Hot take: he’s absolutely right about the Skywalkers being fundamental to Star Wars, it’s just that no one wants to admit it.

Linehan baffles me.

Well, that’s another strawman; I’ve not said they’re “not allowed” to have different opinions on Martin Scorsese (in fact, I’ve said the opposite in this very conversation). Nor, frankly, am I in a position to stop them expressing their different opinions even if I didn’t think that. I’ve explained why I think…

Who is “bitching at the writer” of this article? I’m certainly not. I’ve pointed out that there’s a drastic gulf in the opinions expressed here and the opinions in the other article, which is fine because there is. And I’m doing so here because it’s relevant to both articles, which it is; they’re both about the same…

As is your right. Unlike you, I didn’t tell you to go somewhere else to do that.

Nah. The AV Club as a collective fully deserve their lumps on this one. It betrays a site-wide lack of editorial consistency and standards which reflects poorly on everyone regardless of whether or not they agree with the specific article. They published the stupid article purely for clicks and engagement, so they…

Objection!

But what of the toxic masculinity? How will us testosterone-fuelled sociopaths otherwise know that it’s art?

Jesus Tlāhuizcalpantecuhtli, god of the morning star, wept!

Different writers have different opinions, sure, but the fact that they published two such extremely diametrically opposed takes within a single day of each other is more bipolar than Two-Face.

Sure, but there’s writers for the same publication having different opinions and then there’s publishing a celebration of a man’s work literally the day after you published an article basically calling him an overrated out-of-touch hack. One is the diversity of human experience, the other is an utter lack of…

... Nah, you guys ain’t gonna be living that piece of shit down for a while. 

Yeah, but unlike Avengers: Endgame, absolutely none of them will stand the test of time.

Can’t you hang out somewhere else for a change?!

Man, for his sake I hope he is. If I were publishing anything close to film criticism I’d be utterly embarrassed to have that in my portfolio. 

It’s not “self-righteously bleating ‘toxic masculinity’ because he dared say mean things about superhero films”.

Counterpoint:

Certainly, if you’ll just take a seat in the debate chamber waiting room here, we’ll be right back.

You’re a comedian, you make people laugh. You think this is all a big joke, don’t you? I saw you on T.V. once; I remembered your name from my list. I looked it up. Sure enough, it checked out. You think because you’re a celebrity that somehow the law doesn’t apply to you, that you’re above the law? Well, let me tell…

You don’t “have to psh back.” Just say you want to.