It’s funny: The more reactions I read, the more convinced I am that people have just decided how they’re going to feel and are adopting positions that fit their general disposition.

The prequels exist. And they are part of a larger story. When evaluated on their own merits, they’re not great art. Us finding them…

Sneaky fact of life for most: You get to decide what you consume. You don’t get to decide what gets produced.

So, you want Ahsoka to be S1 of The Mandalorian?

Or maybe you should look at all of this the other way around:

Filoni is one of the people primarily responsible for moving the work forward. He’s proud of some of the stories that he has begun to tell, and wants to continue to tell those stories. The people who have actually engaged with those stories have widely…

I’m sorry, but the way to overcome the gatekeeping you’re pretending is happening here is to watch a thing that’s part of a thing that you say you want to be part of. The club is entirely voluntary. Membership is based on participation. It’s attendance. You don’t get to be offended that someone else is excluding you…

The problem with that logic, of course, is that you’re excluding yourself from a club that is improving the thing you say you care about. To be honest, the work Filoni did in Clone Wars provided actual context for Anakin’s turn. He basically rehabilitated the prequel trilogy as a meaningful story with an actual arc.…

Move forward. Leave them behind. They will only slow you down.

Move forward. Leave them behind. They will only slow you down.

It’s not even a boating analogy.

The author doesn’t know what it means. This isn’t a boating reference.

If DeSantis was smart, he wouldn’t be running at all this cycle. It’s obvious that Trump is just running to keep himself out of jail. Why alienate Trump supporters by running against Trump when he could spend this cycle as “Trump’s Gavin Newsome” instead of trying and failing to be the person who beats Trump to earn…

This whole thread is hinging on the theory that the author was successful in dunking on DeSantis’ dunk attempt by pointing out that this was a boating reference. It wasn’t. She wasn’t.

It looks like Youngkin is smart enough to sit this one out and not get tarnished, in advance, with the stink of not being ready for primetime while ALSO avoiding getting wrecked by Trump along with the other clowns in the car... (The Youngkin = young kid = groomers thing almost writes itself.) He’s still gotta Make…

I... really don’t think this was a boating reference, if for no other reason than because “listless vessels” doesn’t really mean what you think it means if we’re just talking about 70 million people who are in it for some mix of the racism, Federalist Society jurists, and pwning the libs... and attempting to describe…

I wasn’t gonna click through on that Logan Paul story, but I had some suspicions that have proven true. You left out the best part:

Have we pivoted to the education insult thing now? Okay, let’s dance:

I actually learned, in high school, that when someone can’t refute the message, the first thing they’ll do is try to attack the messenger. No community college necessary: You made a broad assertion. I asked you to support your assertion with…

Judge me all you want; if you give me the option of drinking beer that actually tastes good, I’ll choose it every time. If money is the issue, well... That’s why they gave us all boot straps.

I want to make sure I understand your point correctly. Let’s use the multiverse as a framework:

According to you, there’s another universe where the only thing that’s different is that Elliot Page received a case of Bud Light instead of Dylan Mulvaney... and in that universe, instead of performatively shooting at cases…

“I cannot imagine my father unfollowing me on Instagram!!!”

You hit on my big issue with his approach at the end: He lost the balance between having Thor BE a joke vs. having him be IN ON the joke vs. not needing a joke at all. He lost that balance because his instinct is to completely paper over emotional beats. Some people just HAVE to defuse an emotionally charged moment in…