I also didn’t love the ‘weapons dealers enrich themselves while everyone else suffers’ bit. Historically speaking, that would parallel early WW1 US foreign policy: isolationism combined with a willingness to arm all sides.

Not until you’ve sobered up, and only if you haven’t been banned for doing something inexcusable. In this case, Andy Dick was waiting to be sober enough to either walk home or go to the next bar. (It was Sunday before noon.)

I really hope you’re wrong, for the sake of his family.

I’d wager not, but hey, since you already have the whiskey: could be funny to do a double-blind taste test against other Irish. My guess is that McGregor’s would come in dead last behind: Redbreast, Tullamore Dew — hell, even Jameson and Bushmills. (Not that I dislike any of those. There’s just even better small batch…

Thank you for bringing that up! I can absolutely confirm that — in my experience at least — professional fighters tend to avoid being goaded into fights, which is to say, they’re even less likely to sucker-punch an older man at the pub for refusing whiskey (unlike McGregor).

Cheers to work-life balance!

Yeah, he’s been crossing lines with impunity for a very, very long time.

The moment he punched that older man at the pub was when it all came together for me. There’s no excusing that.

I think that Snyder’s reason for changing the ending was as simple/straightforward as he said in interviews: woulda looked weird.

Yeah, I can see how talking about work outside of work can feel jarring. I don’t mind too much, probably because my job is all-consuming.

It really did feel like the showrunners were running through a story beat checklist as quickly as possible because they were just done with the show.

He punched the Heat mascot so hard at the same event (as part of a bit) that they were sent to the hospital with a concussion.

Perfectly valid move. I’ve found it useful in dealing with some of my coworkers, who, while being brilliant, often have raging personality disorders.

To me there’s ‘work socializing’ and ‘personal socializing.’ I don’t really expect anything from either group — never transactional — but I do keep them separate.

I generally agree. It was foreshadowed and felt inevitable, yet in the moment it felt unearned, somehow. The showrunners were in such a hurry to wrap everything up that they didn’t bother to make the torching feel plausible.

It doesn’t sound like they were work friends, as in peers sharing an employer. They’re comedians who happened to be friends, until they weren’t because of an interview.

I was also very, very disappointed by the turn the new trilogy took. TLJ could have acted as a bit of a reset for the franchise. Predestination? Not important. Two sides of the Force? False dichotomy.

*thunk*

Hollywood friendships sounds exhausting, in a peculiarly transactional way.

Exactly! “Man, the climax is working really well, but there’s no way I’m cutting the Wonder Woman scene because... reasons.”