Comments by "Ronin Dave" (@RoninDave) on "The Critical Drinker" channel.

  1. The weird undertones of the whole black civilization thing sounds eerily similar to the Ayran myths of the Nazis. Afrocentrism have created this mythology where all the ancient was black including Greece stretching all the way to Japan as though there were some kind of homogeneous connection to it all and something to be proud of while indignant it was stolen and hidden from them - again similar to the Ayran myths. Funny thing is this black identity means little in Africa North or sub-saharan. It's primarily an American thing
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  2. Messing with canon is like one of the greatest sins in fandom. Throughout the show's history they would do some modifications but they were usually very careful how it was done especially in the older series. To suddenly throw out the idea of the first doctor being the first doctor is a slap in the face of the fans. If ever this shows gets revive they'll have to pretend this whole Whitaker doctor never happened.
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  3. Preachy sanctimonious blue aliens say "human greed bad!" Gee, thanks for the revelation! Avatar fans were like 11 when it came out and they thought it was really deep.
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  4. Only anthony hopkins could play anthony hopkins as played by Tom Hiddleston
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  5.  @yonghominale8884  true but it was also an inner-dialogue primarily in the US against the racist norms and ideologies of the day. The problem is in modern times it has spilled out beyond our borders and now you have hoteps attacking Egyptians as invaders of their land
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  6. JJ is good at fooling people with surface level gloss that hits the nostalgic vibe but it rarely stays in the memory unlike the original work he copies. I liked both the first Trek and Star Wars film at first but over time (a short time) they faded and the flaws became glaring and unavoidable. The biggest flaws are how hollow and forced everything is - Spock&Kirk's friendship, Rey being a Force expert, very little character interaction in either film to build them into memorable characters, pointless scenes shoved in for fan service like Kobayashi Maru or the mcguffin map to Luke that mirrors the Death Star plans of IV but makes no sense in a universe with hyperspeed. People thinking he will save Star Wars are out of their minds because he set up the new series on such flimsy ground that it was bound to fail as the reboot Star Trek franchise has.
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  7.  @mikeoxlong9522  some people complain about the female superhero line up near the end of Endgame but I see that as the Russo Brothers saying to the Captain Marvel team that "we already have female superheroes who are badass, have flaws, and are likable." Scarlet Witches' confrontation with Thanos had far more impact than Cap Karen's did which is why I think the Russo's had her practically punched out of the movie till the end line up at Tony's funeral.
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  8.  Jack and Bt Sandwich  it's never made exactly clear how the Thing assimilates. The ambiguity of it adds to the fear and paranoia of the characters
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  9. The whole season was largely padding and filler then in the last half-hour of this 9 hour snoozefest they suddenly cram in the making of the 3 Rings and damn if it isn't underwhelming (not too mention lore breaking). The rings are ugly as sin like the cheap gaudy jewelry big-haired grandmothers wore in the 70s and 80s that they got at Dollar General.
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  10. it was silly to make her seem more of a threat than the white walkers but they tried to do that in Episode 4 by miraculously killing off a dragon with a once in a lifetime shot then wrecking a good part of Danni's fleet. It made you think "hey, maybe Cersei is a big threat! Then Episode 5 her entire army is obliterated in less than 10 minutes
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  11.  David Renton  There's a difference between tweaking canon and outright changing it completely. Having women play male roles in Shakespeare is not an example of changing canon or having black actors play the Founding Fathers. Not anymore than setting Richard III in a WWII-ish setting. Those are not changing the fundamental aspects of the story in terms of plot and character. I think you are not familiar with what canon exactly is because your examples don't fit especially not with Doctor Who. Canon is the established story elements within the fictional universe ie a character's backstory and origins, the political situations, the history of the world, the history of characters, the character of the characters, etc... Basically think lore. For example with Doctor Who it was never really stated where the First Doctor and his granddaughter were from. This allowed the writers freedom to eventually create whole Time Lords and Gallifrey story elements which they added to gradually over the years careful not to give too much while not contradicting themselves too much. For a long long time the Time Lords and their history was the established canon of the show with occasional tweaks. This episode completely rewrote that history throwing out the original origins for something completely different and not offering up much of a reason as to why the established lore was incorrect. It also changed the Doctor's origins from being from Gallifrey into some strange entity making the Doctor far more important in the Doctor Who universe that he/she ever was throughout it's 50 year run. And a big change was making William Hartnell's doctor not the first doctor. When the writers first established the regeneration concept at the end of Hartnel's run it was not messing with canon as they had left the Doctor a mysterious character to whom they could add elements to as they went along such as a way to change the face of the character but make it part of the established lore. For decades it was established about the number of doctors, the number of regenerations, how the time lords came about then along comes Chibnail rebooting the show within the original show's framework changing this established lore that writers had been building on for half a century. Since he did not create the character and universe, it's not really his right to completely do so which is why people are angry. Previous writers might tweak here and there but they were careful not to do something that would throw already established canon out the window. One simple reason for this is that changing canon betrays the trust between writer(s) and audience. If Harry Potter suddenly became hard science fiction and that Voldemort was a cyborg the whole time, fans would be pissed as everything they had been told up to that point has been rendered moot and they essentially had wasted their time on a story that completely changed direction and character.
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  12.  @silentwitness536  I don't think you know how words work. Herodotus actually visited Egypt in Ancient times as opposed to this grandmother who likely never visited the country and certainly not in Ancient times. Her assertion of Cleopatra's ethnicity is simply not anecdotal evidence as she never met the lady and apparently was not aware of Cleopatra's incestual Greek descent.
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  13.  @barryboucher4587  give it a rest, shill! Even the bloated Hobbit films didn't change the lore and characters to the level that ROP did just in the first episode. It's poorly written with bad dialogue, uninteresting unlikeable characters, contrived plot, and pointless mystery boxes
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  14. but Roy is memorable. He's an antagonist who really is the protagonist the whole time albeit an anti-hero type. His quest for more life makes him very human and relatable. Meeting his creator then killing him in an act of disappointment was like a Greek Myth meets Nietzsche. The final scene is his triumph. He beats his adversary but at the last moment saves him in an act of mercy when he finally accepts his inevitable fate. Roy's struggle is basically humanity's struggle with our awareness of our mortality. Roy's story comes full circle - a fight against inescapable death and a final acceptance of it on his own terms. This is missing in K's story. His death is an accident not an unavoidable one like Roy's. His is a story that would be more fitting in a type of Spielburg's/Kubrick's A.I. story about the sentience and purpose of artificial lifeforms.
