The thing is, you could still have the Midi Chlorians as a measure of how powerful a force user is by having them as a life form that lives symbiotically in force users, instead of the source of the power. More of them mean the host is more powerful, instead of the host is more powerful BECAUSE there are more of them.…

The way C3P0 and R2D2 were included in the prequels was awful though, and didn’t exactly mesh with Obi Wan Kenobi not recognising them in Episode 4. In the original trilogy, they were effectively audience point of view, witnessing most of the major incidents (which I’ve vaguely heard was directly borrowed from 2…

Was about to say the same thing - it’s what might make the disappointed blowhard fans change their mind, if Rey builds something new and better than the old Jedi order in the third film, but without those books, she’d be hopelessly in the dark. Not sure how she can read them though, it wasn’t clear if they were in a…

That did feel a bit of a stretch - the idea of a smuggler selling out the rebels made sense, and having it reveal the stealth technology to the First Order makes sense, but having it as a plan? That’s where it gets a bit contrived

I wonder how her scenes will read on a second viewing - The Usual Suspects looks different on the second watch with the behaviour in the interview room looking bored in the first view, but in the second view, you see him looking around the room for details to spin in to the story. The scenes with Laura Dern read as…

I hope so. One of the problems (scientifically) with CTE is a lot of the brains they study are self-selected by families who suspect it. They haven’t really got a baseline to compare it to as far as I’m aware as most brains aren’t studied. Having a test that living people can go through may be helpful with that

Wouldn’t argue about it feeling forced, it’s a shame they escalated it they way they did. I guess that is a failing of a lot of superhero stuff, goes for the spectacular ahead of the emotional. I half wish he had become the main bad guy instead of the Homeland-esque conspiracy stuff, but would that have been enough…

Does it need to be coherent though? I prefer things that present a difficult perspective and let you try to work out what you think for yourself. I liked how they handled Lewis in that regard, in that he came across as both villain and victim and you could pity him whilst condemning his actions

I don’t think the writers do a good job with Karen - anything that she has written in the paper has sounded like a blogger, not a newspaper journalist, and her positions seem like plot elements, more than a real character

Lewis felt like a decent plot complication. Not strictly necessary, but he added some interesting human moments especially for an anti-hero like the Punisher. It’s easy to kill mobsters etc on screen, but someone getting lost in his mental illness makes a much more complex antagonist. The actor did a good job with the…

He also said something to Madani about how everyone came out of the war dirty. It was a bit of a Chekhov’s gun thing and quite lazy foreshadowing. With that said, I’ve found the writing for the b-stories like Lewis to be pretty good, certainly much better than the execrable court scenes from the 2nd Daredevil series.

I found quite a few of Peter Jackson’s abridgements to be rather dumb. The army of the dead sweeping in to Gondor to provide a visual moment makes no sense compared to having them drive the enemy back in to the river. As technically accomplished as the films are, I wish the script had been adapted by someone with a…

It’s a problem with the franchise model - if you pay to build a stadium, you’re left with an expensive white elephant if the league owners decide to move the franchise. On the upside, you tend to get a decent competitive balance because revenues are fairly equal, but there is no incentive to invest in the way that…

You know you’re not on good ground when you start to rant about a bit of mathematics that has been demonstrably true for two thousand years... Still, I guess if he understood what he was talking about, he wouldn’t be a radio host

He is more of a soccer player - amazing on crosses...

Not really - Man Utd should be able to cope with a heavy schedule since their sqaud depth is unbelievable. When the starters go down, they’re almost always replaced by people who have caps for their national teams (if they’re not outright starters). It’s not uncommon for them to have more caps on their subs bench than…

The potting sequence in snooker is that after any red, you then pot one of the colours and once the final red and a colour have been potted, you then pot the colours in points order (Yellow, Green, Brown, Blue, Pink and Black). The sequence is what allows for players to play safety shots and snookers (another insanely…

This is snooker, but it’s not all of it - safety shots (making contact with the target ball, deliberately not potting the ball and leaving it and the cue ball somewhere that the opponent would either miss or not have a potable target) is incredibly skilled too, though somewhat harder to understand. It looks like…

What makes Tottenham significant, is if they can become a powerhouse without a rich owner subsidising them, then it offers a blueprint for other clubs. It takes a long time and requires patience of the chairman and manager (and supporters), which has to be hard when you see middling clubs transformed by super-rich…

The article could maybe have done with more of a write-up on the technical/defensive side of the game - it’s the part of the game that probably looks weirdest to new viewers. This video is very much for purists, as no balls are potted for a good while, but it’s a good example of how and when players attempt to snooker…