Good to know that once again JJ Abrams was all about the setup and had no idea how to follow through.

“Luke just “is different now” with no credit to the audience. It’s bad writing.”

My issues are with the script paying no attention to taking a character we know and explaining *why* they’re different - Luke just “is different now” with no credit to the audience.

Because movies need to be “properly” explained i.e. to sooth the jangled nerves of superfans whose speculations were incorrect

Nope

I watched this movie again last night, and really tried to watch it with all of the major criticisms in the back of my head. Honestly i like this movie more each time i’ve seen it.

Don’t worry, everyone. Surely some man will pop up to tell us that Samantha Bee isn’t a perfect liberal. KeyserRoll is probably typing up a manifesto.

It’s called character development which is not something you are allowed to not show when the previous film ends on a cliffhanger.

The Canto Bight scenes were not that long.

I genuinely do not understand why everyone is responding to trolls lately. Not just at io9 but across all of the Gizmodo Media Network.

It’s the Mirror Universe. Established by Star Trek as being utterly evil 50 years ago. These people create new devices specifically for the purpose of torturing victims without them dying and all promotions come by assassination.

Part of racism is denying it failing to recognize or respect theeffect it has on group in question. If you can’t see far enough to understand that someone might be offended when their culture is boiled down to things that don’t even relate to them, that’s YOUR problem. Empathy is where it’s at, it’ll get you…

Within 4 or 5 posts, you’ve hit upon just about every cliched defense a racist person floats out there when people call them on their bullshit. Pretty efficient, I’ll give you credit for that. You missed “But I have lots of black friends” though, so I’ll grade it out at a B+.

Yes, I’m sure a YouTube video with an unrelated “angry feminist” meme in the thumbnail will have a very reasoned approach to racism.

“Pretending to be dominant over another race” is not the definition of racism.

It’s actually spelled Penang* after the malaysian state where the Thais originally got their red curry from (it’s originally from India but Penang was a major spice trading hub of the British and as such there were many Indians and Indian ingredients to be found there). Penang is right on the Thai border as well. Even…

That first one is a doozy. The two experts you called in did a good job, but I think they left one particular stone unturned - the idea the girlfriend might have about him as a potential parent. If that woman wants kids, she cannot in good conscience have kids with a guy who think parent-child sexual relationships are…

This is me for all horror movies.

I’ll defend the full Pirates trilogy. It’s a mess, but it’s a fun mess throughout.

I have no idea whether you’re right or wrong, but I do feel obliged to inform you that Orville bros invading every Discovery-related thread to preach their gospel are extremely obnoxious, and not making me any more likely to watch that show.