With this episode, I found myself once again comparing it to Haunting of Hill House and how the focus is different. The main narrative focus in HoHH was about family bonds, about how they can be be strained or become these twisted destructive things, but how the can also be that support and force to help you in your…

HOT TAKE:

“I did it myself. I spent the days mostly in this exact outfit—this coat, these Ugg boots, leggings, no makeup, my hair tied up in a bun, Ubering back and forth between the hotel and the house, measuring.”

Wait?!? Vogue Knitting is a thing?

Yeah. I was aiming for delicacy but it seems rather rude.

Wouldn’t Anna Wintour wish to see the fashions on the runway?

Seeing her sitting there like that all neat and proper and ladylike just made me miss my grandmother so much I’m ready to start bawling at my desk.

Because Lena Dunham is an attention whore with no boundaries or apparent need for privacy.

Yeaaaa the best marriages are built upon pushing and nagging. The more people hear it the stronger your bond will be.

I’m not going to dismiss this one. Where exactly did I say making amends is impossible? It’s impossible for one to make amends from a place that isn’t completely genuine and emphasizing one’s own comfort is inherently disingenuous.

When you fuck up, it’s not always something that can be fixed. And when it can’t, you say sorry because you ARE sorry. You don’t get to automatically feel better, but you do get to know that your apology is sincere and isn’t motivated by self interest or merely the desire to feel less like shit. And THAT is how you…

As someone who really enjoyed Community, I feel like it’s still really easy to watch how the show treated its female characters and know what kind of a writer’s room Dan Harmon ran.

I’m sticking with my idea that Rey and Kylo are both the Balance to The Force, and both are necessary for the Universe to grow and prosper. If Kylo gets too strong, you get another Empire - if Rey does, you get The Old Republic eating itself alive on petty points of order (kind of like Democrats and Republicans do now…

The reveal about Rey’s backstory is absolutely the most satisfying answer they could have possibly given us, precisely because it’s unsatisfying to Rey.

Yeah. There’s definitely a side of me that wanted her to join up with Kylo, but he was pretty clear that joining up with him meant starting a two-person galactic dictatorship. Not exactly “breaking the wheel.”

This is an interesting concept to me. This film really hit the idea of letting the past go and it had a bit of a nihilistic streak with Benicio del Toro’s character. He said something along the lines of “They blow you up today, you blow them up tomorrow.” It got me thinking that maybe Rey should have taken Ben Solo’s…

Yes. That’s one of my big hopes for the next movie, that Rey will build a new Jedi order that doesn’t make the same stupid mistakes as the last one. Like maybe ripping tiny children away from their families and turning them into magic space monks with no bonds to other humans is a bad idea.

I also loved the jab at the Jedi Order of the prequels when Luke points out how they were over romanticized and more or less brought about the rise of Palpatine and the Empire through their own ineptitude.

I call shenanigans. They’re in cahoots together to create social media drama and drive traffic.

It’s like dudes who learned to say “I want a girl who takes care of herself” instead of “no fatties” in their dating profiles. The sickness is still there, but it has a better PR spin now.