If you didn’t believe anything without proof, you couldn’t function in society. Are you honestly telling me that you disbelieve everything you’re told until someone proves it to you? Do you think that’s skepticism? Because it’s not, it’s paranoia.

That voice could have been coming from anywhere, and in fact I thought it was coming from somewhere else the first time I saw it, which is why I had to watch it twice to understand what happened. The guy in the video never faces the camera and speaks, never looks in the direction of the camera holder, never…

There was never a time in our society when more than a miniscule fraction of a subculture of people where “having sex was as casual as shaking hands”. Not sure where you heard that, but it’s patently absurd.

Got me there.

Like I said, I believe her story, and I’m not personally giving this guy any benefit of the doubt. I’m just saying that nothing in the video is concrete proof that would justify firing the guy without an investigation. I’m not even saying they need to hire investigators and spend months interviewing witnesses. But to…

Where does it say that?

It’s the only reasonable take on it. If you have another, I don’t know what you were watching.

Luke is established in Force Awakens to having “failed” in some way. It’s established that everything that they fought for was ultimately for nothing. His family is torn apart again. And he had already ditched the light saber.

Yes, thank you.

You missed my point. The problem wasn’t that he rejected the lightsaber, or his arc in general. I have no problem with his story arc at all, honestly. It was actually one of the things I liked about the movie.

Yes. It’s perfectly fine for me, as a person with no power or agency or role in this story, to believe strongly that it went down the way the woman says it did, but also to believe that there isn’t enough evidence for a company to fire the guy over it without a cursory investigation. What is hard to reconcile about…

What did he set up? All he did was tear down what came before, with nothing to put in its place. There was no possible version of The Rise of Skywalker that could have followed up successfully on The Last Jedi, because there was nothing left at the end.

To me it wasn’t that Luke shouldn’t be flawed; I was fully expecting him to have turned his back on the Jedi in some fashion, else why would he be in hiding (given that the Jedi no longer needed to fear persecution as under the Empire)? The problem was in the execution. TFA ends with Rey discovering Luke and handing…

I couldn’t have put it better.

I don’t understand the argument that he did new and exciting stuff. I do understand not wanting predictable storytelling, and I definitely agree that he flipped over the table. I just don’t understand how anyone thinks that he actually did anything with it after flipping it over. He didn’t set anything up, he didn’t…

Every Black person within 100 miles of the theater in most parts of North America isn’t very many Black people. If it was only Black people going to see it it would have lost money.

The mistake Johnson made was that he just made what he wanted without giving a single shit about what the franchise was supposed to do next. He basically jettisoned everything that JJ set up in the first movie (because for some inexplicable reason they didn’t have a payoff locked in for any of it). Then, after…

I mean, yeah, it is. Black Panther was a runaway hit that far exceeded expectations; TFA failed to meet expectations. It was Disney either way, but from the suits’ perspective there should never have been a scenario where no matter how well Black Panther did that TFA wouldn’t outgross it.

I would expect if that was the case that his statement would include more language about facts coming out and how many sides there are to stories. I suppose we can only wonder right now.

The Union’s failure to finish the job is the reason America is the shitshow it is now. Damn right they should have burned more. They never should have let those fuckers come back. They should have run those evil fucks right into the sea and given their entire states over to freed people.