TheMightyEthan

I wish our theater had had a matinee today, that's the one I would have gone to.

Also, I agree with Dean's theory, that's what I was thinking too. Although And one final semi-complaint:

Yes, and cheered, and not just at the beginning and end. Pissed me off. I think I would have enjoyed the movie more if the audience hadn't been so stupid. They also laughed WAY longer and louder than the comic relief justified.

I agree with everything dean said in his spoiler post. *Edit - I do want to add: *Edit 2 - Also also Overall though it was good, despite my complaints.

Even in the US clapping for a movie is very unusual. I've never been in a theater where people did it, and agree it's weird and stupid.

Change of plans, going tonight at 7, because fuck waiting and risking spoilers.

I get them on specifically European sites, like RPS, Eurogamer, etc.

Well okay, condiment, whatever you want to call it, salt and pepper still don't count.

Salt and pepper don't even count as toppings, they're just spices.

Ketchup is the one true topping for fries. That or barbeque sauce.

I figured people would just tag spoilers.

That sounds disgusting.

When I'm taking about design I'm talking about what it's supposed to represent in terms of the "real" in-universe object. In-universe I don't think the Storm Troopers were supposed to have fake sticker vents, they're supposed to be real vents, so it's an artifact of the prop and not the design. *Edit - not saying you have to agree with me that the new ones are dumber, just trying to explain what I'm saying because it doesn't seem like it's getting across.

Are you trying to curse the project?!

You were talking about how the old ones have stickers for vents. That's prop quality. [emoji14]

@Dean: you're talking about the quality of the prop, I'm talking about the design. The design of the new ones is overly simplified, though I agree they are probably manufactured better.

I'm looking back and forth between the original and the new helmets I posted and I'm not sure how you're saying there's more detailing to the newer ones...

To completely change the subject, I think they over-simplified the design of the storm trooper helmets. I think the new ones look like the baby toy version of the old ones. Which is not to say the old ones aren't kinda dumb if you look at them too long, just that they went too far in minimalizing them. *Edit - @GOH: so it's not that there's no situation in which resorting to direct violence is appropriate, just that arriving at such a situation represents a failure. I can get on board with that. It's not like the Jedi are supposed to be infallible, so even the greatest Masters failing and ending up engaging in direct violence themselves still works in the setting, it just needs to be recognized as the failure it represents. And actually, I think the films even stick to that for the most part, if you put aside Yoda's battle with Dooku. The next time we see Yoda actually fighting someone is after everything has completely gone to shit for them.

I'm struggling to imagine how a Jedi Master might defeat someone like Palpatine without violence (at least 3rd party violence, eg directing armies against him). You obviously aren't going to diplomacy him.

Re lightsabers: they do describe Yoda as "a great warrior" in the original trilogy, and while that could conceivably refer just to his standing as a general, the way the Jedi are portrayed as warrior monks to me implies that he would be a badass swordsman too. Which is not to say he necessary would have used a lightsaber, but that if he did he would be amazing at it.

That Jakku Spy stuff is cool. For some reason though the VR keeps drifting. It's weird, I don't think it's the hardware because most apps don't do that, but then there are a few that do (Jakku Spy, the rollercoaster you sent me, A Chair in a Room).

Fuck you, 3D all the way.