Yep! And the crossguards are necessary vents because the weapon can’t handle all the power.

Ah, so you’re of the “racism doesn’t exist in Europe” school.

Europe invented our current racial construct.

That’s interesting - Spaniards are, I guess, situationally white.

“I think you’ll find that everybody throughout time has ideas has had ideas about Us and Them, but they change periodically.”

(I’m sick of the Battle of Hoth.)

This is 100% true, but what Atticus feels for black people isn’t “hate,” in an obvious way. The Gladwell article linked above gets into it well, but essentially Atticus sees the Ewells as trash white people that shouldn’t mingle with good white people in the same ways that there are good black people that shouldn’t…

The thing is, the lying didn’t start with her heading this organization, and I bet every position on her resume where people believed her made it harder to discount her when she was being vetted.

And considering the frog DNA, the movie also has really extensive trans representation. (There’s actually a musical about this.)

I guess that’s why I didn’t say that; I said they saw a chance to add their first gay character and took it, in the spirit of all the diversity they’ve already had.

So they’ve shown a really great commitment to diversity but should draw the line here?

What’s with the helmet hose? Is this a hazardous environment trooper?

Because if it weren’t mentioned then he would just be another straight character, for all intents and purposes. Likely they had to find a reason he might not be accepted as a monk and decided they might as well create some more diversity.

Yes, but that material is all on the table to reincorporated as the new EU gets rebuilt. So there's no reason Thrawn can't show up again - and frankly I think it'd be silly not to hang on to the favorites in some form.

I was mad and then I wasn't mad.

I'm not supergiiiiiirl...not yet a superwooooooman...all I neeeeeeed is time...

The economy would be up, and there would be no war and we wouldn't have to worry about climate change. So you never know.

Yeah it's interesting - I get the impression that people who fess up to loving reality shows are also watching them because they hate all the participants, so it's not actually any different.

Stephen Colbert solved this pretty awesomely on his show tonight - he says if the crossguard blade extends all the way through, then even if you cut through the metal bit your blade gets stopped. The metal bit, then, is just to protect the wielders' hand.

Yasss Lupita.