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Gambit's accent is volatile and basically ruined his life! Doesn't that count?

Definitely need a "best wigs" list as a companion to this one.

Ah, you recall Todd McFarlane writing Wolverine, I see!

Do we even know that she actually has hair? I mean, I'd like to think that some of the many extensions she's worn over the years were rooted to something…but how can we be sure?

It was a bizarre casting/hair & makeup choice: "We love you, we think you're perfect for this part, except for your hair, eyes, and skin color, which have to be completely different."

He's like the guy who licks all the rolls at a buffet table so no one else will want them.

Bold stances were taken. There were heroes on both sides.

Judging by the clip show they played before the Seinfeld finale, that damn Green Day "Time of Your Life" song is a Festivus carol.

But was there taxation? Did someone say "Yipee!"? Did a CGI Steppin Fetchit Frogman put his foot in some manure? Tell us they remembered at least a few of the things that made this franchise great!

It's a discussion of fictional canon, so pedantry is a feature, not a flaw. That bit of dialogue has come to mean less than everyone thought when we saw Empire. That doesn't mean that it meant less at the time. The context of that statement was not "he was part of a faculty of jedi masters who instructed me."

At the end of the "The Wrong Jedi" arc, right before she quits, didn't Mace tell Ahsoka that she had passed the trials through her experience evading capture and finding the traitor, and she was now a Jedi Knight? Or did I just imagine that?

Good point. Despite being not that strong with the force, the Grand Inquisitor routinely smacked Kanan around in straight up force battles.

For example, for a long time it was canon from Empire and Jedi that Obi Wan was Yoda's apprentice. Then in Episode 1 Lucas decided he needed an expendable Jedi mentor figure for Obi Wan, so he erased that bit of established history to make Obi Wan the apprentice of one of Yoda's old apprentices.

Now I'm yearning for Ewan McGregor to make a Ghost Obi Wan appearance in Ep VII and wrap midichlorians up in a neat "from a certain point of view" bow.

It's like a poor cover version of the classic Whedon "no happy relationships" killing. It was too rushed, and in the end, Coulson and Rosalind's relationship consisted of a little light flirting, twenty seconds of post-coital "Let's go to breakfast" and an episode of Coulson suspecting her and finally locking her in…

Lawless was an incredible waste. Her character was dead before I realized it was her.

Doesn't the Speaker of the House set the date for the State of the Union?

Neck tattoos: always a bad idea?

On this world, it's a cat. Or maybe the Hamburglar? Hard to tell.

Ugh. So Inarritu's making a rape joke about a story that features actual human-on-human rape? I guess that gold statue really did go to his head.