I’m not sure how that solves the problem of the first time we see her manifest her powers being her saving herself and nobody else, as opposed to basically everything that happened around her in A New Hope and The Empire Strikes back. It’s especially noticeable when the director compares it to saving a toddler.

It was a mediocre movie with poor writing and weird pacing. The Force powers were not its problem, in fact they were fine.

Or helped literally anyone.

Three issues: First having her first use of the force in the long saga be completely self-serving is kind of weak, especially when other characters’ big uses have largely been motivated by interpersonal or geopolitical factors. Next is that there really wasn’t any narrative point or purpose to the scene, as she…

I love way folks resort to name calling of those who don’t agree with them. You’re a classic example of a “fan”. Kudos.

I just didn’t like that she only saved herself.

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You really sound like you’re crying because he literally has to go out there and fucking dance thru a god damn field of mines and at the age of 70+ is expected to have the mental gymnastics of a 20 year old. Like the fuck is wrong with you? The fact is Bernie cares more than almost any other white person in current…

I personally think they are engineering a controversy where there is none.

I mean, he is the most favorably viewed politician in the country. That INCLUDES every demographic of American.

I’d go further and call this cynical. I think the author understands that there is a very good chance, and its very reasonable to expect, that this was just poor phrasing. There’s this wing of “liberal” (read: not liberal in the slightest) thought that seeks to cut everyone and any one down and decry them as the enemy…

Jesus wept, what has Bernie done lately?

You: “What if we don’t automatically take the least generous interpretation of everything someone says?”

Personally don’t see this as being a contrast of one group and another — what he’s saying is pretty clear — we need to focus on the fact that women and minorities are being targeted, and we need to focus on the things that everyone (ordinary Americans) are worried about. This doesn’t take some sort of interpretive…

I knew exactly what he meant by the words as I read them.

This’ll get me some flack because I’m seeing something other than how his words were (stupidly) structured, but I think he meant to include everyone in his statement about “ordinary Americans.” He tends to speak out against the millionaires, who are not ordinary, and he tends to contrast them with the rest of us who…