I love being able to learn new ways of going through the world from people who are not me, and did not grow up where and when and how I did, but I still have to answer to the fact that if I might benefit from their creativity in ways that diminish their existence.

In my mind, it seems like thinking of cultural appropriation as resource extraction is useful to these discussions, especially if you want to talk about intention and harm.

Oh my no. No no no no no.

I don’t know, I wouldn’t sell the horror short. Not so gory, for sure, but it some of the tension in there felt like Alien in how it played on your sense of bodies.

I am still so floored at how they mapped different facets/cases of racism to those horror tropes. The fact that they infused so much humor at the same blows my mind.

And as far as the Skywalker bloodline is concerned, the OT seemed to do a good job at making non-skywalkers fun, interesting and necessary to the development of Luke, Leia, and Anakin. I get that it would narratively be the most tidy, but the fellowship across species and histories is something that made the OT…

Admittedly should be reading them myself, but the summaries I had been seeing in passing were mostly covering it for me. Then it comes down to timeline specifics and I find myself leaning on people who are on top of the new ones.

This all day.

I want to be down with this answer, especially because I have my hopes set on a more interesting explanation, but there’s a nagging part that says “happily married” while Han still went on multiple stints away (maybe I am reading too far in to his dialogue in TFA as to how long), doesn’t close out that possibility.

I think it’s a stretch, too. But not as big of stretch as some other plot-fixers in SW history.

But he’s almost always cavalier-as-fuck, so it’s possible he was just keeping his guard up.

Could it be Leia or Han’s daughter with someone else? Do they have to have had Rey together, or could she be only one of their kids? That would at least be a twist that hasn’t happened in canon.

“Sagan willing” seems like a prayer from the secret science bunkers of the not too distant future, studying forbidden spreadsheets by bunsen light, calling out to astronomers of lore.

This killed me, thank you.

I think you would mean ‘outing’ instead of ‘ratting’, as Kotaku’s coverage of fan games has been largely celebratory/positive, if cautious of the possible brand backlash. As far as I’ve seen, they have not taken the attitude of trying to alert those authorities to those projects.

I just want a reboot of Dark Angel to happen already. Minus the ideas from the second season, because let’s face it, that shit was whacked out.

Came here looking for this. Beautiful.

That was the post and thread that solidified that io9 was a place a for me.