“And the bottom line for me is that what TLJ really does is simply reset the Star Wars universe back to where it was in ANH: No more New Republic, or fleets of ships; the Rebellion is back to a scrappy band of insurgents against a big bad Empire.”

No querio.

No, I’m not interested in a gilded lily version of Popeye’s chicken sandwich, thank you.

Right? How the fuck is CFA getting credit for putting a pickle on a sandwich.

Based on the video, I think it’s difficult to tell if he was speeding up and aiming for the protesters or not, especially since he swerved back into the lanes of traffic, rather than continuing over to the shoulder where there was a much larger group of pedestrians.

“dressing up as a fantasy race to be the same thing as pretending to be a black person for the purpose of making fun of black people”

Honestly, I’ve always hated this theory about the Force and the Jedi—that it’s hypocritical for the Jedi to believe in the idea of killing Sith. It has shades of the Paradox of Tolerance.

“He didn’t actually try to murder him though. That was Kylo Ren’s memory of the event, because all he saw was Luke in that moment ignite his lightsaber. Luke’s retelling of the event was different. He had a split second of weakness”

“but “hmmm, I smell the dark side, it’s nephew-murder time” makes no sense.”

We re-watched A Goofy Movie a couple weeks ago, and I realize that it skews towards a slightly older audience, but the entire premise of the movie is that Goofy takes Max on the fishing trip because the principal of Max’s school warned that he was going to get the electric chair. WTF!

Eh... let’s be honest. the Alien franchise hasn’t been relevant since before Prometheus, in spite of the significant amount of buzz that it generated due to the clever use of a whole host of various marketing tactics.

The reason for the “potential intoxicants” is likely because for a preliminary autopsy report, the labs on any substances in his system haven’t come back yet, so they don’t know if he was under the influence or not.

It truly is a blandemic.

I came down to the comments section to just type “no” in response to the idea of a Labyrinth sequel sans Bowie.

[shrieks in primate]

“highly fortified Rebel base” 

“Or if I stuck a hyperdrive engine onto an asteroid and launched it straight at the generator.”

“Rebel Endor Leia or Ewok casual Woodstock Leia?”

“none of it was plot central but it was some of the better moments”

It’s interesting you bring up Dany’s heel turn, because that’s an area that I actually think makes sense from the standpoint of the series as a whole. Having the self-proclaimed chainbreaker and freer of slaves turn out to be just another proto-fascist actually fits pretty well with GRRM’s take on high fantasy and the…