Let’s say all of that is true — does it make it okay to vote for the guy putting toddlers in jail?

I liked it and thought her message was important, but I can understand why some people think, you know, it’s not really stand up? The jokes in the first half were more smile than laugh-inducing, then it goes into (again, important, but not comedy) Ted Talk mode.

Yup. But again, Attack of the Clones didn’t feature the return of Luke Skywalker after 30 years and the last appearance of Carrie Fisher, for whom there’d been a huge outpouring of love earlier in the year.

I’m genuinely glad it worked for you (and again, it mostly did for me!), but it’s a bit reductive to pretend the only criticisms of the film come from not being able to understand the 9th movie in the Star Wars series because it’s too elevated.

I dunno — I generally liked the movie (despite some reservations about a dour/depressing tone), but this was the return of Luke Skywalker and Carrie Fisher’s last run in an legendary role, and it brought it $800 million less worldwide than TFA.

There’s perfectly valid things to criticize Force Awakens for, but lacking zip and energy doesn’t seem to be one of them.

Bojack and Master of None could be added to the list too. I think their movies are lacking and of course the catalog’s not perfect, but I’m not sure there’s a better value if you’ve cut the cord.

In a heartbeat. Jessica Jones is my favorite of the Marvel shows, but B23 was transcendent.

The dude who controls our nukes?

I live in DC and it was actually heard pretty consistently throughout the debate. (I was agnostic on the vote.)

I don’t see this existential dread angle discussed enough re TLJ — Johnson genuinely brought some great ideas to the series, but I’ve watched it a few times now and the sense that it’s a miserable slog is hard to shake. I love Rey and Kylo, but it’s really depressing to balance the arc of Luke not wanting to leave the…

“The things that were set up in TFA were dealt with, but nothing specific was offered in their place.”

I dunno if it’s even fair to call that a cliffhanger, and certainly not one that’s hard to follow up on — the scene with Rey finding Luke begged the question “where do they go next?” (people can disagree in good faith on how well Johnson delivered on that), not “how do they get out of this conundrum?” which is the…

I know this is mostly a troll comment, but to give it a generous reading: this become a flashpoint because it was such a clear example of what was wrong with the media’s treatment of Trump in 2016 (entertainment or journalism).

A pause on Kenobi or Boba Fett seems reasonable... I know people like to compare what Lucasfilm is doing with the MCU, but for the most part you don’t see Marvel jumping back decades to give us Tony Stark’s origin story or whatever.

Is that controversial? It seems like fans are pretty evenly split between 7/8/Rogue One as favorite.

Same. I generally like the show but haven’t finished it yet because like many Netflix shows it kind of turns in a formless 12-hour movie rather than tighter episodes that seem written as parts of a whole like in Bojack, Orange is the New Black etc.

Waiiiiiit I never noticed that dagger or the fact that it disappears! Wild.

This Last Jedi example is weird because in the actual film it was intercut with the resistance shuttles getting blown up and Finn/Rose being betrayed.

I don’t see how what happened to Duvernay (or Jenkins) is anything like that you describe with Trevorrow. She was promoted up to directing a famously hard-to-adapt children’s novel that was probably never going to be a massive hit; he was given the keys to the long-awaited Jurassic Park reboot. Even the one example of…