You’re telling me Disney took something fun and overdid it?

while not untrue, the fact that it was just a little thing in the background is why it worked.

I was hoping the new Pattinson version of Batman would play more with the idea of Batman as a detective. I’d imagine that approach would bring in a villain whose ambitions aren’t in the world- or universe-domination level. A less powerful villain would also mean a less powerful and maybe more vulnerable, and human, her…

Meh, I’ve completely checked out of Star Wars by now. Ignoring any side of the politics that have arisen, the sequels were a mess and the TV shows just simply haven’t been good (I liked where they were going with Andor but for very specific reasons I couldn’t finish it). The weight of trying to interconnect everything…

The boat scene between Thor & Loki is a top 3 favorite MCU scene of mine. Legitimately. “Hemsworth’s first great bit of acting in the franchise is how much sorrow and hurt he put into “I wish I could trust you.”

...tiring dependence on Infinity Stone mythology that wouldn’t pay off for several more years.

No, they're still very bad. 

At first I was like “Hey! Listen!” but then I was like “Well excuuuse meee princess!”

Oof, I would’ve preferred an animated Zelda. Animation is getting so creative and I can’t remember the last live-action epic that looked good. The director of the Maze Runner doesn’t inspire confidence either.

It’s like there are two shows going on:

It sounds like the point of the season is to produce a season-long prelude to Thrawn’s return to the galaxy, which will then play out over the next season, Mando S4, and the Filoni movie.

But when he first appears as a mysterious little forest monster, his backward talking is largely verbing at the end, not subject. “Help you I can,” “Stay and help you I will,” “Slimy? My home this is,” “Take you to him, I will.”

AROUND THE SURVIVORS A PERIMETER CREATE

At this point in the timeline, most people believe it’s just religious nonsense, a reasonable assumption considering the few Jedi who are left are scattered and in hiding.

Haha, I remember that! I can just imagine the WEG writers sitting there going, “Okay, so how do we come up with a game mechanism to explain Han’s ‘point five past lightspeed’ line?”

I still think about Control, Sense, and Alter as the three facets of using the Force, due to the WEG game.

It’s amazing how much of modern Star Wars is built on the old West End Games RPG. Fantasy Flight Games did an anniversary edition reprint of the original core rulebooks, and it’s fascinating to read them now. WEG had to extrapolate so much from just three movies to make the game work, and almost every creative choice…

I didn’t get far into this before I realized I just stopped caring about the details of a lot of this years ago. Tell good stories and I don’t give a single fuck how close you stick to the established rules of space magic.

Why do we keep trying to explain the force when Yoda did so perfectly in Empire?

I’ve watched every D+ MCU series and it’s difficult to describe why I disliked each of them. But there was always just something wrong with them. Sometimes it was bad dialog, sometimes bad direction, pacing, story. Maybe it's just there were so many things wrong with them it was somewhat disorienting.