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  15. Rey defenders have tried to say for years that "Luke is Gary Stu just like complain Rey!" And obviously they never watched the films or paid attention to them. The quintessential Mary Sue named after character in a parody of bad Star Trek fanfic can do no wrong and immediately impresses the other established characters. Luke got his ass handed to him repeatedly in New Hope from Tusken to bar brawlers to trash pit monster. Han called him a farmboy and dismisses his shooting down a Tie Fighter. Leia comments he's too short to be a storm trooper. Rey on the other hand impresses Han Solo within minutes of meeting her. Leia hugs her first time she see her. The established characters and the new characters constantly give her respect and talk about how good she is at astro-mechanics, flying, fighting, and using the Force. As for fighting, Rey takes almost no damage the entire trilogy. She beats Kylo every time she fights him and even beats Luke. And as for character arc, there is none. She learns nothing about herself except she was always good and just got better. The only she had was a weird attraction to emo bad boy which led to twisted Reylo Fans.
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  16. When you think you're right for no reason except for existing you create these kind of terrible protagonists. It's the Captain Marvel syndrome. She's a hero because we say she's a hero without showing willing to sacrifice herself or do real heroic stuff. Galadriel did hardly anything to be considered heroic and on top of that threatened genocide for the sake of torture. Jeez!
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  17. Battlestar started out excellent and meandered up its own ass with self-importance and mystery boxes that would have made JJ Abrams splooge with joy
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  18.  @MidnightatMidian  the question of deckard being a replicant or not was not meant to be a literal but a metaphysical one of what is it to be truly human. Deckard is just like all the other humans in the film - cold and detached and it's only in coming in contact with the replicants and their very human wanting to live does he change.
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  19. This whole "Galadriel will go on a journey of humility" sounds more like damage control after the fact when they realize how unlikeable her character really is. She single-handedly ruined everything. She brings Sauron back to Middle Earth, gets a bunch of Numenoreans killed and their Queen blinded, fails to stop the creation of Mordor, and lets Celebrimbor complete the making of the 3 Rings despite knowing Sauron was obviously planning something. And no one not even herself calls her out on it. Instead they give her the commanding moment of telling Celebrimbor to make 3 rings instead of one or two like she deserves to give any advice after all the stupid shit she had done.
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  20. Movies like Captain Marvel appeal to the kind of woman many other women don't like.
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  21. 2049 was a forgettable attempt to copy the elements that made the original memorable
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  22.  @patmos09  didn't say that about Bladerunner certainly not the original but I was addressing your argument where you are going on about the replicants having feelings and such which was already established in the original so no new ground there. What you are describing is a different film that doesn't really fit Bladerunner the original which didn't need a sequel. The original deals with the themes of humanity and mortality. The question of Deckard for example being human or not was not a literal one but there to make the audience question what it means to be human. Overall the brilliance of the film is that the antagonists really are the protagonists as their quest for longer life is a very human and understandable goal one that has been echoed in many stories since the time of Gilgamesh and the Sumerians. The humans are the unfeeling and uncaring creator gods who made the replicants for single purposes then have them expire with a short life span. The confrontation scene of Roy and his maker Tyrell is such a powerful scene drenched in metaphysical trappings of man meeting his creator then killing that creator in act of agonizing disappointment when robbed of his last chance for some semblance of happiness. And there's the theme of mortality, the irony that even the human creators will also die is inescapable - [no one] lives forever, but then again, who does? Roy Batty after going to great lengths to stay alive finally accepts death and in a final act of humanity shows empathy for his foe. Batty/Hauer's death brings everything together. He is like a futuristic Gilgamesh, a bad character at first who failed in his quest for immortality and finally accepts his inevitable fate with a very human show of mercy. This is what makes Bladerunner transcend what could have been a surface-level sci-fi action story of killer androids and a bitter alcoholic film noir detective tracking them down to exterminate them. With 2049 there's really nowhere to go as the original said what it needed to say and we didn't need more. However in our time of mining the past for creativity, it couldn't be left alone if there was something to make money on so now we have a potential war between replicants and humans which wasn't there before and the chance replicants can have offspring -- um, ok? They did a good job capturing the visual and slow pacing of the original but that's just it, like a JJ Abrams film, it relies too much on the original to be its own original thing and hopes audiences will think it's on the same level like the original. And because many movies today are shallow, it appeals to those wanting something more but it's a cinematic Emperor's New Clothes and unlike the original will be forgotten.
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  23.  @MiddleEarthGirl75  that's a banking I wouldn't trust a penny with. None of it makes any sense because it's contrived lazy bad writing. There was no reason for him being out there in the sea nor on a raft except to create (ie force) a reason for Elendil to find them and bring them to Numenor. How on Middle Earth would Sauron know Galadriel was going to be sent to Valinor as part of a scheme to get rid of her and that she would unexpectantly jump ship at the last moment? He just decided to get a ship of humans off to the west for no reason then sink the boat and float on a raft with the hope of finding a swimming Galadriel in a wide open sea then further hope a passing Numenorean boat would spot them and save them? Hoping Galadriel would believe his pouch made him a reluctant king seems to be the least of his problem in this grand convoluted scheme of epic proportions banking on numerous coincidences and sheer luck.
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  24.  @trinelangohr6661  Good point. People calling ROP fanfic don't realize most fanfic wouldn't mishandle the lore and characters this badly for the fear of being flamed to bits.
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  25.  Whytebio  diversity agenda driven white folk seem to have a problem if there is more than one diverse character of a similar background as then they'd have to write actual character traits
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  26. looking the people gushing over the power couple of Sauron and Galadriel is enough to make you wish an asteroid would swing by to take us out of our miseries. The other another group is those who like the show for the fee-fees and member-berries. It's like they have no idea what a good story is anymore.
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  27. It was yet another sign how the new series completely missed the point of the source it was shamelessly ripping off. In the original, the shout served two purposes - 1) it was from Kirk who had a history with Khan and it was done in reaction to being taunted by Khan for leaving him stranded as Khan had been stranded and 2) it was also a ruse since Kirk knew the Enterprise was poised to pick them up. Even as a ruse, the shout had meaning as Kirk had every reason to be angry and it was a good shout. It became so memorable that it was referenced in so many parodies over the years. In Nu-Trek, the KHAAAANNN!!! is shouted by a character who doesn't have a history with Khan. Nu-Khan had killed Pike, Kirk's mentor and Marcus whom Kirk had more of a relationship with both as a former friend and foe. Having Spock shout "KHAAAAN!!" at Kirk's death was practically meaningless as Kirk had died indirectly of Khan's actions, a Khan who had been an ally 10 minutes ago and who had no real reason to personally dislike Kirk or Spock. There was hardly any connection between him and the other characters of Nu-Trek. The only reason that scream along with the death (that was reversed 10 minutes later) was in the film was for pathetic fan service of two iconic moments from the original but stripped completely of their gravitas and meaning.
