TheMongoose

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New ‘Star Trek’ Movie in the Works at Paramount from ‘Andor’ Director⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Andor introduced by killing a dude in cold blood? That was Gilroy. Andor being conflicted and unable to take the shot on a legitimate military target? That was Edwards.

  So you have this mish-mash of conflicting story beats,

  Or... character development. He's grown up in the Rebellion, he's OK with killing people in cold blood if he has to as long as he can justify it as hurting the Empire. Then he meets Jyn and Chirrut and Baze and he is forced to question his whole philosophy. He's been ordered to kill Galen Erso, but only unofficially, after being told to bring him in alive. He's gotten to know Jyn and knows what killing her father will do to her. He's starting to see him as a person instead of just another Imperial target. So he hesitates.

  God, in my opinion Rogue One is arguably the best Star Wars film, and if not, it's a close second behind Empire.

  And Andor just expands on the fact that it's a whole galaxy of potential stories, it doesn't just have to be about lightsabers and space wizards called Skywalker.

  Yes, there seems to have been some behind the scenes decisions taken, and the whole film gave me a slightly different vibe to the original trailer. Would I love to see Gareth Edwards's original cut of the film? Hell yes. Do I think Disney is taking the franchise in the Marvel "let's make safe and less interesting popcorn entertainment rather than push the envelope and see what we can do with this universe" direction? Also yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rebecca as the long cat.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From the Cyberpunk 2077 anime

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I stop hating children?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The word I was thinking of was “psychopath”…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers fear the British spoken 'r' is ready to roll away from the last bastion of rhoticity⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh. Interesting.

  "Speakers from places like Blackburn usually differentiate between pairs of words such as 'stellar' and 'stella', whereas most of England would consider them to be the same," says Dr. Turton.

  Short of deliberately rolling the R, I don't actually know how I could pronounce it... I'd never thought about that before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK at risk of ‘failed election’ without major reforms, watchdog warns⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We had a chance for that, but the electorate was too stupid to vote for it anyway.

  Referendums. Huh. What are they good for? Fucking over the rest of us, that's what.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Biden ditches trade deal talks with Britain⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  it would not have provided sufficient protection for American workers

  There's some irony, considering from this side of the pond, it doesn't look as if they have any...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adam Driver Says Kylo Ren’s Original ‘Star Wars’ Arc Got Overhauled: He Was Supposed to Be the ‘Most Committed to the Dark Side’ by the End⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  and [Holdo's] plan ending up getting almost all of them killed.

  Woah, hang on a second. Holdo's plan would (probably) have worked fine if she hadn't told Poe. It was because he told Finn and Rose over a line he didn't know was secure so he actually also told Benicio Del Toro, who then sold that info to the Discount Empire First Order that everyone died.

  And then rather than punish Poe for that, she took responsibility for it, did what she could to save everyone else and sacrificed herself for the cause.

  Poe incited a mutiny. Holdo made a command decision about Need To Know. I know who deserves the medal after that all dies down, and it isn't the hotshot that had already been demoted earlier that day for disobeying orders.

  You're 100% right about #3. And I can't really disagree with #4 either.

  God, I wanted to love this film. I still quite like it, but I can't really bring myself to rewatch it as often as, say Rogue One. I think it's weaker in retrospect after the retcon-fest that was Rise of Skywalker, which is a shame. Rian Johnson had some great ideas that could have reinvigorated the franchise. Instead, it's barely limping on, giving us stuff like Andor as enough of a teaser that we don't just give up on the whole thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adam Driver Says Kylo Ren’s Original ‘Star Wars’ Arc Got Overhauled: He Was Supposed to Be the ‘Most Committed to the Dark Side’ by the End⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean... he picked up the lightsaber, dramatically went one on one with Kylo Ren and immediately got the shit kicked out of him. I thought that was fairly sensible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sainsbury’s boss defends decision to sell customers’ Nectar card data⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sainsbury’s and Tesco have also faced criticism for creating a two-tier pricing system, offering much lower prices to loyalty card holders.

  “The vast majority of customers in supermarkets want to use Nectar because it saves them money. If you spend on average £80 this week and use Nectar Prices, you’ll save about £10 on your shop so customers really like that value.

  Get in the fucking sea. Of course you'll 'save' money with a Nectar card if they have wildly inflated prices for non cardholders. The fact that this is happening in more and more supermarkets makes me want to start setting them on fire, and the bastards that come up with these plans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Biblically⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What a terrible day to have eyes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jonathan Frakes Returning To Direct For ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Season 3⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There's like 80 years between Enterprise and Disco, and another 80 between TOS and TNG. Since they (probably) won't fill up all of this with more and more series, there's plenty of scope to mine them for content, especially with one-off films.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of Britons can’t name a Black British historical figure, survey finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  And 1066. I can’t remember what actually happened then but the year is burned into my brain.

  Rings a bell. I think England beat Germany in the World Cup…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix raises prices despite password crackdown success⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My only regret is that because I cancelled over the password sharing thing, I can't cancel again over the excessive prices...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't worry about it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Prisoner Zero has escaped