But we don’t actually know what Jada’s conversation with Chris Rock about the boycott was actually like.

I agree with you except I think the show should have taken more cues from Jackson’s trilogy on the costume front...the costumes in Jackson’s LOTR trilogy were elite. They always felt realistic and lived-in while preserving the elevated fantasy feel.

so if they had spaced this season’s story over like 500 years, you’d have a lot of scenes with elves going “Hey remember that thing that happened in 150 years ago in last week’s episode?” while looking exactly the same as they did in last week’s episode. I don’t think the passage of time would really come across, so…

Well, I don’t think the time compression’s necessarily the problem

“Small” is a good word to use. They focused a lot on rendering individual locations in vivid detail, and they did a great job at it! The show is genuinely beautiful. But, they did not succeed at knitting it together into a cohesive, awe-inspiring whole in the way that the original LOTR trilogy did. It’s frustrating…

I actually think that would help the show, because to me these elves don’t feel like they have lived thousands of years. They feel like regular Men with pointy ears.

The difference with HotD and RoP is that a good chunk of characters don’t need to age between episodes. All the elves, the Maia, will look the same episode to episode, no awkward need to explain who this new actor is. Dwarves live centuries. Even the Numenoreans live hundreds of years at this point in time, so you can…

I didn’t really mean to say that the time compression was “the” problem. I certainly have issues with other elements of the storytelling (not a fan at all of the we-need-mithril-to-live plotline at all - as dumb as the Arwen-will-die one they added to the movies). But, for me, the time compression is really draining a…

Absolutely! And the idea that more people with a connection to the force will continue to be born was also a great touch. My cynical little heart grew two sizes when the kid grabbed the broom!

But what is contemptuous about that?

It answered the mystery of Rey’s origin by saying she didn’t come from any special bloodline. She would have to stand on her own, not beholden to anyone else’s legacy.

He’s not wrong. The one time a mainline Star Wars entry tried to do anything different the “fans” attacked it so much Disney put out the most generic followup you could think of and hasn’t done anything risky since.

Wild that so many people still have trouble understanding this concept.

Consolidation is not really good from a consumer perspective, even if we as gamers view it as the potential for MS to take over and make better games and improve the work culture. Consolidation is one of the chief aspects of modern corporatism that facilitates monocultures within companies, power abuses from the top…

I grew up on Power Rangers and Rob Liefeld drawn comics... terrible looking, dumb fun. Try not to worry about the CGI all that much, and focus on whether the content is enjoyable or not. I’ve treated the MCU as very expensive cartoons since day 1 and it’s been wonderful.

“Blazing Saddles couldn’t get made today” is such a tired old saw that seems about as lacking in subtlety of thought as the straw-men audiences it assumes would be unable to grasp the movie’s perspective and commentary.

Even moreso to have the haughtiness to believe you represent “normal people.”

Nothing more detached from reality than maintaining the delusion that living in a specific state makes you detached from reality.

Obi Wan’s sole use of “Darth” stands out in the context of the rest of the franchise and its use here was clearly meant to massage that a bit.

No it’s unfunny because it’s making fun of disabled people