DuckCake

Hariette, you’ve done an absolutely incredible job. It’s really been remarkable to see, and I can’t tell you how much I - and I’m sure everyone - appreciates your insanely hard work on this!

Thank you so, so much for your work on this! Every update makes the project look that much more exciting!

…no?

I mean, we’re watching the slow and gruesome death of one of the Internet’s giants, as it eats itself from within. If that weren’t enough, we’re watching this spectacle from the most popular lifeboat for refugees fleeing the slaughter - so the boat is only getting bigger and more crowded every day.

It’s gonna be a popular topic for a while.

My dude, you and I would have gotten along well in film school.

For you it was 2001. While I never had to watch that one, I somehow found myself watching Citizen Kane in class something like 5 times during my undergrad and grad school years.

It was 4 times too many.

It appears from a random bodily orifice each time, and never the same one twice.

Okay, this is good info to have. The books were on my TBR shelf when I started the show, and when I say the show surprised me…I mean, the first two episodes I caught myself actually leaning forward, resting my elbows on my knees because I was so intent on what was happening. And it has honestly been just about that good with every ep. The cast is incredible!

Project Hail Mary was SO good. One of the times when the audiobook really added to the experience, too.

The Last Jedi is the 2nd best Star Wars movie, period, behind Empire, IMO. Followed by Rogue One, so I can’t agree with you on that one.

Rian Johnson gets so much insane criticism for TLJ, when he was just doing what he does - making great, original movies. If Kathleen Kennedy and JJ Abrams wanted a cohesive, overarching, three-movie storyline - like the guys down the hall at Marvel - they should have had it in place before pre-production began on The Force Awakens. Instead, you hire two directors to follow JJ who are both huge Star Wars fanboys and have visions of their own, and somehow you’re surprised when the guy who takes the baton for the sequel doesn’t walk a path he was never told existed.

If what they wanted was Luke coming back and kicking ass, they probably could have found out in a 10 minute conversation that Rian Johnson wasn’t going to be their guy. But they gave him creative freedom! And the dude is an incredible writer and filmmaker; he probably looked at TFA and thought, “Well, okay, that was nice. But are we just remaking the original trilogy or…? Nah.”

Then Disney doubled down on their mistake by, instead of taking things the new direction Rian had pointed them, bringing JJ back to steer things in to the most awkward, retconned, third-act ever. She’s a…Palpatine? And an “ancient” Sith artifact is a map that matches up to wreckage of the Death Star that’s like 50 years old? TF is happening?!

Ugh. Aside from the heavy-handedness of the Canto Bight storyline - there had to be a gentler way to impart to Finn that fighting for big causes is always gonna leave you empty, it’s the “people you love” you fight for (or whatever) - TLJ is a freaking awesome movie.

(Also, I agree with you about Andor not being the blueprint for everything SW going forward. This is a project that fits a very specific type of storytelling by its very nature. It won’t work for everything.)

Another film school refugee! My brother/sister/other in arms!

It truly was like being on another planet. Not only did I obtain a functionally worthless degree (I’m grateful for the media literacy I learned, but holy crap), but I also got to spend three years feeling like a stranger in a strange land, because almost any time something popular came out in the theaters my peers immediately labeled it Absolute Garbage and moved on.

Yeah? Well screw you, Mike! I liked The Matrix! I saw it in theaters twice!

I’m with you! I thought it was fine! I mean, we weren’t redefining cinema here, but it was fun.

Like in Mandandolrian the scene with Bill Burr confronting the Imperial officer that spearheaded the Burning Khan massacre was just fantastic, regardless of it being star wars.

Bill Burr crushed that entire episode. He showed acting chops he’s rarely had the chance to flex before, honestly. The guy is so self-deprecating in his humor, almost aggressively so, that it’s easy to miss his talent. Heck, I did, and for a damned long time.

I like the Total Recall remake with Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel, and Colin Farrell more than the original with Arnold. The original is overhyped gibberish, in my opinion.

Also, perhaps a premature unpopular opinion: If - IF - it continues to present the same level of quality for the length of its run, Silo will be better than The Expanse.

Oh my sibling in Xenu, Andor is mandatory viewing if you have any love for Star Wars at all, but ESPECIALLY if you love Rogue One. It is absolutely incredible.

But there’s no sense crying over every mistake

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We do what we must, because we can!

Yes, please, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! I can’t hack this brand war shit anymore.

Thank you!!

Haha, holy shit, that is the perfect description. I think you’re shooting too high by putting this in the Valley though. As a midwesterner, this is some small town, small school, Queen Bee-at-the-apex-of-her-existence shit.

It’s not gonna be long before someone busts out some Boone’s Farm at one of these meetings, 2A Barbie and Madge have a few too many, and suddenly we’re in the middle of a donnybrook.

This is an awesome read on the topic. Thanks so much for writing it, man. It’s something that has bugged me about the Mat/Tylin relationship forever.