This sort of thing is endemic in the world, though I wonder if it’s exacerbated when the context is fans of escapist fantasy. Like, you’re obsessed with these kid’s movies or stuff from your childhood because you can’t deal with reality as it is, so you’re more likely to lash out if any aspect of your precious little…

10/10. 

Would offering some reading be helpful? I find this stuff is easier to process when I, well, process it. Oftentimes the conversation is less productive than the thinking that comes after. It’s like therapy. No one’s going to make a major life change sitting there on the couch. It’s a matter of stewing over it in…

Gee, thanks for your help.  

I will never not think of Kevin Illyanovich Rasputin Kubusheskie but that’s a very, very, very specific reference. 

...we’re all in a fairly robust period of “Pretending the pandemic is over”...

Exactly. You forgive the man his transgressions because he positively bleeds competence.

Moving away from the Skywalker Saga is great. “Might becoming to” needs work.

Your mom’s based on a stack of dirty dishes.

Maybe Kenobi is like Smith or Wang in that galaxy?  

The Sex Pistols have been called the Monkees of punk, which seems reasonably true, if not as derogatory a comment as it’s meant to be.

Did not see that coming.  I guess no one did.  Enjoyed his work thoroughly over the years.  Rest in Peace.  

Mind! MIND!  

That’s nice. Having your mind blown by Alanis Morissette when you’re 13 sounds about right. That was snarky. Sorry.  Nice. This is all very nice.

“Look, I understand you lost an arm, but that was years ago and you had good medical treatment.  The fact that you’re not juggling yet just means you’re not trying hard enough.”  

Yeah, I mean, I don’t expect another Martha-and-Thomas-get-shot-in-alley scene and I’m glad they didn’t do an origin story. And I don’t mind a movie that relies to some extent on referencing the past. Hell, I liked No Time To Die. It just felt like a little too much given that it’s the beginning of a reboot. Yeah,…

That picture. “Trick or trea-” (SLAM) 

One only hopes he’ll be the kind of police chief who has the foresight and discretion to, prior to taking a boat out for an investigation, knock down a gargantuan tumbler of red wine.  

“Who is more foolish?  The fool or the fool who follows him?”  

Bale’s got a little War-Boy-by-way-of-Voldemort thing going there. I have been unmotivated on Marvel movies since Endgame. It’s like listening to U2's Zooropa. Stay (Far Away, yadda yadda) is just so obviously the peak of the album and the fact that it arrives when it does just squashes the momentum even if the second…