Making Vader a rapping surfer dude with an in-your-face 'tude was rather an odd move, I thought.

This 1000 times.

I have much more faith in Rian Johnson's ability to create new, interesting, idea-filled fiction than I do in J.J. Abrams.

When exactly did he receive pilot training before blowing up the Death Star in Episode IV?

The entire argument against boils down to "But she's a girl!"

They do take pains to show that every other person who gets shot by Chewie's crossbow (or whatever it's called) gets thrown back 10 feet and killed with one hit (they even highlight that with the "I like this thing!" line from Han - I expect they put that there intentionally to set up how powerful it is for later).

It seems gross, because the idea of putting ketchup on anything you've never put ketchup on tends to trigger one's gag reflex, until you stop for a moment and think about the fact that potato chips are made of almost exactly the same ingredients as french fries.

You know what they say: "If you ain't eating Utz, you're eating butts."

Yeah but that's because it originated in Hamburg, Germany, not anything to do with pork.

That was a pretty amazing moment to see in a theater. You could feel everyone let out a sigh of relief that she wasn't unconscious.

Agreed on both points, they are pretty shameless about leaving the money stuff until super late. I ended up staying way too late most nights the last two weeks because I wanted to see the end of the coverage of the gymnastics and stuff that happened while I was at work rather than just looking up the results online,…

They do that on NBC too, there's stuff on live at 2 AM or whatever. The primetime show is a combination of live things (when available) and highlights from earlier stuff which were aired live when they happened. They also show live things on so the other NBC/universal networks (Bravo, NBCSN, MSNBC, etc).

I feel like the tape delay complaint doesn't hold water though… you can stream any of the events live online, and you could with the London Olympics too (and I believe Beijing but I'm not positive).

Every one seems to enjoy piling on NBC for their oh-so-terrible production of the Olympics, but I've never heard one concrete, specific thing they do poorly.

For another example of a good long tracking shot that actually served a purpose, see the cold open of Better Call Saul's second season episode "Fifi". It had a purpose, which was to show the entire process of the truck going through customs, so we (the audience) knew that nothing fishy happened in a moment that was…

According to Norm McDonald, the reason he's named "Norm" in pretty much all of his movies and TV shows is because he's really bad at remembering to respond when someone calls him by another name. I could see that being the case for a lot of stand-ups who don't really "act" regularly.

I'm always skeptical of the ones of presidents before and after their terms, especially the two-term ones. Is it that being president ages you prematurely, or is it just that dudes tend to be president during the period of their life in which they go grey? 56 year olds look older than 48 year olds?

In fairness to the Olympics, Aaron Rodgers will most likely not play in tonight's meaningless preseason game (or will disappear after taking like three snaps at the beginning).

They know exactly what they're doing.

Boyle said in an interview (on this site, I believe) that he wanted to wait an extra-long time because the actors all take good care of themselves and don't look aged the same way they would if they were heroin addicts IRL.