While I would always encourage people to develop their critical analysis skills, I also think sometimes you don’t have to be an academic to express a preference. I’m about as academic as they come as it concerns film and could give you a long rundown of why Citizen Kane is an amazing, historically important film. But…

Is he entirely different, though? Did they actually ignore what had been established? We know that Luke was always full of self-doubt. Even at the height of his OT powers he was not this zen buddhist master of calm and self-possession. He loses his shit more than once in his fight with Palpatine. He *barely* holds on…

And the thing is, I *like* “Bad Girl” art. I enjoy the idea of sexy villains or antiheroes. I think it’s perfectly acceptable. But I don’t like when people won’t cop to what it is. And yeah, you’re totally right, she’s a self-insert waifu. Honestly so much of the bullshit rhetoric around the sequel trilogy is centered…

Mara Jade fans are...

And your point is......?

“Oh no, Grogu! That Kowakian monkey lizard sure is beating the tar out of Cara Dune, famous pants-wetter!”

I prefer to tell people to Touch Degrassi.

I have to assume that this is technical legal language re: recasting her character in the show. Like it’s got to be a “pay me X amount of money per a contract agreement”. Not... like... legitimately FORCE Disney to put her in a TV show. Because that’s.... not how free will works? I admit I’m confused about this.

I get your point and we likely agree for the most part but even the use of “weasel out of it” rubs me wrong. Nobody should ever feel bad or wrong or judged for not wanting to kill another person. There is no such thing as weaseling out of conscription.

But it’s essentially the headline that the fucking LINKED ARTICLE USED. And “just one of many pieces of evidence”? WHAT EVIDENCE? The article points out the *lack* of evidence for the defense. But then you should ask what SK wanted as “evidence” of his status. Like if you’re not out on the street proselytizing…

Abd once again you are in violation.

Their priorities should not dictate the lives of people unfortunate enough to have poor parents who fucked and shat out a kid on contested soil.

Quit fucking yelling at everyone else about your pedantic semantic bullshit, kitty. Go lick boots elsewhere if you’re gonna be a dick about it. Simply sitting on your ass all day playing games is definitively NOT murdering another human being for the state, which makes you plenty conscientious enough for me.

Oh, I dunno. I found a lot of the EU stuff charming. If only *because* it was so clearly professional fanfic. To be fair, I was a bigger fan of the weird shit like the Princess Leia romance novel. I liked the Zahn stuff too but for me the more ridiculous the spinoff the more I tended to enjoy it.

I would say that’s the appeal of the Old Republic stuff but even there a lot of it ends up bottlenecking into the Skywalkers.

I think it can be difficult, understandably so, to separate earnest complaints about Rey from bullshit fanboi misogyny. Especially because so many contemporary nerds are still boiling in aggrievement bullshit and misplaced feelings of cultural appropriation. And SW fandom has some STRONG gatekeepers. It’s the same…

Ah shit, Dredd!!! I love Dredd in 3D!

Deadpool isn’t saving shit. People are burned the fuck out on superheroes. They’ll still make money but if DC or Marvel or whoever is thinking that the wave will crest again any time soon they’re delusional. Let them die down for a while. Although since none of these fucking idiots understand pop culture cycles who…

I have nothing against Ridley or her character but FFS can Star Wars as an IP just move past the fucking Skywalker saga bullshit already? No more Skywalkers. No more Palpatines. No more Solos or Calrisseans or Chewbaccas or ANY of the INSANELY NARROW set of characters in this gigantic fucking universe. MOVE. THE.…

I’m sure Rad.tv will get right on that.