I don’t think this trilogy was planned out before they started, which seems strange for Disney, but I haven’t really minded it all that much. I’ve loved both of them so far and am very much looking forward to Rise of Skywalker. The only quibble I really have is Finn seeing the corruption at Canto Bight as a way to ce…

I really cannot stand this dude as a filmmaker, but good on him. 

This is a wonderful Thanksgiving story. A millionaire gave up, basically, pocket change. Who cares, I give my pocket change (actual coins) away all the time and I’d like some goddamn applause too.

I doubt very little of the new trilogy was plotted out in advance. But guess what else wasn’t? Either of the other two trilogies. Lucas plotted the prequels around concept art he liked, and despite his self-mythologizing, took the classics one at a time as well.

As is “known”?

He really struggled with the dark side in Logan Lucky too. 

Good lord Driver has the most interesting face. He looks completely average/gawky one moment, then the angle changes and he’s breathtakingly handsome. He’s endlessly watchable.

Yeah, I know when I saw him play the soulful yet detached poet/busdriver in ‘Patterson’ I thought, “This is exactly like the unstable, insecure and short-tempered space warlock he played in the Star Wars films!”

Adam Driver should have known it’s tough being married to a tree...

“but I won’t respect you, and I’ll make sure the kids don’t either” might be the best line in the show

I liked “Which Hand” way more than the consensus here, obviously. Cecily Strong nails the contempt before even saying a word, and “but I won’t respect you, and I’ll make sure the kids don’t either” might be the best line in the show. I also liked “Has This Ever Happened to You” more than a lot of the sketches that…

Shut up, Paul.

You know, you can dislike the show without trying to discredit or dismiss other people’s enthusiasm as “shilling?”

Thanks for this. I myself am a believing Mormon but I am embarrassed by what Christian art has become. It's just a big mess of stupidity. This is a belief system that has produced some of the world's greatest works of art throughout the course of history. Now we're here. I follow Harold Bloom's admonition that…

No ridicule here; just respect from this godless heathen. Seriously.

You're alright in my book, PaNoire. To be honest, all the Christians I know are like you. I just wish you guys would all team up and tell the right-wing fundie arm of your team to shut the hell up and (re)read the Bible some more.

Well said.  In my view, and from many hours of reading, studying, pondering the question, it contradicts core tenets of Christianity to force people to follow it. You have to make the decision to follow Christ or you're not a Christian, just a slave. I came to it very organically - raised in an atheist, left wing (my…

Yeah, I may not agree with what you believe, but you're not being shitty about it, so knock yourself out.

When you put it that way, it occurs to me that it's funny that right-wing Christians in our country believe that God gave us free will in order that we might choose Him freely… and, because of that, the government should force everybody to be Christian.  (But also the government has too much power over individuals.)

Quite the opposite.  I respect you for this and greatly appreciate it!  Thank you.