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  28. the patch is supposed to represent the patriarchy hampering women and keeping them from their true potential - accidental goddess hood in this case. She's like Spiderman in this case but the difference is Parker became a self-centered jerk and paid the price for his arrogance and grew from this experience. Marvel went from strong to really strong to super strong learning that she's always been awesome. Yay, character development?
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  29.  @Thissentenceisfalselosers  lol as many have said in the wake of this tragic comedy that The Hobbit trilogy isn't looking so bad now in comparison. That's an accomplishment!
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  30. too many protagonists in film and tv these days are always right characters and everyone else they clash against is just simply wrong. It's nice to see protagonists make mistakes and learn from those mistakes but certain "ahem!" characters of a Sue variety are often not allowed such human traits.
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  31.  @Magneticlaw  and operate a ship on rough seas despite that desert upbringing. Ugh! what a crap character!
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  32. some blame Jaws and Star Wars for killing off the 70s style of film-making but they still had those elements in them particularly in pacing and characterization. It was 80s blockbuster films that started the trend of dumbing down plot and character though many of them are still miles better than their 2010 remakes/reboots.
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  33.  @Nomalos  no one calls her out on these flaws nor she is shown that she is in the wrong
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  34.  @Nomalos  really? Where does she really acknowledge she messed up? She still feels confident enough to come up with the idea of 3 Elven Rings despite Sauron's fingerprints all over them and possibly part of some nefarious plot of his. She doesn't even tell them that Halbrand is Sauron.
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  35.  @BenignViewer  that's a meaningless stretch comparing an inevitable death but at an uncertain time to fast approaching death of limited life span. One of the main reasons a sequel never should have been made is that Bladerunner should never be taken so literally. Bladerunner is more of an existential film, a holdover from 70s style film-making. We're not meant to dig too deeply into it like caring about the ramifications of a hybrid child or peace between humans and replicants. It's a metaphor for mortality. Getting bogged down in details misses the overall point.
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  36. I think everything that needed to be said was done in Bladerunner. Roy Batty's death scene sealed it. There is no point revisiting that story universe.
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  37. Boromir's death is a tragedy. Galadriel of ROP's survival is a tragedy.
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  38. When you promote a cadet who clearly cheated on an important test to captain of his own starship you get an inexperienced immature buffoon that gets everybody killed. That was Nu-Trek's message right? In Into Darkness, he loses a lot of his crew to Marcus and Khan before Khan crashes into San Francisco killing tens of thousands of people. In the third film, he lost his entire ship to a trap. And all of this was during his 5-year mission, the beginning of his starship captain career. How has Nu-Kirk not been court-martialed and thrown into prison?
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  39. I feel this is a time capsule from 2010 how everyone in the video is acting like Youtube is some new thing either barely knowing it or being veterans teaching the newcomer who is getting on youtube without a clue what they want to do (in 2020?). It's like when kids find out they can record their voice and play it back they go crazy with it recording everything they say. It's cute at first then gets really old fast. However there are enough vapid people out there who want this kind of fluff while pretending to be progressive for virtue points that it could succeed (plus having major backing from Youtube and studios helps).
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  40. The Mandalorian showed how to use Finn properly with Bill Burr's character in Season 2. They needed Burr's previous experience as an Imperial to get them into a base and bluff their way around with his knowledge of tedious Imperial protocol. Other than being a janitor on the Star Killer base, Finn barely offered any insight into the First Order and you'd easily forget he was ever a part of it once he was out of his armor.
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  41. exactly! Heroes need to fail and learn so when they succeed it's more satisfying for the audience. This what people who support Mary Rey Palpatine over Luke Skywalker don't get especially when they try to dismiss arguments about Rey being a Mary Sue by saying Luke is one too. In the first film alone, Luke got his ass kicked repeatedly and had to be saved by practically everyone while getting derided for being a farmboy and short. Even blowing up the Death Star he needed Han and R2D2's help. Rey in her first outting beats off attackers, expertly flies the Falcon and is praised for this by Han, uses mind control successfully all by her own, and beats the Darth Vader of her film in her first fight with him in her first lightsaber duel! And the other two films she just got stronger and never really suffered any real defeat to learn from. Boooooooorrring!
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  42.  @MiddleEarthGirl75  yeah GOT was such a disappointment starting off so great. But what bugs me is when people stretch themselves into mental pretzels to ACTUALLY defend bad writing rather than to understand the writers' minds and see how badly the ideas were or how badly executed they were. People are trying to come up with all kinds of reasons Sauron was on that raft thinking it was brilliant 4D chess move rather than a contrivance
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  43.  @APsychicMonkey  dinosaurs were less hardy than mammals? They survived for over 150 million years twice that of mammals. And Paleolithic (not Neolithic) humans lived in a world with big cats, mammoths, giant sloths, etc... for tens of thousands of years. Their extinction had more to do with climate change than overhunting.
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  44.  @zachrohler1047  i never said they were immune to bullets only that hitting a moving target in real life is a lot harder than it is in movies and video games especially with machine guns. There's a reason the US Military took away Auto on M-16s.
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  45. People got sick of me complaining about Prometheus because I couldn't get over how stupid it was and how pretentious twats could defend it with pseudo-intellectual posturing. One of biggest problems I had with the story was the overall premise that started the story - two scientists with no evidence other than a cluster of circles in various ancient depictions concocted a story about the Engineers (a name that made no sense) who created humanity and apparently told ancient humans offscreen about their planet. Even the Ancient Alien guys try to come up with more evidence for their theories but these guys didn't even back it up with myths or hieroglyphs. It was just "these circles mean aliens created us and want us to visit them" and that was enough for a multi-billion project funded by an old man who thought this would also mean these aliens would know how to save him from death. Who needs logic anyhow? Then it turns out the planet is a military science experiment lab - why would they have told ancient humans about that place? They wake up an Engineer and instead of being amazed at humans being there and 2000 years having passed decides to kill them and launch on his original mission of destroying Earth for some unknown reason (funfact - it's been hinted that the death of Jesus was their reason for destroying Earth. So Buddhists, Hinduists, MesoAmericans deserved to die for the death of someone in a backwater area of the Roman Empire? FFS) without bothering to check if his home planet was still around, if the mission still had the go-ahead, and if he was going to get 2000 years of back pay. So the Engineers apparently told humans about the lab planet and when they show up, they get mad at them for doing so? And finding out the creepy xenomorphs of the original was the creation of black goo made by angry careless Engineers and a wayward android kind of ruins their mystery.
