I think the major problem with the sequel trilogy is they didn't map out all three movies at the start.  Things like Rey's lineage should have been set in stone before TFA filmed.  While Lucas' plans changed along they way, he really didn't know he would get to do more than the first movie and made adjustments after the success of ANH.  Disney knew from the date of purchase that they were doing a trilogy.  Ultimately, it ended up where I thought it would.  I figured Rey would be a Skywalker as to carry the lineage through the three trilogies.  While not one by blood, she still adopted the name.  My thoughts after TFA was that she would be Luke's daughter and marry Finn, who had no last name, as to carry the Skywalker name into any future movies.

I'm a bit skeptical on the leaked script.  I think it may be a mixture of truth and fan fic.

I enjoyed the movie overall.  I guess we may see more explanation through novels and comics.  I would like to know if Palpatine was in a cloned body or if actually survived ROTJ somehow.  The other thing I want to know about is Snoke.  I could have sworn I read something post TFA that stated that Snoke had been around before Palpatine became Chancellor.  That is certainly still a possibility, but I would like to see where he came from and how Palpatine used him.

I think my TV may be too old for Disney+ app.  There was nothing in the LG store this morning when I woke up.  Not sure how I will use the service otherwise.  I don't want to have to get a new TV, because I have one of the last 3D tv's that LG made.

I hate when you're trying to avoid spoilers and random Twitter messages from people you don't even know pop up on your phone with a preview with spoiler content.   Does Twitter hate me?

I'm trying to to the same.  It is going to be a long almost two months.  At least I got my ticket for Thursday night at 7 PM so I don't have to avoid the internet for too long on release day.

I think Apple was looking to buy just the movie studio portion and not the company in total.  It would make sense from the standpoint of their own streaming service to grab a movie studio so that they could produce original content with greater ease.

I got an email that it's back in stock, it'll let me pick 2 from the drop down, but it won't let me buy them. 

That seems typically.  I generally check the link every morning and that is how it is right now.  Can select two, but says it can't be delivered to my zip code and that it is out of stock in any store in my area.

Quote from: EdSolo on September  3, 2019, 06:52 AM

The last Spiderman movie proved you don't need Tony Stark in it.  It is the highest grossing Spiderman movie to date.

Really Ed?  Far From Home was completely devoid of Tony Stark?

It was devoid of Robert Downey Jr.  The plot may have revolved around Peter being the heir apparent to Tony, but we didn't even get a RDJ cameo unless you count a picture of him on the school new broadcast.  It is essentially like Luke Skywalker in TFA.  The opening crawl leads one to believe that the plot of the movie would be around finding Luke, only to find out we get a half a minute at best of him on screen.  By comparison, this movie had less actual Tony Stark in it, but did just fine.

Can the next one stand on its own?  Who knows.  Spiderman still had Happy Hogan, Nick Fury, and Maria Hill in it.  It will be pretty jarring for the next one to not have any MCU characters, especially if they can't even be mentioned.

Personally, I think the deal isn't truly dead yet.  If they put out a Venom 2 first and that isn't successful, I think things will get renegotiated.  I foresee Sony having problems with a Spiderman 3 script.  So far, they haven't recycled villains, with the exception of introducing Harry as the Green Goblin at the very end of the second Garfield movie.  Not sure who you would choose at this point if you wanted to go with an unused villain. 

The last Spiderman movie proved you don't need Tony Stark in it.  It is the highest grossing Spiderman movie to date.  Who knows what will happen if Sony goes on their own with Spiderman 3.  It didn't work too well the last time; meaning it never happened with Garfield.

As for the MCU, they are going to run the risk of things being really clunky and hamfisted.  Bringing in the Fantastic Four is one thing, you could just have an origin story that they gained their powers post snap and are younger compared to the Avengers.  Trying to explain away Mutants is going to be something else.  The MCU has done some silly stuff in the past.  I'm looking squarely at Iron Man 3.  The studio claimed they did the whole Trevor/Mandarin thing because they couldn't have a mystical super villain with magic rings; that magic didn't fit in the MCU.  Not too many years later we get Doctor Strange.  We may even be getting the real Mandarin according to current rumors.  The current work around for mutation has not worked all that well in Agents of Shield and Inhumans.  Really, I think if Disney got the complete rights back to Spiderman, we could very likely see an entire MCU reboot so they could build all the properties from the ground up.  At this point, they still have enough star power even without Iron Man and Cap to keep going, but this will all come to a head eventually.  I am pretty surprised the superhero genre has lasted this long.  DC is certainly a mess, but the MCU has been fairly consistent.