Because that course of action assumes they already had a set course planned. Meanwhile, interviews from several factions in this argument (including at least one with Daisy Ridley that’s been cited on here) say the whole thing was following the previous SW rule of ‘we’re just kind of making this up as we go.’

Further,…

Slight correction.
With Rise it went between ‘Come back George’ and ‘Look what you made JJ do, Johnson!’

TLJ is a flawed movie, but it still stuns me how some people get so pissed at it that they blame Johnson for the mess that was Rise and try to present JJ as the put-upon guy left to clean up the mess (...it doesn’t…

Just gonna point out the one especially painful detail of that scene (per the officially published screenplay) -

The way the scene informs you it’s Greedo - Qui-Gon breaks up the fight with the, to that point, unnamed Rodian kid. Anakin and Qui-Gon leave, Wald helps the other Rodian kid up and tells him
“One of these…

It also helps that, unlike a lot of the rest of the cast, McGregor actually had a performance he could turn to for reference.
Ditto Frank Oz and Ian McDiarmid. This SHOULD have been the case for Anakin, but the writing really doesn’t do well to connect the angsty young man to the glowering menace we already had.

The…

This is why I was laughing when, post-Mandalorian s2, people were insisting Filoni was going to erase the ST.

That’s not what Filoni does. Filoni looks at what’s there and goes “Okay...how can I fill in around this to make this more stable?”

Dude adds, never subtracts.

I feel like nostalgia is a big part of it.
One part the crowd that grew up on the PT is old enough to sound off about it without a ‘You damn kids’ response, one part this is just the natural flow of SW.
In the wake of the backlash over TLJ, people found old articles of people pissed off with Empire. Likewise, the…

It never occurred to me until someone pointed it out in another discussion on here - part of what shafted Portman with this is the fact that Lucas’s writing women took a hard shift after his divorce and never recovered (see also - Leia going from a sharp-tongued spitfire in SW and Empire to more of a soft-spoken…

This remains my most ardent hope in all of this - that spending the next 4 years tied up in legal battles and campaigning adds enough to that toll that if it doesn’t kill him, it at least will diminish his capacity for harm.

Additionally, I must remind everyone - we still don’t know if he truly got out of his brush…

The only solace I’ve taken from the debacle in the senate is how it’s helped highlight the growing sense that McConnell is losing control over the GOP he’s spent literal decades grooming.

To add insult to injury, he’s not even losing it to a calculated power player like himself. He’s losing it to a preening narcissist…

It got overlooked by...prettymuch everyone, but Sleight works pretty well as a sort of quieter take on a superhero origin story.

The scariest thing about this design is that it puts the ideas of ‘Zack Snyder’ and ‘Devilman’ into the same sentence for me.

And holy shit, he is probably one of the LAST directors I want to see take a crack at adapting that, because guaranteed that would be a hot mess that loses all of the original’s geuinely human…

A lot of the third novel feels like Harris clapping back at years of people reading Lecter as somehow less evil (which, again, is more on the film’s impact. The novel for Silence starts with a reminder of how Red Dragon ended with Lecter basically ruining Will Graham’s life, after all) and the reads of him and…

First off - regardless of intent, yeah, the film has had that impact and Demme has admitted such (again, much as he had hoped otherwise.)
How an individual reads it at this point is, unfortunately, kind of secondary to how we as a society read it and what we did with that reading.
Second - that transformative idea is a…

‘puritan sparrows’

I’m guessing history wasn’t your strong suit if you figure Puritans would be the ones encouraging people to be open and accepting to trans people.

A side point, I know, but I couldn’t just let that one slide.

Mando: “There she goes.
And we must all agree we will never speak of her again - under pain of torture!”

To add to this - Gunn wasn’t the first time Cernovich has tried to dredge up people’s old tweets to get them fired. He had attempted a similar stunt with Sam Seder a year or two before Gunn.

It backfired pretty hard because:
a) like Gunn, Seder owned the joke and admitted it was in poor taste
and
b) People were quick to…

I feel like the answer, as is so often the case in these things, is somewhere in the middle.

Re: Doctor Sleep - Half and half. At the time, I was more curious/cautiously skeptical. I wasn’t gonna bury it sight unseen, but I was also leery about the whole ‘let’s dive HARD into the Kubrick imagery’ approach on principle.

‘Just like Gina does’

I’m not exactly seeing the points where Biden is playing the “This is just like Nazi Germany” card.
Also, you dance around one of the big issues here, which is how each is defining ‘unity.’
Which, unfortunately, is part of WHY we’re in this mess with transparency to begin with, as one side is…

You keep bringing up Biden to try and deflect from Gina.
Which is pretty damn funny since, to hear her tell it, he shouldn’t be president right now because she is clearly convinced something hinky is up with the votes.

But do go off about how she just wants everyone to get along.