Most of which was already happening by the time he took office, which was a big part of why Ford lost in the first place. Carter is definitely a better man than he was a President, but he gets unfairly blamed for a lot of things.

Do you know my dad?

As someone who never read the books, the Half Blood Prince was the worst. It was the only one where I felt completely lost and had no idea what the fuck was happening at any point.

Also, humor is bad because Star Wars is serious business.

Great, we’ll add those five minutes. But what about Poe? How did he get to be so important? Should add five minutes for that. And where did Leia learn to use the Force? How about a few minutes to explain that? And what’s the deal with General Hux? He’s a pretty big wheel at the First Order factory, should probably…

Organaic’s arch villain is Brainaic.

I’m amazed at how little imagination some fans of a space fantasy opera have. Like they can’t believe a Skywalker would have mild Force abilities unless there’s some exposition about it. It’s a running theme with the complaints about Snoke’s backstory, Rey’s parentage, etc.

I’m sure you can cite your sources and they’re not all assholewithablog.com.

That, plus the author’s own explanation in the NY Times interview that his ‘true character’ was revealed in those texts, while Margot’s mistakes were borne of positive character traits like empathy and imagination, really soured me on the whole thing.   Any nuance appears to have been accidental.

Please, it’s not the toughest city in the world to play in when you’ve been anointed as the chosen one and the fawning media grafts a persona onto your blank slate of a personality. Now he’s getting actual criticism and has no clue how to handle it.

That scene was so fucking weird. It would have been over the top comical in the context of some Sharknado type movie, but instead it’s placed in the middle of this one, which I think we’re supposed to be taking at least semi-seriously, and just comes off as downright cruel.

And the reduced reaction time and increased focus were just happy side effects to ‘surviving.’  Also, Mark McGwire took steroids because he liked the way they tasted.

He appeals to a specific segment of comic book fans who believe that superheroes are SERIOUS BUSINESS only for SERIOUS ADULTS and must prove it to you by sucking out all the color and joy and everything else people actually like about these stories so that you would just take them SERIOUSLY already, ok?

Reminding me of this:

If they’re drawing out the story then I bet they will greatly extend the time between the big twist and the resolution of said twist.

No dice.

Fair enough.  But maybe it’s time for a re-read?  Book IV, Chapter 4:

The argument was that the books are a dull slog, not that they are especially difficult. And in your rebuttal, you name-dropped Faulkner and Joyce, (all the 12 year-olds go crazy for those guys!) which puts you right in the meme wheelhouse.

I could certainly be forgetting something, but I don’t recall a single time where the joke was ‘ha ha, funny accent,’ or Apu being the butt of the jokes at all. Certainly none of the most memorable Apu moments from the early years would qualify as being that.

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Lord of the Rings. The prose is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the world-building will go over a typical viewer’s head. There’s also Aragorn’s nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his…