I can almost imagine Albert’s life as Archer’s Woodhouse, but with a bit less heroin.

What a complete garbage fire of a film. Calling him Jar Jar Abrams is an insult to Jar Jar Binks, who was at least funny.

That would have required actually knowing the lore and caring about making a compelling narrative. These are not things Abrams has ever demonstrated much interest in. He much prefers to keep the plot moving so fast it’s impossible to think about why none of it makes much sense.

In the sequel trilogy, everyone calls her General Organa. That’s the name that SHE uses for herself. If that’s what Leia wants to be called, I will respect her wishes.

Didn’t Rey also bring a sand worm back to life? Obviously, you only forgot that because it was the most touching moment of the film.

There’s at least a dozen ways they could have effectively tied Ep9 back to the Prequels for a more satisfying experience, but they opted for the “sloppy and incoherent because they were splicing random scenes together” route

What’s to stop him from using these tricks again and again?

That’s in the article already. You have added nothing.

Better idea: Let us never speak of The Rise of Skywalker ever again.

Don’t count on it, you will be competing with investors willing to pay cash for those foreclosures. We bought our house during the recession in ‘09 with the same thought as you. We ended up buying a short sale house, not a foreclosure. It was a great deal, but I’ll tell you, short sales are a huge pain. 

There’s nothing wrong with building a fictional world using bits and pieces of inspiration from all over. Every writer you have ever read has done this, whether you know it or not, and writers often mask that influence over by giving it their own flair so you will never know what influenced them unless they openly…

protective shields also attract sandworms in the open desert, so the bad guys knowing the Freemen wouldn’t use shields use lasguns initially to even up the odds. But the Freeman trick them by sacrificing a few of their forces by wearing shields when the Harkonen attack resulting in the explosion. It forces them to…

My sneeze is a killing word.

The weirding modules were not in the novels. They were a kind of visual shorthand for the weirding way of hand-to-hand combat, a Bene Gesserit technique that Jessica had trained the Atreides troops in.* In the books this was a kind of super-aware kung fu, basically bullet time before The Matrix was a thing. (And it’s…

Even more so- it was his wife who really made Star Wars what it was.

Unless of course your opponent has a Holtzman generator... then, the old ways are the best.  [smiles]

Made zero sense. Where is Sting?!?! Where is that giant spice junkie pilot blob thing?!?! Why is aquman in this universe???

Never read the book or seen the movie and... sort of? But not entirely. All I’m really getting from the trailer is that it looks like Chalomet is essentially a prince who can see the future and is involved in interplanetary politics along with his father while on a desert planet for some reason and trying to join some…

How on earth does a tattoo “artist” AND the victim NOT notice

Off to pop a few dozen Benny’s and do a little zoom bombing. Keeps me feeling young.