Gravity sucked.

“Fascist regime arises from an aging democracy wrapped up in its own complacency” is a great story hook, if done competently.

People disparage the “trade relations” part of Star Wars, but like...Imagine Game of Thrones but Star Wars? I’d be down.

Y’all motherfuckers can accept Gravity, an entire movie based around this concept that’s supposed to take place in our universe with our physics, but can’t accept that Leia can use the force to move like 20 feet in zero-G.

I’d accept that argument before believing that she just fell for the dude.

I like the fanwank that suggests that she was being Kilgraved by Anakin the entire time. He was (probably subconsciously and accidentally) using the Force to seduce and manipulate her, which is also why the Jedi Council forbids romantic relationships because there’s no good way to tell if a Jedi Knight is simply…

As with so much of the prequels, lots of good ideas, poorly executed.

The biggest problem with Padme’s characterization is that she falls in love with Anakin.

I think she’s a great character that’s forced into a bad relationship for plot reasons.

I don’t understand how Padme can fall for a guy who is a) creepy, b) fascist leaning, and c) a murderer.

The new movies acknowledge the prequels. Kylo Ren mentions a clone army in the first one and Luke briefly recounts the rise of Darth Sidious in the new one. There’s not a lot of reason to dwell on those events 50something years later, honestly.

Your rose tinted glasses are too strong. New cars are great, old cars looked the same too.

Hopefully all of it.

I hope they both lose.

Nice Miata, dude.

What are things you can put in an LTD trunk, Alex.

(you’re in the wrong story...)

This is the perfect time for my “The Last Jedi but all the young people are cut out of it” fan-edit. It’s 45 minutes of Luke Skywalker telling Rey to get off his property, followed by Supreme Leader Snoke illustrating why you should write your damn free-loading kids out of your will the first chance you get. Luke…

The Star Wars movies are now officially for old people

video of the exam was just leaked:

No, that’s not what it’s about.

Rebekahzula Mercer: I can see your whole history in your eyes. You were born with nothing. So you’ve had to struggle and connive and claw your way to power. But true power, the divine right to rule, is something you’re born with. The truth is: they don’t know which one of us is going to be sitting down on that throne,…