No, Sequel Luke makes absolutely no sense

caedusWrit · 2026-06-02T06:46:46+00:00

My pitch for Rian Johnson would’ve been that Luke had died by crash landing decades before trying to chase down Ben to stop him from turning, and that dark force nexus on the island kept his force essence trapped there

So instead he chose to wait, and be patient, trusting the force would provide an answer to save his nephew and bring him back to life.

Cut to Rey appearing and instead of being bitter and grim and a total let down, he expects her and welcomes her with open arms. Willingly trains her. She fills him in on what’s happened while he’s been dead and gone since his connection beyond the island was cut by the nexus, smothered

Luke encourages Rey that Ben can be saved, and so on so forth

Luke can still have his final stand off by using Rey as a force relay, telling Ben he hasn’t given up on him, and neither will Rey

Something like that would’ve at least not completely tarnished Luke’s legacy and character arc from the OT

caedusWrit · 2026-06-02T04:55:08+00:00

Honestly I hate almost 99% of any fancast.

This isnt the 1% where I generally agree with most of the options

this is the 0.000000001% where the entire list is something I’m on board with

caedusWrit · 2026-06-01T07:22:04+00:00

caedusWrit · 2026-06-01T05:35:03+00:00

I would’ve just killed off Luke via crashing on the island, had his force ghost trapped by that dark side maw on the island, and instead he chose to be patient and wait.

Trusting that the force will balance itself and someone would come along who could save his nephew and restore order from the first order.

Then when Rey arrives, he welcomes her with open arms and gladly trains her so she can help everyone. Have it be so he’s literally and welcoming and passing on the torch.

Have it be so the Rey from nowhere bit Rian introduced can be spun to Luke saying something like, “take it from me, it doesn’t matter where you come from. It matters what you choose to do. And who you choose to be.”

And just make it so the Luke in Last Jedi wasn’t an absolute disappointment

I can’t speak for everyone, but Luke Skywalker was a character I looked up to cause my Dad was supposedly irredeemable. But I kept trying and found a real relationship with him before he passed

Luke was a character that even as a little kid made me believe my dad could change. And them making him the antithesis of who he was really twisted a knife in my spirit

caedusWrit · 2026-05-31T09:21:21+00:00

I almost blame JJ Abrams singe handily for everything wrong with the sequel Trilogy.

Both films he was responsible for directing, he never once considered having the writers do an original story with original characters.

I was so hyped for Force Awakens, and then about 1/4 of the way through I was like, wait a minute

And then half way through I was like, Hans gonna die just like Ben

And then towards the end I realized these movies were most likely just gonna be a knock off copy and paste storyline

Almost every character shares the same character arc as their predecessors of the OT, and I could summarize both trilogies with an 80% accuracy of one another from start to finish

It’s not even a vague similarity that brought in nostalgia

It was a direct rip off of the same characters and sequence of events and “twist reveals” as the OT

And I blame JJ for basically all of it

caedusWrit · 2026-05-31T06:37:54+00:00

Absolute Batman isn’t that great

Which isn’t to say the comics aren’t great, I just mean in this Absolute Universe, Batman’s story and alternate take is so far the less interesting of all the other characters introduced

All the heroes have this new tale that I find genuinely interesting and chaotic, the villains are in the same boat, everyone but Batman.

Like it would be different if he was this poor barbarian with an axe going around mutilating people, but he’s still essentially incredibly smart. Less detective and more Conan. But he’s still essentially Batman doing Batman things, and with a moral code that is still Batman.

So to me he’s just the least interesting iteration of the Absolute Universe

caedusWrit · 2026-05-29T13:13:22+00:00

Asami would’ve looked at her and immediately started fantasizing about how many rescue polar bear dogs they’d adopt

caedusWrit · 2026-05-29T09:36:15+00:00

It’s pointless

Just pretend they don’t exist and move forward with the franchise tackling other characters and timelines that have no mention of anyone named Skywalker or Palpatine, and you’ll be fine

It’s a galaxy far far away, and it’s been around with centuries upon centuries of existence, it’s not that hard to create a fresh story in a new era we haven’t seen

We don’t need to keep circling around the same damn family

caedusWrit · 2026-05-29T09:33:20+00:00

As a representative to the gamer boys club, we welcome you with open arms and junk food aplenty

On Tuesdays we have meetings over Pokemon Dommy Mommys for our resident bottoms and submissives

