The Pandora bit was also my favorite of the night, but I used to have a girlfriend (“K”) who LOVED her charm bracelet, and the one charm I gave her got me major points. To be honest, though, a lot of it was the presentation.

It’s his own fault. He tried to brand it as ‘Fluouhydroxizol Plus’ and the name was off-putting. It didn’t catch on until the patent expired and the generics hit the market.

That’s a possibility, but then they’d be the Chosen Two. :-)

Maybe Kylo will eventually say “Light Side, Dark Side, it’s all bullshit and means nothing to me. The Force isn’t into LABELS, man!” Really, that’s where I want to see him go...

There is no need to train new Jedi kids. As Luke said, there is no need for new Jedi. As long as there are Jedi, there will be Sith. As long as there are Sith, there will be Jedi. The first step to prevent a resurgence of the Sith is to end the Jedi. Whatever Rey and Kylo become, they will not be Jedi or Sith. My…

Yeah, but that’s like predicting “The basketball game will be tied...at some point.” If you’ve got the Light and the Dark alternating in ascendancy on a periodic basis, you’re going to have periods (however brief) where they are in equal balance; it’s hardly worth building a prophecy around. LASTING equilibrium is a…

“Could you put a cowl on or something?”

I was 13 rather than 10, but I will go to my grave insisting that I saw a movie called “Star Wars” ten and a half times during the summer of 1977...

Yeah, ‘balance’ in the Force isn’t anything the Jedi OR the Sith really would want to promote. But considering how invested the franchise is in “Dark Side” = Bad, “Light Side” = Good, I’d be surprised (pleasantly) if they ever addressed that...

Not particularly on point, but: Did you know that the Dalai Lama is NOT vegetarian? There are different beliefs among Buddhists about when, if ever, it’s acceptable to eat meat. Tibet being notoriously unarable, Tibetan Buddhists were/are raised taking their protein where they can get it. I, for one, was gratified to…

We Need to Talk About Kylo.

Rey will not yet abandon Kylo/Ben. I mean, not to get all Betty vs Veronica about it, but considering all the matchmaking this movie did between Rey and Kylo, it was kind of an anti-climax to see her reunited with Finn at the end of the movie: “Oh yeah, aren’t we supposed to be shipping these two?” I figure the whole…

I can’t BEGIN to tell you how glad I was that they dispatched Snoke with such...dispatch. I mean, what was the point of everybody being terrified of Darth Vader once we learned there was an Emperor Palpatine? (Ok, I know that Vader was PUBLICLY terrifying while Palpatine operated from the shadows.) Was his Grand…

I was joking, yes, but I wouldn’t be at all surprised if it was SOME sort of morals charge...

The charge was “Tempting a Pious Man to Sin in the First Degree,” i.e. Delilah’s Law. Also Salome’s Law, Bathsheba’s Law, Potiphar’s Wife’s Law, all the way back to Eve’s Law. Depends on the State.

Stop trying to make “near fetched” happen.

Of course they wouldn’t actually go this way, but the little girl was the only bronze-ager who got a look at Kelly, and her desciption would probably have been limited to “She was pretty and she had yellow hair and she dressed like a man but it was blue, and she had a BIG BUMP between her eyes and her name was Kelly.”…

I don’t remember Hard Eight, and I disliked Inherent Vice and The Master, but I can watch Punch Drunk Love once a month and not get tired of it. It’s such a bizarre little film, but I love it so much.

They’re all good, except for those sanctimonious bastards in Harper Valley. Those guys are the worst.

Office buildings often completely renovate floors between tenants. The building I work in has been around for 80 years, and it’s not uncommon for one or more floors (out of 30) to be undergoing complete reconstruction.