H2O #144: In Which We Deliver a Fisking to The NEW YORKER... part one

Something we've been wanting to do for a while: respond to Richard Brody's review of Rogue One in The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/rogue-one-reviewed-is-it-time-to-abandon-the-star-wars-franchise It's a painful, pretentious, meandering diatribe against a franchise that, over the past forty years, has impacted film production methods, film music scoring, film editing, merchandising, visual effects production, and film sequel planning in a way that will have a lasting impact long after we've gone the way of the pedantic reviewers of the previous technologically challenged generation, and it clearly demonstrates that Mister Brody lacks the fundamental understanding of that which he's been tasked, either by himself or a masochistic editor, to review with all the preparation of a toddler facing a velociraptor. How's that, Mr. Brody?