This was Martin Luther’s take as well. Catholics believe in transubstantiation — that the wafer and wine literally become the body and blood of Christ. Luther called that cannibalism. Protestants who participate in the Eucharist treat it as symbolic.

The “young” cast is now all in their 40s, and quickly approaching the age of the original cast when they made Wrath of Khan, a meditation on accepting middle age. Nothing notably different ever happened in the Kelvin timeline after the first movie.

That’s because in the alternate-2023 present day, it’s been 20 years since the fungal apocalypse. The infected are little more than an inconvenience because the surviving humans have learned how to manage the threat.

Zombies work best in small doses.

Grogu can’t even talk at age 50, though! He might require a century of training.

I liked how the first episode of the Obi-Wan series included a recap that was basically just footage from Revenge of the Sith, to helpfully remind us that Anakin became Darth Vader and needed to enter the suit after a duel over a lava pit.

It bothers me too that The Mandalorian is strait-jacketed by elements from the sequels that must be respected as canon, but what was the alternative? All of Luke’s students were killed by Ben Solo, so unless they wanted us to assume that Grogu was eventually slaughtered off-camera, he couldn’t stay at Luke’s doomed…

I thought they did a good job of handling the trickiest element — how do you make a show about caterers in their 50’s when realistically most of these characters would have long since moved out of the service industry? — in that Ron and Roman are the only two people who still work for Party Down in the first episode,…

But if you really believe everyone to your right is a fascist, how can you ever hope for positive change in the future? The change you want to see would only happen if you convinced me (and tens of millions of people to my right) to vote for leftist policies.

I’m not sure why you’re so obsessed with me. You don’t seem to actually care about masking, you just want to annoy someone who is better looking and more successful than you. Well, I’m annoyed, but the knowledge that you don’t actually care about the spread of COVID takes all the fun out of it.

Andor was received the way it was primarily because of the novelty of getting that far away from the Skywalkers and other familiar elements of the Star Wars universe. But it still exists in dialogue with that universe. Most Star Wars content needs to involve space battles and lightsaber battles in order to create…

That’s weird, my wife and kids seem to love me. I‘m not the one doing creepy psychotic stuff like cyberstalking a stranger and repeatedly encouraging them to commit suicide.

That’s completely false disinformation. The unusual thing about Omicron is that it wasn’t descended from Delta. It was descended from the variant that was common towards the end of 2020. Before vaccines became available.

Masking while sick, or while knowingly infected with COVID, is not a big ask.

Well that’s what’s so great about the Rage virus as a plot device. There’s no supernatural element of dead bodies being reanimated. They’re just normal humans who have caught a virus that makes them very very angry. They can be killed by any means, not just with a headshot. If you decapitate a Rage zombie, the head…

Eh, it gives people good feels to believe that what they see in the world isn’t really the way things are.

Let the hate flow through you…

You’re the one who’d use the force of government to cover up everyone’s face forever, if you could.

No, words have meanings. Eugenics is entirely concerned with “improving” the genetic quality of a human population, usually involving some combination of selective breeding and forced sterilization. It’s a horrible policy. It also has nothing to do with a virus that kills people who are almost entirely above age 50…

Well, it’s not really eugenics, which is defined as “the study of how to arrange reproduction within a human population to increase the occurrence of heritable characteristics regarded as undesirable.”