Anduin

Yes, the Struckers were being creepy before either the Lannisters or Maximoffs.

Yep. You have to know something pretty well to make fun of it so well. And you know something that well because you love it.

The Strucker twins were implied to be getting their Lannister on far before GOT. Plus, y'know, there are plenty of historical examples.

I've read that before, with boss as the reader and employee as soaker. Still fun either way!

You can't expect the best results without the best effort. The original was something new and in the hands of a master, who made sure it was all done as good as possible. These days, standards have slipped. You need time, money, and the right people. But if all right is good enough, then you get all right results.

Good. I hate this corporate marketing speak. Content, IP, franchise. Just some product to be boxed up and sold. How about at least trying to pretend to care, for the people who love it? Get them on side, they'll do a lot of heavy lifting for you and forgive some of your mistakes.

Right, must have missed that. Anyway, Gandalf is namedropped at the end. I groaned internally, possibly externally.

I see. Not being a fan of anime, I don't know the tropes. Perfectly valid form of entertainment, just not my thing. Yep, 200. I can see it from Sauron's POV. Even though the the ring was lost, who knows where it may have turned up. Still, it's fanservice for the point of fanservice.

Some gripes that just popped into my head. Unless you're an olympic high jumper, you aren't leaping over a fully grown man. Even then, you aren't landing in fighting position. Further, real siege towers were coated in animal hides soaked in water to prevent fire attacks. Just the gaps in logic were really offputting. Then there's the obligatory fanservice. Orcs voiced by Merry and Pippin are looking for rings, you see. And for some reason Saruman turns up. They must have put Christopher Lee's voice together from other samples, because it didn't sound right. Yes, the timeline was right. Still didn't need it. Finally, they namedrop Gandalf. I don't like fanservice. It's distracting. That's all for now. Maybe more later.

I don't know why we're still talking about this. The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one, he said.

Luke thinks he spots another Palpatine in the making. Not given to deep thinking, decides to end it in one clean strike. It goes badly, perhaps even reinforcing Ben's turn to the dark side. Only then does Luke realise that he just created the problem he tried to solve. Again not given to deep thinking, figures that instead of trying to solve it again, he runs away and tells himself he's doing right by keeping the original temple and old books safe. Been a while since I last watched, but I seem to remember Ren and Snoke being more on the kill Luke train rather than any interest in old relics. He could have been hiding any old place and they'd still be after him. There's probably more to the story that I'm forgetting. But I'll rewatch midyear with the orchestra, and probably have more thoughts then. :) All that said, TLJ isn't even my favourite of the ST. It's the eternally fun TFA, even if it a bit of a retread.

And did the case go to trial? You can't hold back the end of the story!

I find Luke entirely believable in TLJ. He had a moment of blindness as to his actions. When he screwed up, he ran away to sulk and told himself he was doing the right thing. It took multiple attempts to make him see the right thing to do, and by then there was only one thing he could do. I can think of times in my life where I've done similar.

A bit in Appendix A of ROTK dealing with Rohan backstory. Yeah, they took a couple of paragraphs and turned it into a two hour movie.

I'm prepared to accept that the creators of these adaptations mean well, but that doesn't always translate into success. I may want to lift a hundred tons, but I can barely do 50 kg!