The entire audience laughed out loud when that happened. I hope to god they don’t pull that bullshit again.

Ren is about 10 years older than her.

Right, she and Fin are of an age, early 20s or so — right about the age Luke was when he got tapped to save the galaxy.

The Laziest Trope of All

Except for, you know, those two kids that Anakin had.

Christ. Now I have to go watch it again.

Because its her niece? Because that *whole entire event* was handled spectacularly badly from a storytelling perspective? Because the director was pulling human-interaction strings? I don’t know. Why did they do any of the absurd things they did? Why did the only reaction we get from Chewie turn out to be him howling…

That’s interesting. I came away from it thinking that Poe was really underwritten and that what dialogue he did have was terrible. I was really surprised by the clunkiness, given that its a Kasdan script and if there’s one thing he understands its the cadence of natural speech.

You’re seriously asking me to explain the vagaries of the plot of a movie where the Big Bad was literally a larger version of the exact same Big Bad from TWO OTHER MOVIES with a nearly-identical single point of failure, which had previously caused the other two to fail in almost exactly the same way? Like the dregs of…

Also, R2 who was too sad to function after Luke left suddenly perks up when Rey rolls into town. Hm.

I’ll add to the kitty. She’s absolutely Luke’s daughter. The tinkering, the callback to “whose gonna pilot it?”, her affinity for flying machines, and of course yanking the saber out of the snow with her miiiiiiiiiind. Like father, like daughter.

Cousins. Rey is Luke’s daughter, no question in my mind.

I twigged that my parents were Santa from my dad’s handwriting, which is really distinctive. I didn’t tell them that I had figured it out though. I held onto that one for a while.

Black Panther is going to have a standalone movie in 2017. The’s the lead.

I find them just totally ludicrous, and the characters are largely unlikeable people. I’m OK with unlikeable as a concept, but there has to be a reason for me to keep coming back and the overwrought drama and completely nonsensical plotlines really don’t do it for me. I do watch How to Get Away With Murder, but only…

Talking about anybody “in general” is necessarily going to exclude a nontrivial number of people. I guess the question is: will more or fewer people recognize elements of their family in this? If its “more” then it seems like fair game for a lighthearted piece. If its “fewer” well then I don’t have a solution for you,…

I can’t help you with the dumb people thing, I mean what kind of fucking idiot do you have to be to take this (or any piece like it) as a universal truth? People like that are a plague on all of us, not just you, I’m sorry to report.

What is the root of your objection, that this doesn’t represent you specifically? There is no universally representative description of family holidays. There are sometimes common elements within a subculture (i.e my 84 relatives who only have like nine names between them) that large components of that culture might…

I’m Irish-descended, and don’t experience most of the parochial diddle-ai-ay stereotypes that get floated out in the world but I still think they’re hilarious because I still see the odd one here and there in my own family, and know that other families see the rest of them in components at least, if not in their…

Who is being satirized in this article? White people?