I always find that funny, as if critically lauded superhero films like The Dark Knight, Spider-Man 2, and Iron Man were strictly for critics and not for the fans. It’s only the negative-word movie that’s for the fans! 

Funnily enough I was in a test showing of the Suicide Squad movie (the Ayers one) and they specifically mentioned before starting it that critics didn’t like it but they made this movie for the fans. History repeats I guess. 

Yeah, the best thing about The Avengers was the unique skill trees and play style for each character.  It was such a shame it was buried in that live service game.

It’s also telling that they won’t just open the “alpha” to more players and allow footage that isn’t curated.

Lots of unfavorable coverage, followed by a delay, followed by more unfavorable coverage, and now “Oh god please talk favorably about our game but absolutely do not let people see our game”.

It’s like when a movie gets critically thrashed, so the commercials turns to random Twitter pull quotes ("I LOVE THIS MOVIE! @totallynotastan) and people getting interviewed outside of the free sneak preview they got.

I mean live service or not, the gameplay I saw was four characters using similar but apparently different-feeling superleapy traversal to unload bullets into giant glowing weak spots, which is not a gameplay style I’m especially interested in, especially as a followup to the Arkham games.  Like even if they do an…

So the unbiased journalists they let demo the game this week didn’t like it, and now they’re hoping to muddy the waters by letting the players they gave access in November post about it. I’m not sure who the Nov group was, but I’m guessing it included people/non-professionals who are likely to be favorable to…

I’d say there’s no big need for Trek movies as long as we have Trek shows. Trek movies have twice given the franchise a boost when there were no Trek shows.

Not something on the level of “The Eyeliner Strikes Back”?

Throughout all of that, it’s impressive just how good Cox is here.

As tired of superhero stories as people may be, it’s really goddamn cool that they can be used for stuff like this.

Having a movie about Mando and Grogu end up being about Luke and Padme is like if a show about Boba Fett ended up being about Mando and Grogu, so it’s a real possibility!

I think what I want most is for it to tie into the rest of the Star Wars fiction as little as possible. And I’m a huge Star Wars fan! Seen all of Clone Wars and Rebels and love that stuff. But I enjoy The Mandalorian way more when he is meeting all these new characters, fighting new creatures, visiting new locales.

Snyderverse Mickey.

Simpsons did it.

Oooh Steampunk Willie, the kids will love that one!

Noir Mickey

there is, but the way that story is told in part 2 (via flashbacks that help pace ellie’s rampage and withhold info until it’s most emotionally impactful) would make telling it BEFORE you get to part 2 a little difficult imo