Well said indeed. I had a snarky snappier way of saying this which is “Star Wars with a MFA”. But you’ve nailed it far more articulately than that.

from the owner’s point of view - nothing. they got dem clicks and comments. from anyone who actually cares about art and science - a lot.

Right so the salient features of the character is their jedi training and being in hiding, the rest is largely meaningless.

You get to be a Jedi. Happy to clear up your error.

Hardly impotent if they’re dictating too much of Star Wars.

If only, then it would be good.

I agree Martin has painted himself into a large but complex corner and can’t get out but I’m fine with the series just being left like that versus someone else finishing the series. D&D have completely fucked it with their version of the story, I don’t know who’d be able to finish it off satisfactorily at all.

Poor poor Tommen, cockblocked from Natalie Dormer by his own mother. You’d jump out a window too at that point.

Sure but now it’s a story about how the responsibility is partially on an African nation for not sharing it’s resources earlier to help other nations on the continent rather than, you know, the responsibility of the plundering colonial powers 

Because the set-up is oh shit this African country could have stopped hundreds of years of slavery and genocide if they’d just learned to share their resources, when you set that up against global powers plundering Africa for it’s resources it’s not a progressive message it’s still saying this African country should…

If the sequel has the US’ soft empire as one of it’s antagonists I’ll genuinely retract everything I’ve said here. Fruitvale Station is indeed a great movie.

And the film intentionally gives the CIA a good guy role precisely because it’s a conservative movie made by a conservative studio in a conservative genre. Real convenient for the narrative to stop just before T’Challa has to do anything that would harm the US. Yes that’s not intentional at all I’m sure.

Cameron is from the upper class, the aristocracy with a connection to the monarchy. He’s from a party largely sourced from the upper class aristocracy with connections to monarchy. To suggest this means monarchy is irrelevant in the UK is madness. Elite aristocratic rule is still very much part of the UK and the…

Working with the CIA. It’s siding with the US. And yes having the anti-American be a psychopathic murderer is conservative.

It’s altering it to be an ally of the US which is conservative.

Salafists and Wahabbis have been in large part a response to imperialism and the Wahabbi’s are in part funded by the US. Which is a pretty good encapsulation of my points about how the film trying to address imperialism’s role in African atrocities and then siding with the US and CIA at the end of the film makes it…

The UK literally advocates such a system there is barely any republican movement and the idea is villified across 95% of the media. Just because it’s watered down doesn’t mean it’s not seen as valid.

Governments needing US aid is a thing that happens of course but it doesn’t make it a progressive thing to do.

Government intervention to ensure American hegemony keeps on ticking is supported by conservatives and many of the smarter ones couch it in “improving disadvantaged communities” or “overthrowing dictators” to get the public on board.

The idea the countries are freely requesting boots on the ground is itself conservative. “Free choice” to refuse the US means the US treats you at best as a potential danger and at worse a enemy. There’s no way to frame the US’s constant presence all over the world as anything progressive.