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  46.  @bojangles8873  Clegane-bowl is a good example of the old adage be careful what you wish for
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  47. The Thing is a perfect blend of paranoia, brooding atmosphere, claustrophobia, and mystery. You don't get many good horror films like this. They rely on cheap jump-scares, too much reveal of the monster with CGI, and they're too much geared to the short-attention span PG-13 market. 1982's The Thing was more for a mature audience who wanted a horror to have an atmosphere, subtleness, and buildup. The prequel is for braindead morons who want jump-scares every 5 minutes and the music to tell them how to feel.
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  48.  @BenignViewer  unlike Batty who knew he was going to die, K's occurred in the fight which could have had a different result. Batty was fighting against time from the beginning
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  49. With Alien and Blade Runner he explored interesting concepts that made the viewer think and ponder but his latter films while technically good don't have much real substance in them to have critics and film buffs discussing and debating the characters and themes long after. Or they are pretentious but hollow like the Prometheus series.
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  50. The reveal in 2049 aside, I always thought the idea of Decker being a human or replicant was not meant to be a literal one. It was to cast doubt on what it means to be human and what it means to be alive. I like the idea that the "human" tracking down the "non-humans" is more robotic and lifeless than the ones he is retiring. The movie is a more of a metaphor on what it means to truly be alive as well as the acceptance of inevitable death that comes with that life.
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  51. I have a feeling with how soap-opera like this show is with all the shipping that he'll turn out to be Celeborn with amnesia
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  52. the orcs kind of forgot they hate the sun
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  53. it makes the world seem very small in comparison to both LOTR film versions
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  54.  @SublimeSynth  the cultural war is an American fight that the Egyptians didn't asked to be a part of. Erasing them historically and calling them invaders in their own land is hardly progressive
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  55.  @Kallisto-XK  exactly. With Cleopatra's rivalry with her siblings if her mother was non-Greek Macedonian (and close kin) it most likely would have been used against her. As it is after 300 years of only marriage with Greek-Macedonian with an exception of some Persian which even that was mixed with Greek Macedonian and all the incest it would be strange if Cleopatra would be the odd one out of the bunch. But a lot of this is because Netflix and many historical dramas don't take chances so they just do documentaries on people the general public (mainly Americans) know about which isn't much
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  56. This fiasco just shows how myopic a good number of Americans are regardless of political beliefs and education level. I've seen educated liberals defend Cleopatra with the tired old argument that Egypt is in Africa therefore they're all black. That's like saying India is in Asia therefore a member of BTS could play Gandhi in documentary.
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  57. I see the original as more of an allegory of humanity and mortality. The replicants are the humans fighting for more life against their indifferent and cruel creator gods. In the end though Roy Batty shows mercy and a final acceptance of his death which he meets on his own terms. We don't need a sequel to this kind of story.
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  58.  @MiddleEarthGirl75  ah, trying to make sense of the writers' terrible writing? That's a recipe for a headache but yeah I can imagine that this could be what they trying to convey as Sauron's brilliant plan of manipulation ignoring how highly highly unlikely he would have bumped into her in the middle of the ocean in the first place. This is the Bad Robot way - force things to happen even if they make absolutely no sense and try to pretend it's somehow clever. There's a reason why these hacks had their scripts rejected over and over again methinks
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  59. gaslighting at its finest. No one said women were inferior in the originals and Leia was a tough character. In the sequels the hatred of male characters was palpable. Finn became a goofy sidekick. Poe became a hotheaded brash pilot who needed to be humbled by strong women. Kylo Ren became a whiny emo who got beat by Rey EVERY single time they fought. Han and Luke came off as pathetic has-beens - Han a pathetic runaway who doesn't understand his ship as well as Rey does and Luke a washed-up cowardly runaway who gets bested by an untrained scavenger. In comparison Leia was allowed to be a wise military leader who Mary Poppins herself out of death in the vacuum of space.
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  60. people harp on about the CGI of the prequel but the real problem is the lack of atmosphere that the 1982 one had. It doesn't have the sense of isolation and claustrophobia coupled with paranoia. The Thing in the prequel is constantly popping out and running around going against a golden rule in story-telling especially with horror that less is more.
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  61. meanwhile Finn barely acts like he was raised from childhood to be a fighter and a follower of orders
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  62. yeah but no
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  63. There's nothing to the overall story to look forward. Empire Strikes Back had a lot of momentum to get people back into the theater to see how they would rescue Han and how Luke would deal with the revelation of (spoiler!) Vader being his father. As much as I don't like the Prequels from a story-telling perspective there was momentum leading to the next movie - Anakin's continuing struggle with his dark side, the beginning of the Clone Wars, and the Palpatine's plans coming to fruition. What is there in the new series to take the story into the next film? Snoke is dead, the new Empire is run by a whining indecisive emo vader and a shouty slapstick too-young-for-his-position general, most of the original characters are dead in film or real life, the new characters barely know each so there's not much chemistry unlike the characters in the originals and prequels, there's nothing there for Rey to do or to develop as a character, Finn has no arc to fulfill since they robbed him of that at the beginning (ie a fish out of water who grew up brainwashed by a military order and now is confronting them), Poe has no arc to fulfill since he was supposed to die in the first film originally, he only made Rey at the end of the last film, and with Leia gone he has no one to play of off with brash pilot vs wise authority figure, and the Resistance has been reduced to about a dozen people. I just have no interest in where they are going to take this story, the last story of this trilogy, a trilogy with little story or character development.
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  64. Avatar seems to have dropped off the pop culture map. Hardly anyone talks about it except to reference it box office records. Despite these records, it's a rather forgettable flick IMHO that few care to rewatch. It's unlikely it will be revived as a cult classic or an overlooked gem. It'll be one of those things that were extremely popular in their day but nearly forgotten in later times (like now).
