I don’t think it’s a coincidence that said cryptofascist turn — and I think it is a turn, since the retcon largely occurs pretty late in the Legends canon -- happened around 2000 or so!

Warring States era Galaxy is such a good idea (and such a good capstone on the whole saga!) that I’m convinced there’s no chance they’ll actually do it

Great piece. At this point, it seems pretty clear what happened: the most centrist elements of the rebellion managed — through the invocation of traditional institutions like the Senate and to some extent the Jedi — to win leadership of the Rebellion’s coalition, and then the war. But they weren’t able to meaningfully…

The movie has its flaws but Alden isn’t one of them!

[SPOILERS, SERIOUSLY]

After Geralt gets his shit thoroughly rocked at the end of Time of Contempt, which this season is adapting, he ends up recovering with the Dryads for a good long while, and emerges into the rest of the story a (somewhat) changed man. I assume the team’s just decided to literalize that…

Leaving aside that there’s quite a bit more wiggle room in terms of coloration of Tolkien’s characters then people tend to realize, I feel it’s important to note that none of the characters are of European descent either. They aren’t of anything descent. Middle Earth isn’t actually a real place, and this is a dumb…

I’m with you on this one. Feels, frankly, kind of gross!

I’m genuinely (and rather ghoulishly) fascinated by the fact that this film exists. It feels, as others have pointed out, like a parody project within a larger Hollywood satire, and thus is yet another example of reality being far dumber and more on-the-nose than any of us want to admit

I think if you’re going to make a Boba Fett show, that would be fine--but you do need to actually have that show make an argument for why this guy (who had six lines and fell into a hole) is interesting and worth following around. Turns out they didn’t really think he was that interesting either--which raises the…

This. I fully agree with the analysis here, except in that I think it is far, far too kind to that first season of The Mandalorian. 

I have a real soft spot for that 1998/ animated Godzilla design as well. It’s not the classic look, but it’s distinctive and engaging. And that opening credits sequence for the animated sequence is really choice. 

Word on the street is that something like that might be cooking over at the BBC—a couple of paleontologists who worked on the initial show have gotten very tight-lipped when the subject of a remake comes up. Hopefully something comes of it!

An example of this that works well, I think, is The Witcher 3, wherein you play a mostly broke freelancer who’s trying to deal with something urgent, while maintaining gear which costs money. And oh look, here are these freelance contracts, which will give you the money you need, but you never know which of them could…

I think it’s very clear from the context that he’s talking about actual, literal cancellation—as in, what studios do. This headline feels more than usually click-bait-y.

I’m very glad that they have finally put this utterly benighted project out of its misery.

Y’all, I just don’t know. There’s a lot to like here, in theory: beautiful design work, good voice acting (with caveats), fun world-building, and some nicely inventive animated sequences.

I think we 100% dodged a bullet with Firefly. 

Never has there been a better time to share this student film I was involved in, which I can only hope will be the guiding principle for this project

The target audience here is people who feel under siege by the world and—not coincidentally—want a car that’s good for running over protesters

This isn’t a comeback so much as a bit of banter, but I’m proud enough of it to share it. Back in college, a friend and I started getting flirty with each other over text, and somehow, we started throwing our worst and cheesiest pickup lines at each other.

Me: “I wanna do to you what Congress does to the American…