Everyone went for seven films literally not giving a shit about fidelity to Newtonian physics, but now all of the sudden everyone is Stephen fucking Hawking all of the sudden.

This is exactly why people are suspicious about the motivations around the hostile reaction to TLJ. 

“who can’t see the movie’s legitimate flaws”

There are legitimate criticisms you can make about TLJ, but I have yet to hear a criticism about TLJ that you cannot also make about ESB.

All the sudden everyone seems to be demanding fidelity to Newtonian physics and respect for the exact, mathematical specifics of…

It’s not a rationalization. Contrary to popular belief and movies/tv shows, you don’t die instantly in space. Depending on conditions (sunlight, radiation, oxygen supply) you could actually survive for up to a minute, but be pretty banged up.....which Leia was.

No, you actually have to do the work yourself and make an argument. Telling someone to “google it” means you’ve lost. Literally, none of these things are plotholes.

At some point in time, the internet redefined “plot-hole” to mean something that was just unexplained or inconsistent which is fundamentally not what a…

At some point in time, the internet redefined “plot-hole” to mean something that was just unexplained or inconsistent which is fundamentally not what a plot-hole is.

Hence the reason you have people saying things like Holdo not telling Poe about the plans are a “plot hole” (rather than just communication protocol a…

“I think if Luke had an actual, honest-to-goodness lightsaber battle with Kylo, there wouldn’t be AS MUCH hate towards his character as there is”

I am glad you’ve reduced this down to the five-year-old-boy logic that it is.

“There weren’t enough explosions and stuff!!!!”

Lightsaber battles aren’t interesting because they…

Not that it matters because Star Wars physics have always been a clusterfuck (and that never seemed to bother anyone before TLJ, but now everyone is Stephen Fucking Hawking all of the sudden), but since you’re nitpicking so will I: The visual dictionary specifies that the bombs have magnetic sensors.

I fail to see how…

So I had someone from Vietnam marry into my family. She says that, amongst later generations in particular, there is much more of a “blame war for being bad” ethos rather than anyone specifically. She said US veterans who come back to visit are often treated like minor-celebrities, are routinely stopped in the streets…

Ah, the “I am really above it all” approach. Interesting to see it deployed so early in the thread.

She is a ton of things, but this is definitely not one of them.

This, but unironically. 

“We have massive evidence that today’s voters are very open to left wing socialist policies like universal healthcare, raising minimum wage, universal income, shutting down military spending and affordable or free education.”

Counter-revolutionary! You will be re-educated when we usher in the worker’s paradise. Bernie marched with MLK!!!!

Let me guess, anyone to the right of Trotsky isn’t left enough for you are they, comrade gatekeeper?

Sadly, this is low-rent Leninism that a lot of progressives buy into.

Lindsay Ellis has a ton of really great video essays. Her three-parter on why The Hobbit movies blew so hard is a low-key masterpiece. I think she does videos for PBS now.

Exactly. They conveniently leave out that they want modern American gender politics retrofitted onto a Chinese story. Isn’t this what the kids today would call “problematic” and be decidedly un-woke? 

This whole race to see who can be the “wokest of them all” seems to just have turned into a race to see who can be most literal-minded.

I understand why people are getting tired of “social” critiques of popular culture and art. It’s all the same recycled takes and magic phrases everyone learned on tumblr, second hand,…

“I’ve always thought the whole *point* of “A Girl Worth Fighting For” was to mock the soldiers.”

I literally saw this movie when I was 10 years old (when it came out) and I thought this was obvious.

“I’ve always thought the whole *point* of “A Girl Worth Fighting For” was to mock the soldiers.”

I literally saw this movie when I was 10 years old (when it came out) and I thought this was obvious.