“Sure, you can appeal, Rom. You just have to come to California and do it in person. The Academy will even pay for your airfare and hotel...”

The proper response when you’re in the way outside lane and are going to miss your exit on the freeway is this: Foot off gas, foot over brake, spew about 15 dozen profanities while foot hovers over brake and you pass exit without speed really decreasing, mash foot onto gas and accelerate like an insane person,…

Amaya isnt the worst but not even the weakest link, but they sure havent treated her that well this season. Outside, like, 3 episode there hasnt been much for her to do. Shes there for Totem advice, which is only relevant for a couple of episodes, but nothing more than “They choose the wielder” and “You cant use it…

Is there a BTS where he explains why he chose “slow speed chase where neither side can shoot at one another” as the core backdrop of his movie? Cause I’m still scratching my head on that one.

Before he even wrote the movie, writer-director Rian Johnson had these very specific ideas in his head: The idea of a casino planet where the one percent of the Star Wars universe lives. Rey in a mirrored space, seeing an infinite number of herself. The red and white environment seen on Crait. And an image of…

Mara Jade. Mara Jade Mara Jade Mara Jade Mara Jade Mara Jade.

In the original show, Ralph was chosen to wear the suit because he was a person with strong moral character, as opposed to “drinking tequila, singing karaoke, and not much else”

I’m unbothered by the “casting a woman” bit, but the “hard-drinking aimless slacker who gets forced into heroism” character archetype is more than a bit hackneyed at this point.

The night was still criminally absent of a Celebrity Jeopardy sketch.

Dan Jurgens’ Action Comics is fucking amazing and I will brook no reproach.

I think Paul Dini probably had more to do with what we loved about the animated series. But because the show featured Timm’s artwork and he had the higher position, we more closely associate what was good about it with him.

CBS All Access is $9.99 a month of for one exclusive show?

It didn’t matter if it occurred to Luke. The Emperor was ready AF. Snoke was a dupe. Beaten by a dark Jedi who was beaten by a girl with no training. Looking back now, the threat of Snoke was all just perception, with nothing behind it. The audiences were dupes as well. That’s one of the reasons TLJ hurts TFA.

I actually felt like TLJ failed on three levels. First, as a movie in the franchise. It poisoned and retconned a huge amount of the OT. Those movies will be harder to enjoy having seen TLJ. Second, it poisoned and retconned much of TFA. Unless you’re delusional, TFA will be much harder to enjoy having seen TLJ because…

What I like best is that all those asshats from the OT are shown for what they really are, washed up losers. Han and Leia are failures as a couple. They are failures as parents. Han has to resort to shit he did 40 years ago. Like a CEO going back to flipping burgers. Leia is leading a failed rebellion into the ground,…

This is FASCINATING. Two people interpreting this allegorical incident as representing diametrically opposed positions on the political/philosophical scale. Never have I seen such clear evidence that these behaviors are identical, despite supposedly being “right” or “left”.

“The scene that best utilized this idea was when Alara was confronted for wearing a hat that she had no cultural right to. She didn’t know a thing about it and had only chosen it to hide her forehead ridges. Her accuser threatens to downvote her and create a scene.”

Back in 2004, when blogs were still a thing that people did, I had a blog. One night I wrote a long-ish entry on why I thought Rodney Dangerfield was the only modern comedian on par with Chaplin and Keaton. When I finished writing it, for the hell of it I went to Rodney’s web site and sent him a link to the post. (To…