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  65. With the failure of so many linear story series promising answers to gimmicky mysteries I'd kind of like going back to old episodic TV shows where everything is pretty much wrapped up by the end of the episode unless it's a special 2-parter. So many of these shows are good at grabbing people's attention and creating a cottage industry of websites and youtube videos dedicated to dissecting the story and characters and musing about the answers to the mysteries (which in turn can lead the writers to make shitty decisions to try and fool audience expectations). Eventually it all dissolves into a soap opera where things happen more for emotional catharsis and "shocking" twisty twists rather than narrative sense. These shows (GOT, LOST, Westworld, Walking Dead, Sherlock, new Battlestar Galactica to name a few) start off with random unassuming characters who eventually become the most important beings in their universe where every event and other character revolves around them (and the fan's ego who identifies with those characters). And as the story goes along it begins to unravel as you realize the writers' really had no answers to the original mysteries or changed them because some autistic nitpicker on youtube figured it out. To cover up the main narrative's deterioration you get a lot of soap opera vignettes focused on characters who are fan favorites from badass fight/kill scenes to "shocking" romantic trysts none of which advances the story that is floundering anyway. And then add a thick gooey layer of pseudo-intellectual hamfisted socio-political analogies, allusions, and commentary to give the show and the dull-witted fans an essence of cleverness which will be helped by overthinking (yet amazingly shallow) media critics and vloggers. Viola! TV writing in the 21st Century! And who's going to rewatch these shows down the road? Or get into them for the first time if they already know it fizzles out? I don't see many fans of GOT going back to rewatch the series knowing how it ends nor people who never watched as they know going in the show devolves into a mess. Conversely, old episodic shows are easily re-watchable as you can jump in practically anywhere and enjoy a compact story without all the bullshit pretense of cleverness.
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  66.  @zachrohler1047  if the velociraptor was kind enough to stand still for you
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  67.  @zachrohler1047  not the point - the point is just being able to shoot a gun doesn't mean being able to hit something especially something moving
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  68. If you are going have a story with these mysteries for fuck sake have a plan to answer them sensibly before you start. Imagine if Arthur Conan Doyle wrote Sherlock Holmes like these shows today like Westworld, LOST, Battlestar Galactica, and GOT? You'd have all these impossible mysteries at the beginning with most of it never solved or addressed as the story throws out even more mysteries. The focus of characters would be on Holmes and Watson's unrequited love for each other with violins weeping in the background until the culprit reveals their improbable convoluted plan that has been in motion since Holmes' conception or the beginning of the world (whichever) then they get shot by Mrs. Hudson who is secretly Queen Victoria and a member of all female league of top assassins. In other words, it'd be crap.
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  69. I think because Into Darkness was so much more offensive on so many levels in being a terrible reboot of arguably the best Star Trek film (Wrath of Khan) that people were more "meh." about this film hence the little criticism it received. The plot is extremely stupid but overall the film is just so forgettable unlike other bad films you can jump into and have a field day dissecting. The Kelvin Timeline just needs to fade away and never brought up again. Chalk it up as another Abrams failed attempt to cash in on nostalgia but without understanding the heart of the source material.
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  70. If Slow Motion made a movie, it'd be Black Adam. Holy Sheeeet if you cut out the slow-mo it'd be barely one hour. The rest of the story is completely nonsensical. Amanda Waller is somehow the Nick Fury of the DCU telling the Justice Society to go after Black Adam just hours after he was freed because...reasons. Meanwhile, a corporation has occupied a country for 27 years without UN saying anything apparently and for some reason they have orders to detain an academic whom the leader of that corporation happens to be with for some reason so there was no reason for those detainment orders. She finds the sought-after crown that was just floating on the air for 5000 years and thank goodness Black Adam was buried/imprisoned there with the words needed to free him on his tomb so when the bad company mercs show up with a small army she can release him. How or why was he imprisoned? Don't know! How did Amanda Waller know so much how about him within hours of him being released? Don't know! How does he start speaking English in a Middle Eastern country within hours of being released to the point of mastering sarcasm and quips? Don't know! And why was there western showdown between Adam and half a dozen mercs complete with the soundtrack from the Good, Bad, and the Ugly when we had already seen him take out half an army 10 minutes earlier including attack helicopters and tanks? Was there supposed to be tension in that scene? Was it filmed before the other wipe-out-hundreds-without-breaking-a-sweat scene? Is Hawkman just Batman with wings? Nothing in this film makes any sense and people praising it or not calling it out for being a illogical narrative mess have let themselves become too blinded by the culture wars.
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  71. I enjoy Ragnarok. Easily the best in the series. Love and Thunder was fun in the theater but I found myself laughing less and less as the movie went on and by the time the film ended I had forgotten most of it. It was just a pale cheap imitation of Ragnarok like a lot of the recent offerings from Marvel. They used to be good at pumping at a decent product for their genre but now they're giving us the feeling of a copy of a copy of copy with such low effort.
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  72. Meh, it wasn't as bad as Batman v Superman. It's more a lazy Sunday afternoon flick like Lynch's Dune where you munch popcorn and half pay attention to the story. They'd have done far better doing a 6-10 episode series to flesh out the characters and narrative. Eternals were always low tier heroes who barely interacted with the Marvel universe so giving them a movie instead of a show was bad idea. Granted, Guardians was similar but with fewer characters and a less convoluted cosmic plot, it worked (plus it was better directed).
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  73.  pyropulse  people liked it because it wasn't outwardly boring like the first of the prequels but like many of Abrams nostalgic set pieces people like them at first then it soon fades away because they are hollow imitations of the original source material.
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  74. What made Bladerunner work in my opinion was that like good Sci-Fi it was more about themes of humanity rather than the gadgets or its inner world building. Bladerunner dealt with the question of what it means to be human and the question of Decker being a replicant or not is part of this theme. I like the idea of the human acting more robotic than the inhuman replicants he is hunting. The other main theme was dealing with mortality. Roy and his group wanted a longer life span which is a very human trait. You end up sympathizing with the antagonists to the point where Roy Batty really becomes the protagonist at the end. Blade 2049 seems to suffer from a lack of a point in this regard. Its story is too internally focused in its world which is fine for fans but leaves everyone else excluded. A hybrid child (now adult) might cause a war between humans and replicants? Uh, ok...? It's visually stunning but comes off as a hollow imitation of the original because it has nothing really to say in the end.
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  75. Another "thing" about The Thing is how it's still discussed to this day on who was the Thing and when and of course the ending that trails off without a definite conclusion. People like talking about the various aspects of the film from the music, to the special effects, to the direction, to the characters, to the eery claustrophobic atmosphere. You don't have film buffs and fans discussing the prequel unless it's to trash it. Those who do like the prequel tend to be shallow in their appreciation of good horror (and film in general) IMHO so there's not a lot of debate coming from that lot.
