So you find it more believable that Jon Jones would use “gas station dick pills” than steroids? You find it more believable that the tests are so easy to pass that Costa, Lombard, Ngannou and countless other obvious roiders have never been caught, but Jon Jones just has the dumb luck that he got caught twice despite…

I’m not white. I don’t really have a problem with athletes using PEDs, and Lesnar should not be fighting if Jones isn’t allowed to.

I sure do. At the end of the day, he’s a white guy who likes money. 

Well...

Also, here’s this interview from a guy who was a bio-chemist for a number of track and field athletes and who used to work with BALCO. It’s a bit old, and some of the testing has gotten better, but I’m sure the chemists have, as well.

I misused the term “halflife.” But I stand by the rest. Here’s an excerpt from an article about T-Bol at ISARMS.com

Yes, a UFC employee has no reason to defend one of their few remaining guaranteed draws....

Ugh. Educate yourself on PEDs before making comments like this, please.

Yep. All the “subversions” were done for clear narrative and thematic reasons. That’s what makes them so special. That’s a large part what makes the movie so great.

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…