The problem is tazers are ineffective on moving targets. That was on NPR yesterday (while also at times being lethal force as well.) And with pepper spray, to be in range the target may have already made their lunge. There’s no guarantee they can bring the target down.

The’re cops, not Ninjas.

Not sure that’s the case. A majority of his fame came in a very specific surge several years ago. It’s the same surge that guys like Markiplier experienced later to a lesser extent.

I’d say the same thing, but Kotaku keeps covering him. It’s like saying I don’t care about Marvel movies. Whether or not I care, people are still going to post articles so people are going to read about it and talk about it.

Gene, Chris, George... there’s basically a laundry list of creators where in Science Fiction it often pays to minimize your role the older you get. That’s not because you become a bad writer, far from it. It’s that your audience that invariably is romanticizing your past work with it’s delightful anachronisms won’t…

Honestly, as a former student it didn’t really bug me whether or not direct feedback was needed to grade faculty. My opinion was in general tying too much to student evals led to too much coddling. But at the same time, I think there’s a certain level of complaints needing to be taken seriously.

‘Eh. Largely this kind of paranoid/half-true stuff bores me after a while.

To me, there’s probably dramatically tons of unused ground when it comes to these kinds of things. But this being television, this can only mean he’s going to be a villain or she’s going to end up “thinking”.

Ok... but when I said preferences in the context of what I was writing, that wasn’t what I was talking about.

I do think for a lot of guys (especially of the nerdy/shlubby set) that’s part of the double edged sword of success late. They don’t acclimate to normal dating because until they are extremely successful, they don’t start seeing that attraction.

I think the problem comes in (especially if you’re going to acknowledge the outcasts in school thing) is that people once they hit the age of 30 and to even more an extreme at 40 are products of so much experience that may not lend itself easy fixes. The guys kvetching about women with baggage in their 30's or 40's…

The argument you’re making is weirdly selective. The problem with everything before Abrams Trek for comparison purposes is the talent roster, the SFX budget, and the marketing are completely different. When Star Trek: Nemesis came out, I didn’t even know they’d made a movie until I saw it playing one day.

Hey, if you disagree that’s fine. I’ll buy you a drink. But there’s not much proving going on in a hypothetical and a disagreement.

What gives you the impression Luke was a brilliant pilot? The part where Wedge has to save him or the part where his group is the last in to attack the Death Star and Han had to save him?

The issue is that these Skyways are largely useless to anyone not living in an affluent area. They are a stopgap solution so that largely well off people can get what they want as quickly as possible without other solutions that would also benefit poorer communities.

I don’t care about it in terms of film. It’s however a structural defect in the film I notice that is minor at best.

That’s largely because while audiences don’t mind special (see ANH’s ending) or brilliant (see Han’s piloting of the Falcon in Empire/Luke’s Batman Gambit at Jabba’s Palace), audiences buck when those elements are not appropriately explained through things like time lapses, exposition, or actual action explaining it.

You really think people weren’t kvetching about 10 year old Anakin blowing up the droid ship and the pod race? Were you not around for The Phantom Menace or did you really not hear it because that was one of the loudest complaints? I can link you the 1999 Hollywood Reporter review.

He may have, but oddly enough Lucas was lambasted by both IO9 and TheMarySue when he all but basically mentions that the new films cater to the fans by not really creating new things. It’s a really restrained criticism, but decisions like Jar-Jar tend to be why he’s earned that. He took big risks and succeeded. He’s…

The problem all these studios are going to have is the Disney effect. Sure, 20th Century Fox could greenlight the next great Space Opera epic. But unlike the 70's when Star Wars got an entire summer, creating something brand new from no specific source material (Marvel, SW, etc.) means something’s going to play for an…