Child abduction is actually canon in the new trilogy as the source of the First Order’s stormtroopers. Thanks to new-EU material, admittedly, but still canon. So they could do it.

Other than the child abduction part, this is....not a terrible idea.

The new movies acknowledge the prequels. Kylo Ren mentions a clone army in the first one and Luke briefly recounts the rise of Darth Sidious in the new one. There’s not a lot of reason to dwell on those events 50something years later, honestly.

I think the ‘70s was the decade people were nostalgic for in the ‘90s. The two-decades-ago peak nostalgia rule is pretty consistent that way.

“We’re going to dismantle the federal government! Starve the beast!”

Looking forward to how Huckabee-Sanders spins this: “The President meant it in the nicest possible way. As in, ‘I love what you’ve done with this shithole’.”

He said this in front of a bipartisan group of congressional leaders. Which proves not only that he’s racist, but he is a fucking moron who may be losing what little mind he once had.

Too late. Christopher Plummer’s already been cast.

Lost is fine the way it is. I loved the ending, by the way. Don’t at me.

Tough to sing any song when your mouth is full of shit.

Literally, the top two recommended stories at the bottom of the article are:

Thank you for unraveling this mystery. The mainstream media tried to hide this for too long.

I remember when the AV Club used to live-chat these things. But I remember a lot about the AV Club. (I’m in a mood because I read the second-to-last entry in A History of Violence again earlier, and it reminded me of what things used to be like.)

By bullshit I assume you mean pure awesome. Last Jedi was the Star Wars movie that we needed.

you know it’s a TV show right?

It’s pottery.

lol dammit! Can NO ONE agree on a single scene of that movie?!

Hammil and fans may be correct about LUKE’S character not giving up, but saying the Jedi don’t... um... the entire film series started with Obi-Wan Kenobi in exile not using the force, didn’t it? How is Luke any different?

that brush of the shoulders was one of my favourite moments of the entire movie

For all my (minor, whiney) complaints about the movie, the arcs of the major characters wasn’t one of them. I actually liked Luke going into exile to become a bitter old man who had “given up” on the force and Jedi-hood or whatever.