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Cooper Flagg is great and all, but Nico Harrison can still eat ass.

I've already purchased my ticket. I'm very fired up. Also, that Krypto popcorn bucket is just precious.

My gut tells me that the ensemble of characters also aren't going to take up a ton of screen time in this. I'm thinking 1-2 scenes for each, just to introduce them.

It's still hilarious to me that there are people that are just nitpicking literally everything they see from this because they are determined to hate it, when pretty much everything we've seen points to this movie being awesome.

Honestly I agree that Sony has other games better suited to a long form series. GoW, Horizon Zero Dawn or Ghost of Tsushima have way more mileage in their stories.

My thoughts on The Last of Us season 2, is that it was always going to be a challenge adapting this game to screen. There were multiple masters to serve, and it is such a narratively weird story, idk if it was ever going to come out in a fully satisfying way. The people that loved the game are probably split on how it was changed. The people that don't like the game are going to have the same issues with the show that they did with the game. The casual viewers who never played the game may not care about the story shifting to who they may perceive as the villain.

So I fully expected Rogue One to feel like a different film after watching Andor. What I *didn't* expect was for A New Hope to feel so different after watching all of that. "Improve" isn't the right word, but it absolutely has been reframed, and the stakes feel very different.

Idk why I was so invested in this, but I was very happy to see that B2 was happy and loved. The only droid with depression and an existential crisis. I was going to be so upset if they all just forgot about him.

For all the hate that "Disney Star Wars" gets from the worst parts of the fandom, they produced probably the best thing in the entire franchise with Andor. It completely recontexualizes A New Hope and just turns Rogue One into a crushing gut punch. Luthen's story ended on an extremely appropriate note, with no extravagent scene or dramatic final moment. He lived in the shadows getting no credit, and died the same way. I really hope season 2 gets the steelbook treatment like season 1 did.

If/when this happens, Memphis and New Orleans almost certainly become East teams, yes?

Now I'm more convinced than ever that the league had a hand in forcing the Luka trade in the first place. It all feels a little to convenient. Also, they don't want their next big prospect stuck in Hornets/Wizards purgatory.

I still can't believe how good this show ended up being, because I couldn't think of a character that I'd be less excited to see a show about when it was announced.

Episode 8 of Andor was every bit as powerful as the prison stuff from season 1, if not moreso. I knew what was coming, but it didn't make it any less gripping. Episode 9 was also great, and Mon Mothma's speech REALLY hits home.

Just got back and thought it was fucking fantastic. A lot of fun where it needed to be, but also shockingly mature dealing with themes of depression, loss, addiction and loneliness. Kneejerk reaction has this in the upper half of MCU flicks.

I wanted them to start tanking weeks ago, but Phoenix was so shitty they beat us to the bottom.