My biggest question is how the images are scanned and captured. Often characters seem to be using handheld devices that send back images of their whole bodies.

Weren’t they already playing the game because their mom was a luddite in the original?

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Man, The Leftovers has a wonderful soundtrack.

Yeah it would have been cool for this montage to use the moments from the films where Anakin is piloting, laughing, fighting the bad guys.

He has to differentiate himself from Ben Carson, the pro-brain candidate. Trump is on the record as anti-brain.

The difficulty with this is that so much innovation and exploration involves collaboration and abstract thought, and we tend to represent things visually to communicate or demonstrate them. It seems unlikely we’d ever get very far without a complex series of symbols, which at least approaches what we’re talking about…

Boglarka Balogh sounds like something out of Tolkien appendix.

People must have been trying to get Hamilton tickets on it.

I assume the lack of racism is why she doesn’t run as Nimrata Haley.

Yeah, of course it could have been. Just wondering if anyone had any idea why it was killed.

...but why

It’s kind of bizarre that anybody even needs to be reminded that Avatar is a good movie.

That Kylo Ren is not at the top of his game in this fight is likewise painstakingly communicated to the audience.

There’s nothing to suggest she’s different, merely that she picked up her few skills from Kylo Ren acting upon her and from listening to Maz Kanata - the former isn’t a situation Anakin or Luke has been in, and the latter is exactly what Luke does at the end of ANH. There’s nothing to suggest Luke or Anakin could not…

It’s still theorycrafting. Which is just guessing.

No, but I’m unsure what that’s got to do with anything - my point is that I’m not just some guy on a comments thread whipping headcanon out of thin air. It’s a common (rather apparent) interpretation of the film. The screenwriters do a wonderful job of ushering us towards this interpretation by employing story tricks…

Interesting. The idea that Ren unwittingly taught Rey how to use her powers seems to be taken for granted by a lot of the critical response - for granted, that is, because it’s pretty clear in the film.

No peas? Wasn’t that the whole reason anyone cared?