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Two episodes into The Acolyte and I'm digging it so far. Doesn't knock my socks off, but it's a step above what we've seen out of the Filoni live action stuff.

Audience score is practically meaningless. 

The Acolyte was review bombed on RT before they shut down the audience score for it. Fandom is so toxic.

Critic score is sitting at 85%.

That's a better trailer than the last one.

Reviews look to be good so far. I'd watch it either way, but I'd prefer it be good, lol.

Yeah, had the same conversation with some friends regarding Sepinwall's take on Andor. 

They did a lot with a $15m budget. It's almost shocking how good it looks for that cost. 

WTF is this nonsense? The two episodes don't premier until 9PM EST?? 

Why the arguing over special effects? Godzilla Minus One is a good movie that did a lot with a small budget. It should be celebrated as it is. Is it going to look as good as Dune Part Two? No, but who cares? It's good.

Am I the only one hoping for a standard edition that I can shelve alongside my other discs?

2 hours ago, jvmacross said:

In what condition?

It was good, but there was a lot of CG. Not enhancing shots or the natural landscape, but replacing them altogether.

It's NOT Fury Road. This is a different movie.

Major spoiler:

Just got to the theater for the 6:30 showing. Reviews have been pretty good, but I'm a bit worried about the amount of CG seen in the trailers.

Watching the new trailer I am left wondering if this is moving faster than I thought it was. 

This was a fun movie, I had a good time watching it. Not sure I agree with the decision to make Kong the main protagonist of these movies, but that's whatever.

But hey,

34 minutes ago, Big s said:

I’d probably agree if the show felt finished, but it really doesn’t. But I think another episode or two would have been better than a full season of mostly new characters 

The show ended where the book did. The story was finished. 

10 hours ago, Big s said:

Seems that a second season is coming. Maybe we finally get that battle after all. Either that or another season of being teased without a payoff 

No. Just no. There is no sequel book. They'd be making it up on their own, and that's a whole different kettle of fish from adaptation. Just ask Benioff and Weiss.

The show runners talked about wanting to adapt another really good Clavell novel, Tai Pan. I was excited by the prospect of that. I am not excited about this news.

47 minutes ago, jvmacross said:

Just finished watching Tales of Morgan and Barriss.....meh

Once again, Disney/Lucasfilm seem to think we need to have the background story for every character....this time it was for characters we arguably did not need any background story for.

I won't bother to go any further with the series, then. 

I watched the first episode of Tales of the Empire and am not sure I'll watch anymore. I have no idea who this character is, the story was pretty thin, and I'm just not interested in what happens next.

23 minutes ago, azrael said:

Yeah, still not feelin' it.

And still not diggin' the time period. Would have preferred 200...300...500 years before the Skywalker-saga. 100 years just doesn't feel far back enough.

I have to agree. I'd actually prefer that they went back to the Old Republic era.

I'll watch this show, but I had greater interest after seeing the first trailer than I did after this new one. My expectations just got lowered.

2 minutes ago, jenius said:

Did Mospeada ever get an HD or better remaster?

In Japan

Just checked the DVDs and this issue doesn't exist there. Also, I've noticed subtitle timing issues on the Crunchyroll stream as well.

Their presentation is pretty shoddy.

I need to check my DVDs, but I definitely think there's something wrong with the video in the Crunchyroll stream. There's a regular video glitch at the bottom of the frame that I noticed in the first episode last week that is still occurring. I don't recall it being an issue with the DVDs.

6 hours ago, mikeszekely said:

That's probably the only good news I've heard since this film was announced.

It definitely moves the needle on my opinion of it.

Watched the first episode and I'm pretty sure this is from the same transfer we've had for years. It's rough.