Just a pair of one-and-done movies. Soon to be three or four or five... one-and-done movies. 

Ordinarily I would agree but Hassenger has been an engaged prequel apologist for some time.  I actually do think his take, whatever you think of it, is a labor of love.  

There’s already a decent bit of pop culture already on Jeopardy.  I mean not to slam pop culture aficionados (after all, I am posting on an entertainment website, so I kind of am one) but this really reads like Prime is just doing “Jeopardy: Easy Mode!”

people REALLY need to realize avatar connects with normal people who have healthy relationships with art, which is exactly why so many freaks who don’t are turned off by its success and don’t see it as authentic.

I hope to someday have as short a shelf life and minimal an influence as a movie that made two billion dollars, and then 13 years later had a sequel that made another two billion dollars.

I think there’s a lot of that in all three prequels, but with a vastly different context revealing that maybe Lucas *didn’t* actually just think of it as Flash Gordon Redux! Whereas TFA (which I enjoy a lot) feels much more indebted to Star Wars in particular than space opera in general. 

Hmmm, I wonder if that might also apply to certain even-earlier Star Wars movies!

Oh, no, I’m actually Jesse, the writer. Jesus, the writer is a different guy. 

Oh, Attack of the Clones is way better than Wrath of Khan.

I like the sequels but I think if you think TFA feels “more like a Star Wars movie” than TPM, then you have an extremely narrow and probably not that interesting idea of what Star Wars should be like.

You’re also making a weird claim downplaying anyone post-GenX as sort of inherently less important. Millennials might…

I think The Phantom Menace was the best anyone could expect out of pure, unadulterated George Lucas. He needs the Gary Kurtzes and Marcia Lucases of the world to keep him in check, and no one on TPM was willing to do that. I also think that what Lucas does well he does excellently in TPM, and I still get bolts of joy…

No, as I said, I think pretty clearly, the thing the article quoted. Basically about naivete, lack of introspection, and self-seriousness being features of youth culture and the political left.  Not just those cultures of course, but notably within those cultures.  This shouldn’t be a point of debate.  

Maybe listen to yourself? No one is saying you “must” listen to anything. No one is saying the appropriate response is to “just laugh.” No one is saying life isn’t tough. I just have some fairly superficial agreement with Seinfeld’s sentiment as expressed in the article.  Why is that an issue for you?

Today’s woke culture won’t even let a human woman marry a bee!

Yeah, we all watched Westworld too.

Actually no, Apple didn’t make the “1984" ad. It was directed by Ridley Scott and conceived by Steve Hayden, Brent Thomas and Lee Clow of the ad agency Chiat/Day. All those people are long retired. Apple’s only role in making that ad was for Steve Jobs to listen to their pitch, say yes, and sign off on the massive…

I just spent the last hour chatting with an Archibald Prize-winner, talking about the analogue is making a return, about how the artist’s individuality is in every individual brushstroke, about how the tactility and tangibility of art is something that cannot be effectively clone and copy-pasted into ones and zeros,…

I’d say “still autistic”  but otherwise dead on.

“By that same regard, though, it’s likely some longtime fans might find it hard to stomach the changes to their favorite show, particularly its aforementioned shift from pure sci-fi to fantasy.”

I once took a course which used that to help introduce the Exeter Elegies, which contains the lines it’s based on.