My uncle on my mother's side considered Star Wars to be among his chiefest means of escaping the dregs of his working class hispanic lifestyle, and he showed it to all the young boys and the one girl in the family who was interested in watching space movies. We all gravitated towards the characters to certain degrees,…

Ain't that the truth.

Thanks for the clarification. I personally think the dude still comes off as a huge hypocrite for that, but I suppose that's neither here nor there.

I remember watching only the pilot of this show with a friend, and I do think the author of this particular think-piece is being pretty selective about how to interpret the whole "helping closeted soldiers" plotline. The man in question, if memory serves correctly, was a high-ranking officer who was pushing…

And also the Dirty Dancing bejeweled-style PC game.

Yeah…I think the reviewer was confused about the purpose of the gear as it really only applies in non-competitive game types.

I think my issue with it is that it's become increasingly obvious that the Trump outrage factory is profit-driven. They've made an effort to curtail the site's other offerings even as the average daily article count mentioning Trump approaches 3. They use the same snarky, condescending language to refer to him and his…

Funny, the last time I went, the later shows were canceled on the count of the witches who were performing complaining of being "burnt out" by the experience.

The boys trying to sell one of these things would be a good skit for that Amazon show they're on now.

As usual the site's staff feel the need to qualify their answers to a question they posed to themselves with "I hate guitar solos but…" Like, why even ask the question?

Yeah, I suppose cushy white collar jail is also not that bad compared to the places he'd normally end up in.

Gosh, really sucks that he'll have to go to jail because of what his penis did.

Okay, that made me laugh an entirely inappropriate amount.

Textgate?

But you have to understand that this is the way the main character beats the ultra-capitalists! It's like showing up to your shit shoveling job with a shovel made out of shit.

Because of the framing device of the narrative being a dystopia in which the outside world is an essentially unlivable late capitalist shitheap, the young children who are forced to attend school online are essentially trained from birth to worship the 80s by the designers of the cheap progams they use to access the…

Look, guys, unless I missed the memo that explains how we can use the 80s as an alternative fuel source to power our cars, I think we should really, really stop worshiping the 80s.

Please?

Shame, shame, throw yourself away, give me little bits of more than I can take…

The showrunner for s7 was either Marti Noxon or Joss Whedon, somewhat depending on the day as Joss dealt with the fallout from the cancellation of Firefly, but a scheduling conflict is a nice explanation that doesn't step on anyone's toes, so I'm willing to go with that for now.