Imperator Furiosa and Immortan Joe’s girls were both phenomenal examples of well-written, balanced, and believable examples of strong female characters.

Reese’s can do nothing wrong. It’s the only mass-produced American chocolate product that can truly stand toe to toe with the Europeans.

It’s not that I think my reaction to the film is the only one that “real fans” should have.

Seriously though, TFA was uninspired, derivative garbage served with manufactured feel-good dressing.

Wow, such a mature and measured rebuttal!

It’s exactly the Star Wars that the real fans feared that Disney and their hired hack JJ would give us.

It felt like the highest-budget fanfilm ever made. I left feeling thoroughly unimpressed.

VII is arguably worse than the prequels, and borders on being Star Trek Into Darkness-bad, so you made the right choice.

Once, in imax 4k, and once was enough.

TFA is looking, by all accounts, to be Star Trek Into Darkness all over again, but with A New Hope instead of Wrath, and set in a somewhat Disney-fied copy of the OT Star Wars universe.

It does. It matches the shooting schedule perfectly.

/tv/ is your friend

J.J. pulled a Star Trek Into Darkness on us and remade ANH with asinine plot twists, half-baked or derivative new characters, and an inferior cast.

This can’t be repeated enough.

Came here to correct, but you beat me too it.

I like the theory that the New Republic does exist, while the First Order is nipping away at the fringes, like the Trade Federation, Banking Clan, Techno Union, etc fought the Old Republic in the prequels.

I’d actually welcome that idea with thunderous applause.

This.

I’m with you 1000% and then some!

Oh, I’m sure that Elmo’s mainstream marketability played a role as well, but I think that was partially a result of their earlier programming choices. He wasn’t the first character with major marketing ssuccess, as a kid of the late 80’s, I remember Big Bird, Kermit, Cookie Monster, and Ernie and Bert were also…