Yeah, my comment history doesn’t belie that...I’m trying, though.

That’s an interesting POV. Thanks for sharing. We’ve been starting a Women’s Bar Association and there’s some inter-generational strife...I think everyone means well, but there are some veteran “that’s just how it is” and youthful “no one should put up with that” groups that are having trouble coexisting. 

My parents were blue collar drones who wanted the best for their kids, but had been programmed their whole life that they were to shut up and work and not create a ruckus. So when teachers were unfair or corrupt or incompetent, they would still side with Authority over the child, because it’s Authority’s job to take…

I really appreciate you putting this out there. So many well-meaning people today don’t understand the power dynamics are very different than even a decade or two ago. 

edit: not worth it.

Agreed.

If Solo could have just left one question about his past unanswered...his name can be his name, Chewie can show up in a sequel, they can leave the movie heading toward Kessel...just something other than fanservicing every thing...it would have been 100% a better movie to me.

Well said. I’m open to debate and discussion. That was the cornerstone of nerdiness when I was growing up. Maybe we kept coming back because Bob was sooooo wrong about Blake’s 7 but at least he knew what it was, as opposed to today’s genre overload. 

I have to say I appreciate that BSG take. I’ve never been more attacked in nerdspaces than when expressing my utter ambivalence toward that show. 

I hate to sound like an Old, even though I am...but I was part of the generation that watched morning Sportscenter for hours straight instead of going to undergrad classes. It wasn’t perfect, but it featured a lot more of a range of content than it does now. 

I meant the ESPN website. Which doesn’t give the scores. But thanks for being condescending.

I find JJ to be a giant self-promoting cornball but I’m moved by his tweet and publicly speaking up.

Oh, good, my racist MIL hasn’t finished complaining about Haysbert being cast as a senior army officer and the president , on different network shows, so I’m sure black God will go over so well...

I know that “Great-Granddaughter” lacks the emotional punch that JJA wanted, but it makes a lot more sense that politician Sheev had a spouse and family as cover if nothing else back on Naboo as he was cementing his rise to power and Rey could be a descendant of that part of his life. Also makes it easier for her to…

I have to think Madison is a bit of an outlier, though, being a hip college town. Not that I disagree in general—but it’s like making a statement on upstate NY based on Ithaca. I have family in Rochester that are working on some of those younger-friendly changes you mention. I also have a lot state where a 32,000…

No question. In a previous career I worked on “youth retention” for some regional colleges. Short version of the answer was that there are people that want to be here and people that don’t, and Utica/Albany/Elmira are never going to be Manhattan. Or warm.

I’m hoping for either a multi-Doctor time quest to save the planet and/or spittle flecked Timothy Dalton chewing some scenery at the Master about “why did you think we’d fall for this, AGAIN?” as he reveals they were just hiding again. 

I’m no fan of Crisis on Relative Dimensions in Space storylines, but I do think the show needs to address the more recent “the Doctor is immortal and 2,000 years between scenes just happens” versus the 900(ish) years of the first ten regenerations.

I try not to get too caught up in “what’s it all mean?” from one episode as with this show, there’s either an arc where it pays off or it goes nowhere and I’m supposed to forget about it.

It sounds like that story about his manspreading on the subway when the full detail was it was a near empty car, but someone just wanted to say bad things about him.