Having re-watched this semi-recently I can confirm that the movie is a terrible mess...much like this response is going to be.

The device we see him printing out in his memory is - Ford. He even says “I brought something here” just prior to the flashback.

It might be an awkward thing to say, but is not being attracted to an ethnicity really racism? Do we get to decide who we’re attracted to?

I won’t lie, I had a genuine moment of weepy joy just now.

Not in the slightest. Welcome to what happens when 3.4 percent of the population gets a way bigger proportion of the cultural cache. And I *am* LGBT. This is my hell.

I had heard that Forest Whitaker’s character from Rogue One is also from the cartoons (which I never watched).

I feel like more adults watched the Clone Wars/Rebels than kids did. The show really went deep with the EU lore which was great for older fans

I don’t care about spoilers, for myself, but it might be worth clarifying in the opening paragraphs that adults who’ve seen Clone Wars and/or Rebels won’t need this explainer. 

Note to self: When cutting Sith Lords in half with a lightsaber, always cut top to bottom, not side to side.

It was odd that from the opening scene its kinda assumed Han’s like a Dickens’ orphan working for a crime boss, then later he starts talking about his dad.

Technically speaking, he dies for the first time.

The spider legs were also robotic.

Hot take: This kind of shipping creates a perspective where any kind of platonic attention is treated as romantic or sexual attention, which contributes to a culture of misread intentions. It’s already to the point where depictions of male-female platonic friendships are incredibly rare on film and TV, so doubling…

This explains why the rest of fandom feels about shippers the way they do...

Your country was doing you a favor.

This is the stupidest post I’ve read today.

So fucking stupid.

As far as I can tell, io9 feels the need to do queer acceptance indicating by posting articles about male/male shipping. I don’t think I have ever seen any type of shipping commentary other than male/male unless it is part of conjecture about where a TV series may be going. The shipping posts might also have something…

Here’s my takeaway from this article: There’s a lot of lonely people out there. I’m not sure anyone outside of the “gayshipping” demographic really thinks this is front-page io9 materiel, though I may be mistaken. It’s weird how a niche topic that used to haunt internet forums has become this mainstream…

I’d guess because it was likely built in the 90's when the Captain Marvel movie takes place, aka right around the time when the Matrix was popular and design aesthetics of futuristic stuff had that general tone.