I put most of Solo out of my mind but that makes sense. I think I didn’t fully register his enlistment with them as the Mudtroopers(?) looked more like historic military soldiers with goggles than white Stormtroopers.

Oh, math rock is a thing. A silly name but some good music that sometimes get categorized as such (Cap’n Jazz/American Football/Joan of Arc, Don Caballero, Owls, Slint).

The average commute among drivers is stated to be about 15 miles (each way). But that’s the mean, not the median, and it stands to reason that where there are more people, i.e. urban areas, those people are driving shorter distances on average than where there are fewer people, i.e. rural areas, so that average…

Yes, I know. My point was his idea of revitalizing rock was to retread it.

“American Woman!”

Thanks. I am not familiar with the source material either but I’m good with fantasy. I’m definitely going to get back to it soon; I just need to get in the right mood. I mean, I keep sitting through the same battles in The Last Kingdom just for Alexander Dreymon.

This definitely felt like the decade where popular “rock” music ceased to be a thing, or at least the same type of thing it had been for the last five decades. I listen to almost genres of music and I’d definitely classify myself as a rock fan but I can’t think of much great rock music that I liked this decade. Part…

I struggle with the narrative gap in the clones-to-Stormtroopers transition as portrayed in the films since they are visually depicted as an evolution of the same force throughout. We meet the Republic clone troopers in II, then leave them in III just as they become Imperial Stormtroopers, then pick up presumably the…

I still have two similar to this, complete with their little garages:

Dafuq is going on in that last paragraph?

ETA: Cleared Ms. Fletcher off of my watchlist as well. I hadn’t read anything about it but I enjoyed Kathryn Hahn in this role a lot (as well as Owen Teague). I found the porn thread ineffective and extraneous to what ended up being better show about divorce than Divorce. Small doses of shows like this can work well.

Watched The Mandalorian finale, obviously, which has been thoroughly discussed but I thought was great—especially coming off of the TRoS experience last week.

This. Something is only worth what someone else is willing to pay for it at any given time.

I wouldn’t watch a Kevin Hart comedy special because I don’t find him the least bit funny but the fact that he got paid untold millions for this is just disgusting. I know they are going to do whatever they think will make them money but I am still disappointed in Netflix for doing so. I’m not really ever going to…

partly because it’s illegal

I disagree about bananas. Any banana that you’d buy in the terminal or be able to transport from home (i.e. not overripe) doesn’t smell that strongly. I eat a banana most days as a snack and so I sometimes bring them on the plane. What I do do, is go throw the peel in the trash once eaten if I don’t have a trash bag…

Why did anyone really posit that Poe is gay? Because Oscar Isaac said he would be “very open to it”? He’s not the writer or director. I think it would be cool but there’s no narrative evidence for it. Just because he isn’t outwardly lusting after Rey like Han was after Leia doesn’t mean he’s gay. A male lead without…

I don’t want to lower the drinking or smoking/vaping ages if they are shown to be successful in achieving positive public health outcomes but it breaks my brain to try to rationalize age limits on anything that are higher than the age where one can vote and volunteer/be obliged to serve in the military (not to mention…

I can only imagine the alternative ways of spelling his name they’re getting excited about over at the MAGA rally.