It can’t be upgraded to HD since it was shot on a video format.  There might be some slight upscaling, but it would be a minimal improvement compared to a contemporary show that would have been shot on film as a future-proofing measure.  It’ll look good, but not much better than it did at the time.

Most of the time I see Sanders now it’s either to debunk a promise Trump has broken, debate a single issue like healthcare, or propose something like Medicare for All, an importation of Canadian drugs bill, or throw support behind a candidate in a local race.  The only time I’ve seen him bring up 2016 is when…

Ensign Ripper forever!

I’d love to share this far and wide. Have you articulated these thoughts on a blog or somewhere else?

Well just because the characters are ambivalent about whether or not the cyclical wars between the Light and Dark sides of the Force are inevitable duels between the dichotomy of a two-party system or if they should be transcended, doesn’t mean the movie is. The trilogy, and therefore the story, isn’t quite over.…

Trek is a pretty massive part of my life, and yet I feel like the Kelvin films and DSC have helped me relax about the minutia of canon so that I can get better analyze why I got into Trek in the first place, it’s philosophy and characters. In my mind, if a new incarnation gets more people into Trek, and particularly…

And Princess Leia’s a pretty awesome badass anyway.

Hardly. Trek is the only franchise I truly care about (and have since I regularly watched TNG and TOS as a kid in 1991) and I see toxic fandom there all the time. And that’s the one that’s most overtly about diversity and bridging gaps through communication and diplomacy. There are plenty of hateful fans that think…

And the Ewoks and Droids cartoons, then?

Yeah, I loved the Canto Bight stuff for the same reason I tend to prefer Trek to Wars, the unapologetic real-world allusions criticizing the exploitation of others. While I think that most Star Wars movies suffer from pacing problems, and most people would prefer cutting this sequence, my choice of cuts for TLJ tend…

Hux was dignified in TFA? I thought that his speech in front of those throngs was supposed to read as ridiculously over the top.

Nothing says fully-baked opinions like writing one word, then asserting that said word is “all.”

Right now. CBS All Access has a commercial-free option. And you can even have a free trial, so you can binge and bail, if you absolutely insist.

The car slipped looking for a place to crash.

Before Rogue One, it was never less than three years. The first two trilogies were always exactly three years apart between entries on Memorial Day weekend. Clone Wars was the first movie released theatrically outside of Memorial Day weekend.

Mary Tyler Moore really was more conservative than the shows she did would suggest. She rejected Gloria Steinem’s attempt to recruit her as a feminist advocate and moved to the right since her show. She was an important person in the movement, but it’s a bit complicated.

I can’t think of many things that are more political than money. Justice against racial profiling being less important than NFL money is an inherently political stance to take.

I assumed squid, Mon Calamari Cruiser, and so forth.

No. Ackbar is a meme, and makeup, not a character. Maybe he’s got an in-depth biography in the novels to rival Dickens, but then Holdo has a backstory in the novels too. If going just by the movies, Holdo was more developed in 35 minutes than Ackbar was in 35 years.

It’s too early to tell how much Tyler/Voq and Emperor Georgiou get redeemed, but the fact that the show clearly wants to show that there’s the potential for redemption for both means that they believe that nurturing is worth the effort.