In the manga, the Major is inserted into different shells, including one that was male, so at least a ghost/shell identity mismatch had precedent. ScarJo was still a terrible choice, though, as the Major’s default form was deliberately supposed to look like a common model robot body. The idea of an undercover agent…

I agree that’s what the film showed, but what I dislike is that it requires Luke to explicitly ignore what Yoda told him about visions for a second time. Uncertain, always in motion, all that. Twice in the saga Yoda has made the point that the future is hard to see, especially when clouded by the dark side, but Luke’s…

This argument is more straw than man now, twisted and evil. How does anyone watch RotJ and come away misunderstanding how Luke won?

“I’m just going to play it until I stop”

Indeed.

Edgier than a basket full of katanas!

Aside from the Skywalkers, all the Jedi we’ve seen in the series have been any old schmoes. Even one as famous as Obi-Wan, there wasn’t anything special about him.

I honestly think that’s a legitimate point. VIII feels a lot like III; the bad guys are ascendant, and only a scant few heroes escaped with their lives. IX doesn’t have any immediate cliffhangers to resolve, so I’m not sure how necessary it is. You could call these last two films a duology and just come back in 20…

If the answer was always intended to be Rey Nobody, then that should have been made clear at the outset. Making a mystery out of it, even in just refusing to give her character a last name, really set the character’s background to have *some* significance. Doing that with no intent to deliver anything on it is just…

It was just a bad joke. Tangents, angles, etc. 

I think tangents can really be informative, depending on what angle they take.

If I had to write a screenplay with Blunt in it, I’d have had her playing a role akin to a whistleblower, someone trying shine a light on the whole shadow ops thing. Trying to revisit her role as the obligatory FBI ride-along definitely wouldn’t work.

Sollima’s basically just a freelancer. Taylor Sheridan created the characters and wrote both screenplays, he’s the one who should be catching heat for excising Emily Blunt and diluting Brolin and Del Toro into boring anti-hero tropes.

Those clubs are springing up, but with his political base being primarily white evangelical senior citizens, it turns out the median age for Trump Youth is 44.

Not understanding the right to free speech is apparently a tenet of the modern Republican Party platform.

Upvoted primarily for the acronym :D And I agree that the current border strategy, which has more in common with tyranny than law enforcement, cannot be tolerated. But throwing our hands up and just walking away is overcorrecting in the other direction. The fears over illegal immigration are hyperbolic conservative…

Ah, I understand now. And sure, it’s not like they’re cruising around in tanks on the regular, so I don’t want to overstate that. But it’s very common for cartels to import American semi-automatic rifles, do a bit of smithing with custom parts and have a fully automatic weapon as a result. American gunsmiths aren’t…

I want to take a moment to note that, once again, an article that’s not actually about The Last Jedi but touches on the film just peripherally begets discussion threads that are almost entirely about The Last Jedi. I don’t think Lucasfilm could have made a more divisive film if they tried to do it on purpose.

In general I agree, but the Darth Maul double saber reveal is probably my favorite single moment in any of the post OT films. The “oh shit” exclamations in my theater were epic, even though Lucasfilm spoiled some of it in the trailer.

One visual element I did NOT like about the casino was how conventional the games and environment felt. It looked like cosplayers in a Monte Carlo hotel rather than something happening in a different galaxy. I’d have loved to have seen some crazy ass games being played, or at least costumes that diverged from…

I liked it when I thought it was sort of an homage to Yoda’s act when he first met Luke, but when I realized that Luke really was just a miserable asshole and he truly didn’t want anything to do with Rey, that moment kind of soured (hah!) in retrospect.