On a related note: The Imperial crest? It only seems (again, iirc) to appear on the helmets of the troops and pilots of the Imperial *Navy* (and on the AT-AT pilots, but they might have been considered "Navy" as well, even if they piloted ground vehicles for the army).

The Original Trilogy Cross-Sections book tried to retcon the bit about the space-beer tap in the cantina being the same as IG-88's head with the explanation that it was a "themed" bar spigot in the shape of the notorious bounty hunters head.

iO9 has a similarly shitty, difficult-to-navigate commenting system, which is why I've mostly stopped commenting there.

I recently noticed that Gwendoline Christie looks quite a bit like Jenna "Pam Halpert" Fischer.

"Is there really anything wrong with hating both sides of an argument?"

Treating two opposing side of an argument or debate as being either equally valid or equally silly when one of them is clearly right and the other is clearly wrong would be a perfect example of a false equivalence. That's exactly what a false equivalence is, isn't it?

"Lefties like grabbing onto stuff like "the war on Christmas" or "legitimate rape" even though most conservatives probably think that shit is ridiculous."

"my Facebook feed is clogged with people demonstrating how right-headed they are by mocking those people"

" no one IN the movie seemed to want to be there"

Spectre and Blofeld would have seemed a lot more impressive (and menacing and mysterious) if it had be made clear that that's what they'd done.

And it was a thematic re-hash of the relationship Bardem's Silva had with Bond in the last film. A desire for vengeance against Bond by a man who's his sort-of brother? I made for (I thought) a very compelling plot in and a great motivation for a villain in "Skyfall," but here it just seems a bit implausible and not…

The thing about Apu, though, is that I've never found his character to be particularly racist. Certainly, his portrayal is pretty respectful and doesn't make his Indian-ness or Hinduism out to be a joke.

One of the main issues is that there are so few positive representations of people of color in the media, that when a people of color see one of their own depicted onscreen as something other than a terrorist or an international villain or something, they deserve to see that person portrayed by one of their own, not…

Still not as terrible as wigs for dogs.

I just watched a show about that the other day: Tut died young and unexpectedly. They didn't have his kingly tomb ready for him, so they had to use one intended for someone of lesser status. They had to chisel part of the doorway to fit his sarcophagus inside, and there wasn't room for all the afterlife swag that was…

I was just talking to my Dad about the difference between sex ed today and when he was a kid (practically non-existent for the latter, naturally.) So if his parents never said a word about it and his parochial school only vaguely mentioned that the sperm traveled from the man's testicles into the woman's uterus, where…

From the anti-Gamergate tone of his comment, I'm pretty sure he meant to say "anti-Social Justice Warrior" rather than "Social Justice Warrior."

"Wait, is it a thing to equate virginity with anger (more specifically spiteful frustration)?"

"No, it's is a blatantly racist slur historically employed by whites against blacks."

"Coon" is not a racist word.