This one nearly universal fact is why I never believed Rey was ever intended to be a nobody. From Ponda Baba to Sy Snootles to Elan Sleazebaggano, no character is too trivial not to have a surname, which meant the only reason NOT to reveal Rey’s name was because it had significance. If her genealogy was not intended…

A couple of thoughts:

...also, it’s the dude who wrote the Bourne movies who’s heading this show. I mean, that’s gotta mean something.

It’s interesting seeing you two having a normal conversation here while you’re shitting down each others’ throats a few posts up. Really mixing up the vibe, I dig it.

That is America’s ass.

That would be fantastic, but I insist that Elden Henson plays Happy Hogan in this timeline.

We know that Lucas had a ton of worldbuilding and background material, but many of the major plot points of the OT were made up as he went. Vader wasn’t intended to be Luke’s father from the outset, nor Leia his sister, etc. Obi-Wan papering over those errors with his ‘a certain point of view’ speech is some of the…

the mess they made by not having a story bible for the last trilogy

If we hadn’t just seen Matt Murdock practicing law in New York a few months ago (SM:NWH), I’d say that’s a possibility, but yeeting him from Hell’s Kitchen to LA off-camera just for the sake of a cameo in a series that already has actual Avenger Bruce Banner guest starring in it... I wouldn’t expect it.

In books and the like, yes. By ‘official’ Star Wars chronology, Obi-Wan was born 57 years before the Battle of Yavin, which happened essentially the day that he died. He was 25 during the events on Naboo, after which he was given the rank of Jedi Knight. That does seem kind of long, but we don’t really know how l0ng a…

Obi-Wan was 57 when he died (played by Alec Guiness, then 61). He was 38 during Revenge of the Sith (played by McGregor, then 33).

we have no indication if Cox and D’Onofrio will be involved in the new series

She-Hulk is in LA, so I wouldn’t expect it.

In the post immediately before this, you wrote: “So you are saying that amount of notes in circulation isn’t correlated to inflation?”

In 2020, the United States had 50.3 billion notes in circulation. Of those, 3.2 billion were $5 bills.

I think one reason men struggle to express affection for one another is because as soon as they do, someone will decide it means they want to suck each others’ dicks. 

I need very little reason to inject homoromantic subtext into any piece of media

I like Anson Mount in everything and I think Ethan Peck’s Spock is really good, but Uhura is *absolutely* my favorite character in this show so far. Golding plays her so well, and it’s wonderful to see why she’s on the ship, in a role with far more depth than the character has ever been given. Anyone on the bridge can…

I should clarify that how the Federal Reserve reclassified M1 (US money supply) valuation in May 2020 is responsible for a lot of the “80% increase” commentary that’s gone around. The previous valuation method excluded many types of assets, and thus skewed the numbers much lower. For example, savings accounts weren’t…

This is extremely misleading. The volume of printed notes in circulation  does not equal the total amount of US currency that exists, or correlate directly to its value.