I don’t think this movie tells the older films to eat shit at all, and I don’t buy the idea that it’s antagonistic to TFA specifically. Kylo Ren seems to have been conceived as a Vader fanboy, and it was the fans that made this out to be a bug rather than a feature - Snoke’s line about the mask being ridiculous is…

I don’t think this is a “fuck you,” necessarily. Blade Runner 2049 pulls off the same twist for the same reason. In both The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi, characters are obsessed with legends. Revealing Rey’s parents as “nobodies” only works because it was set up as a mystery, where Rey assumes her parent must have…

Had Leia not been forced into a coma by the writers, or had her second-in-command, Vice Admiral Holdo (because Admiral Ackbar is dead, in case you somehow missed that split second, off-screen send-off, RIP) deigned to share them with the rest of the crew, Finn and Rose would have known all of this was completely…

It’s crazy to me that we need this article because Lawrence is no more trash and makes no worse decisions than any of the other characters on the show.

My idea for “Confederate” is that the Confederacy successfully secedes, but foreign powers aid slave insurrections who overthrow the government and they establish a free African American nation just south of Washington DC.

Just one Star Wars story about someone trying to impress their mom instead of their dad, please.

That’s his wife, you monster!

Also in Trump’s former line of work he has undoubtedly asked favors of people that are illegal but that people let slide. Trump’s new to the presidency, but contrary to Ryan’s statement he seems very practiced in making shady requests and establishing quid pro quo relationships.

Elitist? Eh, maybe a little. Liberals seem to take way more joy in being more knowledgeable than their “opponents,” which perpetuates the divide.

What is it they say whenever a show featuring “diversity” is cancelled? That the network is a business and only needs to worry about money, and that they don’t have an obligation to serve a minority of the audience? That business doesn’t care about identity politics?

Oh hey, look, this game is responding to my childhood wishes.

I think there’s a strong possibility that he sees any question like this as an attack, and he assumes she’s been sent.

Considering the number of people quitting or turning down appointments, as well as the caliber of the people who have accepted, I think it’s more likely that only terrible people are willing.

Yeah it’s racist AND incomprehensible. It’s not just the spelling, either.

Yeah that’s absolutely right - but the point is the reason it’s confusing to read or isn’t spelled “Latinex” or “Latin-x” is because it wasn’t written for saying it out loud, it was just replacing the final letter in “Latino/a” with a variable.

Not my intention to be passive aggressive! But “asking how not to offend people” is literally requesting sensitivity training, i.e. guidance regarding a particular sensitivity, and she says the word out loud in the video a bunch, as well as discussing the differences between terms like “Latinx” and “Hispanic.”

Yes. Like “Latino” or “Latina,” but with an “ex” instead of a final vowel.

“Well that just makes no logical sense. Of course it needs a pronunciation.”

The thing I’ve always thought was cool about “Latinx” - which is usually pronounced “Latin-ex” by the way - is that it was clearly created for textual communication; like “Latin@” before it, it’s a word that came from conversations that were mostly happening on social media, and so didn’t need a pronunciation, or at…