Hey now, many of us insecure, ineffective people whose lives haven't turned out how we wanted and can't make people listen to us or take us seriously don't fall back on misogyny and racism. Most of the people I've encountered in person who buy into this bullshit are making 6-7 figures a year at their dream jobs, so…

It's possible she was gasping at the fact that after having 3 movies to set it up, Anakin's turn to the dark side came down to Palpatine telling the audience he was evil now.

Granted, it was the wrong time to bring it up, and he chose his words poorly, but can any of us really dispute the substance of Anakin's point?

It should have been "From my personal experience, which is admittedly not all-encompassing, Sith are more likely to deal in absolutes than other Force-users I've encountered. Again, this is just me speaking personally." Maybe for the next special edition.

Not calling her out for her "sick beat" claims is the kind of thinking that got Trump elected. The Shake It Off beat could not be further from sick. It's so healthy it's going to die warm in its bed at age 100, surrounded by generations of grandchildren.

May death come swiftly to her enemies.

That's true, most liberal Christians I know personally are Catholics. Even with Catholics, though, the abortion issue has been used to peel them away from the democrats over the last 30 years. A good number of the "stars" of the modern Republican party claim to be Catholic. As someone who was raised as a…

It's sort of depressing. Before all the evangelicals went for Reagan there was definitely a Christian left, but with few exceptions that's been annihilated. They've managed to conflate Christianity with Republicanism to the point that Trump was the Christian candidate as long as he had the R by his name.

Agreed. Good actors don't save the prequels, the prequels destroy good actors.

He was onscreen because Lucas cast Gary Oldman as the villain and then refused to pay him SAG rates, so Oldman quit and they made the character into a cartoon.

If anything the movie made me like the original book less. It's a very slight story, and the movie just doubled down and hung a hat on everything that was so unappealing about it in the first place.

It's too bad they could never really find an appropriately epic scene for Duel of the Fates. The prequel scores have a level of emotional intensity and excitement that the movies never touched.

High-end bathtub merchants?

I'm continuing to slog through Darkest Dungeon on PS4. Overall the game is a lot of fun but there are massive peaks and valleys in the difficulty. Every time I think I have it under control my characters will level up and I'm forced into scenarios that seem far too difficult. When I first got to level 5 dungeons I…

I honestly think Morrowind is the worst ES game (except for Arena). The world design and lore are both fantastic, but the game itself often feels like an alpha build that was designed more as a platform for modders than anything else. For all the creativity of the world it feels unusually dead. Characters never…

I had that thought, too, actually, and it's definitely the sort of thing Kyle Mooney would do.

I'm worried another Dubya administration is the best case scenario.

I've tried to understand Trump voters at different points in this process, because the alternative is to believe that 59 million voters care so little about non-straight whites that they're willing to sell the country to a lunatic.

During my Catholic upbringing a Sunday school teacher once told me that she thought of hell as being forced to relive every moment of the pain you caused others from their point of view, and being powerless to stop it for all eternity because you took no action to stop it while you were alive.

Hmmph. First I can't sign in with my AV Club account, now all of the sudden I can't sign out of my AV Club account. It doesn't make any sense to me.