I have many, many words and usually end up with my foot in my mouth. Which is why I recommend everyone now take a break and go watch some quality tv. 

I’m an old white man and that was just a good show. Recommended for anyone that likes the genre. 

I’m sorry you went through that. I’m dealing with elderly relatives with similar views. The willful ignorance is really eating at me today in light of all these new disclosures. 

I tried not to go for a while, for many different reasons. Then my MIL brought up that I couldn’t be mad about the abuse scandal because I watched the USWNT play soccer and they were all lesbians so I was a big sinner and I was picking and choosing what to be moral about.

That’s exactly the sermon we get each week. Mixed in with the “people who demand diversity are really the intolerant ones” and other Fox News-style headlines from a 70something white man who never held an outside job or had a relationship.

I haven’t explored the brainstorm at all, but each week when our local priest gets up and blames the media for the scandal, I have to think he’s participating in a conspiracy. I’d love to see RICO involved. 

I married into a Catholic family and attend Mass when I can’t get out of it. Each week the priest stands up and blames secular society and gotcha media for the abuse crisis. People that want a child molester castrated and/or hanged in any other setting nod and agree that yes, clearly the Church is correct. 

One off-point point before I return to reading: the Catholic Church lies about many things, but especially never trust their census numbers. They grossly inflate their supposed membership in order to seem more important. 

Yeah, I get it. I think that’s part of where I was going too...it used to be a complete movie where you could learn about Davin Felth if you wanted. Now you need 18 issues of Felth Unleashed, Dr. Aphra’s Sing Along Blog, and a canon-this-week novel to fill in the gaps so the movie makes sense as anything but a Michael…

Totally—now I just want a good story.

I can’t say I’d given up, but I’m edging there. For me, I enjoyed it because I stopped being a Super Fan and let the experience wash over me. Yeah, there were continuity messes in the movie and with the whole series and it wasn’t great Film As Art. But the space wizards and laser swords were top notch. 

I sort of miss those Star Trek novels. IDIC Epidemic, Strangers from the Sky...so many more, including the incredibly odd Ishmael I think my sister stole because she loved the tv show it was based on...

I’m a few years (or decades) older and one of the issues I had trouble with in reading the EU was the canonicity. As an old nerd, we had Official Canon and Everything Else. Holy Wars had been fought in the trenches of cons about how to deal with Splinter in the Mind’s Eye or Doctor Who audio stories. Then these books…

I’m of two minds on this.

I want to reread the Zahn books, but also not...

I wouldn’t have said it first, being a coward, but I’d agree with this. I loved Dune when I first read it and the rest of the series (this was the 1990s, so less volumes than today) became a slog as we went from Space Feudalism to metaphysics.

I used to do a lot of book events when I was a struggling to break in as a writer. A couple time I had that “wow, you’re a cool person I’ve met in the bar, what do you write?” and they’d tell me something I absolutely hated. I’m sure I had no poker face, but they handled it well.

I like that distinction and hope it becomes something. I can’t remember all the twists and turns of the Lords vs. the plebes, but I vaguely remember (or maybe it’s Takis? The Wild Card planet, not the chips) that there was a class/power distinction. A bunch of cheesed off aliens who had their planet torched because of…

I had a similar thought watching (a de-aged) Samuel L. Jackson in Captain Marvel. He looked the part, then he ran and it was the movements of a 70 year old man. 

I marvel and weep simultaneously at this analysis.