They’re just mimicking the original. She’s an astronaut returning to earth, many years later. At least she’s not from the mutated sect of nuclear tipped missile worshipping mutants who been laying low the whole time. You’d think between being technologically advanced and possessing telekinesis they would’ve defeated…

I had kind of surmised this based on her being the only human character wearing pants.

She definately is an astronaut. They set this up in Rise when they very briefly show a tv playing the mission to Mars launching and then showing a news paper saying it was lost in space. Also, in this trailer they note that “she knows the human secrets”.  

You beat me to it. Her clothes aren’t rags, so I’m guessing her name is Taylor. 

I wonder if the movie will harken back to the originals and make her an astronaut from the past or introduce a twist in the story.

Enterprise got cancelled after four seasons. I’m a pretty die hard Trekkie and it wasn’t until the fourth season where I thought they really took off. If they had started that way I’m sure they would have gone 7 seasons.

“somehow, Palpatine is already here”

Can we just avoid yet another origin story...

As others have referenced, they should have just done The Legend of Korra, the sequel series to the original ATLA. Its largely set in a city, which would have made doing more actual live action shots instead of virtual backgrounds easier.

Nah, wasn’t 9.  Was a short on youtube posted here.

9 (that is what the movie’s name is btw) was absolutely post-apocalyptic...  Dark as hell too.

It would be so cool if we respected animation enough to be satisfied with it as a medium. We are always getting live action remakes to some of the most well animated pieces of art. But yet we never see an animated adaptation of anything live action. At most, we get a movie turned into a 90s Saturday morning cartoon. I…

This and Expanse coming back are my two biggest wishes for TV. lol I’m not holding my breath though.

The costumes alone were worth the price of admission

+1 for remembering Fred Pohl.

The drama around YA fiction authors seems to be absolutely fucking nuts.

Get a good agent, kids.

Same. “I avoided it because it looked like a different take on a really good movie” is a strange reason to avoid something.

“D&D + GOTG” was EXACTLY why I saw it

Anything that feels like a rip off can fall pretty flat. If it had felt that way, I see why it would be a concern.