We spent most of our time in the prequels in giant cities among royalty and politicians and most of our time in the OG trilogy in deserts, swamps, tundras and forests with guerillas and outlaws. You weren’t likely to see the Millennium Falcon around Naboo’s palace for the same reason you’re not likely to see a 1993…

“I just come from a different time.”

Is he supposed to not bring it up?

Yeah, I have a lot of issues with the prequels but one of the things it got right is that technology and aesthetics don’t always advance in step with each other, and don’t always consistently move in the same direction. Of course things looked prettier during a prosperous peacetime than they did under the thumb of an…

There’s a safety line that at least one of the firefighters clips to. You’d think they’d belt up Asher and clip him to it.

I think there’s a presumption that she wouldn’t be short sighted if she wasn’t doing things for performative reasons

I get why the ending is... mixed for a lot of people, to say the least, but I really dug it. I feel like the show said everything it had to say about these people at the end of the last episode: it was clear everyone was stuck in their own miserable little ruts, were incapable of learning what they needed to move…

I think the reason people read Whitney as bad, despite her good deeds public and private, is because she’s a fair-weather philanthropist who’ll stop the second she finds something else to puff up her self-image. Her good deeds don’t have any foundation in actual concern for others so she can’t be depended upon. It all…

A tedious attempt to repackage an old discussion for additional clicks while intentionally missing the points made during said discussion so people will get angry and rehash it all over again in the comments, and sprinkled with just enough errors to really get the pedants firing on all cylinders.

It’s not about the movie showing up, it’s about people actually watching it. People tend to click away more often if they see a long runtime.

So, why didn’t he do it in the first place? He was literally the director and...god knows why...got the do “whatever you want”-card for these movies.

Never before has a real-life person / series of events been a better fit for a big gaudy go-for-broke musical.

If you mean The Curse, then I don’t know where you’re getting that Emma Stone doesn’t do anything because they cover what she does pretty well, and this is fairly evenly split between Asher, Dougie and Whitney.

insufferable, self-absorbed prick

Then why did he repeat the “embellishments” in serious interviews and other publications?

It’s absolutely what you’ve been saying: all comedians do this, it’s inherent to a comedy show, there’s no difference between what Hasan did and what any other comedian does.

I’d tell you to ask yourself why he got in trouble for this when no other comedian has for their own stories and embellishments and then consider the differences, but that might be too much nuance for you. So you’re right, this is totally random and arbitrary blowback for something absolutely every comedian does…

If they expect any of it was 100% true stories, they are dumb.

Some people have the weird idea that absolutely anything at all goes on stage because “it’s comedy,” like a weird perversion of what they imagine George Carlin’s take to be.

People are fine with being fooled into laughing at a comedy show. It’s what they’re there for.

People are less fine with being fooled into false sympathy at a comedy show.