It's triple distilled! Through fuckin' diamonds! Seriously, that long-ass Crystal Head vodka commercial is a batshit thing of glory.

Aside from Tarkin, I finally figured out what was wrong with Leia. Beyond any CGI issues, the fundamental problem was that Carrie Fisher didn't smile like that. It's a crazy simple idea, but it's fundamental. Look at every movie she's been in, every moment she's smiled, and it's NOT what we see at the end of Rogue One.

Eh, story-wise, Tarkin was necessary. There's no way that character wasn't directly involved with the finishing touches on the Death Star. Leaving him out would've been more distracting than the Tarkin-Muppet (which was really, really, really good, just not QUITE good enough to not notice the CGI.)

Sure, there's violence, but it's in the service of straightforward good vs. evil. The bad guys get caught, the good guys are morally upright, competent people. The writing's reasonably clever, there's never a really BAD episode, and the plotting moves from point to point quickly and efficiently.

I think I've figured out why this series has been so frustrating. It has, at once, taken WAY too long to get anywhere interesting and also kept the audience from identifying with . . . well . . . anybody. The first two episodes really should've taken about 20 minutes of screen time. It's not like we got a lot of…

Yeah, the "let's do this life-saving thing at-cost" is a nice idea with a lot of negative ramifications. I mean, don't be a dick and boost it into the stratosphere, but even a 100% markup is fairly reasonable (ten bucks vs five), can STILL help to pay for R&D, and is still cheap enough that you're not going to kill a…

Just to clarify a BIT more, of the three "young'uns" in the original Death Star battle scene, Wedge is in Luke's wing along with Biggs. He's the first one hit in the trench and can't maintain speed . . . "Get clear, Wedge, you can't do any more good back there!" In ESB on Hoth, he was the one who actually took down…

He did the smart thing when he started taking a bunch of smaller, weirder character parts ("A Few Good Men", "A Time to Kill" and "Dark City" spring to mind.)

Skipping over the weird kleptomania.

This show obviously used it for their own means, but it's damn near impossible to not see how this episode mirrored "The Doctor's Wife".

I've got zero problem with anything and everything anti-Trump. We need all the resistance against the great orange menace that we can get. We're living in a special and weird time when the worst possible person to be President actually became President. And, yeah, everybody's involved, because the great orange menace…

Well, yeah, but it's the unfortunate aspect of commercialization. At one point, AV Club was a weird little corner of the internet that had room for weird stuff. But now that it's become a focal point, and it's grown, it needs the clicks. Which means being overrun with "Great Job Internet" crap that's quick and easy.…

Oh, if only they'd have killed everybody in that movie, too.

When they kill Alan Tudyk, you know the movie means business.

I get those, they make sense. They're threatening and they're terrifying. But as I said above. Vader. Doesn't. Pun.
It would've been perfect, for example, if while choking Krennic, he'd have said, "Perhaps you should focus on the task at hand, Director Krennic."

Vader. Doesn't. Pun.

I personally liked that about Krennic as a character, he's the ultimate careerist, so blinded by ambition that when Tarkin screws him over he runs to the ONLY other person that has the Emperor's ear, invades his privacy, all to whine about the credit he deserves, which Darth fucking Vader could give less than a shit…

I thought Krennic was perfect for this movie. Not every bad guy should be iconic. Plus, for these smaller-scale movies, it's better that they're not. Krennic is little more than a self-serving bureaucrat with delusions of grandeur. His focus in this movie isn't fighting the Rebellion, he doesn't give a shit about…

20 minutes later in movie time . . . the place they were at had to have been a long, LONG way away from the town since it took, like, 30 minutes between the blast and the hideout actually being destroyed.

There's the whole "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within"/"Tron: Legacy" issue where there just wasn't enough facial movement when he spoke. There are so many tiny things that affect the rest of the face when somebody speaks that it's damn near impossible to animate it all, which ends up making the CGI model look…