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    Pellaeon got a reaction from Yavar Moradi in The Rings of Power show discussion - spoilers allowed for all aired episodes   
    The showrunners did say, “Season two has a canonical story. There may well be viewers who are like, ‘This is the story we were hoping to get in season one!’ In season two, we’re giving it to them.” If I were hoping for a turnaround, those are the sorts of words I’d like to hear.
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    Pellaeon got a reaction from Chen G. in Star Wars is better than everything   
    Really? I’ve assumed it’s an imperceptibly-high-tech space suit.
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    Pellaeon got a reaction from Groovygoth666 in The MCU - Marvel Cinematic Universe   
    Yes. Even with good material, it begins to feel like homework to keep up with it. Let alone try to get into it in the first place. That’s why franchises like Superman, Terminator, and Ghostbusters are always rebooting back to a minimal canon that “everyone remembers.”
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    Pellaeon got a reaction from Mr. Hooper in The Mandalorian & Grogu (2026 Film)   
    My children are going to call it “The Baby Yoda Movie,” no joke. They’ve never seen the show, of course, but my kindergartner has Baby Yoda pajamas and a Baby Yoda stuffed animal. She WILL be bummed she can’t see the movie. Darn it!
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    Pellaeon got a reaction from Edmilson in The Mandalorian & Grogu (2026 Film)   
    Yeah, this is a bad move, to me. After burning out on Star Wars, I decided, well, I’ll skip the shows but come back for the movies. Even a bad Star War has got to be worth taking in once, in the theater.
     
    But now I gotta question it. The Filoniverse requires a big buy-in. So I dunno.
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    Pellaeon got a reaction from JTN in The Mandalorian & Grogu (2026 Film)   
    Yeah, this is a bad move, to me. After burning out on Star Wars, I decided, well, I’ll skip the shows but come back for the movies. Even a bad Star War has got to be worth taking in once, in the theater.
     
    But now I gotta question it. The Filoniverse requires a big buy-in. So I dunno.
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    Pellaeon got a reaction from JTN in The Mandalorian & Grogu (2026 Film)   
    My children are going to call it “The Baby Yoda Movie,” no joke. They’ve never seen the show, of course, but my kindergartner has Baby Yoda pajamas and a Baby Yoda stuffed animal. She WILL be bummed she can’t see the movie. Darn it!
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    Pellaeon got a reaction from Smeltington in The Mandalorian & Grogu (2026 Film)   
    My children are going to call it “The Baby Yoda Movie,” no joke. They’ve never seen the show, of course, but my kindergartner has Baby Yoda pajamas and a Baby Yoda stuffed animal. She WILL be bummed she can’t see the movie. Darn it!
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    Pellaeon got a reaction from Smeltington in The Mandalorian & Grogu (2026 Film)   
    Yeah, this is a bad move, to me. After burning out on Star Wars, I decided, well, I’ll skip the shows but come back for the movies. Even a bad Star War has got to be worth taking in once, in the theater.
     
    But now I gotta question it. The Filoniverse requires a big buy-in. So I dunno.
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    Pellaeon reacted to Nick1Ø66 in Star Wars Disenchantment   
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    Pellaeon reacted to mstrox in The Star Trek Disenchantment Thread   
    I think they made 58 boring years of Star Trek as part of Gene Roddenberry’s master plan to pull the rug out from under audiences with the reveal of TOS Season 4 (already filmed 50 years ago) which will clarify everything.
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    Pellaeon reacted to Andy in Star Trek is better than everything   
    She's one of the best characters in Discovery, and I love that it will be a one and done movie.  Too many shows should've been just 2 hours.
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    Pellaeon reacted to Trope in Star Wars Disenchantment   
    Oh, you gullible fool! That was all a publicity stunt masterminded by George Lucas himself.
     
    “White slavers” was actually an allegory for the child slavery scenes on Canto Bight in Rian Johnson’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi (a film clearly mapped out by the same Lucasfilm team who worked on The Force Awakens). 
     
    I’ve come to understand these rich connections through years of intense research and study, analysing the words and works of George Lucas to a degree not achieved by any other living being. You can only hope to achieve even a fraction of the knowledge I possess. Now, it’s my turn to ask: 
     
    What does “white slavers” mean to you?
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    Pellaeon reacted to Schilkeman in Star Trek is better than everything   
    Star Trek will never be meaningful or relevant again until it returns to looking forward rather than backward. Star Trek is not about the lore, though that is the stereotype of Trekkies. It's an ideas franchise, with its own philosophical ethos. I long to see the next Next Generation.
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    Pellaeon reacted to Nick1Ø66 in Rey Skywalker Star Wars movie (Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy directing, Stephen Knight writing)   
    I quite like Rey, especially in TFA (Ridley's portrayal a big reason), and IMO they don't make her "strong" at the expense of the male characters. Poe and Finn are mostly brave, competent heroes. The only time I really saw this in the ST was when Rian Johnson dabbled with the "strong smart woman™ makes man look weak and stupid" bit in TLJ, with Holdo making Poe come across as an impulsive idiot. I do think Rey is poorly conceived, poorly developed and poorly written, but I don't think she's really a Mary Sue. A Chosen One? Sure. But that's Star Wars.
     
    That said, I agree with the general sentiment that it's getting to be an all too common trope in film and TV for lazy writers to make their female characters strong women™ by either making the surrounding men look weak and stupid, or by turning them into action-hero badasses. Both are incredibly insulting to both men and women. The latter in particular to women because it's just plain sexist on the part of screenwriters to suggest that for a woman to be strong she has to act like a man. And the irony is not just that most of these screenwriters probably regard themselves as progressive, but many are women themselves.
     
