This type of loquaciousness is the opposite of effectively communicating your point.

I don't think it's that it slipped her mind, exactly. There's a difference between knowing about the force and feeling it. It's the "feel, don't think" thing. You have to have your shit together and not let your thoughts and emotions get in the way of hearing the force. Yoda clearly implies that Luke could have lifted…

Exactly. There's some explanation required but it's clearly coming in Ep8. I don't even find the fight to be that problematic. It's established at the start that she's pretty handy and she's against a dude who just took a bowcaster shot to the abdomen. Add a buff from tuning into the Force and I'm fairly happy with…

Yeah I didn't really have beef with the subject of the story (the way a lot of people did), I just felt like he was running out of steam at that stage. His early run was inspired. Saying that, I actually really liked OMD, which I know puts me in a pretty small group. Totally tuned out of Spider-Man once his run ended.…

>I can never forgive him for his work on Superman

Trouble with this game was that the Nemesis system was too good. Made an enemy early in the game, before I really understood how everything worked, who got insanely powerful and would turn up and ruin my shit at every opportunity. Whole game turned into a quest to kill this little fucker. Once I'd done it the game…

> That something is their superior midi-chlorian count.

Yeah, actually. Maybe not in those words but certainly in essence. Star Wars isn't sci-fi, it's fantasy and fantasy needs magic. If Gandalf had said "I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. Because I have Hepatitis C", it would have sucked the wind out of that shit as well.

I think because intangible, unknowable mysteries that can only be understood through metaphor and observed through miracles are awesome, and hematological disorders aren't.

>The remnants of the Empire shouldn't have access to better resources than the Empire did; that doesn't make any sense.

Do Americans get how weird it is for people in the UK to see a dude we grew up watching in Sunday afternoon, middle-of-the-road, BBC bullshit, already looking washed up and middle aged, steadily turn - in his 60s - into the coolest actor on fucking television? I'm happy for him and all, it's just very disorienting.

Totally. Hope this is as gloriously dark and peculiar as it should be. She's such a singular comedian, I don't think she's capable of making something bland.

Can only assume it's a reference to Ms Dynamite and Lady Sovereign, and it's fueled by Maria Bamford's love of early 2000's female, British pop-grime artists that she isn't aware exist.

Don't disagree with you at all but I think the literal reading of that scene is even more powerful. If they'd have cut 10 seconds earlier the moral of the film would have been "true love conquers all" and not "just because you had a moment of youthful clarity, doesn't mean you have life all figured out", which it…

I really only mean, 'dark for a Zelda game'. I'm not saying it's Nintendo's Martyrs or anything. I do find it to be more consistently dour than the others. I've also never finished it, so I've never reached the point of catharsis that you mention. As I said in another post though, I'm always conscious that even shit…

Yeah totally agree. I thought the time mechanic in Majora was clever, I just didn't really enjoy it. It was just an element of added stress I could do without. Also, from a story POV, you're going round saving people and doing good and shit, but everything you do is undone when the clock resets at the end of the 3rd…

Same. Finished every game in the series apart from Majora. I like it and I get why other people do, but it just doesn't sustain my interest for some reason. I think the level of acclaim has to do with it being 'dark', which some people regard as an inherently positive quality.

Skyward Sword would be top 3 for me if it weren't for that fuuuuuuuuucking endless, and endlessly repeating, boss battle with the big wooly thing in that pit. Amazing game in every other way, but entirely fuck repeating the same thing over and over. Did we learn nothing from Phantom Hourglass?

I fucking hate it when Link gets a tunic "upgrade" mid-game and ends up in Red or Blue. Had to play him in non-optional Blue for about 50% of ALBW, ffs…

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