I’m definitely emotionally invested in her and Vision in a way I never was with the movies, that’s for certain.

My souring on Abrams is only about half my enthusiasm for Coates, so this is a net positive for me.

Yeah, Vision’s line about grief being the persistence of love was actually really lovely.

I never thought this series was going to culminate in some impenetrable, freaky head trip or anything, but the reams of reductionist exposition were definitely less than the sum of its parts.

On The Media is the best thing NPR currently has going for it, and it should be the gold standard against which all other news emulates. To bad All Things Considered is complete both sides-ism dross.

I am in awe of whatever painting technique Caldwell harnesses to make all his cheesecake models look like they smoke two packs a day.

“Are you still 13 years old?”

Between the Carano news and this, there’s a real Goofus and Gallant vibe with Star Wars casting news tonight. 

“People who are different from me are dumb and their mental health is a joke to me.”

“People who are different from me are dumb and their mental health is a joke to me.”

It’s possible! Though Marvel did spend 72 billion dollars for the rights, and I’m assuming it’s not just to clear the rights for a one-off Quicksilver appearance.

Given how elaborate and involved fan service has become in modern nerddom, along with Marvel’s propensity to use their stories as dominoes just to knock down the next one ad infinitum, it’s hard to not be a little suspicious of creative moves like the reveal at the end of the show.

Mike Mignola did work on the pre-production design as well, which you can see in some of the final designs and scene blocking.

While I remember the Mako handling poorly, I think it was in an absurd enough way that I found it more of a bizarre nuisance than a real problem. My issue was the nearly invisible reticule for the cannon. When I first got the game, I still had a crt television and the game was not at all designed with a smaller, lower…

Also, unrelated to anything, but I seem to have been demoted to the greys. Has that happened to anyone else? How odd.

A very cool premise. If executed, just work really hard to make sure all the action doesn’t stem from the rebels fighting for freedom on all these conquered worlds.

Who would have thought unfettered capitalism would create problems?

I love the Last Jedi, and I couldn’t even get mad at Rise of Skywalker if it had been a halfway well-executed movie, I would have been furious at how aggressive it was in erasing TLJ. But it was just shuch a flop sweat-drenched, falling-down-the-stairs-with-a-stack-of-pies debacle of film making, I could only gawp.

I agree that plays a part, but given that all nerd properties struggle with such a percentage of their fandoms being nutball reactionaries, it’s a more holistic problem.

With all of nerdom in a non-stop race to be the worst, Star Wars fans show a real tenacity for pulling ahead in the lead.