Agreed. This isn’t offensive. We don’t need an apology for every brand campaign that doesn’t land. 

We live in such humorless times. Was anyone seriously offended/triggered by this? Can’t people even let a cheeky paper napkin go without the Greek Chorus of outrage?

He doesn’t owe us an explanation.

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I found The Force Awakens much, much more fun. This one was kind of a bummer actually. The comedy stuff didn’t work as well and some parts dragged. Anyway it’s just my opinion. 

OK. I thought we had moved on from all the political stuff and generally both acknowledged that, yes, The Last Jedi was not a good film, and that hardcore Star Wars fans are the worst. Laura Dern is fine in it but her conflict with Oscar Isaac is an idiot plot that feels forced and -after the reveal- borderline…

How soon “soon” is seems to be proportionate to the desirability of the event.

Yeah, I hated TLJ, but I ditched Star Wars fandom years ago. My childhood memories growing up in the 70's loving the hell out of Swar Wars are just fine, but the recent spate of SW movies flat out suck ass.

This is basically the same situation I find myself in with The Last Jedi.

Personally, I’ll take Cary Elwes any day.

The 5th elephant is a damned masterpiece.

I’m just so disappointed that this article didn’t begin “Avril Lavigne isn’t dead--she’s born again.” It was RIGHT THERE! 

I read the first volume of this and was so underwhelmed. The angsty teens were so generic in their supposed fucked-uppedness and had no real character to speak of, so it was impossible to become invested in anything they were doing. Plus the whole thing was drenched in quirk-for-the-sake-of-quirk.

So three things. First of all I literally don’t get how you thought that was what was I going for in my comment, but whatever. Second, you do realize all of this applies to Jonah as well? Third, Sam was one of the driving forces for the trip and them looking for that island in the first place.

Here’s the thing, I completely understand why they stuck with Jonah as he works better as the companion both from a character and physical perspective. So writing Sam off is reasonable from that point of view, especially since there is a limited amount of resources to spend. Just the utter ruthlessness they used to do…

“Shit, we’ve accidentally written such great chemistry between these two characters everyone thinks they’re a couple. Should we maybe roll with this and see how it leads to new narrative arcs in the games?”

I almost wished that they went with that ending, although I can also easily understand why they wouldn’t as they didn’t want to tie the ending too hard on what happens next or where the games go, if they do. It’s just that I thought the ending was lacking that something.

Why isn’t everybody calling it the batawang?