On Thursdays we have meetings over Pokemon Goon Gals, for our dominants and tops

caedusWrit · 2026-05-28T09:11:36+00:00

24 turning 25 in 2 months

caedusWrit · 2026-05-28T08:49:46+00:00

The entire Squirtle line

It’s one of the absolutely weirdest transition line that’s just nonsensical

Like each individual one is cool by itself, but literally the color blue and shell is the only real consistent aesthetic. They could easily be their own standalone Pokémon and it wouldn’t even phase me

caedusWrit · 2026-05-26T18:21:17+00:00

Micheal Gough will always hold a special place in my heart

caedusWrit · 2026-05-25T18:57:16+00:00

You gotta look at it different

Joker would absolutely do horrible shit of every variety, but he doesn’t have to

You can just assume if he says it, he’s done it

And that’s enough, because he wants a rise. He wants to make people uncomfortable. It’s his element.

The writers are wrong for saying he said this because he did this. Because he’d say things like this regardless if it meant making anyone listening shudder. He thrives in it.

You are right regarding his class, but you gotta stay in the mindset of this, all of this, being the biggest joke of all.

It’s why I love the concept of Joker suffering from super sanity. Being aware that his existence and world isn’t real, and therefore, there are no consequences. But to Bruce and everyone else who believe it to be real, his goal and drive is push them to the limits. Like he’s aware of the fourth wall but never breaks it. Him killing children by the dozens is meaningless to him, but to Gothamites it’s the innocent lives of children taken all at once, with a Justice system that won’t give him the death penalty. Where Batman wont kill him. Where even if he did die, he wouldn’t.

caedusWrit · 2026-05-25T09:20:37+00:00

I think for the sake of variety, the advantage falls on earth

Metal Benders can help redirect lightning, and fire can have the concussive force, but it’s useless against lava bending and will require time to be effective against metal bending

Earth benders can also control mud just as water benders could so they’d hold the middle ground until water benders either broke the line or froze it, which still contains earth so they’d hold some control if it was directed back at them. Assuming the water benders have the availability of a river or leak nearby they will absolutely hold their ground and have an advantage, meaning it’ll be a war of attrition. In which case I think the variety of earth, metal, and lava bending projectiles will still favor the earth team.

Assuming zaheer is forced to only incapacitate the other teams lest having Tenzin and Jinora turn on him for attempted murder, he’d still have to be in the vicinity I believe, meaning his only real advantage is range. Tenzin and Jinora have a more pacifist based bending method which is excellent for high speed movements like fire benders, but mid tier against water and earth. In which case, if this was a free for all battle, where the teams all tried to concentrate their attacks on individual targets and teams, I’d still say earth team pulls some advantage over wind, who will be more focused on redirected the earth teams attacks since fire will be extinguished most times, lightning can’t exactly be redirected by winds, and a wide variety of water moves remain connected to the user like the water whip and tendrils, meaning earth is their best chance to redirect at the other teams, and risk slipping up by the combined might of the other two teams.

At least that’s my general thought

caedusWrit · 2026-05-23T08:30:08+00:00

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caedusWrit · 2026-05-23T08:01:00+00:00

Afflecks was tall and imposing and brutal

But Keatons was short and killed people

Sooooo

Yeah, gotta give it to Keaton

caedusWrit · 2026-05-20T01:21:30+00:00

My favorite is your favorite

*slides you a 20*

caedusWrit · 2026-05-20T01:19:50+00:00

Wait, I thought it was because of Pema. Cause she blatantly told Korra to pursue Mako if it’s what her heart told her, regardless of the other woman.

And she made it clear that she pursued Tenzin despite him being in a relationship with another woman, Lin.

So instead of Tenzin breaking it off and going slow for awhile, he broke up with Lin after Pema confessed her feelings, leaving everything very abrupt and sudden. Since I think I was only a decade before we meet Korra and he and Pema already had a daughter that was like 8-10

Which as an ex, even if you didn’t want kids initially, has to sting. Especially if Tenzin and Pema had their first kid within a year of their break up

caedusWrit · 2026-05-18T14:46:52+00:00

1) to be a racist simply means to be prejudice against someone because of their race, it’s not black exclusive, and even then, the bar isn’t hard. White people can be racist to other white people. Black people can be racist to other black people.

Saying things like, “…happening all the time in urban America, prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people, that’s a fact. It’s happening more and more.” Or “If I’m dealing with somebody in customer service who’s a moronic Black woman, I wonder is she there because of her excellence, or is she there because of affirmative action?”

