Making her parents special would undo everything. The movie offers an egalitarian take on the Force, and Rey’s nobody-from-nowhere heritage is an integral part of that. Luke tells her the Force doesn’t belong to the elite, and the final scene ties all that up with a pretty bow. Upend that theme and you’ll need Force Gh…

Success buys people a lot of leeway. There is a direct correlation between how much a person can get away with and how successful they are. Not everybody successful is a scumbag, but it certainly makes it easier to be one if you are so inclined. Not just because you can buy yourself “justice,” but because people…

Taffy’s New York Times profile of “GP” is long, but hilarious and fascinating even if you would normally have no interest in GP’s goings-on.

For a summer blockbuster, where you need tens of millions of people to show up, 59,000 sales is nothing. He was well known to comic geeks, but not the general public. He was so obscure no one would have even let you make a sitcom joke about him before the movie. 60,000 readers is barely more than half a million dollars…

My bad - had comments set on “staff” not “community” so I didn’t see he’d already replied with that info (Kinja is weird)

Oh man, yeah!

finally, being an old nerd who spent too much time on weezer forums around the turn of the millennium has paid off!

Quality runners-up: “Mixtape,” “The Authority Song,” “Disintegration,” and especially “Polaris.”

not an urban myth, the song Mykel and Carli by Weezer is about the same fans who were active in both communities. Note that the title phrase appears in that Weezer song as well.

That Static Prevails is a better album than is usually given credit for is the hill I’ve chosen to die on. “Episode IV” is fantastic, as is “Rockstar”. Its not Clarity, but you can see where Clarity was starting to take root as an idea. Also, while I agree that the entire first self-titled album is pretty bad and…

A Praise Chorus still gives me chills every time I hear it. Possibly the most perfect pop-rock song I’eve ever heard.

A Jimmy Eat World power hour without “Lucky Denver Mint”?

“Inarguably inferior Croatia side”?? What??? This is a team that survived two straight penalty shootouts before this game, destroyed Argentina like a college football team destroys a high school freshmen team, kicked the hosts of this World Cup out of the tournament, has an amazing amount of experience in…

England fans have rediscovered a dopey single called “Three Lions (Football’s Coming Home),”

Gareth Southgate is basically now the coach from every underdog sports movie ever.

The match itself was bad, but mostly the good kind of bad.

Don’t want to be pedantic but brits not = england. Scotland and Wales (especially Scotland) are bitter rivals who would like nothing better than to see England choke on another shootout.

Japan finished behind Colombia in their group though.

I don’t think I could skillfully express why, but that final line reading of “Take my heart when you go” shocked some honest emotion out of me. I teared up just a little bit.

Last year episode 6 gave us Maeve in one of the most wrenching moments in WestWorld, her walk through the facility with Felix.