They’re not conveyor belts. It’s okay to step back a few paces. In general, “one-way aisles” are how most people shop when they’re on a true grocery run anyway, and grocery stores are already organized to funnel you from one area to the next.

There seems to be a required level of ideological extremism to participate in this debate. Either you are part of the word police or you delight at the fluid nature of language in all forms.

Yes, you do.

So why do some dumb reveal that the captain (who is also clearly played by Elba) is the alien bad guy

I think you’re giving season 1 of the Mandalorian a lot of credit for venturing beyond the “toy box” that it doesn’t deserve. I mean, the breakout star of the show was literally Baby Yoda.

People take way less than their labor is actually worth all the time, it’s one of the big issues of our time and part of the whole minimum wage conversation.

When I saw this on Twitter, I immediately recognized it as an attempt to get ahead of a potential backlash that DiMaggio might face from fans when they digest the actual details of the situation and realize it’s not like the previous revival when the entire cast was united against a lowball offer to return.

You maybe misread me. Last time, the fan response was identical, in that it was in full support of the voice cast vs. the evil company. But Fox didn’t then and don’t now care about hardcore fan response to this inside baseball stuff. Announcing now is a negotiation tactic aimed at DiMaggio, pure and simple. It worked…

Good thing they have that indestructable armor and nobody ever hits them in the legs or stomach.

learning apparently NOTHING from the failure of the previous Jedi order, still pulled out that “no attachment” bullshit

Agree. Let this new version stay semi-stuck in time like all cartoons, but move the timeline forward a bit.

Disagree:

I’m so confused by this take. I’ll take 20 bad episodes of Futurama over no new episodes of Futurama.

And if not? They’re apparently willing to recast

allowing the explosion of the matter/antimatter stream to happen in a contained way.

Yes, “late-stage capitalism” is such a dumb phrase.

Every emerging new tech is a scam until it isn’t.

Most of the “science” involves tech powered by magic crystals

I agree. Star Wars is fine, but if it wasn’t named “Star ___” people wouldn’t even be comparing it so directly to Star Trek in terms of storytelling quality.

It’s also unfortunate that “it’s a trap!” leads you down the Star Trek path, rather than Star Wars.