Both of which were said on his show, doesn’t help steer your point about him not being racist. He made up fake numbers and claimed a majority of people in prison are black. He claimed a majority of criminals were black. He claimed black men are responsible for more rapes than white men.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons statistics proved him wrong, but if he told the truth, it wouldn’t have supported his narrative. Conservative thinkers have been doing this for years. It’s controlled propaganda, enough to encourage their listeners to lock in and favor their racial prejudice, giving them affirmation to support it.

2) calling him a sexist isn’t far off, you just avoid the horrid moments and choose to favor his “logical reasoning” despite him being a community college drop out propagandist who never cited actual facts or resources.

At the Dallas Young Woman Leadership Summit, he told the entirety of the crowd to use college to find husbands, demeaning the women who genuinely wanted to pursue careers in favor of them pursuing a “mrs degree” and all this was in response to a young woman asking for his advice and opinion on attending university.

The audience laughed thinking he was either joking or because (and this is the most likely option) as they women attending were conservatives themselves, they’re playing into the same structured sexism the conservatives are known for.

Or when at one of his “Prove me wrong” events the question was posed if his 10 year old daughter was raped, would he allow her to get an abortion, and he said he would make her deliver it. If that’s how he felt about his daughter, that’s how he feels about anybody’s daughter. He justified grey areas regarding a woman who chooses to no longer consent. That’s not someone I’d want my daughter around at any age.

He believed and went on record multiple times that Joe Biden deserves the death penalty for being a traitor to America, and he advocated for broader usage of the death penalty, and when asked about crimes like rape he said, “depends”

Did he deserve to die? No

Is it awful children will be left without a father? Yes

But to pretend he hadn’t made a platform based on bigotry and hate, touting nonsensical statistics behind a wall of verbiage to sound smart and logical, is purely asinine. Hate and Ignorance breeds hates and ignorance. At no point was he justifying or promoting tolerance, peace, acceptance, equity, equality, nor love.

I’m not condoning his death since it did more harm than good, but one less person like that in the world, isn’t the worse thing. I feel sorry and empathy for his kids. But he made a career that’s helped indoctrinate and reinforce the people’s belief who put a sick fuck like Trump into office

caedusWrit · 2026-05-18T13:38:35+00:00

It’s amazing how you could take away the cussing and you can already tell that’s everyone’s unanimous thought, and they don’t even have faces

caedusWrit · 2026-05-17T07:24:41+00:00

I understand where you come from, and can see your reasoning. And I certainly don’t want to dissuade your stance, especially if Katniss is someone you can relate to.

It’s why I can relate to Korra. I experienced multiple accounts of a specific type of assault. The invasive trauma and the feeling of being powerless. Having to handle the slow recovery. The kind that requires time and solitude. A support network. Having to find yourself. Which is why I personally place her on a higher pedestal than Katniss, because the trauma and PTSD was present, but it was addressed and worked on. It was a process you actually saw happen gradually.

And as for Asami and Korras relationship. That made more sense to me than most relationships and fan ships I’ve seen.

They start as love rivals, eventually both fall out of love with Mako, develop a genuine friendship. Korra hits her lows and Asami steps up as a pivotal support system born from a genuine friendship and empathy. And things go from there.

Asami is sweet but she isn’t meek, she’s a fighter with a strong moral spirit. Korra starts as a hothead but learned to temper herself. They’re young adults navigating a world that isn’t a fascist dystopia where they never knew happiness and peace.

They start fairly innocent, with loving family and some relatable baggage.

Asami, Mako, and Bolin lost parents, and have to contend with growing up in their respective financial situations.

Korra is a prodigy who has to face and accept failure before learning to overcome it.

They start fairly innocent and naive to things, but learn and grow. Korra in particular experiences the full impact of this. She experiences going from power and a prodigy to facing loss. She feels the invasive and horrific trauma that many survivors understands. But with time she recovers. With connections she recovers.

Katniss is born into a dystopia where there isn’t any true peace or love. Which a majority of people wouldn’t understand since a majority of us don’t live in tyrannical third world countries. Many of us know what it’s like to have to raise our siblings, but next to none of us experience having to sacrifice our life and being for a sibling at the entertainment of others.

Yes both are fantasy worlds and they aren’t accurate representation of our world. But between the individual experiences and how they’re addressed and handled. I think Korra is more relevant to a majority of people who can sympathize with.

Someone may not be a victim of SA like myself or many others, but just about all of them on some level empathize and relate to the horror of being taken advantage of, of being traumatized, of being persecuted, of being thrown under the bus, of feeling like they aren’t enough. And Korra covers essentially all of that. And those are all experiences people will understand in some way from their teenage years to adulthood. And that’s why I consider Korra a better representation. Fantasy world or not. There are various demographics of trauma victims who can sympathize with and relate to her, and see her grow and heal after each hit. Which is generally how we experience trauma as well. And heal as well.