    As others have said, I think Ripley and Sarah Conner were much better strong women™, and it wasn't at the expense of the men around them. And I actually think Arwen and Eowyn in Lord of the Rings are two of the best examples of different kinds of strong women™. 
     
     
     
     
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    Pellaeon reacted to Pieter Boelen in Rey Skywalker Star Wars movie (Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy directing, Stephen Knight writing)   
    Alien and Terminator had strong female characters, I thought.
    CutThroat Island even flipped the gender dynamics all the way, even if it unfortunately wasn't well received.
    And I'm watching Stargate SG-1 again lately, where I'd say the relation between the male and female protagonists is perfectly okay.
    They even toned it down from the very first episode, where they originally really pointed it out.
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    Pellaeon reacted to Nick1Ø66 in Rey Skywalker Star Wars movie (Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy directing, Stephen Knight writing)   
    Maybe. They cancelled Patty Jenkins' Rogue Squadron, and she was the first, first female director of a Star Wars movie, so we'll see. Granted, Patty Jenkins isn't primarily known as an activist, just an experienced filmmaker who happens to be a woman, which is obviously not enough to shatter glass ceilings in a galaxy far, far away.
     
    Jenkins is also the daughter of a fighter pilot who, in her words, "lost his life in service to his country" but oddly makes no mention of enjoying making men uncomfortable. She also said she was excited to direct a movie that would make people "love what fighter pilots do" as much as she does, with nothing about wanting to anger fans or subvert their expectations, which also made her clearly unsuitable for Star Wars.
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    Pellaeon reacted to Nick1Ø66 in Rey Skywalker Star Wars movie (Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy directing, Stephen Knight writing)   
    Well, LucasFilm certainly has an...interesting...approach to choosing their directors.
     
    I thought anger led to the dark side? I’m sure I heard that somewhere. 🤔
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    Pellaeon reacted to Tallguy in Star Wars is better than everything   
    No, just visually. If anything when I hear the music I hear Silvestri's Quick and the Dead.
     
    As for the Emperor: I might have a different opinion if the Emperor in the SESE of Empire looked like the Emperor in Jedi. He doesn't. And I don't think McDiarmid's performance is very good. AND they tried to shoehorn in "THIS is when Vader found out!" into the new dialogue.
     
    But it also doesn't fit with any of Kershner's film making. On that count I feel the same way about the Wampa. It just doesn't feel the same and Empire has a VERY specific look.
     
     
    Yeah, I hated the whole "Hey! Let's EXPLAIN why the Emperor looks this way!" AND he looks terrible.
     
    Well...
     
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    Pellaeon reacted to Nick1Ø66 in Star Wars is better than everything   
    The SE's, especially Star Wars, are an abomination. Almost all the changes are awful. I get the rationale for updating the Emperor, and while that's not as offensive as some other the changes, it's a slippery slope because the same rationale leads to things like swapping out ghost Anakin in ROTJ.
     
    The only thing I actually liked in the SE's were the added windows to Cloud City. It really opened up the space, and you'd expect windows in a city in the clouds. They didn't look out of place. Don't get me wrong, I'd still just rather have the original film, but that's the one change I didn't mind.
     
    Otherwise...nothing. I get why they'd do the kind of technical things, like clean up the matte lines (though I'd have preferred they even leave well enough alone on that), but other than doing a first class restoration and new transfer, obviously the OT deserves to be released in its original form, in the highest quality possible on the most current format.
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    Pellaeon reacted to mstrox in Star Wars is better than everything   
    I liked the original emperor hologram - it was evocative!  One of those neat things that was lost for the sake of Canon.
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    Pellaeon got a reaction from Jay in The Mandalorian & Grogu (2026 Film)   
    • Rey’s New Jedi Order, directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
    • Damon Lindelof’s movie
    These are the same thing, but Damon Lindelof is no longer associated with it.
     
    • The Mandalorian & Grogu, directed by Jon Favreau and produced by Dave Filoni
    • The Filoniverse epic Avengers-like crossover, directed by Dave Filoni
    I’d guess the former is a refinement of the latter, or the latter is shelved/theoretical.
     
    • Dawn of the Jedi, directed by James Mangold
    Officially announced in 2023, supposedly still on.
     
    • Lando
    Officially announced in 2023.
     
    • Taika Waititi’s movie
    Still in development as of 2023.
     
    • Patty Jenkin’s Rogue Squadron movie
    • Kevin Feige’s movie
    • J.D. Dillard’s movie
    All officially dead.
     
    • Rian Johnson’s trilogy
    “Indefinitely postponed.”
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    Pellaeon reacted to Schilkeman in Star Wars is better than everything   
    I was fortunate to catch the tail end of a mostly unified fandom in the late 90s. There was some grumbling about the special edition, but it didn’t really get bad until Episode I came out. Since then it’s been people arguing about the state and direction of the franchise. I try to only talk about the stuff I like (I’m not always successful). That seems to help me navigate the fandom, and avoid getting too upset over my issues with where Star Wars is right now. Much like Star Trek, I’m happy for people who love the new stuff. They’re going to get a lot of it.
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    Pellaeon reacted to Schilkeman in The Lord Of The Rings General Discussion Thread   
    You know, I read stuff like this:
     
    For myself, I would see the White Tree in flower again in the courts of the kings, and the Silver Crown return, and Minas Tirith in peace: Minas Anor again as of old, full of light, high and fair, beautiful as a queen among other queens: not a mistress of many slaves, nay, not even a kind mistress of willing slaves. War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend: the city of the Men of Númenor; and I would have her loved for her memory, her ancientry, her beauty, and her present wisdom. Not feared, save as men may fear the dignity of a man, old and wise.
     
    and the films can seem like downright buffooneries. 
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