“Is it even possible to be insensitive to one of the richest most influential women on the planet?”

“I like that she takes roles that are important to her, but it still feels weird seeing her pop up in what is basically a lark for her.”

Nobody has a problem with you being off topic. People have a problem with you being insensitive.

I’m just saying, a black woman makes an impassioned, powerful speech about overcoming oppression and the terrible toll it’s taken on its victims, on a night that was (ostensibly) about resistance to sexual assault and harassment, and your only comment is to bash her acting? Learn to read the room, bub.

I wonder if it burns the STD producers that they are playing second fiddle to a Seth MacFarlane show in the space adventure genre?

“This isn’t new. This isn’t original. This is dumb.”

Discovery is like DS9 in reverse. DS9 started out sticking to the ideals of peace and co-existence, but they encountered an adversary that met every attempt at peace and diplomacy with treachery and sabotage, leaving the Federation with no option but war.

I know! What’s the deal with a pop culture website reporting stories about pop culture celebrities?

Chinese audiences have regularly shown they prefer their own homegrown movies and talent. They don’t have the same relationship to Star Wars as western audiences as noted, Asian representation within the franchise is token and romantic comedies are frequently the biggest box office winners in the market. This outcome…

Dipshit.

Okay, this is where you maybe need a little history lesson. Back in the 1950s, when the Shah was still relatively new in his office as monarch and the country was what we’d more or less consider a constitutional democracy like Great Britain, there was an Iranian Prime Minister named Mohammad Mosaddegh. He was an…

Cool, thanks for this incisive thoughtful commentary. I’m sure this will become a pivotal turning point in both our lives

It’s a shield. He “calls himself out” which inoculates him in the minds of his fanbase against further criticism about being a belligerent, gross asshole. “Hey, he admits it!”

It’s not her job to figure out how to fix it. And it’s pretty tone-deaf of him to put it that way.

I’ve never understood this type of comment. Crowing about taking pleasure in pain you insist on attributing to others makes it sound like you have little in your own life to be proud of.

For a debut comment, that was certainly . . . a comment.

The modern-day conservative Id in full display, ladies and gents.

It’s an incredible display of power that - at the same time - subverts the logic of Ren’s self-narrative. Just as Ren smashes Rey’s (already-tottering) self-told story about who she is and “how things are going to go”, Luke wins a victory over Kylo that he never could by hitting him with a “laser sword”. He shows him…

Luke didn’t destroy the Empire single-handedly. He didn’t even destroy the Death Star single-handedly. And the Emperor handed him his ass over and over until Vader saved HIM.

It’s a good thing that the fans don’t get to write the story then. If Luke hadn’t changed any over the years, then how could you have explained him going into hiding in the first place? I get what you’re saying, and I understand where the disgruntled fans are coming from. They don’t have to like it, and they don’t…