I don’t know how they’d fit him into Phase 4, but I’d love to see more of Ruffalo’s Hulk. He had a very different energy in the films as someone who wanted to do good but not necessarily in that traditional “superhero” way. I think particularly in Infinity War and Endgame they managed to highlight his intelligence as…

On the one hand, it IS good to check in with people before you’re about to dump something on them. It feels like an ambush sometimes when someone just dumps a bunch of heavy emotional stuff when you aren’t in a position to handle it or respond. If someone just woke up or is running late, they’re not going to be in a…

Like, yes, we know movies are a product, and moviegoers are potential objects to be monetized, but at least try to keep the illusion of films as art and us as patrons.

They come off sounding like twitter entrepreneurs with a shopify store that talk about how they’re always hustling.

Couple things:

I think it highlights the motivation for him to get out of Mos Eisley in a hurry for a cheap price thereby moving the plot forward on getting Luke & Obi Won to the Death Star. There is dialogue about it, but showing an actual threat helps out. That’s why the Jabba scene sucks and why it shouldn’t ever be included…

I tried to ask my most Star Wars obsessed friend about this, but the second he heard “Maclunkey”, he shot me in the chest.

I think she and her defenders just lost the high ground of claiming that the original quote was "misogynistic."

Yes, because misogynistically the worst thing a man can be is called a women.

Because calling a man “woman” is the worst possible insult to a man

It’s anachronistically gendered. While I explicitly know it’s an “anti-female” word, 90% of the time I’ve heard it, it’s been directed towards men. 

My favorite (/s) response to Dessen’s tweet was when someone replied “Fuck that fucking bitch.”, and Dessen replied to that with “I love you. [heart emoji]”.

Comments like this one backing up Dessen’s position are missing the point so completely, it’s mind boggling:

Yeah, I’m a little conflicted on this one but overall the author is being petty.

I think it’s fair to feel hurt, but completely bizarre that a woman with a large public platform chose to respond to a quote from a student at a small college in South Dakota. How fragile is your ego?

Stop trying to get me to lower my standards. Since this show (for the moment) doesn’t rely on dialogue and can’t even fall back on facial expressions to help us understand this character, then fuck yeah the fact that he makes no remotely meaningful, relevant, interesting or surprising decisions until the very last…

I’m not asking for a moral crossroads at the five minute mark. but I’m looking for a fucking shred of personality.

They actually were well-realized characters in their respective shows. That’s what good shows do. yes, that doesn’t mean those characters don’t change - of course they do and that’s also the hallmark of a good show.

“I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make. Don Draper and Tony Soprano were not fully realized characters in their respective premieres.”

There’s a wide, wide chasm between “not fully realized” and “not developed at all”.

But you make a great point. There’s no character development at all in The Soprano’s first…

Really enjoyed this. Had a quibble about the carbon-freezing - in Empire Strikes Back it was Vader that wanted to carbon-freeze Han, to test whether Luke could survive the process for his journey to meet the Emperor. Boba Fett reluctantly agreed to take Han in that condition. In The Mandalorian it seems that…