Couldn’t have imagined it better.

“The Boba Fett of this generation, perhaps.”

I’ve thought a lot about what I should say here and it basically boils down to this. If you put money in this, under no circumstances are you allowed to bitch about anything. Tim’s trackrecord is such that every game he’s ever made has gone dramatically over budget and was released far later then any reasonable person…

It probably stems from how Tim Schafer lost a lot of goodwill after what happened with Broken Age.

I enjoyed what I played of the game, that fucking meat circus though. Fuck.

All the way through Clone Wars I was thinking, “When does Asoka die?”

When does the public’s appetite for immense, interlocking superhero storytelling no longer exceed the cost of these properties? More specifically - when does all this end?

What happens the first time one of the main stars decides not to re-up their contract?

Mainly because a) Everyone guessed that Cumberbatch was Khan from pretty much the moment he was cast in the film, b) It was obvious from the moment Into Darkness started re-hashing the plot of The Wrath of Khan who he was, and c) because even the movie itself didn’t treat the Khan reveal as a huge moment that could be…

So much of this film sounds like a reboot/rehash.

Real reason? Marvel doesn’t take risks anymore, why else would their movies be so formulaic? They HAD to hire Benedict Cumberbatch for the role, or else people wouldn’t fangasm for Strange.

In case anyone is curious what a third-stage booster look like, here is one without wheels.

Well tonight that episode was made up of two parts. One very very good, the other boring and stupid.

True Detective, Season ONE. Perfect song and visual motif for the milieu of the show.

This is huge up until the point you realize that American law can’t just unilaterally defeat international treaties. As much as we like to think it can sometimes.

I loved that scene so much that I really, really had hopes that the story would play out in the new trilogy as a callback, i.e. Plagueis *did* cheat death, and the reign of Palpatine/Sidious was HIS decades-long plot to take power.

I loved Palpatine’s story about Plagueis. The glee on his face as he told Anakin how Plagueis’s apprentice killed him in his sleep. It was a glorious thing to see. McDiarmid made these movies bearable.

I think the problem with the Halo games currently is the lore is so far up it’s own ass it can’t find it’s way out. None of it makes sense anymore without having the dig into all this spin off content.

Miller’s earlier stuff (Born Again, Year One, TDKR, early Sin City) is not overrated. His later stuff, though, is crap. So it’s easy to let your feelings for the latter color your impressions of the former.

See also: George Lucas.