People can kiss my butt. I actually want to know what Snokes backstory is. Especially since it’s been said he’s supposedly more powerful than the emperor. How did he build up the New Order? How is he so powerful? There’s nothing wrong with wanted to know some information about a seemingly fascinating character.

I mean I would have been totally fine! It didn’t need to be forty years later. It could have been a hundred or, hell, even sixty. Dude it can have been a millenia before these movies.

Definitely. That seems like the newest, mostly Internet-driven iteration of the phenomenon. I thought about mentioning “the new atheism”, but it doesn’t seem to be driven so exclusively by one particular book, movie, or TV show, and my comment was pretty long already.

I think there is a certain personality type of fairly intelligent and perceptive person who goes through a phase in their life lasting maybe a decade, from about age 15 to age 25 or so, in which they realize that many people and many institutions of society are hypocritical and corrupt. But instead of continuing a…

Plot-holes.

Interesting experiment and conspiracy fuel for the chemtrail crowd.

Not particularly, since option 2 was a land invasion which would have resulted in much higher casualties than the nukes did.