I still generally enjoy the show but this quote from an interview Alec Berg did a few months back really annoys me:

Right there with you. It was remarkably refreshing thinking I knew what was about to happen only to realize that my constant reliance on the past (Star Wars films) was tricking me. Kylo said it best by saying to let the past go and if you can’t, burn it down. He even put his saying in action when he usurped the throne…

They made Luke Skywalker interesting. I love the original trilogy. I love Mark Hamill. I have read an ungodly amount of Expanded Universe stuff. And most of it, however hard it tries, can’t make Luke interesting. He’s The Hero, The Beacon of Hope, The Savior of the Galaxy, the Jediest Jedi in all of the Jedi. Even…

EVERYONE WHO KNEW AND DIDN’T SPEAK OUT IS COMPLICIT IN HOLLYWOOD’S SYSTEM OF ABUSE

But the thing isn’t winning and it never was. (Frankly, I was a little surprised that Thiel won, but since he was out for blood he was probably willing to do whatever it took.) Really, this is about making legitimate journalism the subject of requests for TROs/injuctions and defamation suits so it can’t be published.…