I thought it felt like a couple things.

First, it felt like the inverse of Empire where you thought Luke was a nobody only to find out Vader was his father. Which I kind of like.

Second, I thought it was a nice way to subvert expectations. The movies WERE contradicting themselves behind the scenes (there was no unified…

I actually think it was interesting for one reason. It means somebody other than the Skywalkers get to be relevant. You don’t have to have some grand lineage to be somebody in Star Wars. That’s important because they cannot rely on the Skywalkers to be some Force-user royalty. Or they could, but that seems not to be…

In the years since singlehandedly making the internet a worse place, Smith has tried to justify the bad thing he did by explaining that he lost a bet to Schwalbach.

I think there’s more internal communication than we realize, but maybe that’s my hallucination.

You, uh...you might be onto something there.

I can accept all of that. Episodes IV through VI still had a general cohesiveness probably because Lucas was still drawing from the same influences and he still thought in more-or-less the same way with the same interpretations. And yet, I have to agree that yes, those additions/changes were made midstream.

The…

Well, maybe not except for the fact that I don’t think anybody really noticed it until those instances were placed side-by-side in one neatly collocated article. I could go either way. I think it was less subtle than it was well-integrated. Sort of the hidden-in-plain-sight phenomena.

I could buy that, except some of those seem too similar. At minimal, they should have foreseen somebody making some connections if they made things too similar in the choreography. So I think it means something they gave them very similar styles.

Of course, it’s also likely fans are going to look too deeply into this…

This has me wondering, is there any overarching structure in place to these movies? If not (which is my understanding), was that Rian Johnson intentionally adding that connection despite seemingly torpedoing JJ Abrams’ plans for Rey’s significant lineage? I realize she could just have gotten that from their Vulcan…

I’ve never gotten to see them, however...

I have approximately no faith in the Emmys to make that right call, but...yes. Keri Russell deserves an Emmy. No offense to Moss, but Russell gave one of the best performances I’ve ever seen. Period.

My childhood fantasies and adolescent years were much, much richer for Ditko’s contributions. Peter Parker was probably the character I most related to growing up. Dr. Strange is one of the most compellingly flawed. I guess all I can say is thank you. Hopefully he can rest in peace and take some comfort wherever he is…

The same.

Ouch!

But...accurate.

Here’s an exclusive leaked photo of her droid.

She really did nothing but kick ass (literally and metaphorically) for six incredible seasons of television. I’m going to try and ignore any assholes trying to bash her and just be happy for her. She earned this.

Great gif, too!

Keri Russell is awesome! And anybody who harasses her, or any other actor or actress, because of some preconceived notion of what a Star Wars movie (or any other movie or show or play) should be is an asshole.

Beyond that though, I’m nothing but happy for Russell. After The Americans, any of the key actors in that…

Three years late and I haven’t seen beyond this episode so I don’t know, however...

I know this is years later (I’m just catching up on this series) and they may answer that directly later on (it’s a Damon Lindelof show, so...doubtful), however I had the same question. I think geography combined with probability makes the most sense. In certain nexus points (my terminology, not theirs) perhaps energy…

That just seems so stupid! Without James, Cleveland (not just the Cavs, but the whole city!) had not won a championship in 52 years. And James was the local hero. Without him they have won approximately nothing aside from one division title back in 1976.

Gilbert had every reason to develop a great relationship with…