Agreed. If she wanted to give her Oscar back as a statement, more power to her. But it's certainly not a thing she should feel any pressure to do.

She is not obligated to do so and obviously shouldn’t. Moreover, she doesn’t need to be the first to do it.

I was super-psyched for this when it was announced but now I’m seriously “meh.” They better suck me in with the two-episode premier.

Xolo Maridueña has more charisma than range, but he can be entertaining to watch.

Big ol’ yep. A lot of this Filoni stuff just feels like franchise maintenance, trying to make the OT, prequels, and cartoons into a single, cohesive blob of content. It’s unexciting if you’re more interested in SW as entertainment than as a brand.

The amount of episodes I’m going to watch to get primed for Ahsoka is 0, because if the writing isn’t able to tell a complete story without all that homework, it’s a failure by the creative team.

Animal-House-era John Belushi would’ve taken this guy out of the equation for us just fine.

How about vilifying him because he’s lying about himself & his lyrics are genuinely awful from a technical standpoint?

The problem is this:

Hank Williams would never stop punching these people in the teeth 

I understood this to be super common in the folk / country world several decades ago. All the old pro-union songs were American folk music. Then...something happened, so now all we get are “star-gazin’ in my Ford truck, stringin’ up some city cuck, wait this salsa’s made in New York City?!? No, sir, none for me!”

Majority of the time someone says “I’m apolitical” they actually mean they’re conservative but don’t want to have it take from their appealability.

There’s a good strain of country/americana out there that understands class consciousness, or at least what it means to live a hard life, but it’s always ignored because the writers/singers will be the first to tell any conservative politician boosting them that conservatism is the problem.

I heard Mumford & Sons referred to as “Imagine Wagons” the other day and I felt that needed to be shared wider. (it was probably on this site).

I suppose I should be encouraged that they have moved from 1950's messaging to 1980's messaging.

“Lord, we got folks in the street, ain’t got nothin’ to eat / And the obese milkin’ welfare

I’m having trouble getting into Justified: City Primeval. I loved the OG series, but the daughter is just another bratty kid of the star of the series cliche (see also Zoe Saldana’s daughter in Lioness, Lily in AJLT, the daughter in Last Thing He Told Me).

I feel fairly assured that anyone formulating scientific opinions off AVClub articles or comments is beyond the help of your Quest for Truth.

I think he could have done it, but it definitely made sense to go with someone younger when you were planning a franchise, and Chris Pine killed it. Plus Olyphant is too tall.

If I ever end up discussing the difference with a dipshit COVID truther and not in the context of someone who knows better scolding someone who knows better, I’ll be sure to crack fewer jokes and hew closer to the facts.