It’s “obvious” in the way that the winking and nodding makes it obvious, but it’s not obvious in the way that a man who would have just said “I haven’t been the same since my wife died” is obvious. It’s crystal clear, but they’re still being cute about it in a way they never are with straight relationships.

In the episodes where he had a major role, it was Fillion. In his few minor appearances, it was Rosenbaum pulling double (or triple, or quadruple) duty.

As someone who works in education I’d love to see a series on Luke’s evolving cognitive development when he realizes he can utilize the values he learned from the Jedi but also make his own moral structure and realize when they were dead wrong. Of course we all know it’s doomed to fail, but it would be nice to see if…

I do love speculating just how much Lucas’ first marriage ending messed him up. I think the Special Editions are in some way an attempt to overrule her editing decisions that he disagreed with, and his attitude towards love and attachment in the prequels is vastly different from what the OT implied. In the OT Luke is…

Yeah, when he was philosophizing I was thinking about how could he know all this with the little formal training he had? Sure, sure, something happened between Empire and Jedi, and sure, sure, he had the Jedi scrolls to read. But it was hard not to think of him as the first semester college kid coming home and…

When they had that scene where Ahsoka was pretty direcly implying that letting a kid know that there were family members who cared for him was an act of selfishness, I just stared at the screen in disbelief. Don’t get me wrong, it fits with that Jedi thing, but just the whole scene felt so bizarre as clearly the show…

All of the above!  (Well, I don’t share your enthusiasm for the few moments that were Fett-centric.)  What a stunning error to have Luke going down the same doomed path as the Jedi of old.  Did he learn nothing?  He saved Vader specifically by FORMING an attachment, not by abandoning one.  What the fuck?

Hell, even if there is a body they’re at most temporarily dead.

The fucking Programmer scene in 2 is a top notch Tortured Exposition Dump the likes of which makes the CIA envious. 

Tortured Exposition Dump is the name of my synth-punk band. Wr give long, detailed descriptions of each song before we play them.

To be fair the original film had several of its exposition dumps during scenes of literal torture. So... that was meta... or something?

“Tortured Exposition Dump” is me describing getting through a hangover after my last trip to Tijuana.

Like often happens with online discussions of best movies, it always seems like there’s huge recency bias. Even serious critics, who are usually better about including older stuff on the good lists, seem a little gunshy around the older winners, who have acquired a little prestige just by virtue of age.  If someone’s…

Anyone making claims about “worst Best Picture” needs to sit through The Broadway Melody (1929), The Great Ziegfeld, and Around the World in 80 Days.

Lost feels like the opposite; people hang onto the Lost finale like it was a massive personal insult.

What We Do In The Shadows...

I have to agree.

AoS deserves top 1, frankly 

I think part of the problem is that the version of that sequence we got was cut.

In the book, Snape reads Harry’s mind and demands him to give him the Prince’s textbook, so Harry switches his textbook with Ron’s and takes the Prince’s to the Room of Requirements so that Snape can’t find it(?). It doesn’t make a lot of sense, I think it’s mostly an excuse to show that the room can transform into…