But steamed hams aren’t steamed, they’re called steamed hams despite the fact that they are obviously grilled.

Fair point. There is a definite neediness to her that her family sees much more than the public does. And I’d forgotten that line the Queen had at one point (“we all know when we’ve played to the gallery excessively” or something, directed at Diana after the Australia tour), which I think was very astute.

And Dominic West as Charles? Much too attractive.

I wasn’t into most Nintendo properties. art style deterred me. I wasn’t into most Nintendo properties. Wind Waker’s art style deterred me.

Wha? Finn’s story picks up directly from the end of TFA. His establishing motivation is his obsession with rescuing Rey over the needs of the Resistance, a character arc that was set up in TFA and is developed, subverted, tested, and ultimately paid off in TLJ when he finally fully commits to the Resistance after…

Oh come on. Please show me the complex character development of Hux. He made a speech in the first movie. He was then made a fool of In the second movie and In the third, quickly killed off.

I look forward to that day when the rewatches start and people figure out TLJ is a capitol “M” MOVIE, with themes and arcs and actual characters, and not just a sloppy bucket of callbacks and fanservice.

Boyega deserves a lot of credit for being brash and not standing down about this, when it would have been so easy to just complain about it privately to friends and colleagues while staying silent publicly....

But that’s not how the show works. That is not how it’s ever worked. Each week stands on its own. You do not get credit for previous good weeks. The judges weigh a baker’s performance in the showstopper more heavily than the other challenges. And at the end of the day, Hermine went into the showstopper challenge with…

Yeah, you might just be more indulgent than me. For the record, Charles’ response to both performances was cruel and unacceptable.

...which was a mistake. YUGE. Poor Hermine. And poor Laura. The vitriol the poor woman has had to endure. Everyone seems to forget the reason she’s still there - she’s a flavor queen - who always needs to be reminded of presentation. But after all, the taste is what the judges almost always default to (as they should).

(I am seeing many royal biographers really denouncing this show in saying that Charles never was unfaithful once married)

I feel so bad for this woman.

I hate that a 20-year-old could win this thing, but like I mentioned in a previous recap, these young’ins do so well every year is because it’s all they do. They’ve got school and hobbies, and that’s it. They don’t need to spend their weekends driving their kids around or cleaning the damn gutters. This kid’s been…

Trans people are 100% entitled to the same dignity and respect as everyone else - of course. And also, that Barsanti article, like so many others, makes me want to puke in my mouth. I would never want to be forced into a conversation with someone like that. Every progressive cause has its share of reactionary…

So “John Cleese hopes trans people are happy and that people could treat them kindly” could have also been the headline. And yet.

Yep, not a great episode, but a solid one. It’s especially painful to watch the bookends of the episode, with former It Girl Margaret now fully transformed into the poster child of the sloshed lost aging 50 something trying to act 25 again. (I was actually surprised Dazzle didn’t get to respond to her comment about…

I wouldn’t call the wealthiest people in a societygoing with a bit less of what they have to improve the lives of everyone else suffering my guy

World leaders did what he asked and America was better for it.

Not a review (it's literally tagged 'editorial' at the top) and this is not a site (not just Kotaku, but Gizmodo as a whole) that is apolitical, because nothing is. For someone boasting about their age, that post is incredibly infantile.