Truly, one wonders who Disney thought the audience was for a musical that’s 98% teen boys singing about newspaper headlines, unions, and workers’ rights in 1899 New York.

Uh, I consider myself a nerd/geek (I won’t get into the debate about the terms) and I hate animé with a passion....

Excellent critique of the inherent limitations of Young Sheldon.

Is there a “Financial Suicide” category in the Darwin Awards or something? Because otherwise this doesn’t seem to fit the requirement of killing (or otherwise precluding reproduction by) the nominee. 

In most jurisdictions, property owners are not allowed to “self-help” and keep trespassers’ stuff unless it satisfies the requirements being deemed legally abandoned. (The property owner can recover the cost of removing and storing the trespasser’s stuff as damages though.)

If they trademarked it, they could potentially stop Swift from using the phrase on merchandise if they could show it would cause confusion with their trademark. (Trademarks have to be associated with particular products or services, which is why different companies can have trademarks on the same word(s) in different…

No, it’s not hypocritical. Trademarks protect the use of words, graphics, colors, patterns, etc. in connection with selling products and services. Thus someone can only trademark song lyrics to the extent they are also using those same lyrics as branding on merchandise and things like that. There’s no minimum creative…

They were in Croatia for the “unscripted” segments and the Finish Line was described as being a local.

Unless the tenant is committing acts that they could be reasonably evicted for, the 4th Amendment should be in effect and this has numerous precedents in case law for hotels and their tenants.

Trademark and copyright are two completely different kinds of intellectual property that protect different things in different contexts. You can get trademarks on all sorts of things that could absolutely never be copyrighted and you can claim copyrights in all sorts of things that could absolutely never be…

She trademarked it, not copyrighted it. It’s potentially defensible as a trademark depending on how it’s being used. A three word phrase cannot be copyrighted in isolation (although it may be copyrightable as part of a larger work).

Then Ganz shouldn’t put it on Twitter but should contact Harmon directly. It’s not like she doesn’t have his contact information and this was the only way to reach him.

The point is that your alleged “difference” between the two origins is not actually a “difference.” There is no difference in story consequences between, “Rey is a super powerful Force user because, although she was born from ordinary parents and demonstrated no special diligence in studying the Force, the Force chose…

I originally posted this over at io9, but it address your question. I was responding to someone who said that people didn’t complain about the original trilogy (“OT”) failing to explain how Anakin Skywalker fell to the Dark Side, but it connects to why wanting to know about Snoke is different:

That’s why I feel it fails from a story arc perspective. If this was the first movie or last movie of a trilogy, it would work. As part 8 of 9, it’s lousy.

Except that we saw nothing of the mechanism of how they worked, unlike TLJ.

It’s pretty clear this entire trilogy was sketched out before they began.

Given how customary it is to make outlines describing key story beats for a planned trilogy, I doubt that Abrams is surprised by any essential story bits.

Fine, but set up another believable villain to defeat, Kylo has been embarassed at every turn and done nothing to show that he’s a real threat.

My original guess before TLJ was that Rey would be Luke’s daughter whom Kylo abducted and abandoned because he couldn’t bring himself to kill her, but I think that’s unsalvageable now even with an industrial grade recon.