Better yet, mix her ashes with cream and have someone play the blackface minstrelsy version of Princess Leia.

If they have her clearly set up to play a big part in the finale, doing a time jump that involves her character having died in the interim could be a good shock opener and reinforce the whole 'endless conflict' vibe they seem to have in mind for this series.

Her performances in the movies are pretty much on par with the quality of the material. She's serviceable in the first one, great in the second, OK in the third and basically a prop in TFA. I think it's fairer to say she's somewhere on the above-average-but-not-great spectrum.

I think whatever TBS pays him defrays his settlement payments from NBCU. So even if TBS dramatically cuts his pay, he's still covered by the NBCU money. On the money front, he's set for life no matter what happens.

This show and The Flash are the two shows in recent years that got me really excited in the early going and then just completely lost my interest.

Which movie was great? The one about Harvey Dent? The one that is basically Heat but with superheroes? The one about the Joker? The one about Batman learning his limits? Or the one that tries to recast the second triumvirate and Roman civil war in modern times? The film is a mess that never decides which of those…

Warner Bros kind of lost their shit and tried to kill Keaton's career when he walked away from the franchise. Blaming him for the quality of movies he managed to be in between the early 1990s and this decade is unfair due to that.

Batman Returns is, by far, the best and most thematically consistent live-action Batman movie. It knows what it wants to be, communicates that, and sticks the landing. (Structurally and in terms of story, it does what The Dark Knight and Iron Man 2 seemed like they were aiming for—a deconstructionist take on the title…

Unless they touch directly on the topic of religion on Today—which they seldom do at length—it's not evident there. You have to be aware of things they have said and do say or write outside of that venue to really notice it.

The Clinton campaign actively helped Trump. It's in the emails they alternatively claimed were faked, hacked, or stolen. Vox, like most mainstream political outlets, largely regurgitated whatever line David "Anita Hill is a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty" Brock or Peter Dao were selling that day.

I think you may want to look into the recent histories of Iran, Libya, Syria, Haiti and Iraq and consider that she centered much of the later period of her campaign on McCarthy levels of red-baitinga after you calm down and the delusions start to clear out of your head and rethink the bulk of what you just said.

Outside of outlets owned directly by David Brock, it was the closest thing to a propaganda machine for the Clinton campaign that existed in mainstream media. They took trump "seriously" when the Clinton campaign thought he would be easy to beat and was actively helping him and again when they tried to guilt and shame…

I honestly find two right-wing Christian religious fanatics drinking wine and talking about dating as much as those two fascinating. Outside of reading Hawthorne, there are few places that offer that in-depth a study of particularly American strains of hypocrisy.

To be fair, Maddow is really the female version of Ezra Klein. She gives corporate PR a wonky shine due to her background as a Rhodes Scholar and such but doesn't really offer much substance once you get past the appearance of research and start noticing she's basically saying the exact same things the other "news"…

If you're a mainstream/corporate tv "journalist," I think this is fair. There are lots of independent television/online and print—and even some corporate print journalists—who still do quality work in America.

And called for a weirdly large number of musical performances tailored specifically for his wife., was epic instead of feature length, and featured an intermission.

Boise, Idaho is my vote for Hell on Earth. Idaho is basically where you go when you're too much of an asshole to stand the rest of the continental Northwest but too lazy to go to Alaska and Boise is where you go if you are like that, have a little bit of money, and want to feel like a big success without actually…

In my view, the story turns from a story of fighting for your beliefs to propaganda for the state in general and that war effort in particular the moment Doss decides to be a "conscientious objector" while still supporting the war effort. There's no getting around that and the parts of the story you are focusing on…

Yeah, on the moral/religious level, the movie has major problems. But that's not the movie's problem—it's a problem for the story the movie is telling.

I wouldn't feel obligated to explain away liking Hacksaw Ridge. Not enough people give Gibson, as a director, the credit he deserves. Most of the movies he's directed—including Hacksaw Ridge—could work as silent movies in the complimentary sense. He has a genius-level mastery of knowing what kind of film grammar works…