The Incremental Growth of Lucy, and Some Random Thoughts

Found an hour and a bit of time last night, and poured just over 700 words into Project Lucy. Nice! Good words too, which makes me feel quite happy given that a sustainable target when writing 1st draft is supposed to be about 500 words/hour.

Now, for some random thoughts that have been bugging me:

Is "Monkey" technically a road movie?
What do the soldiers in the recent Transformers movies actually do? They seem to pose a lot with guns, say snappy one-liners, and not much else. They shoot at the Decepticons in places, but do they ever actually kill any of them?  What is the point of these dudes?
If you take out Jar-Jar Binks and the painful rail-roading of Anakin into Darth Vader, are the first three Star Wars movies actually okay?  I'm much more forgiving of them these days.