And ultimately trying to subvert these tropes is the reason that so many Star Wars fans are freaking the fuck out.

Finally caught it yesterday with the little one, and we absolutely loved how they kept subverting the audiences expectations and throwing us for a loop.

Big deal. FIFA has been determining outcomes with paper in briefcases for decades.

I know it’s been played out forever but crying Jordan still gets me

One of the more under-appreciated benefits of Jeff Fisher getting fired is that he didn’t get quite enough time to ruin Todd Gurley. He tried his damndest though.

This is a good comment and a smart rebuttal to some of the points I raised. Just wanted to bump it up toward the top.

The plotting itself in Act 2 was pointless. What Rian Johnson was trying to do (I’m not sure I totally agree with his decisions) was take the usual harebrained Star Wars convoluted Hail Mary hero plan and make it fail. And fail spectacularly.

There are absolutely legitimate reasons for this time be reviewed under anti trust laws. Disney would own roughly 2/3 of all media in the us. The lack of competition is something we should all recognize as an issue from the ISP debate. The government isn’t ruining things, corporations and a lack of government…

Fans pre-Dec. 15:

Isn’t Kylo the one who told her about her parents?

I agree with much of what you say, but I really really liked that Rey’s parents were nobodies. It means the Force is more democratic, and isn’t purely a blue-blood royalty hereditary sort of thing. It’s time to move beyond the Skywalker family, perhaps

Funnily enough, I loved this movie for the exact same reasons you hated it, my dude

I’m surprised and disappointed by the amount of negative fan reaction, especially in comparison to TFA, which I also enjoyed but was a much more flawed film.

Stuff I liked:

Children are so much easier to teach than grown men.

More likely he and Kid Flash end up joining the Legends as replacements for Firestorm.

The most damning part of all of it...

Other coaches who would win all their games with a starting five of late-prime KGs:

Look, man, I’m sure Jessica Chastain (or is it Bryce Dallas-Howard?) would be great in the role but I will not stand here and let you bad mouth Famke Janssen! How dare you, sir! How dare you!

It also means invoking the famous Bechdel-Wallace Test, which measures if two female characters in a story speak to each other about something that isn’t related to a male character. Considering what a low bar that is, it’s depressing we still have to bring it up in 2017.