You bring up a good point, how boxing was absolutely America's Sport in the mid-20th century (way more than baseball), and what a game changer a proud black champion would have been to so many people.

I don't think so either, but he is being really tiresome about the ruse anyways.

We don't know how "dead" Benjen is.

One of the great what-ifs of the story. Varys, obviously, set Tyrion up to do the deed, to destabilize the effective Lannister rule.

They do not understand how royal puppetry works

why/how?

I don't want to be "that guy", and I understand the strides that Ali made in terms of the Civil Rights Era, but is someone whose job was punching other people in the head really that great of a hero?

No, but Leia probably would have been better off banging her brother.

Han Solo seems like the kind of guy who is just a charming rogue when he has someone to impress/swindle, but with the people he should actually care about in his life, an insufferable asshole and narcissist. Leia should have known better than to fall for his wiles.

He really needs to definitely lose, by like 10 million votes. Otherwise I could see him setting up a shadow government "for REAL Americans" and starting a Civil War.

Why do none of these massive industrial structures ever have any safety railings over 1000 foot chasms?

The politics of this movie made the first six look like some Gore Vidal shit.

I would have loved to have watched this movie side-by-side with Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Preferably sharing a huge joint.

PLus the "I'm going to decelerate from hyperdrive accurately enough to enter a planet's atmosphere"

I didn't understand how, when the planet was 2 minutes from blowing apart, the hologram bad guy told the Nazi flunky, "Oh , go find Kylo Ren, who has run out somewhere in the woods, and escape with him"

A better movie would have had Finn as a Manchurian rebel, and in the 2nd act discover his programming and fight against it. But that would have taken away from precious screen time of pointless nostalgia, like C3PO having a red arm or some shit.

Yeah, but everyone who comments on the AV Club is a genius

Yeah, but Trump is the symptom of stupidity, not the cause. Even if Trump does crash and burn, there will be someone else to come along to capitalize on the backwards atavism of the millions of Trump supporters

Other peoples' parents always seem cooler than your own, and people tend to over-estimate how cool your own parents really are. I could easily see Leia being an emotionally distant workaholic, and Han being an Peter Pan alcolohic

god i hope you're right