Why not make new characters instead of blackwashing white ones? 

No, it’s only pandering if the show creators do it. What you meant to insert was the obligatory comment bitching about how if someone drew a white version of a black character they’d be called a racist.

“Kylo Ren, the fearsome and complicated villain of the new Star Wars movies”

Et l’interior fabrique en spit et Kleenex

See also, “You know of the rebellion against the Empire?”

I’m looking forward to Disney firing Ryan Coogler for spurious reasons before he gets to make Black Panther 3 

Wrangler Bros, they are everywhere.

We need representative leadership. We need leadership that is not old, white, and male. We need leadership that is truly representative of the communities that they serve. That leadership has the capacity to extend moral weight and value to communities of color, indigenous communities, and to women.

I’m on your side Jill, but this feels like a childishly worded comment (calling them assholes) and is not becoming of someone claiming higher moral ground. Let’s not hurt our own image now shall we?

Why do that when we can simply politicize the movie to validate our ideologies instead? I love Fury Road, but people never cared about Mad Max until it came out, and act like it’s some sort of new thing, when in fact the majority of themes in FR were also touched upon in Road Warrior and Thunderdome. So not all of us…

This is so incredibly stupid.

Take a sharp knife and from the top quickly slice through the lobster’s head. It will die instantly and plop it in the pot.

Done.

You must be fun at parties...

I could have sworn that the Canadian firefighters were apologizing at the firenado in that video.

I’ve seen this story play out before at different workplaces. A micro-manager thinks that no one is doing anything correctly, so they start doing everything themselves. Eventually, because no one else can do anything right, the micro-manager is overextended and misses deadlines. This causes everyone else’s work to…

The content has seriously deteriorated since the Founders left.

The flaring doesn’t release methane, it releases CO2. In fact, flaring methane rather than releasing it is far preferable.

I understand that. But io9 has had, from the beginning, this strong rhetoric that if you don’t like Star Wars, you’re a bigot. That’s what I’m against.

It blows my mind to think that I live in a world in which a movie about Ant-Man has made $200 million more than a movie about Han Solo.

Statistics like these?

Well, look at how much money The Last Jedi made. $1,332,539,889.