Wait a minute.... RAND Corporation. RANDall Colburn. How deep does this rabbit hole go??

Please, no humor.

My favorite genre of conspiracy theorists are the guys who are in so deep that they start believing in conspiracies that require the acceptance of other conspiracies that are vaguely based on an idea from another conspiracy and so on. They’re like 8 degrees of separation away from an actual piece of evidence that it’s…

Someone else suggested he projected Kylo’s memory of him, so that he wouldn’t appear weaker than before. That sounds good to me.

So Trump’s just pretending to be an idiot? All those idiots who are supporting him because he’s just like them are going to be upset.

Well, if a poster on 4chan known only as “Q” can’t be trusted, who can?

A Q-clearance is granted by the DOE, not the DOD or DOJ. Someone with intelligence secrets would have some manner of TS or TS/SCI clearance.

Or “sneople.”

Q’s never really been the same since they kicked him out of the Continuum that one time.

Also his beard and hair weren’t as grey. It was more Luke projecting an image of his glory days than his more recent image that he’s ashamed of.

Yoda said what was in the tree didn’t really matter. At that point the books were already on the Falcon and teh tree was empty. He wasn’t wrong.

Kylo sensed her when he was looking at a place he pretty much knew she had to be (the command center of the Resistance flagship). Plot-wise, he needs to sense her in that moment to believe she’s dead and all his connections to the past are gone. Also, Rey has to sense that he hesitated to support her idea that he can…

Exactly. If you can accept she didn’t die of explosive decompression, then her using the Force to drag her body a few metres to save her life (like Luke magically getting the lightsaber he needed to cut himself down in the Wampa’s cave in Empire) is easily believable.

I’ve seen it twice, and his hair color in that scene really threw me off the first time ( I was all “did he stop for some ‘just for men’ before he got there or what?”) but the second time I realized he’s projecting himself the way Kylo saw him last--no grey hair.  He looks like that in every one of his flashbacks…

I thought it was great that when you see that seen from Ben’s perspective, Luke is this wild eyed monster.

II was expecting that too, but I think we got was nicely subtle. Sidenote, I’m not entirely convinced that we can say “the Force doesn’t work that way”.This new trilogy is giving us a couple of examples where the Force seems to be working differently - more powerful, more spontaneous - than it has in the past. In…

At the end he’s projecting himself the way Kylo remembered him. My first time watching it really threw me off that his grey hair was gone. The second time I realized that’s the way Kylo last saw him--he looks the same as he did in the flashbacks with Kylo (and seeing him as having not aged since then would definitely…

I loved the bit about arms dealers cutting deals with both sides. It added a welcome kernel of complexity and world building to all of the threadbare good/evil tropes the sequels have used. Unfortunately we only got the briefest of touches on the subject.

The Darth Maul revival was absolutely moronic. The Leia scene is better than that, but that’s damnation by the faintest of praise. It’s like anti-Game of Thrones; with these two miraculous survivals, it’s hard to take any danger seriously and the series is worse off for it.