Well, off the top of my head: Luke and R2; Luke and Yoda; Luke and Leia. I got misty during all three of those, both times I saw them, and I’m not alone. And if you’re looking for breathtaking moments, there was the Holdo maneuver for visual splendor and, for Force-awesomeness, the reveal during the climax that Luke…

It’s funny how different this sort of reaction is to The Last Jedi overall. Both Rian and Dave have worked to move beyond the story of the Skywalkers, yet there are entirely different reactions in general.

While both companies exemplify this issue, there are at least two legitimately good reasons for this post being about Amazon and not Foxconn, as I see it: 1) Relatively nobody knows what Foxconn is, whereas everybody reading this has an Amazon account. You could argue that there would be value in educating people…

Or do they also want the fence removed and unrestricted immigration across the border, like we have with Ireland/Northern Ireland?

Some thread-tweeter who got RTed into my timeline suggested that this is all a ruse and Northern Virginia has been the target all along, because Amazon’s most profitable arm by far is Amazon Web Services, which recently moved its headquarters to the area. The logic being that the company has quietly decided its real…

I agree that the team could — and should — have scheduled their way around this, but to me that’s an entirely separate issue from the simple question of whether Pierce is being petty. And if he truly considers it disrespectful to spend a literal minute of his special night celebrating another former player, I do think…

This take is so crazy I’m kinda worried I’m responding to Paul Pierce’s Deadspin pseudonym, but here goes: Nobody on Earth is claiming that Isaiah Thomas’ achievements with the Celtics measure up to Pierce’s, and the team is not asking Pierce to share his moment of recognition with Isaiah. These video tributes are the…

You’re right that it’s fine we disagree. It’s a bit dickish to suggest I invented or imagined my interpretation; for the record, I kinda think the same of yours, which seems like the most-negative-possible reading of every moment and action in the film. But whatever. I’m genuinely bummed that you and others didn’t…

The movie is way overstuffed and its protagonist, Newt Scamander, isn’t very compelling, nor is his mission, such as it is, which is primarily to recapture a bunch of heretofore unseen magical creatures he accidentally let free and secondarily to help defeat a somewhat generically xenophobic evildoer. With all that…

See, you call my Luke a loser and a coward, but it takes bravery to truly reckon with one’s own failures, and to take action — even drastic action — to avoid inflicting them on those you love. Your Luke was a well-meaning but reckless child, who utterly devoted himself to an ideology he barely understood, guided by…

TLJ Luke = best Luke. Your boner has bad taste.

Every time I read a comment like this about THE VERY IMPORTANT AND CANONICAL FORCE RULEZ, I’m so incredibly thankful that Johnson had the freedom to write the story he wanted. I say this as someone who has watched each of the movies tens of times, the entire Clone Wars series twice and every Rebels episode at least…

Given that the previous episode is titled “Jedi Night” and that “Dume” is Kanan’s birth surname, all signs point to his being the death. I’ve been bracing for it ever since they started ramping up the romance between him and Hera, but... this is still going to be a rough one for me.  

Yeah, fuck the best thing to happen to Star Wars in decades. What a tool, taking the franchise in an exciting new direction like that.

Ah shit, I just remembered I planned to cancel my CBS All Access during the mid-season break and start it back up when the show returned. Completely forgot that plan. This is, erm, how they get’cha, I suppose. (Yes, I am cheap enough to try to save $6 on one month of a service I don’t otherwise use.)

Unrelated to WHY it takes this long, my initial thought is that it might actually be... a good thing (??) that the next season won’t be around for a while. This fan base — not all of it, but we all know who I mean — could use a bit of a time out, after the McNugget fiasco and the miscellaneous misogyny that…

Yeah, the six-team plan would draw opposition from SEC types who think their runners-up are still better than the champions in the other big conferences, an argument Alabama made stronger by beating up on Clemson. And, though they’d never admit it, the powers-that-be would hate to lose the week-to-week drama of the…

UCF fan here. This is the right take. Many of my fellow fans — and some in the local media — spent the night declaring UCF the Real And True National Champion, but there’s no basis for arguing that a victory in the Peach Bowl retroactively means Alabama, which would have been the last team out and just barbecued the…

Amazon says the code isn’t valid.

Amazon says the code isn’t valid.

Is there any actual evidence against him, or is it just accusations.