GEORGE LUCAS: You see, the most important principle of script writing is “tell, don’t show. “ If characters aren’t constantly saying what they’re thinking how else is the audience supposed to know what’s going on inside their heads?

As someone who was alive and cognizant of the world around him in 1996, I distinctly remember a chief criticism of Mission: Impossible was that it was OVERplotted for a summer spy adventure movie. But, you know, thank god Kevin Feige was able to wrest storytelling away from peddlers of “mindless junk” such as David…

I’m a Star Wars nerd and it’s a hard sell for me. I just didn’t keep up with the cartoons, and the more and more Filoni turns them into the backbone of the non-movie lore (or uses them to shore up flimsy film lore) the less I feel like part of the club.

Yea I think that was meant to trigger us all because nobody thinks this.

Obi-Wan was just absolutely tied up in knots by the existing continuity. It’s not just that we know Obi-Wan and Leia will be okay, it’s that there was a long list of things that couldn’t happen — characters who couldn’t meet each other, knowledge that couldn’t be revealed, battles that couldn’t happen — without…

In the first Star Wars film, Obi-Wan tells Luke that Darth Vader killed his father. In The Empire Strikes Back, Vader tells Luke that he is his father.

Shouldn’t you be busy jacking off while listening to “Rich Men North of Richmond”?

“The Left”, i.e., everyone not admiring the latest in white hoods and capes, probably would give you a blank look if you asked them about “Sound Of Freedom”.

I see Obra Dinn reference, I upvote and immediately put the soundtrack on. I’m a simple person.

Any point he might have is ruined by deciding to go “The trans people have had it too good for too long, I’m going to put them in their place.”

Yes, and established scholarly hubs have been doing this for a long, long time (see: the Stanford Literary Lab). Granted these places and researchers have a more defined, more scholarly purpose, but the process is basically the same: employ computational analysis in the field of literary studies. I read an entire book…

That too: I have no desire to pay money to see a comedy in the theater when I can wait for it to come on a streaming service that I already pay for.  Doubly so because the odds of that comedy actually being funny are pretty low these days.

All the trash comedies that came out in the early ‘00s ruined comedy. Studios started making ‘Scary Movie’ knockoffs that were trash, audiences stopped going to them so studios figured comedies don’t make money anymore and stopped making them.

Yeah I don’t think people have a good grasp on how any of this works. Calling it ‘AI’ is the first problem because it’s not artificial intelligence at all.  I think that gets people a lot more scared than they need to be, so of course the media runs with it.

This whole thing seems much ado about nothing. The weirdest things of the entire drama is a line in this article: “... it’s just going to get worse until we as a society stop people and companies from doing stupid shit like this to art and culture.”

Why in the world someone think analyzing art and culture is stupid?…

“every news article is just based around a list of words that people like to click on.”

None of these people have been cancelled because cancel culture is a myth.

If AV Club doesn’t keep pumping out the filler then it folds. If AV Club folds then I will have nothing to do and may go back to waving my penis at passing cars.

Or “Grimy”, as she likes to be called.