In what way does its social agenda differ from those of Force Awakens or Rogue One? (Looks puzzled.) People seemed to like those movies well enough. 

Had it been the very start of a new trilogy it might have worked. As the middle chapter it’s a total dereliction of duty. Having said that, Force Awakens was so poor that I certainly wouldn’t have wanted to attempt writing a sequel to it. 

It’s neither fresh nor interesting. If it were, nobody would be complaining. The gender and race stuff is largely bunk. When I was growing up teenage dudes’ favorite movies tended to be Aliens and T2. Nobody complains about gender politics when they’re presented with good stories built around compelling characters.…

Nope, completely different case. It needs to be explained where Snoke was during Palpatine’s rise and the decades of the empire. 

But the Emperor is introduced on what is effectively a blank canvas. Snoke’s power needs to be squared against the existing canon. Where on earth has the guy BEEN all this time??

People keep saying this, but they’re tilting at windmills. We know Vader’s two children appeared to inherit some of his force abilities. But within the movies it has never been suggested that dynasties of force users are the norm. 

It’s the second-worst. TLJ is an incompetent piece of screenwriting, and a jaw-dropping bungle for a billion dollar IP that needs to maintain a coherent narrative universe.

The sequel trilogy has been completely incompetent, certainly at the level of writing and planning. It’s a pointless mess, a multi-billion dollar game of Consequences where we’re now heading into the final chapter with no proper antagonist and no meaningful issues to be resolved.

It was just brief pain hurt rather than injury hurt. But I still felt bad. 

Yeah, I’ve had similar experiences. Once embarrassingly so, as a girl swung a mock-punch at me at a party and I diverted it as a reflex, hurting her wrist and requiring apologies. It was like a state machine in my brain had been triggered.

The muscle memory and instincts you develop with blocking kata drills are *somewhat* useful - there have been a couple of occasions where somebody has swung a punch at me and I’ve parried it before I even realized what had happened. But it’s also true that a stand-up, punches-only fight, one-on-one, is not really the…

Jeez, just trying to imagine the Chinese visiting Japan. O, the horror. 

I don’t use suitcases at all these days. Lightweight duffel bags combined with packing cubes. All carry-on, nothing checked. With the extra weight of the suitcase gone you can take a lot more with you. 

Snow? At Burrard and Thurlow? Well, at least BC Transit apologized for the weather. 

I throw my pot scrubber brushes into the dishwasher every other cycle. Helps prevent them filling up with, y’know, stinking filth.

Something I’ve encountered several times in my life: if I have a fever and I’m trying to sleep, I usually have incredibly repetitive dreams, as though I’m stuck inside the same five minutes of narrative that keeps looping over and over. And eventually the dream becomes aware of the looping, i.e. there’s a…

The endorsements I receive bear no obvious relation to what I did in the preceding game. It seems to be more, “I don’t remember this guy being a blatant asshole; I’ll just punch one of these three buttons randomly and hope he returns the favor”.

Which is okay, I guess. 

A raffle is not buying something. If it were, I could buy $380m this weekend for $1. 

The problem with this analysis is that it doesn’t take into account the extra NHS hospital beds being used up by the former walkers forced into being escalator lardarses. They were formerly getting vital CV exercise at every tube stop. Now they have diabetes and heart disease. 

Some of it, yes.