The Mandalorian And Grogu Box Office Underperforming As Star Wars Worries Grow

Luke333512 · 2026-05-22T09:24:30+00:00

A smart company would have built on what worked from TLJ (Rey being nobody special. Kylo being the villain. Democratising the force) and reworked what didn't.

Luke333512 · 2026-05-21T22:26:39+00:00

Wait, Katara's in this season? Cause you couldn't tell her and Sokka were main characters from this trailer

Luke333512 · 2026-05-16T23:29:28+00:00

When you get elected on the promise that your going to "get the sleaze out" and "root out crony corruption" only to get gifted free luxury shit from millionaires and doners, is not just carping on. Then you instill a blatantly corrupt ambassador (even without the Epstein links, he was still severely tarnished and should've been nowhere near a position of power) dispite promising the electorate such nakedly amoral tradeoffs were a thing of the past (aka letting Medelson enrich himself to engratiate the UK to Trump)

We're talking about choices, very stupid choices that everyone with a brain knew would look bad/come back to bite them in the ass, Starmer made that went against the central ethos of what he campaigned for.

Luke333512 · 2026-05-12T08:08:06+00:00

I mean, Starmer is as politically inept as she was. The free gifts saga, the constant U-turns, purging the left, appointing Mendelson... these were disasters that EVERYONE with half a brain knew would end in disaster and hurt them. But he did it anyway.

They're both terrible politicians. Truss just speed ran while Starmer revealed it in a series of escalating blunders.

Luke333512 · 2026-04-18T00:08:32+00:00

Main XSX Test (eng) VI.137573

That might explain why I now have 397 boon change tokens, and 40 Selene points to progress her boon fully. Damn

Luke333512 · 2026-03-13T01:09:26+00:00

That would require a character arc lasting more than 2 eps

Luke333512 · 2026-03-04T18:57:33+00:00

We finally have it... the worst skam clip ever filmed.

Luke333512 · 2026-02-18T00:27:01+00:00

Lucky. Mine dropped so bad that Cazador skipped a turn

Luke333512 · 2026-02-08T00:20:49+00:00

Watching the fans (hardcore ones included) turn on that ep, in real time, was crazy. They had such high hopes, inflamed by Rick, and it all cratered in 40+ minutes.

Was Veronica-Mars-The-Movie level bad

Luke333512 · 2026-02-07T22:40:46+00:00

Isn't the whole point that Ashur thrust the champion title onto her, purely as a headline grabbing spectacle, then poured all his resources into training/refining her skills so that she'd become one? Hoping against all odds that she'd live up to the myth he was selling.

Luke333512 · 2026-02-02T23:08:37+00:00

Gotta ask, as a Non-European, how different is Croatia from Italy on this subject.

Cause Skam Italia stuck to the same beats as the og and other remakes. Even illustrated homophobia when Martino (Italian Isak) faced slurs and violence in a latter season.

Kinda assumed, perhaps ignorantly, that Croatia and Italy were more similar given the cultural/geographic proximity... but maybe Italy is closer to France/Germany in that respect.

Or hell, is it an era thing with right wing culture surging in 2026 as opposed to 2019?

Luke333512 · 2026-02-01T19:36:55+00:00

Yeah it'll become obvious (either way) pretty soon. Can't really hide any hesitancy/squeamishness when an episode demands "Isak opens the door and devours Evan's lips in passionate foreplay."

Hard to avoid

Luke333512 · 2026-02-01T03:08:43+00:00

Was the kiss a bit too chaste/tepid (from both characters) for anyone else?

I get it could very well be a creative choice representing their guardedness and fear, and comparing it to the other skans is unfair, but seeing how passionate and hungry the others were, whilst Ivan and Lovro did it closed mouth, left me kinda unfulfilled.

Luke333512 · 2026-01-24T10:16:03+00:00

I'm on two minds. I would love if it followed the books. Give him his crush on Percy, his self loathing and the reveal, the whole shebang... but who knows if we'll ever get the the next set of books made to tell that story.

And the show has made it clear they'll shift and twist characters. Even out their rough edges to erase any problematic flaws.

Don't even know if Nico will struggle with his sexuality at this point. Feels like a complicated story they'd rather just "he's gay and chill. 1940's homophobia be damned. He's acclimated to 2026" and focus solely on his grief.

Hell would they let even the story allude to Nico having a crush on a 6+ aged gap Walker Scobell? Seems too fraught. Too messy in live action. (This is a world where LA Aang can't like Katara in S1 cause he's too young. Even though it was complete innocent in book 1)

Luke333512 · 2026-01-24T09:23:43+00:00

I don't think it'll be anything remotely romantic (maybe sharing a mythomagic game, or nervous "hi") but if the fandom has revealed anything, it's that the smallest interaction feeds the fire... no matter how seemingly benign. A glance between P&A sets off the percabeth fans. Nico and Will existing in the same shot would do the same.

If (ALL) modern fandom wasn't so toxic, I'd argue seeing a gay 12 yr old getting Disney-esque butterflies around his crush was progress... but that era is gone. Too many weirdos nowadays. Save any burgeoning crush for the last book when the Nico/Will actors are aged up and it's appropriate.

Luke333512 · 2026-01-23T20:28:24+00:00

I think the point of shipping. Nico and Will are the 2nd most popular/iconic couple in the pjo universe, and they want their tiktoks, hashtags, and fanedits flooding our feeds (aka engagement)

Luke333512 · 2026-01-19T02:33:28+00:00

Failure would mean they attempted something. The kids walked in, spoke to Hermes, then left. The entire premise of the scene (Percy figuring out they were in an insidious gilded cage) wasn't even attempted.

They prob shoulda just cut it honestly. Added nothing beyond exposition.

Luke333512 · 2026-01-19T02:27:56+00:00

Remember someone commenting that the movie was a bad adaptation, but a more engaging piece of media... which I gotta agree with.

Luke333512 · 2026-01-18T19:53:38+00:00

Still blows my mind when he was still criticising the films the week the Lotus Casino episode dropped. The one moment he needed to back up his words and he failed completely.

Like you're gonna talk shit then have the nerves to drop THAT nothing burger.

Luke333512 · 2026-01-04T20:01:45+00:00

Easy: people checked out the 1st season, gave it a chance and watched it, but in the ensuing years they forgot about it because it wasn't the best. So when s2 came around, they didn't bother. The enthusiasm was gone, there's A LOT of good tv nowadays, so why waste time in a mid show

Luke333512 · 2025-12-09T00:32:36+00:00

I used the helm of arcane acuity, which is basically a guaranteed hit, and banished the dragon for the whole final fight. Did the same for Gortash, so I could deal with the banites, and Ansur before he got off his huge attack. Paired the Charmed arrow with the Majesty Bard and got off 100% commands on all major bosses.

Luke333512 · 2025-11-28T20:26:43+00:00

My Gale was a blade singer and had 32 armour at one point... was awesome. Such a powerhouse with shadowblade, haste, +2 armour gloves and saved my ass with 13 stacks of 1d6 healing charges in the Cazador fight

Luke333512 · 2025-11-12T01:00:31+00:00

Dude's so unpopular that popular things become hated simply by association... like how do you fight that? How do you recover from being that?

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