Should have stuck to the rivers and the lakes that they used to

This is exactly the sort of discourse I wish more people could have about TLJ. Respectful arguments.

I’m not saying all expectations are subversion-worthy, or that all subversion should be embraced by all, always. Your own feelings about TLJ are of course just as valid as mine or anyone else’s, and and while I can’t personally identify with your reactions at least there are plenty of others who do.

So we’re now in a full on race to see who can reach the bottom first? How is that good for the country?

Nobody in TFA treats Rey’s lineage as important except Rey. Everybody else is just like “who’s this randomer, using the Force?” The movie explicitly shows us her parents abandoning her on Jakku with Onkar Plutt. Your mistake is over-interpreting random casual remarks whilst completely ignoring the blatant indicators…

Oh no, not the character growth!  This is the lamest excuse I’ve ever heard for not liking this movie...and it’s repeated often.  The character growth for those characters happened over 3-4 movies already, and is told in the backstory to this movie.  It’s absurd how some fans will go out of their way to find the…

The pursuit plotline isn’t meant to be EXCITING, it’s meant to be TENSE. For a while it’s not even clear HOW the First Order is tracking them, and so it introduces an element of paranoia like “is there a spy on board?”. The Millennium Falcon’s escape from the Empire in TESB was mostly just them parked inside an…

Yep. It was a fun lil’ space movie. That’s pretty much all I need Star Wars to be.

You know, some people also didn’t like The Last Jedi because it’s a structurally questionable movie with some bad writing and underdeveloped (or underused) characters.

Because they’re cocky assholes that’s why. Remember when Tarkin refused to evacuate the Death Star at their “moment of triumph”? The FO, like it’s predecessor, has a habit of underestimating their foe. They thought that the Resistance had nowhere to hide, so why waste valuable resources like TIE Fighters and pilots…

The movie was good. Not perfect, good. I see people flip the fuck out when they hear that someone enjoyed it. I’ve literally seen people try to argue that The Last Jedi ruined Star Wars forever. Like, the entirety of Star Wars. Fucking idiots the lot of them.

I feel like I’m in the Twilight Zone when I read the various negative reactions to this film. Like, I genuinely do not understand how we saw the same film. 

This is Nazi Brownshirt behavior and it is absolutely intolerable. Further, to use a child as a political prop for an ambush attack is repugnant. Good luck to the left in this country trying to make this seem normal, appropriate and decent. Is it going to take someone walking up to Sarah Sanders or Pruitt or McConnell…

I want more global warming, I enjoy long summers

Dude is probably secretly excited about being confronted publicly. Now, he can justify all of his security detail and first class travel.

Personally, I think it is VERY important that kids see racism, sexism etc in action so they can understand what it looks like and why it’s wrong. I wouldn’t let a kid read these books totally unsupervised, but I wouldn’t rule them out entirely. I got a lot of my love of the outdoors and desire to do things like cook,…

Hello. I am white. Just to let you know, we don’t all act like this. In fact, most of us don’t.

I complain specifically about implausible acrobatic lightsaber duels. Yoda fighting with a lightsaber at all, let alone that circus act, is my biggest complaint about the prequels.

I see a lot more opposition to these new movies from EU die-hards than from the still very real misogynist creep contingent, and I can’t help but think that an entire subset of nerds weren’t helped by consuming twenty years of middling fiction of which it’s most basic underlying principle is nothing can really…

That is the stupidest god damn thing I’ve ever heard. Care Bear incest porn is less stupid than this.

It is illogical to say that Han was the most popular character in the original trilogy AND say that he was only interesting the second Chewie dragged Obi-Wan and Luke over to him.

News flash:
1) Solo was good, even if…