Except its kind of a weird 2002 Toronto - watching it with my friend tonight we both kept seeing things that we’re really temporally out of place, from the colour of the money to range hybrid streetcars that vaguely look like the 2002 models but then have big electric chairlifts they didn’t have until modern times.

As out of fashion as “episodic” shows have become with everyone treating shows like really long movies you watch a bit at a time, I really do hope that we get some of that short story feel back with this show. In TOS, it’s that one where Kirk fights the Gorn, or the one with the pon far fight music, or the one where…

I’m using Zoho Notebook. Free, simple editing, has a web clipper, has tags, has a really good import from Evernote and I believe a good export. Sync any and all devices.

A tiny, vocal subset of fandom: “Star Wars is an intense story of good against evil, of freedom versus darkness and tyranny, of decent people broken and twisted into slaves to power”

I gotta disagree,  I found it to be the worst entry in the series.  I like the MCU, I am a huge Marvel nerd. I knew who the Eternals were decades ago.   I still don’t see a world where putting them into the MCU makes any sense at all.  And for how beautiful all the on set locations look, why did the end up hiring a…

““Redefine the cinematic universe entirely.” Later, director Chloé Zhao, said that she geeks out anytime she thinks about how far-reaching this movie will be for the Marvel Cinematic Universe and that she’s the one who got to make it. What do these claims mean? We have no idea.”

I have no idea either. I literally tried…

I wish someone would make a proper adaptation of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? with all the fucked-up Philip K. Dick weirdness in it — the Mercer Box religion, the Penfield Mood Organ, the fake police station run by androids who think they’re the real cops. All of that seems way more prophetic than either of…

Did he pick up the darksaber? did they realise he left it in the sand? Continuity was not a strong point of the last episode - watch the positioning of the Gaffi stick after Bobba kills Cad Bane.

Filoni wrote the lion’s share of The Clone Wars. He’s probably done more to add to the overarching mythology and cosmology of the franchise than any other creator except Lucas.

It’s always funny when they feel like they have to retcon that stuff.  It’s the history of the world on screen, not the real one.

If they’re taking the extra time I hope it means no more “we’re getting the band back together” episodes.

Yeah I also wonder if Mando s3 won’t be coming until late 2023 and this was done to give some a quickie follow up.

I can not wait for the oral history of the production of this show. It felt like halfway through production the powers that be decided it wasn’t good enough and through in the Din side plot/setup for other shows.

Really disappointed but I hope the finale is, a) over an hour and b) doesn’t have any plots outside Fett…

It’s cool how Boba Fett has resumed his traditional Star wars role of just standing around and randomly having a few lines of Dialogue. They might as well have called this ‘Disney+ Presents: The Star Wars Variety Hour’.

...and almost entirely lost the point of being a series about Boba Fett.

The D&D novels have outsold the gaming materials many times over. Far more people know who Drizzt Do’Urden, Elminster, Strahd or Tasselhoff Burrfoot are than any of the Critical Role characters. If they draw on that source material, they can bring in a massive general fantasy audience as well as the D&D fanbase.

These guys are still not understanding the rights. They don’t any sort of IP related to the designs or Jodorowsky’s concepts.

Nostalgia goggles are a powerful thing.

I don’t think the Bouquet of Heads poster is too bad this time around. It looks like art and has a bit of effort to it. The Homecoming one remains a lowpoint in the collected Marvel marketing effort.

Ten years from now? I absolutely stan Lower Decks (and am loving Prodigy so far) but I already consider Discovery to be as peak trek as TNG and DS9 were for their era.