Nah, YA fantasy tends to not be so stuck up its own ass exploring DEEP CONCEPTS like REINCARNATION and ORIGINAL SIN. Most YA fantasy has competently written female characters as well.

Even in the world of 2023, that shooting would probably be justified. Even though Mansell didn’t end up pulling, he broke into a home after murdering a bunch of people, was thought to be armed, and then reached for something in his waistband area.

Eh... they were written before that was a thing, true. But they do have a touch of that feel to them.

Most of us agreed that the world-building was amazing

“It has the responsibility of introducing the character James Bond and Sean Connery in the role and kickstarting what’s now a six-plus-decade film franchise—the longest running in history.”

Stevie Nicks was 27 when she sang “Now I’m getting older, too.”

Lotta salty old people in the comments forgetting how old you think you are when you turn 30, but it really is a system shock: you spend your 20s thinking you’re an adult but still acting like and being treated like a teenager. Around 30 people start treating you like a regular adult, and one bad night of sleep can…

He was hired to keep people safe, and he decided he had other priorities.

0:52 - “Every photo of me from that night was from behind the barricade and above all else I made sure Taylor Swift and all the fans were safe. As long as I was at that concert I was doing my job
1:57 - (Posts photo of his back turned to the barricade clapping at Taylor Swift 50 yards away)

Rian made the first movie’s setup more interesting by actually injecting some new ideas into it. Whereas the two Abrams-directed films just insist on force-feeding you the same plot points you already sat through in the original trilogy, with no variance other than “the death star is even bigger now” and more CGI.

I’ll keep saying it, Taylor Swift fans are the dumbest and most useless people ever.

Yeah it’s kind of like being listed as a reference on someone’s resume, typically all you can say is either yes or no they would be allowed to work there again.  Saying much else risks legal trouble.

It was, shall we say, the best of the three “sequels”. They were all steaming piles of doodoo, insulting their audiences, their characters, their actors and the craftspeople who worked on them. TLJ was a steaming pile of doodoo with aspirations. So well done for that, I suppose.

There’s a new Fraiser?

1989 was fantastic too:

I really, truly wish that more conservatives wouldn’t be so happy being so goddamned, stump-fuckingly dumb. 

TV Show: “Hey, gay people exist!”

Another right wing lie! 👍

Bill Hader - Plastic Man