Quite so. If she can’t deal with the people on her team, she can switch teams or decline to play. Very much a case of “live by the sword, die by the sword”.

I’ve been listening to John Williams scores for 41 years, and was underwhelmed by it. I get that it’s a different sort of score, but it’s not the sort of score I want from a Star Wars movie. Disapointed, frankly.

“Little in the way of” means “a small amount of”, not none. Rey’s theme and a half-formed Resistence theme is “little” for a SW score.

Certainly England’s greatest living songwriter.

Indulge a foreigner. Why do you need more than one?

Can I just say that as a non-American, I find this headline entirely baffling?

My parents instilled in me the concept that “context matters”.

Is it worse or less worse than taking your top off and prancing around in your bra on a major TV network?

I fear that says more about you than it does about the movie.

I should probably have added, I really hope neither come to pass!

I’m not in Australia. Australians strike me as the most casually racist people in the Anglosphere. I’m in New Zealand, which has had its own problems in the past but is consitutionally dedicated to racial, gender and orientation equality, even if it sometimes falls short. There’s no lack of will or optimism. The…

Never going to America. Hospitals that resent having to treat you, cops who see shooting you as a first option, politicians who barely count as civilised humans. Scarey country.

Sue perkins was a really great stand-up before she took to presenting. I’m sure it pays better, but it’s comedy’s loss.

Apparently Phasma has a much bigger role in the next movie. Poe was originally supposed to die in the first act, but since they switched to keeping him alive, and he’s so popular, I reckon he’ll have a much bigger role in the next one.

I counted two besides Phasma, and several officers as well.

Have to agree. I’ve been a Williams fanboi for 40 years, but the TFA sountrack lacked flavour and coherance. The only stand-out themes are the old ones. The Resistance theme is rambling, and nothing else ever emerges. Hard to believe this is the same universe that inspired Princess Leia’s theme and the Emperial March.

Fair point, undoubtedly true.

I wonder if it’s libellous if you thought it was true when you said it, later found out it was false, but failed to disavow what you initially said?

haha the human condition.

If she lives to tell.