Not for nothing, there is something to be said for the idea.
It’s certainly an old play (probably best exemplified by the Twilight Zone episode ‘The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street’) but there’s a reason the classics endure.

Thinking it over, I can concede to there being some issues with plot mechanics.

But fuck it. It’s not exactly like that’s a new thing for Star Wars anyway, and thematically, I feel like it more than makes up for that in a big way.

Don’t forget Luuuke, who tried to travel through time and fuck with the Clone Wars.

No. Really. This was a thing someone had in the old EU. Look him up on Wookieepedia if you don’t believe me.
Remember - 2 ‘u’s for the one from the Thrawn trilogy, 3 ‘u’s for the one that tried to time travel.

Oh, people asked for them back in the day. They just didn’t film them.

An hour on Wookieepedia and you could fill a solid page full of questions you never asked, but someone decided needed answering.

Shhh! Angry fanboys don’t do nuance! They need easy, singular targets to focus their anger at, context or a bigger picture be damned!

This was so cold the White Walkers are turning around to go get some parkas before pressing on now.

Norm: “THE BOX. YOU OPENED IT, I CAME.”

“To that point, he says he’s “happy the #MeToo movement has slowed down a little bit,” because he doesn’t like the way it has progressed to automatically trusting everything that women say.”

I will continue to argue Cronenberg’s The Dead Zone is grossly underrated when the topic of good King movies comes up.
Pulls the hat trick of actually being surprisingly faithful to the source material and being a genuinely strong movie even if you’ve not read it.

Semi-related, this was also one of those reasons that bumping it to the 80s bugged me.

In the 50s, a clown was still generally treated as completely safe. By the 80s, John Wayne Gacy had already been caught (who King has credited as an influence for Pennywise, but I digress) so the idea of the evil clown was already…

The single best part of that is still the theatrical trailer for it where he is visibly high out of his mind.

“I’M GOING TO SCARE THE HELL OUT OF YOU!”

If you think Gunn is obsessed, you should see the guy who headed the campaign against him. Would NOT want to hear the results of giving Cernovich a Rorschach test.

Hell, an intern spending an hour on google would have been enough to get proof for Disney the campaign against Gunn was conducted in bad faith.
Alan Horn squeezed the trigger without seeing where the gun was even pointed, and Disney’s still trying to mop up the blood while insisting the shot was deliberate.

That something like Son of the Mask makes a bigger blip on the radar than something like Showgirls breaks my brain here.

I watched it as part of a bad movie group watch.
I went in expecting something that could be the spiritual successor to Food Fight. What I got was probably one of the most jaw-droppingly cynical movies I think I’ve seen in a long time in terms of sheer “Like we give a fuck if this is good, the checks are all clearing!”…

In the broadest sense - yeah, you’re sadly right. About the best we can hope for is that we can keep the rudder just long enough after these guys die to let it go on the books that they were petty, selfish assholes who basically let the country burn because it was personally enriching to do so.

Having said that, there…

One hour.
One hour on fucking Google would have been all the time Disney would have needed to:
a) Learn who Mike Cernovich is
b) Learn that he’s done this exact same shit before
c) Learn why MSNBC walked back their firing done at his efforts
and
d) Why just in general Cernovich is a bad faith actor better off ignored.

That a…

But wait - there’s still more space dust on it!
...I mean, you left out the worst part - to his followers, that obstinate streak is a boon, not a drawback.
They love his unwillingness to concede being wrong and cheer what they see as his hitting back against intellectuals.

It’s one of the biggest reasons why his whole…

For me, the Rubicon was when questions of treatment of his workers turned into him going on a whole rant about the media, trying to propose his own media vetting company, and then trying to bolster his argument with an article from a news site run by a sex cult.

After that, the Thai meltdown just rated a “...yeah, that…

There’s something to be said for this.
Say what you will for Jobs’s failings, he never had a public blowout where he accused a man of people a pedophile for the crime of suggesting his proposed invention for a rescue job was little more than a P.R. gimmick.

Granted, I also don’t want to dwell TOO much on those sorts of…