We’re loosing all the wrong celebrities.

I just really want to give you a hug. I’m sorry that this happened to you, and I know it doesn’t cure anything, but still—all the hugs, all my love.

20 Minutes. My rapist took only about 15. That was >40 years ago, and I’ve never forgotten. These rapists think they are blameless. It only took 20 minutes, why is the rest of my life in ruins. BECAUSE THE REST OF MINE IS RUINED. POS

I am not painting *you* as anything. I am also, in my way, as I mentioned up top, “a woman who supports Bernie,” although as a journalist I don’t throw my arms around any politician entirely and never will.

Thats because taggers are not graffiti artists lol. Taggers are taggers.

Why do the top 3 belong, but not the bottom 3?

Yeah. Imagine if actual terrorists decided to change tactics and gave up the bullets and bombs in favor of spraypaint. What’s the opposite of instilling fear in a population? We’d be that, whatever verb it is.

The Eschaton game is one of my favorite scenes.

If you read to read a story... Its not for you.

I’m about half-way through my third reading of the book. I went ahead and read through the explanation by Swartz and I swear I don’t remember ANY of that from the first two readings. So now I’ll have to read with that explanation in mind.

Stand corrected. There are so many Marvels now, I get confused.

...become a good rapper who makes good songs, or get out of the way to make space for someone who will.

I’d probably throw in the opening scene of Casino Royal (2006).

I quite like the opening of Children of Men which drops you in the middle of the world while simultaneously gives you enough detail to not only reveal the state of it but also build it.

Especially with Rian Johnson coming in.

TFA basically comes down to being a soft reboot (to an extent), and a very necessary one, like you pointed out. Star Wars (outside of the EU stuff) had been almost irreparably damaged after the prequels, and they really needed to get back to their roots in order to get the fans and general audiences back. While they…

I agree. By design, I imagine some things will be similar (the Resistance will have to evacuate, for instance), but there are a lot of directions they could take this. I do hope they involve Republic in some way, maybe Leia goes to rally the remaining systems to fight the First Order.

I think it matters a LOT more where the series goes from here than what it this particular movie did. He had to repair the damage that was done to the brand by those godawful prequels, introduce new characters, AND give the fans what they wanted to reassure them that everything would be okay. TFA did all that, and as…

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