Most people don’t watch cable news of any kind. In February, FOX News led cable news viewership by averaging about 2.7 million viewers at prime time. There are about 100 million TV households in the US, local news viewership absolutely dwarfs cable. The biggest problem I have with Sinclair is, in some markets they own…

I’m 45, and I didn’t find the end of the movie that much of a downer. I felt like Luke’s journey ended in triumph, and I found it very satisfying. Anyway he’s exactly as “dead” as Yoda is and I’ll be shocked if he doesn’t show up in Episode IX. It didn’t feel sad to me, it felt like he ascended because he’d achieved a…

I think she would have joined him if he’d stopped firing on the transports when she asked him to. I really do. She told Luke he was the last hope, after all. It wasn’t a big political or dark side/light side thing in that moment. She didn’t know that Finn was on the same ship, or that Holdo was about to stop the First…

It’s called inertia, it’s Newton’s First Law. If the bombs start falling in artificial gravity, and then enter a zero-g environment, they will continue to move in the same direction until stopped. So, yes, gravity would have a “residual effect.”

People’s tastes are different, they can like a movie or not like a movie, it’s really got nothing to do with me. What irks me about the old school fan complaints is the implication that it wasn’t well done. When it’s obviously such a well-executed vision. This is why critics love it, because unlike a lot of these…

I actually know this one! It took 3 viewings, but I understand the bomber run. A couple lines of dialogue would have made everyone happier, but one thing I like about Star Wars is that there’s never exposition, nobody ever explains in the moment things that everyone would know for the benefit of the audience. Like, in…

Billy Dee Williams is 80 years old and mostly doing voice acting. I don’t think he’s up to doing a 100-day feature film shoot anymore. I don’t think anybody at Lucasfilm wants to recast the role.

He’s going to a big important meeting and doesn’t want to look like a bum?

Force ghosts weren’t a thing until recently, possibly until Obi-Wan. Before that Jedi just died, and their bodies were burned. It’s a new power, and evolving. Yoda continues to learn and grow stronger in the Force. What Luke does here, becoming a Force Ghost before he even dies, is unprecedented. Obi Wan says he’ll…

I can see why it’s polarizing, I guess. But I loved it, and mostly because of the return of Luke and what Hamill did with the role. Part of the problem is, with Luke returning to the screen, he’s Movie Luke again, not the Luke from book and video game and comics tie-ins. So, conflicted, filled with angst, sometimes a…

It’s new tech. Nobody knew it was possible, but Rose is a techie and knows the theory behind it, and Finn was First Order and is familiar with the previous generation of “active tracking” and how First Order warships used it, having previously served on one. The Resistance leaders, realistically, are not tech people…

I feel like the movie is an extended meditation on several important themes which are repeated throughout. “No plan survives contact with the enemy,” being foremost. It’s not just the heroic plans that fail - Snoke obviously gets the title of biggest loser and Least Valuable Player for this one - he goes to great…

as soon as they go to hyperspace after the First Order leaves, they’ll find them again.

She said no because she doesn’t want to jump away and not be followed, they have arrived at their destination but that’s need to know information. They jumped to the Rebel base at Crait. The First Order followed. Poe’s plan would allow them to make one more jump and they’d be out of fuel. But jump to where? They are…

Poe got demoted for ignoring his orders and getting the entire bomber wing killed to take out one ship. Leia would have been justified had she had him shot, but she can’t spare him, because he got all the other pilots killed. They’re not gonna tell him squat. When he does find out the plan, he tells Finn over the…

I love it. It might be my favorite. I was worried that new movies with the original cast would betray the original trilogy by undoing Luke’s spiritual progress so he could go around chopping people in half with a lightsaber again. I’m ecstatic that they didn’t do do that. When Luke threw down the lightsaber in the…

I agree. So many things are safe and predictable, and here’s a movie where I was surprised by almost everything. In fact, I’ve seen it twice, and it took the rewatch to really get my head around it all.

I loved both, but they’re very different. I love that Last Jedi returned to the arc of Luke’s spiritual journey from the original movies, and felt that it resolved that arc nicely, in a way that honors the Eastern mysticism that was on Lucas’ mind back in the 70s when he wrote the first script. But I think a lot of…

This was a case where the “show, don’t tell” rule was sadly ignored. Ren tells Hux that she stole Snoke’s personal escape craft. I guess it was true, but since the rest of his story was a lie, that’s an odd bit of exposition. A two-second shot of her ducking into an escape pod would have been better.

The Matrix Style slow motion ducking under the lightsaber, Luke brushing his shoulders off, the reach out and Luke ticking Rey with a leaf. The your mom joke. Leia’s Mary Poppins/Superman float back to the ship. Killing Ackbar! Luke chucking the lightsaber once he gets it.