I really, truly don’t understand what the fanboys wanted. I can’t imagine a more satisfying resolution to Luke’s arc, for example, other than not making any more movies after Jedi so people could choose to believe whatever they wanted. And if that’s it — if the criticism here is that these movies didn’t need to exist…

He’s not wrong here. He wanted to try something new. To take risks and produce something original, and not just a throwback to the original trilogy. To make a Star Wars movie for the current generation of fans effectively, and so the angry fanboys are going to lose it and throw threats his way. This is why I’ve come…

I think what he was saying is that ESB threw contemporary audiences off. It’s one thing to have had the chance to grow up with the original trilogy and immediately go from episode to episode; it was probably another to spend three years with only ANH and building up expectations in your mind about how the story would…

No, you see, you’re not exactly on point there. Many many many more people who saw TLJ and are complaining about it openly online did not see the original trilogy in theaters. They saw it at a buddy’s house during a sleepover when they were 8. They then went out back and argued over who got to be Luke and who got to…

An apology for saying my opinion? I think you overestimate your chances!

it wasnt a frozen planet, they even mentioned it was a salt planet...did you watch the movie?

Yup. TLJ was a genuinely good movie. I loved it even more the second time specifically because of all of the nuance a second viewing brings. It is not perfect, but no movie ever is.

Can’t even imagine what these folks would have done seeing Han frozen in carbonite or Luke getting his hand sliced off. These things were just as shocking to see on the screen for the first time. Vader is Luke’s father! I remember stumbling out of the theater in shock. A worm that is hollow and has its own atmosphere…

It’s not even been out a week. Blimey.

When this first became a story over a year ago, I thought it would flame out in like 2 weeks. For the love of all that is good, can we all admit it isn’t a big fucking deal.

You see, not really, the war was going to happen anyhow. If they had actually listened to her the war probably wouldn’t have happened. her ship had a tactical advantage and would have responded in a way that the Vulcans have shown elicits grudging respect from the Klingons and keeps them from escalating hostilities.…

I honestly never got the appeal of The Office. I never found cringe comedy entertaining. In fact, the Office being more popular than Parks and Rec leaves me looking like this:

Well yeah. At his worst, Ben makes stop-mo animation films, really complicated board games and town ruining ice rinks.

Because they’re nice people; Jim and Pam are jerks.

I always preferred Leslie & Ben to Jim and Pam.

Cool story, but it changes nothing. Last years pocket computer is still 90% as effective as this years pocket computer and both are 3x what anyone actually NEEDS.

By a certain standard, holding down a starting job for that long is, on its own, pretty damn successful. Ask any QB in the league if they’d settle for Eli’s career and I bet most would say yes.

What the fuck are you talking about? He lowers his shoulder before the collision. It’s not a response to the collision. No collision had happened yet. He lowered his shoulder intentionally to bowl the guy over, because he wanted to create a collision. That’s assault.

You have to argue the limits of any statute when applying a particular case to the statute.

Honestly, I don’t understand why people hate episode 7 so much. As much as I get that it’s a wild pivot from most of what Stranger Things has been so far, going forward the series is going to need a lot more world building like this if it wants to stay fresh. I have no desire to follow these kids all the way through…