Agreed. The notion that the film “subverts Star Wars” and “breaks your old toys!” to move on doesn’t really line up with the content of the movie that I saw?

Same takeaway. It was a fine movie that did some new stuff (though I feel like the “Last Jedi burned the old ways to the ground!!” takes are a bit overdone), but it made me realize that I’m looking for a little more of the fun, adventure-y vibe of it all from these movies, so this wasn’t quite as much of a blast as…

It’s wild to see this administration and its surrogates aim for law enforcement and see the right wing just kind of shrug.

Felt the same. I like it fine, but it made me miss JJ’s pacing and sense of fun, which I didn’t anticipate.

Disagree that either Snoke as a character or Rey’s background were actually set up as a mystery in TFA... it’s more the internet that made them so. (Seems fair to say that JJ probably did see Snoke being more involved in 8 and 9 and not cut down early though.)

It’s kind of ridiculous. I’m probably in the minority but I don’t agree that Rey’s family is a “mystery box” at all in TFA — I didn’t read anything in the film as suggesting Rey was anything but abandoned.

Yeah, it’s interesting to me when someone kind of shrugs at the Han death scene, because from my perspective the music and dialogue are so good, and then Ford and Driver totally knock their concern, conflict and anguish out of the park. Hit me harder than a lot of the other serious moments in the series.

Agreed.

Heh — okay. Rotten Tomatoes still shows the AV Club as giving it a B+. Maybe a mistake on their end, but I thought that was how it posted here.

Ehh, you know that JJ Abrams introduced those lovely island visuals at the end of the last movie, right?

For what it’s worth, he originally gave Force Awakens a B+ then downgraded to a B a day or two later ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

All other things equal, your city would be more expensive without those 100,000 units.

Eh, I think you’re overstating the odds of holding onto the seat a bit — 2018 is not going to have the same turnout as 2016. There’s a chance Dems could lose this seat and their (very slim) chance at the Senate because of it.

That was a fuckup, but it was literally a one-sentence gaffe in the context of HER PLAN TO HELP THE REGION. “Actively alienate massive swaths of the US population” is not something she did. Like other candidates over a long campaign, she made unforced errors, but it’s silly to pretend she wasn’t a much better…

If you watched the debates last year and came away with the take that Hillary’s performance was where the problem was... I don’t know what to tell you. The crux of what Bee is talking about above is that people demanded Hillary, as an old woman, be the best candidate in history in order to “earn” their vote from…

Holy shit it’s true. This is the worst I’ve seen them since the Kinja-ing.

Yes! And from what I’ve read, Seattle itself is one of the coastal cities allowing the most housing to be built right now, and is seeing correspondingly lower housing price increases than SF/LA/NY/DC.

Allow more housing to be built where it’s demanded. It’s good for tax coffers, for people who gain the ability to live closer to jobs hubs, and for the environment due to greater density.

Huh? California notoriously builds very very little housing. Market value has gone way up because of it.

Oh damn — is Steven Universe back?