Well, duh, because Poe was gay and Finn is bi and Rey is at least attracted to men (might be bi still). It’s less a triangle and more just an angle with Finn as the vertex. Let them be the polycule I want them to be

Consistent screenwriters + story writers (as seen in the OT) is more important than consistent directors.

Have you seen former AV Club TV Editor Emily VanDerWerff’s essay yesterday about how disapppinted she was in the change to Rey’s parentage? It goes through similar feelings as you but specifically from the perspective of someone who was adopted herself: https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/12/19/21028496/star-wars-the-rise…

AND the literal blink and you miss it LGBT representation of some officer kissing a woman in the background of a scene? Fuuuuuck you for trying to say that you did anything. It’s just as shitty as Beaitu and the Beast. Maybe not AS self-congratulatory as the Russo brother self-insert As a nameless gay man sad about…

They probably used the pocket transporters from STar Trek Into Darkness, the magical devices that make 90% of the plot moot because of their existence. JJ’s never met a McGuffin or nonsensical plot device he won’t use if it lets him get from SET PIECE to SET PIECE faster, connective tissue and in-fiction repercussions…

...it’s JJ Abrams. You know there’s a twist and a mystery box already going in. That’s his schtick. If a spoiler ruins your enjoyment of a movie, it was a bad movie in the first place.

Bringing back Palpatine from the dead makes Anakin’s sacrifice to kill him moot. As reverent and beholden to the past mythology JJ is, this one change shows he has no idea what his fanfiction desires do to the previous text. He’s a hack, the perfect distillation of Hollywood nepotism rewarding mediocrity.

Rey kissing…

Im glad the actors have turned out okay. JK Rowling, on the other hand, continues to worsen and worsen. In addition to anti-Semitic caricatures of the goblins and slaves that live to be enslaved in her books, she is a transphobe and a TERF. From today:

None of those are starring roles

It’s perfectly clear. “another Andrew Lloyd Weber creation” implies one and The Phantom Of The Opera is set off by commas immediately after, fulfilling the “another”, and these two are now one composite object X. “Les Mis” is a second object Y. So this is saying “It inaugurated an era of blockbuster shows that…

I love me an Iggy pan, full of historical and relative cultural background (that Prufock pull, nice), a line that actually had me snort

All Christmas music is bad. Except for

Know who else fell for it? Lead White House reporter and former gossip rag columnist Maggie Halberman. She later had the temerity to then say

WeWork For You?

Uncut Gems is definitely a dick joke, right?

My roommate and I both spontaneously laughed uproariously at the screaming. Was it intentionally humorous? Or did they mean it sincerely?

And uses a convicted murderer (voluntary manslaughter) as a feature! It’s shitty morality all the way down

So... Nick Cannon’s diss is that Eminem is a father and adopted his niece?

And his entrance music was Baba O’Reily!!!!!

Only berates? Thank god