Obviously, we don’t have exact numbers but based on the written sources/records we have they demonstrate the opposite was probably true. Paganism was still pervasive and indeed the practice of the majority of people in the empire as experts like Kenneth Harl and Scott Bradbury have demonstrated in their scholarship.…

Julian’s Paganism was definitely more of a “Make Rome Great Again” and revitalize the Classical ethos (not that he would have called it that) type thing. It was much more than just religion, it was about the overall culture. He even wanted to re-establish the Temple in Jerusalem for the Jews. Interesting to think what…

Even during the zenith of Roman power, the East (what would become the Byzantine Empire) was still where all the money and political power came from and the West was kinda always the short end of the stick. The East was where all the people were. What made it lucrative about the West was the fact that it was…

Love this period and anything Eastern Empire. So cool write up.

FYI, no reputable historians use “dark ages” anymore, mainly because it wasn’t a real thing and moreso a value judgment of Renaissance-era thinkers who were obsessed with all the good parts of the classical world but conveniently forgot all the horrible…

But not in the way I wanted :(

Bryce Dallas Howard actually made a song called “I am Not Jessica Chastain.” It’s fun.

Oh, I’ve seen this. It’s hilarious. My point remains. I still don’t think it’s aesthetically pleasing and I don’t see how this style of fighting enhances or makes what is on screen more substantive or compelling.

Also, it’s not actually “Kendo” fighting in these movies, it’s the “base ingredient” stylized and…

YEP! And it looks exactly like that too.

This whole revisionist “the prequels actually aren’t that bad” line appearing around the internet needs to die.

Yes. Yes, they were that bad. They only get worse because every year the CGI looks more and more dated.

They were a fucking celluloid holocuast.

Yeah, that lightsaber fight where we have a villain who never speaks and we know nothing about so I have no idea what the motivation is or why I should care. Riveting stuff!

I fucking hate that lightsaber fight and I fucking hate how people bring it up as if it’s a positive. “But the lightsaber fight sure was kewl!!!”…

That sure is a pretty man.

Doing backflips to excuse Putin’s regime and accusing someone else of being a “shill”. Priceless.

Well, Lorde has no problem playing in Moscow after they blew up a bunch of Syrians, terrorized Ukraine, and shit all over LGBTQ folk so I can’t really see the principle here. This is why country boycotts are ridiculous.

omg ur so woke

I literally address this in my post. The EU is officially non -canonical, but they still borrow from it heavily by Lucasfilm’s own admission. We have no reason to believe that hyperspace travel works any different than how it is presented in Legends.

Possibly true, but Poe doesn’t know this when he decides to take out the Dreadnaught.

If you believe you have potential allies in the outer rim, which they make a point of talking about, then it could, in fact, matter.

My assumption was that she was called to assist the Resistance on very short notice. Like she was at some formal event then heard the Resistance blew up Starkiller base and was being tracked by the FO and needed help. In the film timeline, TLJ happens right after TFA. It seems like the Resistance started planning…

No need to handwave, there is an in-universe explanation for this: gravity well generators. Most large ships have them to prevent lightspeed collisions. Hux probably turned them off to track the Resistance fleet through hyperspace. The generators are established in the EU with the nuCanon barrows from liberally.

This…

This doesn’t happen often because ships have gravity well generators that prevent lightspeed collisions. I am assuming Hux turned theirs off to track the Resistance fleet at lightspeed. The gravity well generators are established in the EU which the nuCanon barrows liberally from. They probably didn’t explain this in…