It is definitely fan service but I think it’s “good” fan service in that it’s something we haven’t really seen before from an important character. And the scene is not just flair, it has the purpose of Vader trying to recover the stolen plans. But, I get your point and we will agree to disagree.

Agree with absolutely everything here except your take on the Vader scene. That is either the best or second best part in the movie to me, along with the Rebel fleet mobilizing and jumping above Scarif. God, I love that part of the movie.

A Chinese company accusing someone else of patent infringement is laughable. They probably stole the lawsuit template from someone else.

It’s taken me 100 seconds to write this reply and I’m still he-AAAAGGGHHHH!

AGAIN with the “Pablo” Pascal on this site? It’s Pedro.

When you set the game’s difficulty level to “novice”

Oh my god, this explanation fits perfectly.

I want to see this movie instead.

He is, get this, taking a position that a majority of Democratic voters agree with. Democrats are split on Medicare for All as a single payer option and it’s getting less popular as time goes on. I’d like our elected representatives to actually represent us.

I blasted the memory of that movie from my brian, but was Jai Courtney actually good in it? He’s not good in anything so I have a hard time believing that.

You forgot: heroin overdose and dead by 20.

I think you can enjoy all of their past performances without worrying if someone is “cancelled” or not. If it turns out that Tom Hanks has been keeping a family trapped in his basement, I will still watch all his good movies. 

For someone with a Kindle or other e-reader, is there an app available to access these books? I remember trying to get an ebook from Project Gutenberg a few years ago and it was painful. My local library uses an app called Overdrive where you basically borrow an ebook through Amazon for free. Is there something like…

I just read The Left Hand of Darkness this year and it’s a fantastic story. I moved right on to The Dispossessed as soon as I was finished. 

forecasting a Dunkirk-like emphasis on unrelenting action

Hah! A better example would be the Italian cruise ship captain who abandoned ship with his date at the first sign of trouble.

This is the most important thing to me. I always get the same 5-10 serial posters in my feed. And when my friends who don’t post much actually put something up, it gets buried. So the people I actually care to hear from (instead of the volume of inane chatter) don’t ever surface.

Excellent Hitchhiker’s reference!

Yeah, I was thinking the same. She seems to be one of the best in the country at tracking down police reports and revealing the true extent of things like NFL domestic violence cases. I imagine the narrative for this story has been handed down from the higher levels.

Interesting to see that this whole thread was hidden by Deadspin.