And here’s another reason from Road and Track’s first drive:

We should probably all just take a minute (read: six hours) to listen to Dan Carlin’s latest Hardcore History podcast. It’s very good / terrifying.

But we must never forget the incredible cars of Archer:

This. I am constantly baffled by the assumptions that are made by folks who read a set of car reviews and assume that is somehow a substitute for a test drive. “Well Jalopnik said the WRX was fun, and in the BRZ review, they said it was also fun. They must feel identical and be equally fun! Time to go rank my children…

For years the Miata and MazdaSpeed 3 shared space on dealer lots, and no one thought it was unusual. Just like the WRX and BRZ, they are completely different cars. Seriously. And I’m saying this to the entire internet, not just you: Stop comparing spec sheets and reading reviews. Go drive the cars for yourself.

Because you’re going to sell it on Sunday! ZING!

Weird. That Star Wars movie she was in also seemed to name-drop Star Wars a lot.

Every day they’d do “Indie Hour,” where for an hour, they just shot random stuff for no reason, just to see what would happen.

We also have the pointless bit with her going up through the Rapidly-Opening-and-Closing-Door-of-Doom for no reason.

That’s really all we get though. Jyn cries during three minutes of exposition. It’s supposed to be the turning point in her character arc, but with no prior knowledge of her or her motivations, her change of heart doesn’t carry much weight.

“Now she’s my only link to finding their secret base.”

I caught that too. There’s also a line where he asks her, “and what do you want?” At the time I thought, “and now we get to hear about Jyn’s motivations in the movie! Great!” But once again she changes the subject. Sigh.

But if they don’t make the audience care about the characters, then is killing them off really a sacrifice?

I tried playing Unity after Syndicate, and I just couldn’t get through it. I can deal with the odd control glitch here or graphical hiccup there, but a lot of the missions were just broken or unintuitive.

I assume you’re talking about the decision to under-write all of the main characters...

Best of luck! I really miss driving my R56, but I don’t miss the frequent four-figure repair bills.

Yeah, unfortunately the article I just read talked about a bunch of “plot holes” that can be explained with “because the characters didn’t have prior knowledge of the script.”

This reads like one of those hacky Facebook articles with titles like “Nine Plot Holes That Totally Ruin [insert current popular movie here]! Rogue One has real problems with half-baked characters, but instead this article gets bogged down in a bunch of things that are a) implied but not explicitly spoon-fed to the…

Anyone have a direct link for the lead image? I need it on my desktop like yesterday.

I keep hearing about all these plot holes in TFA, but nothing I’ve seen amounts to any more than stuff-the-writers-decided-didn’t-need-to-be-spoon-fed-to-the-audience. Seems like a bunch of butthurt LOST fans looking for reasons hate JJ.