I recall when the Yankees acquired A-Rod, people in a position to know were saying that he was a better defensive shortstop than Jeter and it made more sense to move Jeter to third base. If that had happened, he’d be considered a fairly good third baseman instead of an all-time great shortstop.

I dunno, I think if I was in a bad place, the parent I like better would have a better chance of changing my mind.

Oooh, ooh! Maybe Leia is Snoke, and she’s running both the First Order and the Resistance? At some point after RotJ she went dark, and she’s emulating Palpatine by pretending to be one of the good guys! So she knew Han would die when she sent him to face Kylo.

Agreed. I sometimes enjoy inventing my own solutions to plot holes, but that doesn’t mean that the plot hole wasn’t there, or that it was an obvious solution.

The logic is strong with this one.

I mean, Leia outright guilts him into doing something that he knows is a terrible idea, right? Why is she putting it all on his shoulders?

I figured the name was kinda neat because it’s the location where the movie kills its biggest star. That place is a starkiller for us as well as for the movie characters.

Is he Tarkin, miraculously having survived the first Death Star? Or maybe Tarkin’s son. They have similar cheekbones.

It’s not great, but what’s interesting is that the overt flaws don’t seem to impede my enjoyment as much as they should. I’m forgiving things that I know I wouldn’t tolerate from a non-Star Wars film.

You had Von Sydow and Harrison Ford, two of the titans of their generation of actors, in the same film ... and they don’t share any scenes together. That’s a shame.

Indeed. If Mars exploded tomorrow, I don’t think we’d be able to see that in the middle of the day. And we’re in the same solar system.

All your points are well-stated, but I did think of one potential explanation for the janitor thing. If he was raised to be a stormtrooper but wasn’t very good at it, a temporary assignment as a janitor would be a good punishment.

#COTD

Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality

Don’t forget, the only reason he’s not a convicted domestic abuser is the fact that he was lucky enough to be prosecuted in a state with a strange appeals process, which gave him time to pay off his victim.

Hire him to plan the divorce, then.

I dunno, does a dime count as “some money”?

GOOD POINT! That had been bugging me.

See, this comment exchange isn’t working for me. I don’t know anything about Major Tom and DarthPumpkin. What are their motivations? Why are they commenting on the Internet? I need backstory.

It always amazed me how many homers he hit that were almost entirely arm-and-wrist shots. He could wait on the ball longer than most batters, and if that meant there wasn’t time for him to turn his legs and torso, no problem.