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  76. Say what you will but I believe Rey of the Star Wars sequels is one of the greatest modern film villains of recent times. Like the villains of yore, she's proficient in everything she touches be it starships, blasters, lightsabers, or the Force and she doesn't have any obstacles in these things to overcome like a hero would. She lures Han Solo out of hiding so he can be set up to be killed by his own son then later she also lures Luke Skywalker (whom she bested in a fight) out of hiding to end up dying expending his energies in fighting his own nephew. In another fight with Kylo Ren, she indirectly causes Leia to die expending her energies to distract her son and later that son sacrifices himself to bring Rey back to life thus ending the lives and lineage of the three principle characters of the original trilogy. I'm surprised she didn't off Chewie while she was at it (maybe she did before the ending scene). Then to top it all off, at the very end Rey assumes the name of her (obvious) enemies who she had manipulated throughout the series and buries their lightsabers ensuring no other Jedi would use them to avenge the Skywalkers. Now Rey is free under the guise of the successor of the Skywalkers to continue Palpatine's plans and subvert the Republic and the Jedi from within - muhahahahaha!!!!
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  77. They made the story 20 years later so they could have a 20-something Lorna Whatever instead of a mid-30 year old which is how old the original baby (actresses) would be now? Wow, they just made the original actors looked like they had really hard lives or that people age really quickly in that world. Does the show not think a mid-30 female character can't be a protagonist? Of course the way the show is they'd probably present a Willow-equivalent of She-Hulk.
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  78.  Critdrink  woot! Hope it's a bottle of whiskey! Get thee gone, bot!
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  79. It shows that creativity can't just be manufactured by ticking boxes on hires. Talent first is alien to them.
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  80. Moore, Brosnan, and Connery were the best Bonds. Without Connery there'd be no Bond - nuff said. Moore kept the series going and had a few stellar films like Live and Let Die and For Your Eyes Only. With Brosnan I don't like the films as much with the exception of Golden Eye but I think he absolutely nailed the part and he had a really good supporting cast. An unofficial Bond film that I consider Brosnan's last film instead of Die Another Day is Everything or Nothing. Brosnan's time also brought us the best Bond game ever - Golden Eye.
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  81.  @plbenton  huh? My point is there didn't need to be a sequel
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  82.  @BenignViewer  you're missing the point entirely
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  83. If ROP was an original show, it'd be largely ignored as just a bad show like the forgotten Rebel Moon. It's because the show is tied to both a classic book and film series and does an injustice to both that there is so much criticism leveled at it. It doesn't help they are so arrogant they think they can "fix" Tolkien.
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  84. Shills will say you're overthinking a story about space wizards and lazer swords but it's about basic writing and staying consistent to established rules in your fictional world. When the rules go out the window so goes out in investment (attention and financial).
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  85. Whew! Re-watching this after the farce of Rise of Skywalker shows how bad it could go. Rey becomes the best pilot/fighter of the Resistance, can heal people of fatal wounds, beats Kylo yet again, beats Palpatine, then takes the Skywalker name at the end. She was a one-woman wrecking ball of the original series - outdoing Han on the Falcon, beating Luke, beating Kylo a student of Luke and the son of Han and Leia, fake killing Chewie with her awesome lightning power while beating Kylo yet again, and killing the source of all evil from the originals who was also her grandpappy while impressing everyone she meets (something Luke had to earn). This is exactly what a Mary Sue is and does - gets implanted in a story with established characters and either impresses or bests them at everything. In this case she supplants them all and steals even their namesake. FFS!
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  86. It's simple - it's gloss vs substance. Wrath of Khan deals with age and revenge. You don't have to have seen the original appearance of Khan to understand his character - he was an old foe of Kirk's from the past blaming him for his miserable condition. Kirk is dealing with his age and boring new position then he has to face a mistake from his past when he forgot about Khan and his people. A mistake that leads to the death of an old friend. What does Into Darkness deal with? Kirk facing off against a thawed out Hitler he doesn't know to fight another bad guy who Frosty Hitler kills then Popsicle Hitler becomes the main bad guy with his brilliant plan to shoot missiles at the Enterprise. What could have been an interesting movie in itself - the direction and destiny of Star Fleet: do they pursue science or war? - becomes sidelined by a hacky reboot of Wrath of Khan without any of the elements that made the original so compelling.
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  87. Canon and character are agreements between writers and audiences. We expect some tweaks and changes here and there to better tell a story and flesh out a character but when established canon/backstory is thrown out or a character is made to be completely out-of-character it begs the question "why bother with this story if nothing is consistent and past watching/reading is made completely pointless?"
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  88. All of these blunders show what happens when you stretch out a story that was never meant to be stretched out. The old trilogy told the story and that was that. Instead milking this dead horse of a cash cow has produced a lot of dreck and one of the worst fan bases in geekdom.
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  89. But the dirty little secret that these film-makers refuse to acknowledge - women don't like this crap. This is why these projects fail. If their intended audience is women then they should have no problem making a profit. For example the Sex and the City film was the most profitable rom-com the year it came out. And don't get me started on the Twilight series and 50 Shades of Grey. Instead of blaming men, they should be wondering why women don't like their female-led action projects but that would be too difficult so blame men and file a loss with the IRS (which is probably the real driving force behind this).
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  90. 2 years later and I'm watching scenes from Thor IV and not recognizing a lot of the scenes as it was just that forgettable whereas I can easily remember the scenes from Ragnarok.
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  91.  @BZerp  it is that bad even without the horrendous mangling of Tolkien - unlikeable characters, nonsensical storylines, terrible dialogue
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  92. changing the life span of the replicants kind of tosses the whole point of the original film in the dumpster. If anything the shorter life span and the conversation with their creator in the first film can be seen as a metaphor of humans begging for immortality from God something that goes all the way back to Gilgamesh. In this film what does re-engineering replicant life spans accomplish except to make it nearly another story entirely?
