Yes, but The Americans began doing so pretty early in its run. It was already subverting Spy tropes in its first season and was basically subverting all of them by the second. People had plenty of time to either buy the ticket for the rest of the ride or not. By the final season, viewers already knew what to expect.…

Well, in defense of ANH and ESB, many of the tropes and expectations pop culture now expects in these kinds of movies (such as the MCU) can be traced directly to them (and, yes, they were following the tropes of older stories, but those movies popularized them to a degree they weren’t before).

Say more. What plotline didn’t make narrative sense?

In Empire Han, Leia and Chewy spend half the movie hiding on a rock. So it is nitpicking. There’s absolutely nothing in the history of narrative that says a “slow speed” chase can’t be compelling.

The “pacing” issues are nonexistent. It’s part of the response of waiting for something expected to happen, and then it not happening. It’s a little long, yes. But I’m not sure what I would cut from the movie. 

The movie didn’t “reject” any mythos. It didn’t really reject any tropes, either. It just zigged where people were expecting it to zag, and now people’s feelings are all hurt for no reason. 

You’re “weird” because the things  that you write. I don’t care if you like TLJ or not. I only care that your comments make some sort of sense. When you say that TLJ was “tearing down” mythologies, it’s apparent that you either don’t know what happened in the movie or don’t really care to know. It’s a sign that you…

That’s not what I said at all. 

I never said it equaled good. But the people who enjoy the movie I don’t think are reflexively liking it only because it subverted expectations. They like it because it subverted expectations in interesting ways. 

This is true. It didn’t connect because it challenged the viewer. The movie basically subverted every expectation the audience had. And it was awesome, and it sent a powerful message in large part by doing so.

It did add to the plot. Just because you didn’t like the scene doesn’t mean it didn’t carry any narrative water. I bet you think that Finn didn’t have “an arc” in the movie. But he did, and the Canto scene is the crux of his arc and of our understanding of why his main concern in the movie went from worrying about Rey…

Yeah, it was dropped after 20 minutes, because it was what is often called a “subplot” and was not intended to, you know, be the centerpiece of a movie.

Canto Bight was also about why the War is happening in the first place. It’s literally the first time in the entire series that we see what life under a repressive regime looks like. 

All the Californians I know think they have access to the only fast food burger worth eating on the planet, because of In-n-Out.

Quite frankly, my entire philosophy on political strategy is, “Is this something the Republicans would do in our position?” If the answer is yes, then we should do it too. They’re a lot better at this than we are.

That movie was just ahead of its time. The satire flew over the heads of people who didn’t understand what it was satirizing or why.

The highest concentration of andro receptors are located in the shoulders, chest and upper arms.

Meh. None of this shit matters. People don’t really care about politicians do or don’t do. They just care that their team wins. Trump can do and has done a million things worse than use a private server and his supporters wouldn’t bat an eye.

1. MMA is not Football

I stated this in another post, but I’ll repeat it here: I think the pressure just gets to him. In combat sports (perhaps all sports) thinking is anathema to performance and I think he just is constantly thinking about what to do and what his next move is, step-by-step. That alone saps energy for several reasons, then,…