Here’s the thing- to me, “Darker, more mature, grittier” is the LEAST original direction you can take things nowadays. That’s what everyone does! And while Disney SW hasn’t exactly been gritty, it’s absolutely had a pretty consistently washed-out and dry aesthetic, taking the whole “lived in” look to an extreme where…

i don’t think the author understands what “cultural impact” means

This whole article seems an overly desperate stretch over and around the weird hollowness of the first Avatar movie and its lack of resonance in pop culture despite its box office success. Titanic gets referenced far more in pop culture than Avatar, and it came out 25 years ago. Toys and other Avatar merchandise…

A prequel to a prequel! This is different than Obi-Wan, which was a sequel to a prequel.

Black Ariel is a huge slap in the face to all red haired, white skinned Northern Europeans whose ancestors fucked enough fish to produce genetically red haired, white skinned mermaids.

Bonus points for the original story being born from Hans Christian Anderson’s anguish over not being able to be with the man he loved. So there’s something to throw in the face of everyone claiming to care about the author’s intention.

Did these purists also complain about the fact that the movie ended with the mermaid happily marrying the prince, instead of being rejected by the condescending jerk and facing a choice between killing him on his wedding bed or dying without a soul? Since they seem so concerned with preserving the original, you know.

When you peel away the abrasive dick, there’s another layer of abrasive dick.

This idea that SNL was once great is largely a myth based on selective memory. People only remember the really good skits from whatever era they happened to be watching and forget all the bad ones. In my opinion, they’ve been pretty consistent since the first season, with peaks and valleys. If you just look at the…

SCTV and ostensibly every other sketch show also has the benefit of not doing a live show every week. There’s a lot more time for them to refine sketches, and do more than one take of stuff. 

This isn’t going to be this isn’t going to be a popular take, because I do agree it was a cringey moment. But what she was expressing there was what a lot of women felt, what we knew was coming, and what eventually happened on June 24, 2022.

Schneider is a very articulate guy who can go on at-length discussion of issues he’s passionate about (See: His published rebuttal to Ebert’s demolition of the second Deuce Bigalow film.)

It was never a secret the show leaned lib dem generally because republicans by nature are a lot easier to make fun of, but they’ve mocked pretty much everyone. But yeah, Hillary’s Hallelujah was fucking awful. And Rob had one bit... maybe two if you count “you like-a da juice”... that was kinda entertaining til it…

It’s a contraction of ‘good swole days,’ so yes.

Not only does Schneider think SNL isn’t giving top-tier comedy like the good ‘ole days

I guess Maul caught Obi-Wan on a bad day?

So this is the second time Obi-Wan bested Anakin in a duel and simply left him wounded on the battlefield to the torment and suffering of countless systems to come as a result of Kenobi’s mercy.

I don’t blame Hayden for his portrayal in the prequels. George Lucas made a lot of actors look awful in those movies. The only actors who put in decent performances are Ewan McGregor and Ian McDiarmid. It’s great that he get redemption as an actor here because he does deserve it.

Well said. Throughout the series Uncle Owen had an interiority to him that made him seem more interesting than the writing allowed him to be. And I know Leia wanted to know about her biological parents, but the people who truly raised her were standing right there, and I was waiting for that sort of realization,…

I liked the previous episode, but felt like this finale dropped the ball on furthering the interesting developments from the prior episode. I thought that one of the big lessons from the 5th episode was that Obi-wan realized that he couldn’t take Vader in a head-to-head physical/force and that the way to win is by not…