There is also a massive gulf of difference between injection molded plastic (like LEGO) and stamped steel.

To be fair, this was one of the first real post RotJ pieces of Star Wars media so the whole Skywalker bloodlines trope wasn’t as well worn as it is now.

The main difference between Thrawn and those guys (that the article doesn’t really touch on) is that Thrawn rarely, if ever, falls victim to his own hubris.

They’re also a holdover from the original EU (now Legends) canon. They showed up in the Courtship of Princess Leia as a sect of Force-sensitive witches on the Planet Dathomir, and they rode rancors.

These first showed up in the Mandalorian and I believe they were referred to as HKs there, so it’s not an Ahsoka-specific Easter egg, for whatever that’s worth.

I don’t think anyone would argue that the WRX or EVO were ever “economy cars”. They were clearly tuned versions OF economy cars, but that’s not the same as most of the items on this list.

I do not think that a large amount of people identify as Democrats because they like civility at the expense of peoples’ right to exist, civility and decorum at the expense of being called pedo and commie by your “mainstream” opponents. If your idea of being a Democrat involves taking a knife to a gunfight, prepare to…

Did anyone see him try to smile? He looked like the T-800 trying to smile in Terminator 2.

This was the only character I couldn’t place, I totally didn’t remember that was Cheese’s fake grandma’s name.

The young Brownie sounded EXACTLY like Gary Farmer, right down to the cadence. Either they dubbed him or that actor is an INCREDIBLE mimic.

Ahhh Tomato...that’s a name I’ve not heard since...

What’s the opposite of a Milkshake Duck? Where a viral sensation gets demonized because they turn out to be LESS racist than originally thought.

Lol what’s it like in the weird fantasy world you live in.

It’s about fucking time Democrats started taking the offensive. Up until now their whole deal was to just let Republicans call them communists and pedophiles, and then shy away from any and all pushback lest the Republicans...continue to call them communists and pedophiles.

It’s really the dumbest possible argument, and the fact that it still persists shows just how bad faith that whole side of the argument has become.

I dunno why I arrived at AOTC first, I think I just grabbed at the first example that popped into my head. I think it’s happened several times across the franchise, but definitely the precedent was set in the very first installment.

It also happened in the first Star Wars ever. The Death Star used a tracking device on the Millennium Falcon to find the rebel base on Yavin IV. It’s literally always been a thing.

Also, just remembered, in LITERALLY THE FIRST MOVIE OF THE ENTIRE FRANCHISE, A New Hope, a tracking device is what allows the Death Star to track the Millennium Falcon through hyperspace to find the location of the base on Yavin IV.

So when someone says most gun deaths are mostly suicides, respond with “So you admit that guns are a more efficient way to kill people than other methods?”

You see this with suicides. Introduce a gun into the mix and the risk of suicide dramatically increases. Turns out when someone has suicidal thoughts, they’re a lot more likely to talk themselves out of it when there’s NOT an instantly lethal method to easily erase their life sitting in a closet.