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The degree to which the right uses projection makes it all too easy to "ironically" adopt their own language against them while accidentally reinforcing their underlying worldview
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Especially since, disregarding any conversation about quality, RTD made a jump-on-here season 1 reset whose every major plot twist is rooted in lore / nostalgia, with the plot set in motion by 3 preceding lore-heavy specials. It's a baffling strategy for his stated aim of winning over new viewers
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All the high concept episodes, while individually good, don't focus on the major players (73 Yards / Lucky Day used Ruby, but they're more about their concepts, not building her up). The "arcs" are Marvel post-credits scenes, with finales so busy they're like a bunch of post-credits smashed together
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I once shared your impulse, but she's a grifter using our good faith to keep her foot in the door of respectability. A line must be drawn, and "mass murder is justified" steps so far over that it becomes a completely different argument, with no need for qualifiers from a more reasonable discussion.
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RTD1 was uneven but much stronger than this. I never saw old Who and never felt like anything was missing. The emotional arcs were clear even if the plot got messy and the nostalgic returns were so emotionally grounded you wouldn't need to do anything different if they were new. He's lost something
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I think the real throw-hands use of "Yavin" was Bail and Mon using the name multiple times in e9 despite being in the Senate and knowing they're under suspicion
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Wait... this actually seems pretty on-point, thanks
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I just don't think Maul has the legs to stand on here
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In the original expanded universe, whose broad strokes Lucas signed off on, it continued for over a decade (I forget the exact ending date), and ended with a peace treaty between the majority New Republic and a smaller Empire (which slowly reformed into a democracy).
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I'll fight for them: Good Life is a masterpiece that got me through some rough teenage years, and their writing/producing is always good (certainly no worse than a lot of "stanned" music). They suffer for being so influential that their voice became ubiquitous, not for any intrinsic failing.
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Even having seen exactly the same posts, my mind is trying to read this as satire even though that was actually, literally all he was saying
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I don't have an NYT subscription so I can't read the full context, but this sounds purely tongue in cheek to me, hidden a bit by the loss of tone in text
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The companion is the only core part of Doctor Who that can fully change (yes, the Doctor changes faces and quirks but we know fundamentally who they are), but they don't meaningfully change them
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Honestly it's astonishing how often the answer to "Has Doctor Who ever tried [cool thing] with the companion?" is no. Even low-hanging fruit (they're historical/evil/have any sort of agenda) is extremely rare, and nonexistent since the revival
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Yes, but I can't root for thieves who are trying to steal crypto. Practical or not, there's just no class
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I would fully support this
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They definitely opened the door to Bix being force sensitive, so "their kid becomes a Jedi" seems like a reasonably logical arc, though I'd like a reset on everything post-rotj honestly
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I do think a final scene between him and Mon was a real "sacrificed for the runtime" loss though. Their relationship was interesting enough to explore more (Also, I'd have liked one more check-in with what happened to their daughter).
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This ought to be like asking what Gorbachev was doing to stop the Invasion of Ukraine, but instead we had badass hero gremlin Yoda fifteen minutes earlier
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Considering Yoda would die of old age like 22 years later, which for his lifespan would be a small fraction of time, Lucas' big prequel mistake with Yoda was showing him unperturbed by age, which makes his self-hospice care fate nonsensical
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And, unfortunately, what we know about it is mostly wrong
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Like, yeah, that's fair, but you could also say the eagles could only enter Mordor once Sauron's power was broken, the one's obviously more important to viewers than the other, which I think is interesting from a writing/cultural perspective
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"As long as Leia ends up back on her ship being chased by Vader again, it fits" isn't logically so far off from "As long as Obi-Wan ends up back on Tatooine watching Luke, it fits," the one timeframe's more compressed but I don't think there's a canon hard limit to it (this isn't an endorsement)
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I do think it's interesting we've all been historically much less concerned about this though. We're rooting for the heroes so we're much less willing to forgive their own goals, while villains' mistakes are usually just trivia
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Doctor Who is fun and always interesting even when it's flawed
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Absolutely, and the whole show is 24 episodes and out now, so one month subscription should cover everything
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All Kat Abughazaleh supporters are alike; every Kat Abughazaleh hater is different in their own way
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You kind of have to though! "Max" isn't specific enough
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And likewise, a lot of people have written off Disney Star Wars as being for kids, when plenty (most?) of it has been targeted at adults, it just hasn't been very good. "Andor is Star Wars for adults" = "Andor is Star Wars that finally won't embarrass thinking adults."
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He should have told her he's sorry
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Not a knack, but I suspect this is more a reflection of horror gaining critical legitimacy in the last decade than anything innate about this film. The franchise has almost always been "good" at minimum, but half its past reviews have been "Bleh, another blood-soaked slasher corrupting the youth."
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It is
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Yes
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EU was always fine here: A large (often corrupt/broken, but still decent) New Republic, a semi-reformed wildcard Empire, other countries/warlords/hostile unknown regions and forces/dark siders/Eldritch terrors: Some were better or worse, but they kept a sense of progress with no shortage of conflict
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Also Wicked: Part One being followed by Wicked: For Good
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I'm now imagining a sitcom where some random tourist accidentally becomes pope (Maybe the cardinals got their guy's name wrong and this was the only dude who matched the misspelling, idk how to make it work)
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"The Pope is from Chicago" is currently warring with "The Pope is an active twitter user" for my biggest headspin
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HBO executive frantically scribbling down "Pope Succession"
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I've been guilty of making a few "Canada is the 51st state" jokes in the past, but I'd always really, really thought everyone understood that it was just affectionate ribbing between friends
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Not 100% confirmed, but there were rumors at the time, Sabrina matches Olivia's lyrics and several of Sabrina's songs only track if it's real (skin, because I liked a Boy). Sabrina got flack for it, and Olivia seemed uncomfortable about the gossip, so if it wasn't true, they'd likely have denied it
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Misread this as "pastor" and I was like, well, good for your church, but I'm surprised this is such a relevant issue for you