It was almost worse (sort of).
If the telling presented in How Star Wars Conquered the Universe is anything to go by, he initially didn’t even have the mentor role to fall back on. Initially much of what Qui-Gon does in the finished film was written for Obi-Wan (as one would expect) and Qui-Gon would join them after…

Let’s be fair to Jake Lloyd here.
Lucas’s colleagues all questioned why Anakin needed to be a little kid in the first movie.
They actively tried to talk him out of it.
He still stuck with it...and then only conceded it was a bad idea years later.

Lucas hosed that poor kid.

Honestly, kind of with you there on RO.
The third act is some of the finest action porn the brand has seen in its entire run, and one thing I will continue to give Disney, between that and the Marvel comics runs, they’ve made Vader into a genuinely terrifying figure again.
At the same time, a lot of the first two-thirds…

To this end - come the ending of TLJ, I was actually interested to see what could be done with the way it seemed like Johnson laid the groundwork for a three-sided conflict to end things - the Resistance, Kylo Ren’s ‘Fuck it - burn it all and start over!’ brand of the First Order, and General Hux, still suspicious as…

That best animated win...seeing Studio Laika throw down against three different Dsiney films and a Dreamworks movie and win.
It sustains me.

To be honest, there’s already some of that kind of in there (you just know had the First Order not been formed, Hux would have been all over the SW version of YouTube.)

If anything, I kind of thought that was a big part of where they were going with emphasizing how overall young most of the rank and file were compared…

“How the fuck is she able to get past that?”

Same way her teacher saw the good in his kid-killing, wife-strangling, daughter-torturing dad.

Forgiveness in the Star Wars universe is fucking BONKERS. 

No need for food. Once enough drop dead, Palpatine just calls up the Tall Man and puts in another order for hooded henchmen.

The execution’s bullshit, but I wouldn’t say Hux’s heel turn itself is. His being pissy towards Kylo Ren has been established since TFA, and he definitely gives the impression of being pissy and petty enough to have that ‘I value seeing him lose more’ kind of a grudge.

The problem is, it’s such an afterthought because…

I’d agree on the story in broad strokes.
Very broad strokes.
But in terms of the actual plotting and layout, I’m sorry -The Phantom Menace, as a story, shouldn’t be there. Not in a ‘it’s awful and can’t be redeemed’ way, more the fact that it’s a huge digression that doesn’t really service the larger story the trilogy…

All I remember of Darksaber is it’s one of two books I go to that help highlight one of the biggest differences between the old EU and the new continuity - the old EU’s imbuing of the original cast with relative invincibility.

For years, the novels treated anyone from the movies as prettymuch indestructible. The death…

A nod to Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers in Star Wars?

Now THAT’S one I wouldn’t see coming.

Also nominating for that list - the nigh-unplayable Flight of the Falcon for the GBA.

and that Japanese version sounds like the NES Predator game, which is mostly a just a dime store Contra with an inexplicable final boss that’s just...a giant disembodied Predator head.

I feel like it doesn’t so much have a word as the dictionary just shows the picture of the Man From the Other Place in Twin Peaks rubbing his hands together and leering.

“maybe being told that I deserve to die because of my sex and skin colour isn’t the right fit.”
...did we watch the same movie? Cause you seem to be doing some HEAVY additional reading here.

It’s not even like this is a subtle movie. It wears what its saying on its sleeve (or for better or worse) and pretty overtly so -…

Now, now, let’s make sure we’re completely above board with this.
He didn’t JUST commit adultery with her - he eventually left his terminally ill wife while she was dying of cancer for her.

Truly, a love story for the ages.

Multiplicity - The Musical?

Seeing as some of the best things to come out of that first trailer were people recutting it to horror film scores, that tracks.

“but it’s safe to say the writer’s reportedly squid-less vision has been lost forever to time.” — I’ll have to check if I’ve still got it somewhere, but unless there was a doctored version, a draft was floating the web at one point.

Assuming said draft was legit and this is the same version, it ended with Dreiburg…

“The Little Caesar will die before these eyes and then he’ll know—HE’LL KNOW!—that is I - Papa John Schnatter - who encompasses his doom!”