Pretty sure “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all” far pre-dates 21st century America. Neutrality is literally the easiest thing to do.

Exactly this. I can’t think of anyone who gave a career-best performance in Star Wars. Even actors who are widely critically acclaimed outside of Star Wars have turned in some real stinker performances in the franchise. And yes, Ingram's parkour sequence in the second episode is ridiculous, but that's on the people…

I don't mind Charlotte's second husband but I also haven't seen anything after season 4

A very fair take especially considering that almost none of the Sex and the City characters are likable in the first place. 

A lot of the racist messaging is “she’s a shitty actor who was only hired because of tokenism” so the direct rebuttal does include “she’s a great actor! That's why we hired her!” But directly rebutting in this instance gives undue legitimacy to the critique, which is really just a veil for misogynoir.

*force awakens

McGillis’s character didn’t get cut just because of the “Tom Cruise shall not date age appropriate women.” It’s specifically because Kelly McGillis has aged unacceptably averagely according to Hollywood. According to her, “I’m old, and I’m fat, and I look age-appropriate for what my age is.” Personally I love the…

I agree. I don’t watch a wide variety of panel shows, but the ones I watch seem to be much more diverse than the American TV I watch. QI and Taskmaster both do a good job finding guests and contestants from a wide range of ethnicities, ages, orientations, abilities, physical attractiveness, etc. 

Health and the appearance of aging are related but not the same. Also, it’s not who you know, it’s the scientific method or anecdote. Clearly you’ve chosen anecdote which imo is the far inferior method!

I mean yes, but also there have been scientific studies on identical twins that confirm smoking and sun exposure prematurely age people.

They had pet birds. Who apparently traveled in the car sans cage

I love it. But I’m the kind of person that plays my whole Spotify library on shuffle, so its wild jumps in tone from sex farce to morality play to space opera aren't a problem. 

If your greatest hits list includes Gotham, I find your taste suspect.

Probably his animated shows not being to their taste or only knowing him from the “we saw your boobs” song. A Million Ways to Die in the West was also underwhelming. Personally I’m not a fan of any of the above. I actually stopped seeing someone because they were waaaay too into Family Guy (plus the INTERIOR of their…

There's gotta be more to it than that, or else the buyers would keep the money and invest it themselves.

There are a lot of other Force factions that technically could be their own religion? The Dathomir witches, whatever Ahsoka ends up as, etc. But I guess if there's a tangible, provable connection with some supernatural force it really cuts down on jamokes claiming they dug up golden tablets in the desert and everyone…

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.