Just a bit.

Okay, of all these, that one got me.  It’s okay, I didn’t need this water anyway...

Depending on the information, it could be trivial to trace back to the friend who is an employee and take action against them.  That’s kind of a dick move to pull on a friend.

But can he save every one of us from Justice League?

Ragtag and Visceral were doomed from long ago.  Schreier’s article and some former EA people I’ve talked to about it paint a pretty grim picture for what was left of that studio.  The core people behind Dead Space had pretty much all jumped ship after Dead Space 2; that’s a large part of why Dead Space 3 was…

Undoubtedly. EA is far more beholden to shareholders than it ever has been or ever will be to consumers. People can scream into the internet all they want; if the earnings calls are coming in fine, the shareholders won’t care. What needs to happen now is that people need to not buy a game they disagree with so that…

This is why AAA games are a dying proposition.  “Indie” level productions can accomplish a much better cost/benefit value for the consumer, and remain more profitable, by forgoing the best-and-shiniest approach.  Small game devs absolutely have their own set of problems, but really the community needs to recognize…

Those are all good points. I guess they prefer to take risks on directors.

That’s what I wonder; she definitely has been on record that it’s the story of the Skywalker family, but that’s such a limiting choice for a galaxy-spanning franchise that it has to be just a matter of time before they branch out. Would we really want to see another 6 movies focused on Rey/Kylo? I like the new…

I think it’s more that they’re risk aware, because they know their material better, and were willing to take some gambles early on when there wasn’t as much riding on it. They’ve definitely gotten safer as time goes on, likely due to how much of a cash cow the franchise is.

Still, giving Taika Watiti a blockbuster…

I think he’s very underappreciated, but I dunno about best. Second best, for sure.

It seems like there’s no chance of that in the near term, and unless he screws up badly, that he’s going to be groomed for increasingly higher-level stuff. No way he’s not getting a new animated project at the very least.

Hell, I’d be surprised if they could get him for an episode.

There’s no reason to expect that Ep X-XII will be a continuation of the Skywalker Saga though. That well is getting a little dry, and it sounds like they’re acknowledging that. It’d be pretty nice to get stories about something new; it’s a huge galaxy, after all.

Yeah, casting Carter Burke as the new head scientist in charge of the shadowy government lab had to be a deliberate red herring. He doesn’t exactly have the broadest body of work in Sci Fi. I think it worked really well though, because he does inhabit the role very well; it’s so hard to get a read on him, that I was…

A perfect example of Chekhov’s Gun being overused is Kingsmen 2. Virtually everything in that movie reoccurs exactly twice, and it gets more than a bit tiresome towards the end. The entire last act is super formulaic, and reuses things that were only introduced so they could be reused.

You can put anyone into your will, they don’t have to be a spouse or related.

I’d just like if if they allowed Joyce to have a few nice things; it’s going to get wearying if every season they find a new excuse to make her a nervous wreck. I know that Winona Ryder does a great job with it, but speaking for all the…

If they repeated the happy, gruesome violence from the pilot and made it worse, no thanks. I’m really over the obsession with that in SciFi. If there’s going to be violence, I don’t want it treated lightly.

The paradox of rising efficiency leading to increased overall consumption is well-studied. We will never efficiency our way to an economy that isn’t fatally-dependent on ever-dwindling fossil fuels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

I turned it off substantially because of the unnecessarily awful death of the scientist in the pilot. Glad to see my reaction was the correct one.