Yeah, I don’t think you can include Lost.

I actually agree with you. My biggest issues with Bush were 1) he was deeply uncurious and 2) inability to empathize with anyone whose experience was different from his own. I will note that on #2 I don’t mean he lacked empathy. I think he, as you said, was well-meaning and wanted to help people. But I think he failed…

I always got the impression that George W Bush is a very well-meaning man. I think he got out of his depth, but he genuinely gave it his best and cared about the job he was doing as the President — and I think he understood when he needed to ask for expert opinions.  I don’t think he made all the right calls.  Fair…

Here’s the thing: It’s true that this sort of toxic behaviour is par for the course in many industries. I’ve been working in one for almost two decades. And yet, I’ve always been treated respectfully when being given negative feedback.

I love how people take “I’d like it if my bosses weren’t outright mean to me” to mean “I want everyone to be my bestie and I want everyone to praise me every time I do or say something I perceive as great.”

It’s kinda funny you mention this because Ashoka’s duel with Marrok is about as classic “samurai duel” as it gets. 

Exactly right. People defend the show by saying, “It give you all the information you need!” And that’s kind of true. It just gives you information, in the most bland, schematic way possible, not even attempting to make you CARE about anything.

Thank you for supplying the point of the article.

“I’ve seen some complaints that this screws up the timeline, since he’s not part of the regular New Republic fleet in that show and it wouldn’t make sense for him to see this big ring and not mention it to anyone during The Mandalorian, but there’s no reason to think that this doesn’t take place immediately after…

With all sincerity, thank you for this. I previously thought I had a good argument and you thoroughly dismantled it. Not to be corny but your students are lucky to have you as a teacher.

Yes, and I will defend that decision to the ground. It is a pedagogically sound decision. My role as a professor is to foster critical thinking and knowledge formation in all of my students. To do that, we need a classroom community where students feel free and safe. Too often, critiques like yours fail to truly take…

SAG-AFTRA granted those productions ‘waivers’ which essentially means that AMC has agree to the contract demands of SAG-AFTRA now, to be updated by whatever SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP decide on later. while they are officially called waivers, the better way to think about these are “interim contracts.” they are fully…

They got waivers for agreeing to all their demands. That’s an issue for you? Giving the union what it wants?

It’s weird that these allowances are controversial. Seems pretty clear - you meet the demands and work resumes. It also is very telling that smaller studios can accommodate while larger ones pretend the demands are unreasonable.

Its not that the sequel trilogy depicted as instant per se, its that the sequel trilogy decided that time and space (distance/where things are...not literally space itself) were worthless concepts and got rid of them entirely. Everything in those movies happens now.

Yeah - I thought this episode sort of rejected the “grey Jedi” idea once again. Ashoka mentioned how the dark side was basically consuming and a trap. She was pretty clearly training her on light side technique.

I loved that their hyperspace journey actually took time and gave the show some breathing room to explore the characters. That’s how hyperspace was most often depicted in Star Wars media until the sequel trilogy when it was depicted as basically instantaneous travel between two points no matter how far apart they are. 

I really don’t understand why Armstrong can’t shut up about this issue. It’s obvious he doesn’t care about women’s sports, and he certainly doesn’t care about fairness in athletic competition, so why does he feel so compelled to keep this going?

Are you ok?  This seemed so random I re-skimmed the article to make sure I didn’t read the wrong thing.