And yet somehow, they ended up with “Snoke”.

Turns out Haneke is an asshole about #metoo for all his self-righteous preaching.

Carter ruled. I had expected a connecting thread - how Carter/Stark led to SHIELD of today. But that works a lot better if the SHIELD you see in Agents is anything like the SHIELD of the movies, which Carter seemed to be leading to.

I don’t hate it..

Oh, the characters are fine. They’re just in a show that’s misconceived from the get-go.

It’s such a greyblue muddy-looking show.

Actually, I’m constantly looking backwards from the music I loved in my teens and twenties, and constantly finding new stuff to love, from the 70's, the 60's, the 1950's. The further forward I search, the harder it gets, but there’s still plenty of gold among the dross.

Yeah, so all that aside. The prequels had colour, and didn’t look filtered to death. Not a lot of visual invention in The Last Jedi. The critics liked it because it was conventionally well-written and structured. But Star Wars was never about that. It was about creating the impossible, firing the imagination. Even the…

I like him, I really do. I just wish he would make, you know, just one good movie. Anything. A proper film that people still want to watch 5 years later. You can’t be the new Arnold or Sly or whatever if you never do anything but CGI cannon-fodder. Instead of wasting your time with reality TV Dwayne, maybe either…

Hmm. Except this is pretty much del Toro’s go-to movie-ending trick. You saw Pan’s Labyrinth right?

There used to be three of these in Liverpool. The coffee was wretched.

I didn’t feel she quite had her match in the Superman actor. What was his name? Squeakyvoice McShoulderhunch?

I hosted Greer at a university event one time, and she spent much of her talking time gushing about the Royal Family. I’m not qualified to discourse on feminism, but she gave the impression of someone settling nicely into the establishment and tired of punching up.

God gave us producers to save us from directors and their “vision”. Ridley Scott has proved with the Prometheus movies that he never understood Alien. George Lucas, well.

he calls the Federation a doomed “social experiment” and chides the crew for their “cult like devotion”

I watch TV?

It’s got to be a big dance number. Tap-dancing dragons and a zombie chorus on ice skates, Busby Berkely-style.

Of course, the “boy child of prophecy” refers to Darth Vader, the villain of the piece. I don’t recall any prophecies that referred to the actual hero of Star Wars, Chewbacca.

The Last Jedi can be understood as a metaphor for George Lucas and the prequel trilogy, where: Luke represents Lucas, and Kylo represents all the whining fanboys who blamed him for their disappointed expectations. Horrified at the rejection by his followers, and feeling responsible, Luke/Lucas abandons his great…

Yeah, or I hear Kevin Spacey’s available.