Hahahah. Yeah! I know what you mean. I agree, mostly. I made another comment where I went into more detail about the different arguments before deciding I thought it would probably be Luke, but I'm more neutral than anything. I'm sorry I depressed you, though? Ultimately my only take here is that Rey being Han and…

Yeah, completely agreed. I thought it wasn't a good move, it was distracting, and it was very unclear what that was supposed to mean/signify/reference, but I think there WAS a significance and reference there.

I thought it was an Ithorian, but I didn't think that what it WAS really mattered. The fact that an alien poked it's head out of the sand was just an attempt at both world-building and establishing just how alien Jakku is. This happens a few times throughout the other episodes, usually just before or after a…

That's definitely likely, I hadn't thought of that. Yeah, because it seemed like the scene where they capture her (just before she disappears from the narrative) should have had some earlier counterbalance that actually established her relationship to Finn in some way, but that didn't happen explicitly. So it felt…

Definitely possible, we just don't know. I guess I just fully expect this franchise to be in lock-step together now, given how militaristically we've seen Disney handle similarly "messy" franchises before. I don't trust "just because" in this context.

It's safe to talk about the potentiality of Rey being Luke's daughter, right? So, to jump this theorycrafting one step further, who does everyone want to see in the potential mother to Rey? (Assuming she isn't a secret Organa-Solo twin and Luke's wife has yet to be introduced to the series.)

I personally didn't recognize Greg Grunberg or Ken Leung, but my eyes went RIGHT to Billie Lourd each time she was on. Completely distracting. I have no idea what those scenes were about, and she even had a line! I really like her, though, and I truly hope this is some sort of stepping stone out of the Ryan Murphy…

I'm getting the feeling that's what this is about. I had hoped it was just a miscommunication, as the Google search results for "toxic masculinity" are notoriously contentious, confusing and unhelpful. That said, I've seen enough of this type of thread to know we're either being trolled or this guy isn't going to…

You're getting ridiculous. I am a masculine woman. My favourite musician is Grace Jones: masculine woman. What are you even talking about? This doesn't make sense on a very basic level, FAR before we bring politics into anything.

Yeah. I hadn't heard about it until a year ago or so. It doesn't have a lot of relevance to today, it's just a historic fact that this term is decidedly not of feminist origins.

I wrote a pretty long post about my theory on Rey and Ben being twins, largely because I am just positive that there's going to be a set of secret twins somewhere in this new leg of the franchise. Also, the strangely, aggressively positive tone in the relationships between Rey, and Han & Leia. She even seems to have…

I feel like I'm on a different page slightly. I was taught that "toxic masculinity" is a constructed system, it's not just specific behaviours. It was certainly not my argument that women, or even just those characters, do not exhibit aggressiveness/etc.*

Oh, yeah, that is entirely possible. I know that I understood the situation pretty fully by this point (the bungled confrontation was very memorable, if nothing else), otherwise I would not have interjected. I am sorry if this constitutes a spoiler, though, as you're right that Kilgrave most likely explains the entire…

Those are not habits or qualities exclusive to men. Toxic masculinity is actually the set of social constructions that inform the view that those qualities ARE exclusive to men. Toxic masculinity is when a man tells his son to just "be a man", because man = aggressive/alpha/winner/not female.

It was actually the moment of Kilgrave!Jessica's murder of Reva that apparently broke his control, which is why she was able to leave afterwards, and why she was able to pull away from him in this episode. I'm not sure where, but I believe Kilgrave basically states this outright.

I feel like How To Get Away With Murder was underserved, and so was Kroll Show's final season. I expected a lot more Steven Universe too! I feel like we ALL got into it this year.

Oh, then I guess the explanation is simpler, haha: I just didn't read the scene that way. I didn't see Josh defer to Raquel, I just saw Josh look at Raquel and make his own decision. Sure, Raquel's expression and their previous conversation definitely suggested that she felt like taking in Rita would have a negative…

Yeah. I feel like we've seen the Pfeffermans do some really horrible things, so any comparison between them and Raquel falls totally flat for me. Josh is the one that failed to find a way to make the situation work for his son and his fiancée.

I liked that it was tidier than leaving Corey hanging with too much, as Nathan might have in the past. He also didn't get weirdly obsessed with how much gratification he was receiving living life as Corey, which is where my mind went for this particular plot, for whatever reason. Maybe it was just how Hannibal-y the…

Yes! Romy's performances really made In Colour for me, but both In Colour and Surf ranked super high on my albums list! I saw Jamie this summer and it was definitely the best festival type gig I've seen in a long while, give or take a headlining Florence.