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  93. In order to properly fix GOT, you'd have to start from Season 5 with a clear cut end in mind for the overall story and the characters and work towards that goal likely taking an extra season or two like HBO wanted. But if you can only start with Season 8, the way I was hoping the Battle of Winterfell would end is that the Nightking doesn't appear. They defeat his second in command with several character losses but the question raised by Jon at the end is where is the Nightking? Cut to the Nightking further south and before him is the Golden Company sent by Cersei to wipe out Danni's remaining forces if they are victorious. Episode 3 ends with Golden Company surprised by their arrival and the last scene is on the Nightking's face with a faint look of smugness having outsmarted his enemies. Next episode Cersei sees the Golden Company returning to King's Landing but it doesn't take long to realize something is wrong. The men are all wights riding on skeletal horses and even skeletal elephants. When the people realize this suddenly the sky turns black and cold. The army of the dead has cut a fast and narrow way to king's landing obliterating everything in their path and driving others to the sides with no way of communicating - a scene can show undead birds killing messenger ravens. Now King's Landing is under siege. With this we can see the strategic sense of the Nightking - take out the central authority then the rest of the 7 Kingdoms will be easy to overwhelm. Also this would punish Cersei for playing the Game of Thrones instead of focusing on the existential threat. Euron then proves how much of a coward he is pulling up anchor and abandoning Cersei to her fate and once again humbling her in her poor choice of allies. Danni and Jon race south on their dragons while the rest of their army sails south. They meet Euron where he is humiliated for fleeing. He is executed and Greyjoys take the Iron Fleet with them to Kings Landing. There they help evacuate much of the people to their ships as the White Walkers overwhelm the defenses. When the undead reach Cersei's last refuge she then unleashes the wildfire killing herself and much of the undead army. Jon and Bran are left to confront the Nightking in the end to stop him from raising the dead who weren't burned up in the wildfire. Bran goes into the past to find a weakness of the Nightking then he wargs into Drogo to fight the ice dragon while Jon finishes off the Nightking. in the aftermath where several characters have been killed along the way - Jorah, Theon, Beric, grey worm. Jon and Danni are chosen as co-rulers and although Danni is fine with a marriage Jon is not which could lead to trouble down the road. Sansa becomes Warden of the North, Tormund is made king of the Wildlings with his people to live above or below the Wall, Sam becomes a Grand Maester and one of the small council and he's the one who records the history that we've been watching. Bran leaves to go North to become a guardian in case the white walkers should ever rise again. He promises to return in case of trouble. Jaime survives but quits the service and he decides to do the Arya thing and find some kind of peace in distant unknown lands. He gives Brienne his blessing to become the head of the Kingsguard. Tirion who actually gives good advice this time around is both lord of the Lannisters and King's Hand. The show can end with him and Varys mirroring Littlefinger and Varys from earlier seasons watching the coronation of Danni and Jon in the background speculating on the future and what troubles might arise. Not saying it would be great but a damn sight better IMHO than the crap we got. You could also throw in something about the Mountain being turned into a slave of the White Walkers and killing his creator then in the aftermath put out of his misery by the Hound who realizes the brother he has long hated is truly gone. He gives up his vengeance which makes Arya do so as well. At the end they become healers and protectors of the sick and poor forsaking their former violent paths. anyway, just an idea.
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  94. After all the mystery box shit and pretentious TV shows pretending to be clever, I like the simplicity of The Mandalorian. Is it deep and complex challenging social norms? No but who cares? It's a bounty hunter in a western in space. I just hope they don't make the same mistake so many shows have done by making their characters the most important thing in the universe with a lot of twisty twists and ongoing mysteries that will eventually go nowhere. Worse if they try to tie into the Sequels explaining Snokes and Palpatine's return in order to try and explain shitty writing. Keep it simple and entertaining. He's a bounty hunter not a messiah.
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  95.  @chrissonofpear1384  that's not saying much. It was still a stupid film with contrivances galore
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  96. Jaws is very good competent movie until they go on the boat. It follows the principle of less is more though much of that was a happy accident forcing the Spielberg to show less and allow audience's imagination to scare themselves (sadly missing in these CGI times - both the principle and many people's imagination). When the film comes to the boat and condenses down to three characters, it becomes a great film. Those three actors and their respective characters how they interact with one another while being stalked by a relentless unforgiving foe is great storytelling. You could just start the movie from when they enter the boat and feel like you got the whole the movie.
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  97. and it's a shame because as good as seasons 1-4 are knowing how all the promise of a compelling conclusion went out the window and ended dismally. There's something to be said for the more simpler episodic series where a few bad episodes don't ruin the entire series
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  98. That makes it even more stupid. Why destroy the entire human race because of the death of someone in a backwater area of the Roman Empire? What did the Chinese, Indians, British, Japanese, Meso-Americans, Africans, native Australians, etc... have anything to do with Jesus's death? Plus the guy was asleep 2000 years and doesn't check if the mission was still on or that his planet was even still around?
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  99.  @dudewheresmycar6318  oh shut you! Wishing an asteroid is not actually wanting anyone dead. Take your autism meds
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  100.  @tojogornottojog1100  uhm... what? What are you disagreeing about?
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  101. The attempted unholy shipping I think was a step too far that they realized before it actually aired because I noticed shills and bots on Twitter and reddit immediately jumping in to try and say Sauron wasn't being romantic when he made his offer to share power with Galadriel and on top of that those who saw it as such don't understand human interaction (ie they're incels). There was too many similarities in their comments for this to be natural and it smacks of damage control. Somehow I think these same people would cry outrage if a manager (unhandsome of course) held a female employee's chin in their hand as they promised them a position in management. It's just amazing the depths the show and the shills will go to in order to gaslight people on what's right in front of everyone.
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  102. with education standards eroding it may indeed
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  103.  @eduardorivera4343  no one is debating this film except why was it made? If not for the tie-in with the Aliens franchise it would have been another forgotten sci-fi flick.
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  104.  @nhmooytis7058  The origin crew were basically space truckers doing a job when the distress signal caused them to wake up. Neither the company nor android knew what was about the alien until after Ash did his studies and the company became interested in its potential.
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  105. One quibble - her first mission is bad idea all around. She should have been fully immersed in what she thinks is her culture and military duties. This would make the fight with her team mates more meaningful rather than guys she's only known for a little while. She's a little too comfortable with her powers limited as they are a little too soon in the story line. Make where she's been doing missions for the Kree for 2-3 years and thus making it harder for her to accept the reality and the Kree's lie.