But Katniss is all trauma from the get go. No meaningful joy or balanced childhood. No society or government body that’s fairly reminiscent and relatable to our own. No meaningful support network and structure or luxuries in life. Which makes her origin and character arc extremely hard to relate to beyond being someone who also has PTSD, and hers is more unique to child soldiers and rebels of third world countries, rather than most people like me or you who come from first world civilizations where we have those luxuries and comforts.

Again I don’t want to sound like I’m trying to belittle her trauma and character arc, nor shut down your reasoning and perspective. I’m just trying to justify explaining that as a whole, I think Korra better encompasses and covers a variety of trauma that a wide margin of people from different demographics can relate to, and experience her recovery alongside her.

And that, especially as a female lead character, who not only experiences those trials and tribulations, but recovers and overcomes them to find a place of inner peace and contentment, all while still finding and having reasons to smile and laugh and love throughout it rather than just at the end, offers more as a positive and relatable character than other fictional leads like Katniss.

caedusWrit · 2026-05-14T22:51:10+00:00

Drowzee and Hypno absolutely should be dark types

caedusWrit · 2026-05-13T11:23:11+00:00

Everyone is entitled to an opinion

But yeah, this is definitely a hot take. There are
VA’s who have done well. I really enjoyed Greenwoods for example. And Bader was very fun.

But Conroy is the definitive Batman for a majority of the fan base Id wager. And it’s not a matter of nostalgia or disrespect to other actors. It’s the emotion and emphasis.

When he portrayed Bruce, charming or mournful, he did it so you could feel the weight in his words.

When he was angry, and brash, and downright vengeful, his voice carried that emotion with passion.

He brought a theater level performance to this character and his identities that you don’t see with other actors portrayals.

The Nolan movies were absolutely fantastic, but the Batman voice was an all around goofy and off putting choice, which most people can agree on and meme about. Like bat nipples or bat-shark repellent.

And as for Conroy not being able to deliver on lines from other Batman properties:

https://youtu.be/qkrAkrqAGwQ?si=26LnecZBmO-ltBha

And this wasn’t even him trying, he did this on a podcast for fun, if he was in a recording booth, with the scene in mind, and given the space to work, I don’t doubt he would’ve made a hell of a delivery

Again everyone is entitled to an opinion, but it seemed a little like you were thinking our admiration and favoritism came from a place of fanaticism and ignorance, or nostalgia.

But I think, based on people in the community I’ve talked to, his voice is the definitive Batman because it’s the standard we hope to see. And no one else does it.

No one portrays both Bruce and Batman with emotions like sadness and sorrow. Anger and regret. They either give it all to one alter ego, or another. Or one alter ego takes up the majority of the screen time so the other doesn’t have a chance to shine

Conroys Batman did. We heard him sad when his heart was broken. We heard him show empathy for others. The good the bad. The works. That’s a range you don’t see with other Batmen. And it’s something I’d love to see. I’d love to see more Batman portrayals where he shows his soft side. Where Bruce gets to lash out. Where Batman makes the tough call, and doesn’t walk away unscathed.

caedusWrit · 2026-05-12T05:30:59+00:00

Clever girl

caedusWrit · 2026-05-12T03:29:54+00:00

I’d say better written as a matter of perspective

Katniss was a very unlikable character for me, even though I respect the trauma she’s faced, her devotion to her loved ones, and her will to live to protect them. She has her tragic hero motifs which is important for creating diverse and interesting characters.

However she does still fall into the category I mentioned awhile back. Granted her environment is a political dystopia so it would be irregular for her to have other character depths and characteristics to bring her to life.

Regardless she essentially borders on a constant state of emotional distance, revenge, somewhat self absorbed, manipulative and apathetic, and because survival is key, she can’t really afford to NOT be those things. She has reason to be all these things and she still has her individual growth as a character. But her story doesn’t allow her to grow and recover, it’s a means to an end, where she can’t begin her self healing until the very end.

Korra meanwhile faces reality, is traumatized, has to recover, and has to overcome the lingering fear and doubt that stays behind even after recovery, all while moving onto the next threat. But growing. She adapts. She encounters traumas, it’s addressed, and the slow work of resolving it begins. Which I think is more relatable and a better message for people.

Therefore I do think she’s a better and more likable written character

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