I, meanwhile, have been waiting for Tampa Bay to not suck for almost 20 years. When Tom Brady came onboard, I thought I’d finally have a chance to brag in my group chat. We all see how that’s going so far...

Space Law nerd reporting in. Trump is terrible© and he did sign that executive order, but the US policy has always been to deny the universal commons viewpoint of space. The Outer Space Treaty, signed by the US in the 60s, did recognize that space should be used for the benefit of all mankind. However, the US refused…

I’m too lazy to look it up, but I know for sure I saw one of the Craig Bond films on Netflix last night. I think it was Quantum of Solace. And I think Casino Royale is there too.

Just imagine your next door neighbor in your apartment building owning one of these.

Subtextual reading can be accidental. I’m not saying that the casting directors didn’t do it on purpose, I’m saying that you shouldn’t assume that they did. If so, you’d then read a “the Empire is full of white supremacists” subtext into something where it wasn’t intended.

It’s very surprising that this character is both a feminist and a Nazi. I’ve heard a lot about white feminism vs. feminism for all other women recently, and this seems too applicable to that dynamic for its own good. I find it hard to believe that they’re bringing this issue up on purpose, but who knows - maybe the…

I believe you, but I have to amend my statement: there was only one MAJOR black character in the OT as far as I can recall. And he was a traitor until he had a change of heart. That’s what my brain noticed.

I don’t think the Empire as we know it would have despised Mr. Esposito for his skin tone - he was still human, after all. The Empire was always more about xenophobia than racism. The fact that (off the top of my head) there was only one black character in the OT had more to do with the casting of the film than the…

I also disagree with her position, but I have to remind myself that she is from mainland China. If I had grown up there, I might feel the same way about Hong Kong. In her mind, she’s supporting her country’s unity - even though most of the world sees it very differently.

I guess in a way,this makes the young Anakin force ghost make more sense. If old Anakin was never redeemed, then the “good guy” Anakin died some time during Episode III. Really, as you say, there shouldn’t have been a force ghost at all. Everything we’ve learned about force ghosts since ROTJ conflicts with Anakin…

I’ve read before that dogs fail the self recognition mirror test. I don’t disbelieve that, but it doesn’t answer one question I’ve always had: if dogs fail the mirror test, why don’t they bark every time they see “another dog” in the mirror?

I thought it would’ve been much better with a different soundtrack. At one point when the cheesy music started playing, I rolled my eyes because I knew an action sequence was coming.

I remember reading this book somewhere around the 9-12 year old range and feeling very sad at the end. This might have been my first experience with a downer ending, but it was such a good book. Maybe I can find my original copy and read it again now, with more perspective.

Did anyone else notice how Maul’s fight with clones mirrored Vader’s fight with rebels at the end of Rogue One? I’d be curious to see the two scenes side-by-side. Vader obviously had a lightsaber, but a lot of the same beats were hit - pulling away blasters, slamming people into ceilings, killing (maiming) someone…

I think this season, more than any other show I’ve ever watched, has nailed the whole “20 minutes into the future” trope. Most cars are battery powered? Check. No one, including paramedics, can do anything productive without checking their phones? Check. A blockchain gig economy, but for criminals? Check. I think…

Musashi was going to remove Maeve’s head, but when his men informed him that there were armed men at the gate he mentioned that “they probably tracked her here.” Knowing that she had a tracker but not knowing where it was is probably what stopped him from cutting off Maeve’s head. Didn’t want those unknown assailants…

Man and wife ingest fish tank cleaner because that’s exactly the kind of thing Trump supporters would do and it has an ingredient that sounds like the medicine Trump says is being used to treat corona virus (even though actual doctors strongly advise against using it without a physician), news blames POTUS by stating…

...So we still don’t know who the guy was who caught the lightsaber?

You’re mixing arguments. It is not a fallacy that his legislation has mostly failed, or that he has been on the losing end of many famous Congressional votes. I’m not arguing for or against the goodness of his policies. I’m stating that, for all his talk, he hasn’t accomplished anything. But I take your point on that…

So based on your first paragraph alone: