I think you could make an interesting story by focusing on Pratt's character debating whether or not to wake someone else up, gradually going nuts from loneliness, convincing himself that anyone in his position would eventually wake someone up (which may be true), rationalizing his situation by thinking that asking…

I liked the new characters (although I thought it was kind of a waste that we got no characterization for any of the group they picked up just before heading to Scarif beyond a couple of quickly barked out names) but it occurred to me both during the movie and after that I could barely remember any of their names. I…

Someone - I forget if it was Chirrut or someone else - said that he was a member of the Guardians of the Whills.* I took them to be temple guards of a non-Jedi but Jedi-like religion, or possibly non Jedi who started caring for a Jedi temple on Jedha after the actual Jedi were wiped out. During the movie I was…

Honestly, I thought they just brought the guy who played Scorpius on Farscape* back, and while there were a few shots where his eyes looked a little off, I thought they just tweaked him a little to make him look more like Cushing, like when they digitally age or de-age actors. I thought the effect worked more often…

(also spoiler alert) On a similar note, much as I liked this movie, I did find myself, pondering during the climactic space battle whether it was better to just go with the original movie's portrayal of all of the Alliance's fighter pilots as white men, or to go with Rogue One's revision that the Alliance had female…

While I completely agree that anyone using someone else's IP without permission has to be willing to accept that they will be very limited in how they can distribute their work, there are just so, so many reasons why people want to write with other people's character and worlds.

I say we tell Trump that the president of the US owns the moon, which he will absolutely believe, and he'll increase funding for space exploration and colonization so he can build hotels and casinos there, and those will go bankrupt but we'll still have the technology to leave Earth, and global warming won't be as big…

If they really wanted to be faithful to the source material, instead of jumping back and forth between the Middle Ages and the future, they should have started in the Crusades-era Middle East, jumped to Renaissance Italy, then to the American Revolution, then to a pirate ship, then … where/whenever the other games are…

You're right, she's definitely met Tony; she slapped a gizmo that shorted out his armor on him in the Avengers annual that has Rogue's first appearance. I'd be surprised if she's never met Ben Grimm, too, though I can't think of a specific instance off the top of my head.

Wow, I saw the C+ rating here before I saw the episode, so as I was watching I was thinking "This is pretty good so far - it must really drop off a cliff* in the last act for the overall review to be so low." I was half expecting it to be one of those things where something offensive happens at the end of an episode…

Okay, let me claim all the nerd points here:

I wonder if there's any chance at all that Marvel still has the movie rights to the Starjammers, because letting Lawrence play Hepzibah and then making a standing offer to anyone else from the X-Men movies to play the rest of the crew would be a great little in-joke.

I was about to mention that and then I was like "this is the AV Club, someone has to have already mentioned that" and what do you know I was right.

Out of curiosity, what industry is your company in? (Obviously if you'd rather not say, that's entirely your prerogative, but I'm wondering if there's some field in which that kind of thing is still frequently done)

That's exactly what happened. Negan said that the shot would have killed him if Lucille didn't "save" him. I'm not sure why people keep thinking she missed, unless they're using "miss" in the loosest sense, like saying that a bullet that hits a bulletproof vest "missed" because it didn't kill the target.

She nailed the headshot, Negan just had too many bats in his belfry for it to take.

I think it would be fun to do a somewhat tongue-in-cheek revival of the old D&D cartoon - something not necessarily mocking the old show, but playing up the fact that this isn't just modern day people transported into a fantasy world, it's modern day people transported into a literal game that they've actually played…

Heck, from a writing standpoint, maybe they went to Bendu because if they didn't we'd all be asking why the heck they don't go to the Force sage that they're on good terms with who lives right nearby when weird Force stuff neither of them understands is going on.

This is our opportunity to pop culture detectives. Upper right is complaining about waiting to be woken up, so she's probably Sleeping Beauty. Upper left mentions "historical accuracy" and her outfit looks sort of generically Hollywood "Asian" so that's got to be Mulan. Middle left is obviously Captain Hook. Next to…

Oh yea, the company I work for makes it clear that anyone in any way associated with the company - including part timers, freelancers, and retirees - is welcome at the Christmas lunch … via a mass email that you only see if you have a company email address.