Stress, lack of sunscreen, pollution from home coal furnaces, less awareness that smoking and hard drinking should be avoided. Guinness in particular lived through two world wars, one in active duty, and smoked heavily his whole life.

Exile is not the issue, the complete loss of hope or faith that the Jedi discipline has something positive to contribute is. Which was a choice creatives made for Luke in TLJ before they made it for Kenobi. In New Hope, Kenobi's exile seems more strategic than emotional. 

Also true! IRL there’s a forty year age gap between prequel-Beru and OG Beru. You could almost think Lucas was actually really thinking through what living on Tatooine would be like, but I seriously doubt George "there's no bras in space" Lucas was world building that realistically.

Yes, all of that too. To be even grimmer, as the climate disaster really gets going, fewer people will even have the luxury of surviving long enough to notice aging.

Yeah, they took the one thing I think everyone hated from Last Jedi and seemingly turned it into the whole show. The world is full of jaded people who have given up on trying to do good, I don't need it in my entertainment.

Although to be fair I bet Tatooine's two suns are the worst case scenario for premature aging

Which doesn’t even make any sense! Macgregor was 34 in Revenge of the Sith, he’s 51 now. Technically he should be seven years YOUNGER than he is when Luke and Leia are 10.

*one's

Maybe I’m being overly generous, but to me Obi-Wan’s incompetence read pretty realistically. He’s spent ten years in a combination of severe depression, PTSD, and actively trying to suppress everything that makes him noticeable. There’s probably a disconnection from the Force to stay under the radar that’s putting him…

If there’s any inconsistency with Obi-Wan’s appearance, it’s just that people born in 1914 aged a lot worse than people born in 1971. Macgregor is 17 years older in Kenobi than he is in Revenge of the Sith. Strictly going by the canon timeline he’s already old enough to play Kenobi in the New Hope era, much less 9…

It’s a little different because the youngling slaughter isn’t a shock. Every casual Star Wars fan has known since 2005 that that’s what happens. Also, I think people in general are more callous about child deaths in war than random attacks in their own society. For sure it seems like people don’t give a crap about the…

That’s one theory. The other theory is that making 172 hours of television a year for 20 years is stressful and isolating from average life. Plus when you’re a cash cow, few people will call you on your descent into jerkdom until it’s too late. So even if the nice and kind was genuine in the beginning, unless you’re a…

Do you not think the Greek gods were edgy to begin with? They've got more sexual violence and cannibalism than Game of Thrones

De Santis signed into law that the Disney World special development district will be dissolved in 2023. I doubt either of us know enough about Disney's workings to argue about whether that counts as interfering "in a real way", but it's absolutely more than just posturing. 

Or even, kid tragically plays with gun and shoots someone. If you have every teacher in America a gun, I guarantee one of them would screw up keeping it secure and tragedies would follow.

I can’t explain Marvel Comics, but for the MCU at least, the squeamishness is built into the Disney corporate culture. And tbh understandably given their vulnerability to Christian ‘famkly-first’ groups, reliance on regressive foreign markets, and entrenched relationship with Florida. The last time Disney directly…

I wonder if her response is colored by America’s Sweethearts, which was another movie that by the numbers should have been amazing. Julia Roberts, Billy Crystal, John Cusack, Catherine Zeta-Jones, it's basically a supergroup of 1980s/1990s rom-coms. And yet, it utterly fails to replicate any of the magic of their…

But there's a widely recognized difference between cheap tricks and well-done art. Otherwise there'd be no difference between a car ad that makes you cry and the best dramas

Weird how the Asgardians have British accents but Olympians have to have verisimilitude? 

I think a huge amount of that is the writing and Kenneth Branagh’s direction. All his Shakespeare adaptations are painfully forced and stilted, and he applied the same approach in Thor. Hopefully Valkyrie and Jane are the main romantic couple so it won't even be an issue.