That’s my point: that’s not a plot contrivance. It’s simply something the movie, for whatever reason, didn’t think it was necessary to explicitly lay out. It’s ultimately on you if your first reaction is to assume the worst. The movie itself doesn’t even say that Holdo had even formulated a plan before the attempted…

The problems with the prequels weren’t the ideas, really. Lucas’s ideas were fairly solid, if not necessarily spectacular. It was the script and especially the direction that let down the side.

Was she? She knew by the time everyone was boarding the shuttles, but there was plenty of time for her to be filled in by that point. Heck, she could’ve been filled in even before she shot Poe: the plan, such as it was, wasn’t so complex it couldn’t have been explained in, like, a sentence or two. Was there anything…

At a fundamental level, I’m just not sure why the movie needs to provide explicit dialogue to “prove” anything. I don’t think it takes much of a leap on the audience’s part to square everything away, and I think movies have been justifiably expecting that from their viewers since the beginning of the medium. It feels…

I’m just not sure why that’s the default assumption. Especially since there’s no clear reason for her to keep it a secret and risk mutiny. Everyone is assuming plot hole when the more obvious (IMO) explanation is that she either hadn’t come up with the plan, or at least hadn’t settled on it, yet.

Did I miss something in the movie? Why is everyone assuming Holdo was hiding her plan from Poe and company? It didn’t strike me as a strategic masterstroke, but rather clever improvisation. I figured she came up with it pretty late, and the reason she didn’t tell Poe was because he’d already gone off the reservation…

I don’t know if the original plan was for Mark Hamill to appear in the next one (assuming there even was a plan with that level of detail from the beginning), but given Harrison Ford being written out and Carrie Fisher’s passing, I bet he does show up now, if only to provide a final send-off to the cast of the…

I’ve always figured that Force ghosts only appear to people they knew in life. So Yoda can appear to Luke, despite the amount of time passed since his death, but not to Rey, who never met him. That said, I have no idea where I got that idea in the first place. I either invented it whole cloth or pulled it from some…

As someone who’s never been much of a fan of the franchise, but has gotten a certain degree of enjoyment from the pop culture spectacle, the only movie I think was unambiguously bad, in a technical/artistic sense, was Attack of the Clones. The others are, at worst, on the lower end of the mediocre, IMO. Although I’d…

I don’t know if I’d give The Last Jedi a 5/5, but I’d probably give it a 4.5. I’ve always been slightly lukewarm-at-best on the franchise, though, and that may be the highest score I’d give any of them. So, take that as the requisite grain of salt. As for the other films:

The problem is what to replace it with? Sure, by now it’s almost completely abstracted from its original source, but people recognize its meaning as “save this file.” I’m not sure there’s anything universally understandable out there to replace it.

This is starting to feel like a trend in modern television. Frank Darabont develops The Walking Dead and gets kicked out in the second season. Frank Spotnitz develops Man in the High Castle and gets kicked out in the second season. Now Bryan Fuller developers American Gods and gets kicked out for the second season.

I’m sorry, but no. John Stocker’s Toad is the best version of Toad. It’s an objective fact.

Barbatos, the mastermind behind the whole shebang. The Batman Who Laughs is the public face of the Dark Knights, but Barbatos is the one who came up with the plan and has been calling the shots behind the scenes. Unlike the others, he’s not a variation of Bruce Wayne, but a demon who took an interest in Batman…

That’s Barbatos, the bat demon who’s responsible for all of this in the first place. At the end of Final Crisis, Batman shoots Darkseid dead, but not before Darkseid fires off an Omega Beam that hits Bruce and seemingly kills him. In truth, it only sent him hurtling backwards through time, depositing him at the very…

There are also dark versions of all the other heroes. Batman just happens to have the most dark universes created because apparently he has the most fears in the group.

There isn’t much explanation on how much those universes came to be, how did Bruce get a green lantern ring (I would imagine it would be a yellow or red ring before that) to me is a far larger mystery than Superman turning completely evil. But perhaps it’s one of those smaller details that’s just best not to…

The Multiverse...Is it Earth Zero, 52 plus universes and 52 minus universes?

There’s a good chance a lot of the game’s scripts and/or physics are tied to the frame rate. That was true in games like Skyrim and Fallout 4, and those were designed with a PC release in mind from the start. A game originally designed for console/handheld release like World of Final Fantasy, where PC release may well…

Nah, but neither is Picasso, so it’s all a bit of a wash.