The story was much better when there wasn’t a reason why and Rey wasn’t special, just a vessel for the Force to balance itself out (I’d also argue that even though it’s maybe the most famous twist of all time, the reveal that Darth is Luke’s father was a net negative for both Star Wars, as it completely sold out the…

I am one of those people who thinks that Marcia Lucas is as essential to the original trilogy as George, but the killing of Han Solo is obvious; Harrison Ford wanted him dead. It was either kill Han Solo or no Han Solo.

So basically you’ve got the boyfriend who’s clearly done something

Not the main point of your post, nor the movie, but regarding the bombing run, I see a lot of people bent out of shape about the direction the bombs go, being dropped out the bottom of the ship. Are they completely ignoring the asteroid field in ESB, where the TIE Bombers drop bombs directly out the bottom of the ship?

Well said. One (of many) of the stupid-ass arguments that drives me nuts is, “LUKE TRIED TO KILL HIS NEPHEW! WHAA?!”

There’s a massive difference between “how does this farm boy know the Force in like a week?” and “how does the daughter of one of the most powerful Jedi in history know anything about the Force decades after we last saw her when we knew her brother was training people in the Force?” as far as not spelling it out is…

Apparently Leia knew enough to finish Rey’s training in TROS so *shug*.

Yeah, I’ve never liked the argument that Holdo could’ve just told Poe what was going on. He’s been an insubordinate asshole all throughout the film, and when he does learn what Holdo’s plan is, he stages a coup. Poe just wants to go blast things until Leia finally talks some sense into him. 

Whatever else the movie did wrong, the idea of ‘TLJ ruining Luke’ from ‘hardcore’ fans is the most hilarious misunderstanding of Star Wars characters, lore and philosophy they could muster.

I get why some people don’t like the idea of Luke considering killing his nephew when he realized he turned to the Dark Side. It’s very shocking revelation. However, it’s important to note that the moment he considered it, he immediately felt shame for what he did. But by then it was too late as Ben had seen him…

...but you... you manufactured a potential outrage just so you could be outraged at the outrage... oh I see, we’re playing “stereotypical un-self-aware hypocritical Internet rube” today, cool!

“Gosh, I hate all those people who hate people!” “I bet there’s a lot of idiots out there who like to make up hypothetical…

Possibly the weakeat and most misguided use of “thanks for proving my point” I’ve ever seen.

It was, by Norm himself. He self plagiarized. (I don’t know which he did first - they were both on Weekend Update)

If you cannot conceive of a specificity between “outrage” and “derision”, or between “everything” and “your inane fantasy of feminists victimising 20 year old Norm MacDonald bits about Carrot Top”, then yes, absolutely, I am outraged at everything.

What qualitamatic doesn’t understand is that you are making the deeper philosophical assertion that you are rubber, while qualitamatic is made of glue. Some people just don’t get this level mature, sophisticated argument.

My all time favorite joke was a throwaway line on Weekend Update.

“Today, Christie Brinkley announced she would be divorcing her husband Billy Joel. She came to the decision after realizing that she was Christie Brinkley and she was married to Billy Joel.”

The best joke is “They should have called it ‘9 and a Half Seconds’”and then after a perfectly timed pause where everyone already gets the joke and is laughing, “...Because he premature ejaculates.”  Norm is the master of wringing extra laughs from the unnecessary explanation of a joke.

Oh, tell us more about unreasonable outrage, guy who imagined a backlash in order to bemoan it. See if you can work the phrase “female actress” back in there while you’re at it.

“I bet it’s spelled b-o-r-e-d” is the funnier punchline