OK, so when Kylo Ren and Rey touch fingers via Force-Skype, they apparently both see each other’s future, and they tell each other “when the time is right, you’ll turn.” The new trilogy up until now has made much of Kylo Ren’s internal conflict, and this one made a point of how Rey might be prone to the Dark Side…

Yeah, but he said that in a kind of understated way, in a scene where the two of them were making a connection, and suggested that she knew it all along. That’s all movie code for “bad guy is telling the truth this time.”

Come to think of it, was that a callback to ESB? “Rey... some nameless nobody is your father.”
“No,…

You gotta understand the Southern evangelical mindset. Voting Republican is literally seen as a Christian duty in a LOT of white Southern communities.
 
Preachers down here have spent decades driving home the point that a vote for a Democrat, any Democrat, is a vote for killing babies. Doesn’t matter how loathsome the…

Fairly or not, the comments I’m seeing from the coasts — “well, 49% still voted for him,” etc. — piss me off. Our friends from the North have been treating us as some giant Trump-worshiping monolith all along, and now that we’ve actually bucked the trend and defeated Roy Moore, the story has shifted to “well, those…

Fairly or not, the comments I’m seeing from the coasts — “well, 49% still voted for him,” etc. — piss me off. Our friends from the North have been treating us as some giant Trump-worshiping monolith all along, and now that we’ve actually bucked the trend and defeated Roy Moore, the story has shifted to “well, those…

I just do not understand the appeal of this movie. I remember shit from the ‘80s too. So what?

Define “good.”

This sounds stupid and bad.

I sure am seeing a lot of outrage and hand-wringing over the idea that sexual harassment is a serious matter that needs to be addressed even if it comes from someone on our side of the political aisle.

Either sexual assault is a problem that needs to be addressed, or it isn’t. I don’t get what’s so complicated about this.

Kinja is the worst. Somehow or another I ended up logging in at work, but when I try logging in from home it doesn’t recognize my username and password, so I dunno. If I ever clear my cache, I’m fucked.

I listen to way more death metal than a grown man should, so I don’t have a problem with dissonance and ugliness in music. If Zappa were just some guy who played ugly, weird-ass, experimental, instrumental music, I’d probably be a fan. It’s everything else about Zappa that I don’t like. It’s all just so stupid. Not…

When AMC came out a few weeks ago and said that The Walking Dead could run for decades, that’s when I knew that this story isn’t going anywhere. There’s no endgame. No plan for how things could wrap up in a meaningful way. No attempt to tell a coherent story with a beginning,a middle, and an end. No reason to keep…

It’s simple enough. We should believe women when they report being harassed, as long as they align with us politically. If it’s someone from your party accusing someone in the other party, obviously she should be believed and anyone who raises doubts about her story is the worst kind of partisan asshole. If it’s…

Huh. So it’s good? I saw this show advertised as “the OC with superpowers” and thought that sounded like the least-appealing description of a TV show I’ve ever heard.

Just pointing out that the article says “for gods’ sake,” lowercase with an apostrophe after the s, so it is in fact referring to “gods,” plural and non-specific.

Whenever anyone criticizes CinemaSins, their fanboys chime in with “duh, it’s SATIRE.” But in what way is CinemaSins “satire?”

Satire is using irony to make a critical point about the thing / person / whatever you’re satirizing. If their criticism is deliberately petty and meaningless, they’re not satirizing the…

This is purely anecdotal, but I’m from Alabama and I’m seeing a lot more yard signs for Doug Jones than I am for Roy Moore. There are actually a fair number of liberals down here in the belly of the beast, playing this Democrat game on hard mode. Moore may still win, because this world is a black pit of despair and…

Fuck, I’m pulling (and of course voting) for Doug Jones. Not just because Roy Moore belongs nowhere near the halls of power, but because Alabama needs SOME kind of public relations damage control after foisting Jeff Sessions onto the rest of the country.

I don’t know. I mean, I wouldn’t pay more than $100 for it, but if I could see someone desecrate, I don’t know, maybe the crib Donnie slept in as a baby, it would probably give me a decent half-chub.