Right, the voiceover was just used terribly. You can have an internal monologue for your world-weary loner detective, but it can’t just be an exposition dump, as Blade Runner’s was.

A strange rule for Docs, since you can get nominated for both Foreign Language and Best Picture, as Crouching Tiger did.

A small part of me believes one single AV Club writer has been lobbying for the greatness of Morvern Callar and Marie Antoinette since being hired at this site 11 years ago and he’s personally convinced enough co-workers that they always make the lists.

My mistake, misread the article’s topic

The Third Man just got spoiled so hard! A picture of the surprise twist even!

I could really do without the Netflix white knighting and “critics are against muh disruption” conspiracy theorymongering, thanks. The service used to be better than it is now. The article speaks truth.

It was cool that the cover would pop open with the press of a thumb, but this defining feature tended to break, as I recall.

Netflix’s books are black box which only periodically emits spin.

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Can I ask why you chose soylent over ensure or slimfast? Ensure is equally convenient, better on price, most people seem to prefer the taste, and it doesn’t have frequent food-safety related product recalls.

That’s not why protein shakes exist, though. The use case for those are for bodybuilding - you can drink your protein immediately before and after a workout, without undesirable sugar or fats. And bodybuilders may be weird, niche hobbyists, but even THEY aren’t shaping an entire diet around a single monotonous…

They also seem to have some massive, embarrassing problems with industrial controls in the manufacturing of soylent. They had four product recalls in a span of 18 months! They’re shipping out dry powder with mold on it! Customers must really want diarrhea.

It’s relevant that, due to being written by Maureen Dowd, the NYT article is at times so maddeningly unclear that its impossible to determine the sequence of events or responsibility for certain decisions. It’s almost clearer if you skip all of the MoDO writerer-ing and read Uma’s direct quotes.

The quality of her tweets disagrees.

The quality of her tweets disagrees.

Ah, the “humorist” behind the “popular” Emo Kylo Ren account speaks out.

What if, and bear with me here, we write the story such that Luke challenges Kylo to a fight and he simply agrees? There, I have solved the narrative issue. You may call me Darth Screenwriter.

Ultimately the reasoning circles around to: it would upset the nerds more to see Luke lose a straight up lightsaber battle. So Johnson selected the option that calmed more nerd feelings rather than the one which would have been a perfect echo of Kenobi’s death.

You seem pretty sure about what luke couldn’t do, for someone justifying a new thing luke can apparently do.

Huh? That scene is exactly what I’m saying they should have done. Die in person, rather than via pointless hologram.