Like... Disney spent billions of dollars to buy Star Wars and were making sequels to one of the most beloved film franchises of all time, with a bad reputation from the last films. This could make or break a lot of future monetary plans.
HOW DO YOU NOT GO IN WITH A PLAN?!
I frickin' LOVE Force Awakens and Last Jedi and it felt to me like there clearly HAD to be a plan since I felt they worked so well together, establishing a theme of the return of fascism - very relevant to today's audience - and the need to learn from the mistakes of the past...
...while not trying to assume that things will go as they did in stories, that there is always more nuance and angles to how things played out.
BUT NOPE JUST KILL PALPATINE AGAIN, GUYS, AND EVERYTHING WILL BE OKAY I PROMISE ALSO EVERYBODY'S RELATED TO EVERYBODY ELSE.
And hey, even though we changed course HARD, we can still make these some of these themes work just as long as we focus on the unique qualities and importance of the NEW characters instead of-
THIS IS NOW THE SKYWALKER TRILOGY REY USES LUKE'S LIGHTSABER SHE DOESN'T GET HER OWN
SORRY SKYWALKER SAGA, TOTALLY SKYWALER SAGA THAT WAS THE PLAN THE WHOLE TIME IT'S LIKE 9 MOVIES AND NOT A SEQUEL TRILOGY IT MAKES SENSE IF YOU DON'T THINK ABOUT IT REY SKYWALKER MAKE LUKE LIFT THE X-WING REMEMBER THAT REMEMBER THE MOISTURE FARM REMEMBER THINGS LIKE IT DAMN IT
Welp, time to enter the dark times for my Ring/Grudge marathoning. I'm finally checking out The Grudge 2020, which is apparently a Sidequel. I've heard nothing but bad things, but I'll give it a shot, though no promises on live-tweeting.
Next one after this will be Rings.
Pray for me - I've seen clips of it. DX
Okay, so already I've got a problem. You go to all the trouble of establishing the connection with the American Grudge, even the brief cameo by Kayako... but you screwed up the death groan!
PART 1 OF THE MEGAFORCE RETROSPECTIVE IS NOW REUPLOADED!
What's nice is that looking at the list, it seems both Part 2 AND 4 are still up (Part 4 in particular it seems I attempted a reupload last year. Part 3, as well, but that one got claimed) so that's less work I have to do.
Mind you, the annoying thing is that for most of these reuploads, I have to leave them on my channel virtually forever, just privated. Deleting a video removes views from the viewcount, so with older versions it could mean a loss of 100,000+ views in a single day.
Watching season 19 of Hell's Kitchen and God I forgot that the worst part of it is the pageantry in so much of the challenges. "Here's a hard rock band that screams ingredients! It's connected to food in a flimsy, vague way!"
Or even better: "Here's something mildly racist because we're focusing on a particular kind of international food! And now here are the chefs going whaaaaaat as if it's the weirdest thing ever!"
I like watching it, but man oh man every time I go back to full episodes I'm reminded of how much trash reality TV is. And this is just a COOKING show.
Fan theories are fun, but I'm more worried that it's only going to be a half hour long and there are A LOT of things to resolve - just like narratives within the show, interactions that have been built up, character dynamics... I'm worried about an unsatisfying rush-job ending...
...not whether Dr. Strange or Magneto or something shows up.
Not counting the VERY ending credits, it was only 40 minutes. Less that if you don't count the credits between the normal end and the mid-credits scene.
@GreatCheshire WELP, just finished. A few things I can add as someone who was actually talking to Doug at the time.
ONE: Yes, the marketing was one of the worst aspects that played into Demo Reel's initial rejection by fans. Aside from not telling the other producers about the end (those of...
@GreatCheshire ...us who were in the cast of To Boldly Flee knew, of course), we ALL knew that introducing this as the big replacement to the Critic RIGHT AWAY was a bad call. It meant that he needed to hit the ball out of the park IMMEDIATELY. Doing the build-up to it was good, but NC was...
@GreatCheshire ...the cashcow and we all knew that it needed, NEEDED to be great if people were going to stick around. Even at the time people were saying they were going to leave and stop watching because they ONLY cared about the NC reviews. They didn't WANT original content. But hey, we...