Holy crap someone else who actually remembers the days where people were mad that Valve were the arbiters of what got released on PC.

there used to be something like that...but people complained about Valve “Gatekeeping”...so they changed it to $100 and you can put up your game.

Guess you could say the folks dense enough to buy this thing were only born... The day before.

I assume Germain does not have kids, as reducing the responsibility of parenting young children to ‘babysitting’ is a bit clueless. Maybe Brian is staying with the kids while Mia is doing irresponsible F&F shit so their child won’t be an orphan if it goes wrong.

I’m not sure why the author thinks “its insulting, weak, and unmanly to care for kids” is a message the films should be sending. So, it would be fine for Mia to be relegated to off screen child minder because she’s a woman, but its a disservice to manly strong Brian to have that role.

A fascinating exercise in misogyny, Germain.

>Does it make Brian look a little less than heroic that he’s home babysitting while members of his immediate family are risking their lives? Without a doubt.

People who use proper punctuation?