He hates it soo much… …that he devotes a series of posts at his block to smashing it into tiny bits, and then jumping on those bits. Not gonna lie, it’s pretty amusing. But in one of these bromides, he does kind of gloss over some stuff that I think would merit a more thorough discussion:… Read More John C. Wright Hates the Last Jedi
I know I’ve been doing a lot of Star Wars content lately, but that seems to be where my head’s at. Anyway, this is pretty funny. First Order After Action Review for Operations on Jakku. Okay, so, operations on Jakku: what was supposed to happ – dammit, GD796, if you can’t keep your hand out… Read More First Order After Action Review for Operations on Jakku – The Angry Staff Officer
Solo bombed. It may not have deserved to (I liked it), but it bombed. The Last Jedi didn’t do nearly as well as The Force Awakens. The narrative has switched from endless-franchise-money-machine to “maybe we have a problem with the fans“. And they do. Whether or not they want to acknowledge it, they do. There are many reasons… Read More What’s Wrong With Star Wars
This is fascinating and worth the watch.
At the beginning of the month, I made a handful of predictions about Solo: A Star Wars Story. I saw it over the weekend, and have digested the various reactions to it on social media. Let’s now see how well I did: Everyone will go in with very low expectations. The rumor about this film… Read More Judging My Predictions: A Solo Review
Predictions are usually wrong. If Game of Thrones has taught us nothing else, it’s that what we expect to happen is not what’s going to happen at all. I was convinced that all of Snowcean’s Seven was going to die in the Land of Always Winter except Jon Snow. I had a whole theory posted… Read More A Series of Predictions on Upcoming Star Wars Films
Or, How A Novel from 1985 and a Movie from Last Year are Related in My Head Had an opportunity to rewatch The Last Jedi yesterday and noticed something that made the plot make better sense. One of the things that annoyed me about the B-Plot was how Vice Admiral Pink-Hair’s escape plan ends up being… Read More The Detail You Missed
This is less relevant than Last Jedi, but I had the opportunity of rewatching it recently so why not. It’s still the only SW film I never bothered to see in the theater (I was a baby when the first one came out, I think I saw Empire in the theaters, as It was in… Read More A Series of Thoughts about Rogue One
From Variety: Harrison Ford is there for Mark Hamill to get his Walk of Fame Star, Doesn’t point out that he’s had one for decades. Says nice things about Carrie Fisher instead. The Fatter, Angrier Kevin Smith to Demonstrate Why Star Wars won’t work on TV. You could have a fun debate arguing about whether Clerks… Read More A Bunch of Star Wars-Related Internet Noise
It’s not 1999 anymore. I don’t actually care whether you liked TLJ or not, and I have no intention of telling you your opinion is wrong. If you hated it so much that the flames on the side of your face are heaving breaths, that’s fine. We don’t all have to like the same stuff.… Read More A Series of Thoughts on The Last Jedi
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