I think his story does actually tie-in thematically with many of the women’s narratives this season also, which I would summarize as grappling with when to hang on and when to walk away.

I *think* the foe of the new trilogy is the rigid dogma and societal structures that make people believe they are either one or the other to begin with. I believe that’s what they were setting up in Last Jedi which is why I am one of it’s staunchest defenders. I also know I could be giving it waaaaay too much credit…

I have no personal issue with Billie Eilish or her success but the breathless “SHE IS TRULY AN ORIGINAL” coming from grown ass adults will forever baffle me. She’s a teen star. I don’t think she is putting on a calculated persona at all, it’s just her persona is “teen.” Like we’ve never met a sullen awkward teenager…

I actually support this more than any other live-action project because the original sequels were not great but had some interesting elements. Particularly the King of Thieves and the decision to spend the bulk of the second one on a redemption arc for the goddamned parrot. Which is a bold strategy. I mean, let’s give…

Is it "pantsing" if your dick is all the way out? I've seen some pantsing in my day but I don't recall it ever being full exposure. 

I watched this movie 87 times in college and have not watched it a single time since. However, I don’t ever recall thinking the movie really wanted me to root for Lester. In fact, I always hated that he dies at the end because I thought it would have been worse for him to have to live with the consequences of his…

I definitely think it's a flashback but it comes off as a fantasy because the whole movie is.

The thing that is so weird about this controversy or outrage or criticism (depending on the tone of the article you are reading at the time) is that Cliff Booth doesn’t exist. That scene is not based on a real incident. So he is by default an unreliable narrator.

Exactly. I get intellectually we should always keep a critical eye on all of our leaders and interrogate our past so we do not repeat the same mistakes in the future. However, the heart of the matter is when it mentions that the GOP has been building up Reagan for years to the point where just evoking his name is…

Somewhat timely, as Al Pacino has a monologue in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood about this very thing. Getting your ass beat too many times on screen is bad for your career, he says. To the actor who won an Oscar getting his ass handed to him for 2.5 hours in The Revenant.

I do wonder if Diesel “started it” and the others just piled on. Mostly because Johnson and Statham get cast in other films and Diesel does not.

But no one seemed to be doubting that Perry was indeed abusive, so wouldn’t that cast doubt on the fitness of the person who raised him? Not like in the incredibly soapy gonzo way it went down, but in an actual custody hearing? It seemed strange to me that no one thought to mention that until Celeste has her “this…

I completely agree. It came off as a very intentional choice for a very specific artistic purpose, not like a, “whoops! Women are an afterthought in my life and work!” And she was great.

I mentally hand-waved the excuse for that as so far in the story as shown on screen, Wakanda has opened up a little bit but T’challa would still see his primary function as a protector of Wakanda. If Fury was like, “Hey, there’s a smoke monster in Venice” I could conceivably see him be like, “I have a country to run…

I think they can still make it work. If they do go the cancer route from the comics, it would explain her absence in the other films. Thor thinks she just wants nothing to do with him, she didn’t want him to know. They have successfully made us care about characters in a single movie we didn’t know anything about…

That’s the answer though, secret government facilities. The Star Court didn’t exist because it was a sound economic investment based on thorough market research, it exists to hide 17 miles of corridors and the portal to Hell.

One of Hopper and Joyce’s many many many arguments is that she is the first to put together that whatever is going down is likely making a direct bee line for their kids and he chides her that they are fine and having a great time at the fair. One of the last conversations they have is about how she was right and he…

Hopper was the only thing I really disliked this season, but looking at the episode comments here it seems I am in a minority (though thank you, Alex, for waving the flag!)

I borderline hated Season 2 but I really loved Season 3. I think they hit the sweet spot between the goofy references and the character interactions that made the first season a surprise hit. Much more than season 2, everyone behaved in the ballpark of how humans actually might in the face of ludicrous circumstances…

Yeah, he basically sat out two whole years of his emotional development. Where he is at in this season makes perfect sense, regardless of where he falls on the Kinsey scale.