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  106. It's weird that this Batman movie made the Nolan films look cartoonish in comparison IMHO. Nolan was trying to make a grittier more realistic Batman but in the end failed to do so because it tried too hard especially with Bale's goofy voice. I can't listen to him without seeing the College Humor parody of him. Even the much vaunted Dark Knight seems silly despite Ledger's performance. A friend of mine long ago dismissed the film as ridiculous because - "where does a psycho clown get rocket launchers?" That's more inline with the 90s Batman films but they weren't trying to be something they weren't. The first film has Batman in a magic ninja training camp FFS which is something I hope they don't do with this version. And the less said about the horrendous Dark Knight Rising the better. I like that this Batman is damaged borderline autistic. He comes off as creepy and eerie especially to the characters around him. He's understated not over-the-top because he lives in his head more. Other characters don't know what he's thinking. All this makes the Riddler a good mirror of his character something that didn't come off as well between Batman-Joker in Burton or Nolan. The Batmen in those films were more different than their Joker counterparts but here Riddler's insanity was much closer to the Batman's own mental state. Also his motivations were so closely aligned to the Batman that the Riddler truly was a dark mirror version - of what the Batman could become if he didn't keep tight control of his mental abilities. This Batman unlike the other ones is truly teetering on the edge struggling not to become the monsters he is fighting.
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  107.  @cyrusthagreat6649  Beyond wasn't bad as Darkness was in terms of convoluted illogical storytelling but it was a largely forgettable film in my opinion. You have a villain whose motivations are vague and of course he wants to blow up the galaxy or some shit. Everyone I saw it with has forgotten they ever saw it.
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  108. yeah Moffat was like watching someone copy the formula of LOST but not understanding it because as LOST eventually revealed the writers were making it up as they went along and they had no grand narrative they had been building when they started. I still have no idea what the season finale of the first season of Matt Smith actually meant because Moffat left so many things unanswered because he didn't know at that time why the Pandorica was built or the Silence or who was manipulating the Tardis until 2 or 3 seasons later nor how Amy Pond was able to wish the Doctor back into existence. Old Doctor Who used basic story elements to tell a story. when a crisis was resolved they made it clear how and why it was done rather than letting it be resolved two seasons later.
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  109. she got 8 seasons of work out of HBO and a couple of films. There are actors waiting tables who wished they could have a "failed" career like that
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  110. They really missed a good opportunity to do a series on John Connor, his rise to leadership and his overthrow of skynet. It could have dealt with him having all this baggage of expectation on his shoulders, overcoming his fears, figuring out the weakness of skynet, etc... I know they wanted to do so with the girl from Dark Fate and knock-off SKynet - Legacy but let's go back to basics and a do a proper John Connor story.
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  111. This movie was filled with forced plot devices and contrivances to make it bumble slowly forward like a drunken sloth with dementia. Batman somehow knows the parademons are attracted by fear because...? Fortunately he was able to snag a random burglar on a random night in order to snag a random parademon which randomly exploded into a plot point. Had that not happened, there'd be no movie because it was that thing that made Batman seek out Wonder Exposition Woman who sets up the premise for the whole movie making him go on a quest to put together a team (while Steppenwolf graciously took his time rather than just doing what he eventually did - popping in and mopping the floor with everyone) Why weren't those parademons as easily destroyed later and why didn't they all explode with mother box emblems and why did the first one do so in the first place? How was Steppenwolf defeated the last time if he showed up with all 3 motherboxes ready to transform Earth? It would seem to organize a huge army of different forces would have required some time and the movie implied that Steppenwolf would have transformed the Earth in a short matter of time. Everything is written backwards to explain the present situation - there 3 motherboxes on earth - why? Uh...because Steppenwolf came to earth before, was defeated, and the boxes were separated kept hidden for thousands of years (but really easily recoverable). Batman needs to create a team - why? uh...Because he discovered that Steppenwolf is coming back -how? Uh... he found out from a parademon - how? Uh... he discovered that they are attracted to fear - how did he figure that out? How the fuck should I know?
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  112. yeah but hasn't the idea of sentient robots, clones, AI etc... already been done?
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  113. I think admirers of the film being so jaded with modern films wanted to see something deep in this Emperor's New Clothes film.
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  114. The preview looks like it was released from a mid-90s time capsule of a low budget show sold through UHF channels with overcompensating over-the-top hardcore female characters they used to do back then with a lot of bad acting from B-movie actors. Hard pass on this turd nugget from the past.
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  115. Rewatching DS9 makes me miss old/slightly old Star Trek. The reboot and Discovery don't seem to resemble anything of the series. The reboot is drunk guy at the bar's version of the old series where "Kirk gets all the babes! And shoot everyone!" Discovery is more focused on socio-politics instead of a good story or rather making a good story first then incorporate socio-politics into organically.
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  116.  @corneliusmaze-eye2459  you can't tell nothing as she just brushes it off and orders Celebrimbor to make 3 Rings as though she was in any position to give any advice given how much she had messed up over the entire season. A person with any self-reflection would be wracked with guilt and self-doubt but not our psychopathic Galadriel.
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  117. This kind of movie could be good if it were done in the style of a cheesy 60s sci-fi movie or 70s grindhouse film i.e. a completely silly excuse to have people fighting dinosaurs. But this story started out as science fiction horror from the novel to the first film. Even the two lackluster sequels as well as the reboot stay within this setting. Trying to still be kind of sciencey but having the world overrun by dinosaurs - how many of them were on that island? - just doesn't fit that setting. You'd need some unrelated catastrophe that puts human civilization on the brink which didn't also wipe out the few dinos that survived their island blowing up. Even if small arms were somehow ineffective against the big ones I'm pretty sure a rocket launcher would take out a T-Rex.
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  118. This is the old debate of Rey vs Luke and the question of Mary Sue. Some Rey supporters fired back at the criticism that Rey was a Mary Sue by saying so was Luke (as though two wrongs make a right). They missed the obvious difference that Luke struggled through out the films especially the first one. This made his ultimate win seem more of an achievement. He got beat up by Tuskens, bar patrons, snow monsters, Darth Vader, etc... while being derided by even his own friends. Rey on the other hand barely struggled, was praised by everyone on both sides, and outdid everyone on everything from improving the Millenium Falcon to besting Luke and Kylo in fighting and using the Force. She was even called the best fighter. Another thing is she barely needed help from anyone unlike Luke. A theme in the originals was the importance of friends which Luke chose even over his Jedi training. This made him a more likable character. He was willing to risk his life to save Han from Jabba even with a whole Empire out there. In TROS in an effort to explain Rey being good or now better at the Force was her year of training with Leia which was done at the expense of her friends! Anyway, what the proponents of these uberfemsch characters fail to understand is that characters without flaws (or rather flaws that are praised - arrogance, emotionally-closed off, general bitchiness etc...) who don't have to struggle are boring. Even James Bond gets his ass kicked in every one of his films and he's an experienced trained spy
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  119. Like he was speaking to JJ Abrams and have ilk
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