The Vanagon (especially the Syncro) and the bus are incredibly different vehicles to drive. If you’re not familiar with the Vanagon I’m not sure what the point of your comment is here, and I still maintain that to say across the board that Vanagons are crap drives ist sehr falsch.
Hey, during my junior homecoming dance, I took my date in the Vanagon. It was raining, I was following someone too close, and they slammed on the brakes. I hit them from behind. Not hard enough to do any damage, but for a moment my date thought we’d crushed the non-existent nose of the car. I loved that driving…
Comrade Detective, best of 2017, dammit!
I think it really jumped the shark this season. I never even watched the last episode I was so bummed by how it dove off a cliff into preciousness, twee-ness and self-something-or-other-that-really-annoyed-the-Hell-out-of-me-ness. Jesus. And through last season I’d really considered one of my favorite shows of all…
I think in many ways it was the best-told story of all the Netflix Marvel shows, and I absolutely did NOT think I would ever believe that before I saw it.
Man, if you like this at all, may I please suggest Piskor’s Hip Hop Family Tree, by Fantagraphics. It’s incredible.
But as quirky and magical and cool as they are, apparently Vanagons are also objectively kind of awful.
Yes. And of course I need to chime in about Earth’s Mightiest Heroes too while I’m here.
And you are just so not going to get it.
Personally I think this article was worth it. I don’t read it as another “TLJ is divisive and okay” at all. I feel like that completely misses your point, which is meaningful and shines a light on one of the main problems with so much genre fiction...characters aren’t allowed to fade and die in ways that gel at all…
I didn’t take it as making him a child murderer for that second...I took it that the Force vision that he experienced was so overwhelmingly dark that he basically just reacted physically. At the worst possible moment when Kylo woke up and there was no taking it back because of how he responded.
I have to agree with your analysis. It’s nice to see a more enlightened take on the very concepts of success and heroism, where there’s not a finish line that is crossed and then things are great forever. “Happily ever after” is probably the most horrendous and damaging phrase in the English language because of how…
Holy shit! What if this Star Wars story had been REAL!!!? My God, Luke’s stupidity could have doomed a fictional resistance in a fictional series of stories more than it had already been doomed! Fictionally!!!
You’re very welcome.
James Morrow disagrees with you in his own vastly superior trilogy.
Episode 5's pure awfulness completely turned me off the show. It was so all over the place in terms of changing motivations, complete lacks of logic and horribly incongruous scenes and dialog that I haven’t been able to go back. Reading this synopsis isn’t doing anything for me in that direction either. This show…
Awesome list, and boy did I enjoy those pokes in the eye. And my God were they ever necessary.
You may have something there. We used to get together and play with our figures, and not everything was already mapped out story-wise. Literally the sky was the limit in terms of coming up with stories. We felt enabled by the creative universe of it instead of enslaved and that made it fun. I mean as problematic as Re…
I disagree with Rob that this SW is not for original fans as well. I was born in 71 and saw Star Wars at the movie theater. And all of them since. And this movie just did it God damned right in a way that none of the others have, including the first few.
Diane Feinstein’s complaint about the tax bill is that it isn’t regressive enough, because her filthy-rich constituents won’t get tax deductions on their multi-millions second, third and whatever homes... and we can’t complain about that?
