VOLDO FTW

anyone else remember AKI Man from the ole N64 WCW/NWO Revenge? Up until today some part of me thought A.K.I. was a related character.

fervent discourse

No it’s not.

but the goddamn puddles are less reflective now!

omg this is so wrongheaded and i’ve seen it elsewhere too. A New Hope was in media res by design, Lucas winkingly riffing on the ole movie serials to pretend like there was all this backstory which he gave us just enough info about to follow what’s happening.

as someone with zero investment (or interest) in the dubiously canonical cartoons, the entire discourse around Ahsoka has been so unappealing I have next-to-zero interest in watching it. I might finally get around to watching it, but even as a lifelong Rosario Dawson fan, the consensus that “you need to do your…

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isn’t some fan service character or some weird deep-cut reference

counterpoint: he looks like Elon Musk, ergo, he is.

as someone with a life, this is not exactly appealing.

the Clone Wars cartoon retroactively made the movies better

good lord, as someone with zero experience with the Star Wars cartoons, none of this make Ahsoka sound any more appealing.

“take a guess” but also it’s the header image so...

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meh. a steep downward decline from an excellent first season, when the notion of Twin Peaks x Archie meant for a genuinely weird, offbeat drama which still remained somewhat tethered to reality. it felt like the writers took all the long lessons from “Sequel Escalation” and just made it dumber and dumber.

also, y’know, a gamer who was allowed to drive real cars and then promptly crashed and killed someone.

highly recommend you check out the Simon Braund’s “The Greatest Movies You’ll Never See” from a few years ago. Great write-ups, and wonderful mockups commissioned from real poster artists, of what the movie posters might have looked like.