qbert posted:

Is this true? Because if the kiss was incest then it's suddenly hot and I'm totally cool with it.

LookingGodIntheEye posted:

For a second I thought you wrote that Palpatine was black now, that would be quite the twist

I said come in! posted:

Yep, all of this is for the hope of eventually making it big. The western market is assuming the Chinese market is an explosion of massive never before seen profits, when in reality the exact opposite is true. All companies here are doing is helping support a pretty brutal government that is using that money to be terrible to its people.

The Little Death posted:

https://twitter.com/AngriestPat/status/1209629844759367680?s=20

The Cameo posted:

I always say JJ is a poo poo writer, mediocre director at best, but fantastic producer - and it’s because he’s a normal goddamn human being and is extremely loyal to the people he employs, the rarest thing in capitalism. This is a guy who got studios into a bidding war over a script two Bad Robot employees wrote and got those two a million-dollar payday just by saying “hey this is a great script and someone should really buy it”. Matt Reeves is an internal promotion, going from being one of JJ’s regular episode directors on Felicity to being given Cloverfield and look at where Reeves has gone since then! He’s got a keen eye for someone else’s work being something special and is good at keeping junior executives trying to butt their way into taking claim for something by forcing dumb ideas into the production at bay.

Also after the strange pattern of stories specifically poisoning the reputations of directors that the Mouse House runs aground against and/or people just seeming to up and leave the industry after dealing with them - has anyone even heard from Gareth Edwards since Rogue One? Dude dropped off the planet, and he seemed very excited and prepared for a good long career in the wake of Godzilla - you’d think people might wake up to maybe thinking that any, like, Hollywood Reporter story saying “so and so kicked puppies on the set of Moon Knight 6 and was drunk every night and hitting on extras” is probably absolute trash without actual physical proof in hand to go along with it.

Not that I buy most of that article, but there is probably nuggets of truth sprinkled in here and there.

SuperMechagodzilla posted:

-And, when read as the final film of an ostensible 9-film SaGa, it’s an astonishing debacle that will resonate through the ages. Just absolute crap.

No Mods No Masters posted:

Miniscule brain: palpatine was finally destroyed by rey

Medium brain: palpatine possessed rey

Large brain: palpatine was always already rey

pospysyl posted:

Exogol is the Star Wars hell. It's specifically depicted a a place that cannot be found on any map, only discoverable by unholy artifacts. The trip there involves flying through some kind of magnetic dimensional warp. The "good guys" (Luke, Leia, Yoda, Han Solo) are permitted to stay in the world of the living, while the bad guys, like Palpatine, are condemned to Exogol. Palpatine dies and becomes King of Hades, his line "I am all the Sith" a callback to "I am the Senate". The confusion over whether the Exogolians are ghosts or aliens is deliberate; in Exogol, the dead take on physical matter. However, as in most depictions of the Underworld, the Exogolians aren't constrained by physical laws, allowing them to craft hundreds of giant spaceships. The Emperor and Exogol as a whole are mainly concerned with the taking of life, in this movie literalized as some kind of magical Force Drain maneuver. On another level, the Emperor wants to take Rey's life for his own. The ultimate plan of Exogol is to merge the worlds of the living and the dead by killing everything.

Now, one might say that the sort-of Daoist mysticism of the previous Star Wars films doesn't allow for this Manichaeic dualism, and I would agree. I probably wouldn't have ended the Star War with a fight against demons from Hell. I don't even think it fits with the other movies in the Falcon trilogy.

Basebf555 posted:

Wasn't there an EU novel where Luke went to some Jedi temple and found an old Jedi Master there who'd been hanging out there for the entire rise and fall of the Empire and had gone crazy from the solitude?

Pollyanna posted: