I don’t believe the name and homeworld of Yoda’s species will be revealed on-screen. IIRC, Lucas had envisioned the species as so secretive that even other Jedi did not know this information. The showrunners here seem pretty conscious of honoring/retaining the feel of the Star Wars universe so it’s hard to believe…

Happy Christmas to everyone else who got to listen to a 40-minute lecture from their in-laws or parents this morning about why they should be at church and how your depression would go away if you just prayed more often. I can't even deal with this stuff sometimes.

I mean... they shoved Rose aside to establish that relationship, right? 

Pam is really not a good person. She lies repeatedly to protect her job or to get ahead, her inability to be without a man for 5 minutes leads her into various emotional infidelities, she’s catty/jealous, and yet still she manages to have a chip on her shoulder despite the fact that many of her co-workers are…

Those. People. Aren’t. The. Fans. The fanbase are the people who consume Rebels and The Clone Wars. In other words, they’re the people who have long embraced Star Wars as a diverse universe with lots of strong female characters. This new movie, on the other hand, feels like a sop. It throws us these stupid fan-service …

It was handled awkwardly for sure. To be fair, I think both Han’s cameo and parts of Lando’s role were originally written for Leia and had to be passed off in the wake of Carrie Fisher’s death. One of the good things about TLJ was that it planted the seeds that the story of what they pulled off at the stronghold with…

Coming in 2021:

It’s not even that they just threw away TLJ, it felt like they hand-waved away bits of TFA as well. Starkiller base? Yeah, that was a bad idea. What’s the First Order? Or Supreme Leader Snoke? Don’t worry, it’s just the Empire and Palpatine again. It was so obvious that they made this arc up as they went along, or we…

I’m part of the “fan base” and if this was meant to be fan service, it fails entirely. What this was meant to be is service for the masses, to make Star Wars feel like a comfortable and easy-to-follow family saga again. It was also, I think, service to the writers/crew/filmmakers, who it seems were determined to cram…

I ask my husband this whenever he insists on going to IHOP. :D

Excited to see this, not only because “Women Talking” is sitting here next on my to-read pile, but also because there’s so much here I haven’t seen on other lists.

Not at all surprised to see this being piloted in ATL. Every time we go to the local IHOP there are people waiting for to-go orders.

Ugh. Can I join the support group? First Thanksgiving as a married couple. We stayed local to have dinner with my husband’s parents; his mom and I planned out the menu weeks ago. Then my husband, who already has a back issue from a car accident, broke his toe walking into a wall. He’s in constant pain, which has…

I haven’t followed this closely enough to have an opinion on whether she is or is not guilty of having a relationship with her legislative director, which was allegedly the real issue with the ethics investigation, but my eyes almost bugged out when I saw RedState boasting of having 700 or so explicit texts, images,…

The problem is also that vaginismus occurs for some of these women in the first place because of the intense anxiety they have about sex. This is the anxiety that develops because women are poorly informed and fed a lot of scare tactics about the dangers and sinfulness of sex.

Probably nothing. The character is a known worrywart and hypochondriac. Including the line in the trailer is probably misdirection.

I found the report horrifying but also unsurprising given the lack of meaningful action from our government. As with election interference, it is a serious challenge that our government is an ineffective gerontocracy where few of the people at the top can grasp these technical challenges, and no one can hope to make…

This exactly. The show was good only insofar as it was able to draw on the source material. The plot gymnastics involved in ensuring that the show could continue into a second and third season with the same cast just became silly. Having read The Testaments, one of the things I liked most about it is that very few…

The best description I’ve seen of this special called it “shock jock quality.” It was a lot of outrageous/controversial things strung together, but most of them were not funny. I’m still puzzled over the decision to lead with an Anthony Bourdain suicide “joke” (?), which didn’t seem remotely linked to any of his…