As others have noted, Capaldi was a much bigger star when he was named The Doctor than anyone coming into the role in the modern era. If it were any other part, something they’d have to convince him to take, he would have been worth (and offered) a lot more money than his predecessors, but being The Doctor is…

There has never been an iteration of Doctor Who that was played by the same person for ten plus years. Capaldi and Smith where there for three each, Tennant was there for five, and Eccleston was there for one.

Its almost like family dynamics are seriously fucking complicated and maybe we shouldn’t hold Franco’s sister-in-law accountable for his bad behavior.

someone who had been there for ten plus years

That’s gotta be the first non-ironic use of “feminazi” that I’ve seen in more than a decade, and I sometimes subject myself to the Breitbart comment section. You’re like a unicorn or a sasquatch or terrible person or something.

I am very against the notion that Alison Brie (or any woman) should have to answer for her husband’s brother. I think it’s massively unfair to put that on her and I recoiled in disgust at her being blind sided on the red carpet like that. Whatever creepy ass James Franco has been up to lo these many years should not…

Why does she need to say anything? Why do we immediately turn to the closest woman and burden her with the responsibility of answering for some shitty man’s actions? Why does it always bounce back on women?

I took the gay art/straight life comment to mean that his actual attractions are straight and everything else is performance.

Unpopular!? Radical? Let’s revive Square Pegs!

My problem is they aren’t rebooting MY favorite series. Bring back Daria and Wonderfalls!

Except he himself seems to deny actual sexual or romantic interest in and engagement with men at every point, which is what makes the bi story not track. He’s interested in cultural cachet and perceived boundary transgression, but doesn’t (by his own words, so far) share the lived experience of attraction towards men…

Bail Organa, while a member of the Galactic Senate, was also royalty on Alderaan. Princess Leia Organa was, as his adopted daughter, a member of the house of Organa. This is some basic shit, dude.

Anakin turns to the dark side because he sees it as a way to cheat death. Specifically, as a way to “stop people from dying,” specifically Padme, who he’s seen in danger in his visions (whether those visions are planted by Darth Sidious or simply a self-fulfilling prophecy or really just bad dreams is, I believe,…

Leia as a mentor to Poe in TLJ is pretty cool, though. That’s a dynamic movies don’t often use—an older female mentor to a younger man (especially if you subtract characters who are actually teenagers or children). I thought she did plenty in TLJ but it is really disappointing that she won’t have her spotlight entry…

The duel at the end is amazing........ Even with all the garbage before it, the fight is an amazing piece of choreography and cinematography. It certainly set the standard for lightsaber duels coming after it.

I think Force Awakens does that to some extent, in part because that movie (which I generally love) is fueled by a lil’ bit of myopia that results from keeping your eyes on “doing it for the fans.” But as a semi-notorious prequel-lover, I was actually delighted by how Last Jedi rolls them in gracefully. Besides…

I think a lot of those ideas are fine, but (unsurprisingly) incredibly undercooked.

The biggest problem with Padme’s characterization is that she falls in love with Anakin.

I think she’s a great character that’s forced into a bad relationship for plot reasons.

I don’t understand how Padme can fall for a guy who is a) creepy, b) fascist leaning, and c) a murderer.

The new movies acknowledge the prequels. Kylo Ren mentions a clone army in the first one and Luke briefly recounts the rise of Darth Sidious in the new one. There’s not a lot of reason to dwell on those events 50something years later, honestly.

One thing I’ve noticed that’s missing from a lot of women’s analyses recently (especially women who are older) is that they’re operating from a basic assumption of “it’s just the way society is/it’s just the way men are.”