Again, that’s in the long run (and not for nothing, this administration’s certainly trying - the damages they’re dealing at the judiciary level will be with us for decades barring some serious career-ending missteps by his appointees) to say nothing for the bridges burned.

I’m talking purely at the pre-game level of…

I suppose this is a bad time to remind that one of the other messages the film is getting across as white viewers are concerned is the idea that ‘You can’t just sit on the sidelines and pretend this doesn’t concern you. Even if it doesn’t now, it will eventually.’

Overall, perhaps Bush Jr was worse, though time will tell.

In the lead up though...sweet Jesus, Trump was a nightmare of a candidate. Horrendous racial politics, a sketchy background only further fueled by his resistance to any sort of transparency, while demanding it of those around him, an inability to keep his story…

This.

While you could argue it’s basically almost akin to slavery, she doesn’t officially answer to anyone. Hell, she lives in a wrecked AT-AT and comes and goes as she pleases.

Also, if we’re being fair, SW having issues with how it addresses the topic of slavery isn’t new ground even if TFA did go there. The way it’s…

Also, as has been pointed out for the past three years now - Kylo Ren was pretty fucked up going into that fight.
Even before he started fighting Finn, he had taken a bowcaster shot to his side. And in case there was any question of it, the movie showcased the overall firepower of the bowcaster in a few scenes of TFA,…

“Just st-st-st-stepped out for some death sticks was all.” -- As much as I wouldn’t like them to make this official, I’d watch them play out a scene with DJ as a deadbeat dad.

Most of Kirk’s bastards were subsequently recruited into Section 31, making them Starfleet’s equivalent of the Night’s Watch.

Isn’t he also telling her “Shut up!” as he drags her off? Been a bit, so I’m probably up for a rewatch

...now that I think about it, I kind of want them to take a cue from her name sake and have her turn out like The Tall Man from Phantasm. Kill one, the First Order has a fresh off the production line double ready to pick up where the previous left off.

Though I must admit, the quiet ‘FN-2187' doesn’t have the same…

...Goddamn you. It wasn’t your intent, but that post has me wanting to rewatch Dark City in the worst way right about now.

He asked, they all said he should be the one to do it.
Conversely, they all tried to talk him out of making Anakin a little kid in the first one.

Even he admits in hindsight, he probably should have listened on that count.

Just the every-so-often reminder - the original script for The Phantom Menace had a scene that didn’t make the finished film.

Following the pod race, Qui-Gon leaves Watto’s house to find Anakin getting into a fist fight with a Rodian child. He breaks up the fight (which would have established some of Anakin’s residual…

Not to mention something like Spider-Man: Homecoming - a movie that wasn’t even a twinkle in Kevin Feige’s eye when they first mapped out the MCU. Then as soon as they struck the deal with Sony, they completely shifted the timeline, bumping Black Panther and Captain Marvel back to get this new Spidey out there in…

The more I think about it, the more I feel like there’s a secondary reason why this particular point is meeting with so much resistance besides the ‘But the Skywalkers!’ line.

That reason being couched in the, for lack of a better term the ‘Eagles to Mordor’ culture (as probably the most famous example.)
Over the past…

Weirdly, I have yet to encounter CRTV in there. And I know Sam has addressed the ads at least once on the show as well, so at least they’re aware on it.

Got a weird one a while back. Can’t remember which right wing group it was for, but it was an ad YT stuck in the middle of an episode (more specifically during the Fun…

Addendum - At least one of those incidents involved him coming on to a still not yet legal teen.

Also, given how well Disney had been handling indirectly telling the alt-right to fuck off with their handling of Star Wars, I hope they realize the possible risk they’ve opened themselves up to by giving an inch of ground…

I’ve said it elsewhere, I’ll say it again here - I do wonder what Disney would do with this if RDJ came forward with a statement to the press along the lines of “I made a lot of mistakes in my past. I did cocaine and heroin, I had problems with addiction, I got into violent incidents with the cops and did time in…

Oh, I’m not counting on them waking up and admitting they were played. Hell, if they’ve bought it this far, then I’m pretty convinced Christ himself could show them they were wrong and they’d nail him to the cross all over again.
This is some deep cult programming shit at work (which is part of why I could buy this all…

Even if they understand (in theory) some will still ignore in practice.

There’s almost a sick, sad punchline to seeing Jones’s supporters decrying this as fascist.

They pick some genuinely odd concept to add mash-up. I use YouTube to check out The Majority Report at work, and have found it odd how many times they decide to attach ads for the NRA or Prager U to this decidedly pretty Goddamn left wing political talk show.
Like, are they hoping on that million to one chance they can…