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Sounds like what I was expecting...

I did watch the first 15 minutes or so of that Section 31 dreck - I'm not even going to bother watching that much of a new Trek show without some good recommendations and that ought to scare the powers that be at Paramount (not me personally, but that so many former Trekkies like myself will no longer make it a point to watch new Trek).

40 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

That hasn't really been the case for a long time.  Star Wars is a merchandising empire that goes far, far beyond the movies. 

 But that's not what Star Wars's crybaby culture warriors are complaining about.  

The hilarious irony is her anointed successor has a far better claim to being responsible for what ails Star Wars than she ever will.  😆

Star Wars Merchandising is based off the movies being popular.  All of that will dry up if the movies don't start making big profits again.

I am NOT one of those culture war crybabies.  But the new trilogy characters are all completely forgettable.  That is a problem.

Last I checked Dave had nothing to do with the movies (except perhaps that Clone Wars animated mess that started the whole thing off).  The movies are where things went off the rails.

So, has anyone watched this yet (and will admit to having done so)?  

I'm not inclined to watch it but if someone here says it was great I'll give it a look.  

Not saying it is bad, but 90210 was all the rage and I had no interest in it.  Same for Survivor or America's Got Talent (when everyone at work was shocked I'd never seen it and to this day I never have)

6 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Even so, blaming the president of the studio for a lack of leadership on the part of the lead producer, writer(s), and director(s) is a bit like blaming the CEO of a restaurant for a line cook getting your order wrong or blaming "Can you hear me now?" guy for a cell phone network outage. 🙃

Going to disagree.  Star Wars IS the movies.  The other stuff was a way to milk money out of the movies.  The president of the studio very much deserves the blame when the product does so poorly (at the end) that the studio has to stop producing movies completely for years.  Does she get the blame for any particular thing that went wrong, no, but any president of a company that had a product mishandled so badly gets the blame for who they kept in charge during that time frame.

She may not have been heavily involved creatively but at least some of the mess was caused by not enough control from the top in regards to the sequel trilogy.  Normally it is too much control but in this case they had two directors purposely contradicting each other.

10 hours ago, Mog said:

And now Rise of the Resistance is gonna be down for awhile. 🫤

Unless the announcement has been changed there are no planned changes to RotR.  Other areas of the land will receive a slight naming change and OT characters will be walking around.   I do hope that Rise of the Resistance is rebranded to Rise of the Rebellion one day.

As for this coming to DW, I just saw Mando and Grogu walking around the Hollywood Studios Star Wars land and they were only originally announced for Disney Land as well.  This is something Disney can't afford to not have at their biggest park.

I always liked the VOTOMS designs but have not watched the anime since I think it would feel too dated now.  I'll have to give this one a watch.

YUP!  You can easily trace that back to "Disco Beaver from outer space"!

I only clicked through most of it and mostly it was nobodies in Trek cosplay rather than AI.  Still horrible though (which is why I clicked past the vast majority of it)

1 minute ago, Big s said:

Don’t forget odd stage plays that nobody cares about that will fill in the gaps 

I purposely ignored that, which I'm sure the show writers will do too when push comes to shove.  

Milk is exactly the correct term for that show.  Maybe I'm a purist but if it is not a live action show I consider it nothing more than a money grab.  

(For books I expect more books, for movies more movies, TV, etc...)

18 hours ago, Big s said:

I have a tough time watching that one at home. It just doesn’t hold up. But if it had a 3D rerelease, I would consider it. 

The first movie (I have no desire to see the others so can't comment) was strictly a visual 3D feast best seen on as large a screen as possible.  On every other metric it was garbage.  

I'd watch Plus first. Mac2's animation was sketchy and stay away from the English dub at all costs.

Plus has one of the best dubs out there and the animation is far better overall.  

Only other item of note is that Plus has the most mature subject matter of any Macross show.

4 hours ago, jvmacross said:

To me it just said the story never ends.....just different characters....probably why they chose to use the song "Neverending Story" in S3....

I was going to add "and the next story begins" but the pessimist in me had me rewrite it.  Though I'm sure some kind of followup project will be coming.

I think they did a great job with the ending.  The fact people (not just here) are arguing about what it means is a good sign as well.

My favorite bit from the ending is the next batch of kids running down to play DnD.  That was a perfect way to say this story is over.

13 minutes ago, kajnrig said:

What is "Tronime"?

Well, there is a youtube channel by the name - but a quick look at it seems like it is simply every anime they could get their hands on.

40 minutes ago, Big s said:

Imagine if these people were around and watched that Gary Oldman Dracula movie. They’d have had a fit over his armor and style choices throughout that whole movie 

To be fair the armor is the least of the problems with that Dracula movie.

3 hours ago, Thom said:

And this movie is going to be three or four hours long..? Sounds like this should be the climax of a new trilogy.

Nah - this is the executives saying "OH NO - the new movies are not doing so well we need a BIG event" movie.

https://youtu.be/t039p6xqutU

Happy Holiday from Weird Al!

Loved the show, first season at any rate, and it is liking losing a piece of my childhood.

7 hours ago, Thom said:

It's so far been one, and the first, trailer. Let's give it another one before crapping on it.

I'm not crapping on it, I'm crapping on the crappy trailer.  The job of which is to get people interested in seeing more.

That trailer did zip, zilch, zero, nada for getting me to be even slightly interested.

1 hour ago, Thom said:

It's been a good ride!

Hopefully they stick the ending.  Looks good but...

As a non comic book guy what is the love for Green Lantern?  I mean a superpower of making green stuff is lame as all get out - even Aquaman's talking to fish is better.

21 hours ago, Big s said:

This might be worse than I thought. Now she’s not just a drunk party girl that neglects her dog, but a depressed mopey drunk party girl that neglects her dog.

 Get the feeling that they keep picking the worst versions of these characters possible rather than giving us the versions of them we all really want to see. Kinda also get the feeling that the side characters are gonna be the best part of the movie again 

Don't worry, they make it clear she cleans up her act by the end credits.

Looks like this one will be a streaming release for me, unless I miss it like most of the others I say that about.