I wonder, though: Leia’s clearly only partly trained at best, so did she cut her training short or did Luke? It’s possible that Snoke tried turning Leia first so she cut herself off from it to avoid the temptation, and sent Ben to get trained instead.

In the novelisation for RotS a lot of plot points make way more sense due to details that were absent from the movie. For example, the reason Anakin is so infuriated about not being given the rank of master is because when you’re a master you get access to the restricted section of the Jedi archives. Anakin wanted to…

The movie doesn’t really get into the details of “the chase” because the running of the chase is Holdo’s operation and she’s not really a POV character that early in the film (and for a narrative reason).

I never said he went to the Death Star to kill Vader. But once he was there and Palpatine was like “lol if you wanna save your friends you gotta kill us” Luke was sorely tempted because he thought it was his responsibility to keep everyone safe. Just like Anakin had a saviour complex too; I think it’s in AotC that…

After that year he still whaled on Vader in a blind fury until Vader couldn’t stand up anymore, then cut Vader’s hand off, and THEN and only then managed to barely restrain himself from killing him. Luke’s got violent tendencies and keeping them on a leash has been his lifelong struggle. If Luke had actually wanted…

Not when she’s handing Luke the lightsaber. When she’s handing him the lightsaber, she wants Luke to solve everybody’s problems by cutting them in half - ESPECIALLY Kylo Ren, as she detests him at that point.

No he doesn’t. That was an illusion. It wasn’t real. He wasn’t actually holding a lightsaber on Crait. He was peacefully meditating on Ahch-To.

I’d prefer if Maria Hill got the big desk, partly because she’s more interesting as a hardass “You’re off the case, McGarnagle!”-type superior officer like she’s supposed to be, and partly because Widow’s too good at field work to get turned into a desk jockey this early

Why is everybody treating this as unexpected? Kevin Feige already said he wanted to do it, and I dunno if anybody else has been paying attention to Feige statements over the years, but when Feige says he’d like to make a movie, there’s like a 2-3 year countdown til it gets officially announced. This is the Marvel…

He certainly is that! I consider myself pretty genre savvy and can usually see twists coming a mile off - Rian exploited my tendency to anticipate plot points perfectly. The merest HINT of “how did the Empire track us?” made me jump to the conclusion that there was a spy on board. And due to the way Holdo was…

He cared a great deal. The last time we know of that Luke held a lightsaber was that fateful night in Ben’s hut. He obviously regrets it. That’s why we don’t see the green lightsaber in the whole movie except in flashbacks: Luke doesn’t DO lightsabers anymore. When Rey whacks him in the head with her stick he doesn’t…

Look, you can believe whichever side of the story you want - I’m certainly not going to tell you that Stan is innocent, because I can’t possibly know that. However if you try to tell me that I should treat this accusation as if it were proven truth and that I’m a bad person if I don’t, you’ve got another think coming.…

Uh, no. You should take the accusation seriously and when investigating it you should keep an open mind, looking for proof that it’s true. What you don’t do is automatically treat the question as being already settled.

Why did Obi-Wan have to die? He and Vader seemed evenly matched. But he just gave up at the end. Makes no sense.

Comics?

Look kid it’s pretty obvious that you’ve swatted someone and are trying to rationalise it to yourself. I can only hope nobody died when you did it, but even if nobody did, you’re still as bad as a driver who aimed for a pedestrian and missed. You’re guilty of attempted murder and if they ever catch you for it you’re…

Calling the police and telling them to respond to a dangerous psychopath in a hostage situation is so likely to result in death that your argument is akin to saying “but my gun had the potential to jam, so technically when I pulled the trigger I couldn’t know he’d die”

Can the police PLEASE stop immediately sending officers primed for a shootout as the first response to untraceable phone calls?

Yeah, but I think they probably mean illegal aliens, i.e. illegal immigrants. They don’t want it political.

Given the general idea of Wakanda, I’d be inclined to say that if you had to pick one African nation to base it on itd be Ethiopia. In fact I’d be very surprised if Lee and Kirby didn’t take their main inspiration from Ethiopia and Haile Selassie.