Well, here it is. I’m still skeptical of Abrams’ ability to avoid replaying certain notes and to resolve rather than create mysteries, but on the other hand what he did with character and tone in The Forece Awakens could hardly have pleased me more. On that level, I feel good about him with Star Wars (regardless of…

That first sentence is screwing with my mind, even though I know what you’re saying.

Wouldn’t it also be years before Amazon could get a show up and running?

The Wheel of Time is sufficiently different from Game of Thrones that I don’t think the former is a poor man’s version of the latter. At least, as someone who has only watched not read GoT, their respective approaches seem pretty different to me and WoT is more like a medieval Star Wars than an adult prestige drama.

Regardless of how good the films themselves are, as a tennis fan this viewing season seems an embarrassment of riches, in the sense that even one film dramatizing a real-life match is kind of an event.

I’m kind of surprised that it’s only going Gold, now. It figures, I suppose, that Stevens is the type of artist who gets far more critical than commercial attention, but I didn’t realize that I was still so unique for owning this album.

And then she’ll be lured back decades later to make Zero Darth Thirty.

Heck, they’re both competently directed films that come together well.

Patty Jenkins, George Miller, Kenneth Brannagh

For what it’s worth, it sounds like the Han Solo situation smoldered for a while. Lord and Miller weren’t dropped immediately.

The timing isn’t as close as with Chris Cornell’s passing (I was delving into Soundgarden that week), but I was just starting to really get into Steely Dan in earnest this year, reading a bunch about them and picking up Aja. I’ll echo what others have said, that Becker’s legacy of music with Fagen seems like one that…

Well, actual ‘love scenes’ are out of the question, but I think that the show could, if it cared to spend the time, give their romantic relationship more depth and more visible affection.

Back around the time that the show debuted, I read A New Dawn excited to get some Hera-Kanan backstory because they’re an interesting pair, but alas the book has very little about their actual relationship, skewing mostly toward Kanan’s history and establishing that Hera is a harcore Rebel.

That would be an incredible thing to tackle, taking one or both films within the season’s stride.

I do expect this show to have an optimistic, er hopeful, ending in some fashion. It has been dark at times but Rebels’ character is that of an essentially-inspiring show aimed at kids.

Just looking at the title of this feature, is Jim really the worst? Or is he just not the best? Does that make him a bad guy or a poor match?

I agree that The Office’s worst is worse than that of Parks, but to me anyway, the best of The Office is also better than Parks’ best, so that’s not a metric that yields a clear winner.

Far from unimpeachable, I’d say in my own subjective way that it’s a controversial opinion.

Jim is not the/an ultimate nice guy—he’s the only person in the Scranton office aside from Oscar and Pam, both of whom are naturally reserved (and Ryan who is obviously devious enough to not be the nice guy) who has detectable self-awareness. So Jim acts out. We as viewers see it all and maybe he is a jerk in some…

The Idris Elba episodes call out Jim’s immaturity but I felt really bad for him. His antics seem a lot more reasonable in a Michael Scott regime.