The same way we currently determine such things--in the courts. You have freedom of speech, with limitations on inciting violence, shouting fire in a crowded theater and such. 

It’s a thorny issue, to be sure.

Right. They tell the broadcasters that you will have to pay a fine if you air X, Y, and Z. There is no reason social media platforms couldn’t similarly be fined for certain material that was deemed detrimental to society. 

<i>“Like Luke did so often throughout A New Hope before meeting Obi-Wan. Remember that? Remember Luke just knowing how the Force worked before he ever had anything about it explained to him?”</i>

You are LITERALLY saying that a force-sensitive individual must have a “training” experience equivalent to Luke’s for you to…

The FCC has rules about what you are allowed to broadcast and where. 

Because they say they are merely providing the platform for the content, not the content itself. They claim they are not a media company, merely a service provider. And a decade ago, I probably would have agreed with them. But now they are clearly a media company. 

So Mackie plays the guy who brought the abuser into their home. I can see why Apple would want some time to figure out how to deal with that. 

Is that ... supposed to be me? I wrote you a fairly long considered answer and you accused me of throwing a temper tantrum? That is not a good faith argument. You just want me to capitulate to you as some kind of assumed authority without doing anything to demonstrate that authority. 

If you think all those things are baked into Star Wars from its very genesis, then you are lying to yourself. 

Huh? No. 

Fuck yes. I was actually breathless during all those things. (And the throne room fight.)

I truly and genuinely do not think it contradicts everything that came before. I think it answers a lot of questions that I had before in a way that’s very satisfying.

We know that one family happened to have a particularly strong force lineage. But we also knew that there were once plenty of other Jedi who weren’t…

Brothers Bloom is pure delight. 

The scary thing is I feel like certain sectors of pop culture media are starting to believe that ridiculousness, because the trolls have repeated it often enough. 

One, Luke didn’t get any fucking training from Obi-Wan. Obi-Wan had him playing with the lightsaber with the blast shield down on this helmet on the first fucking day they met. Maybe second if we’re being generous. And then no further training until Luke miraculously used the force to hit the Death Star’s exhaust…

Sigh. 

I don’t think it trampled on mythology. I think it opened the windows and let some fresh air into the mythology. And I fucking loved it for that. I am a big, big Star Wars fan, but there were a lot of things that I really wanted to see in its lore, going all the way back to childhood, which I never actually did until…

So we can blame children for the increasing mediocrity of cinema? That actually ... sounds about right. 

TLJ was literally everything my childhood self ever wanted from Star Wars. But I guess my childhood doesn’t count. 

Ding!