I mean, obviously it’s working since he keeps stretching out his 15 minutes of fame for (checks notes) cheating on his girlfriend on a reality show.

“he” being Peck, I hope?

My favorite consequence of C-3PO being built by Anakin is that every time he says “Thank the maker!” he’s thanking Darth Vader.

Scoreboard after ~21 hours:

There’s a brief moment in The Empire Strikes Back where C-3PO complains to Han that the Millennium Falcon “has the most peculiar dialect.” Solo decides to explain that by having L3-37's consciousness uploaded into the Falcon’s computer, which is admittedly fairly clever, but also has a whole lot of unfortunate…

Are you telling me you didn’t find Au Hasard Balthazar to be an absolute lark?

That’s my pick for second-most-annoying backstory explanation. I can see you’re not exactly enamored of it either.

On the whole I enjoyed Solo, but its insistence on explaining so much of Han’s backstory that didn’t need to be explained grated on me, with its insistence that no, he really did do the Kessel Run in under (not “order”, oy) 12 parsecs being only the third most annoying backstory patch job. But I will admit that I…

I could ask if an opera figures into the plot, or if there’s a character or location called Arepo, but instead I’ll veer off on a tangent inspired by a passing mention in the last paragraph: Is The Prestige worth checking out? What about the other period-piece magician movie of that year, The Illusionist?

Snark aside

Comment of the thread right here.

The actions of the leadership of both sides lead me to conclude that they’re eager to commit genocide against their opponents; Israel is just the side that has the power to attempt it now, so Hamas has to settle for smaller scale but more flagrant barbarism. I don’t know whether there’s anything to be gained in…

Israel’s brutal reaction is the greatest recruiting tool Hamas could hope for. They’re losing thousands of their fighters but gaining tens of thousands in return, as well as getting the sympathy of Palestinians who would have previously been ambivalent. And if tens of thousands of civilians die in the violence, well,…

Dear God, it goes a lot deeper, but how do we get two sides to end generations of cyclic violence? I’ve seen one commentator argue reasonably that any lasting peace has to start with a genuine Palestinian government, a multinational security force keeping the two sides apart, and massive aid to Gaza and the West Bank…

Is she humming “Imagine”?

Is it OK to think that both Hamas leadership and Netanyahu’s administration ought to spend the rest of their lives in uncomfortable confinement in a remote, very secure prison? I don’t know the best path to peace in that troubled region, but that seems like a good start.

Congratulations, you got me to watch one of these out of sheer desire for its content, rather than as a “wtf?” or “eww no” reaction. Although referring to Tennant’s iconic character as “Doctor Who” in the narration is a definite faux pas.

The closest thing to a joke is Crowe standing in front of a sign that reads “dry aged meat.”

Imagine climbing up from the animation ghetto to direct Transformers and He-Man movies! Congrats on leaving the kidflix behind, Travis! (Though I guess they were at least good enough to merit a passing mention here...)

Huh, I didn’t know Thundarr had an evil twin.