I mean, look, they’re still shit, but I’m happy for him and the fans embracing him after years of being an online punching bag (despite being far from the only actor suffering under Lucas’s leaden direction).

I rewatched the original and prequel series last year, for the first time in probably 15 years. I’ve done that with a few things recently and it’s always an interesting experience to revisit and reevaluate something you know incredibly well but haven’t actually watched in a long time.

I have a lot of sympathy for people who accidentally kill someone, but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have to pay for their negligence in some way. I think in this case that they still can’t say where the live round comes from says a lot. She’s in charge of that weapon. That she wasn’t able to point the…

Except this reappraisal is coming from people who were 8 years old when they came out. They have the same nostalgic rose-coloured glasses we Gen Xers have about cheesy 80s movies.

I was a teenager when the Prequels came out, and at the time I was totally swept up in their cultural zeitgeist. I was a prequel-apologist for a couple of summers, and was always willing to overlook those films’ flaws because “Episode III is going to fix everything.” And while Revenge of the Sith is certainly the best…

Every time I reappraise them, I find they still suck.

This is expecting logic out of something said in the immediate aftermath of a traumatic event. That’s exactly why it shouldn’t be proof of anything.

Couple possibilities:

We certainly do when the person who said sorry is claiming they weren’t even there.

I don’t think saying “I’m sorry” proves you were guilty of a crime. To be clear, I think Gutierrez-Reed is culpable based on the evidence that we have. I just don’t think saying “I’m sorry” means anything as proof.

Well, yes, of course, but you’re supposed to respond with, “Oh, not in Hamburg, no, it’s a Bavarian expression”

god i hate this. why does Bad Batch have to deal with whatever happened in Rise of Skywalker? thats like 50 years away. why couldnt it just be about Clones dealing with the end of the Clone Wars and the rise of the Empire?

It’s silly to disregard age as a major contributing factor in the discussion though. Sure, plenty of people stay sharp after hitting 70 or 80, but there is a dramatic decrease in mental faculties for many people. We’ve just had the same discussion about Dianne Feinstein and Mitch McConnell last year. Our government is…

At the risk of jumping in early on another thread doomed to get 300 comments from dozens of people arguing at each other, Jon Stewart was never —and certainly is not in this year 2024— a kingmaker. I watched TDS religiously through the first decade or so of his tenure, and Bush was still elected and subsequently reelec…

I guess they missed that his criticism of Trump also included that he’s a fascist piece of shit, but hey, get mad because your side insisted on a useless old fossil in order to beat a malevolent old fossil. That is totally Stewart’s fault. Totally.

People criticizing Jon Stewart for saying things that sound exactly like the takes you would expect from Jon Stewart on The Daily Show feels like a throwback to 20 years ago.

Thank you. Every single season so far has thrived by creating an atmosphere of lurking dread that’s a little occult in nature. Each season then undercuts that atmosphere with “reveals” near the season’s end.

Knowing this I stilll come back each time! That’s how much I love the vibes and take each season’s weaknesses…

In Season 2, Pizzolatto literally wrote the line, “I will come back here and butt f*ck your dad with your mom’s headless corpse.” I think whatever mantle he held regarding quality or “classic dialogue” ended right there. Also, so much of what made season 1 what it was the acting and direction. Many of the ideas were…

For a show that coasted so much on *vibes* Pizzolatto sure has a high f’ing opinion of his own fun but stupid writing.

The people I know who are watching S4 don’t even know the creative team changed, they just know it got good again after 2 seasons they didn’t like. I tell them it’s a new creative team and they’re super surprised.