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“Being able to speak freely is the lifeblood of love.”
— Satoshi Kon
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— Satoshi Kon
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Easy as pie! So in ROTJ, Luke is struggling to control his own feelings and gives into Vader's threat against Leia. He loses control of his own anger and attacks Vader in a blind rage. In this moment, he is failing to control his own feelings.
November 29, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Easy as pie! So in ROTJ, Luke is struggling to control his own feelings and gives into Vader's threat against Leia. He loses control of his own anger and attacks Vader in a blind rage. In this moment, he is failing to control his own feelings.
There is a difference between adopting children with the children's biological parents' consent to be trained by wise, compassionate warriors vs. abducting children to indoctrinate them to use them as cannon fodder for a fascist dictatorship.
November 29, 2025 at 12:37 AM
There is a difference between adopting children with the children's biological parents' consent to be trained by wise, compassionate warriors vs. abducting children to indoctrinate them to use them as cannon fodder for a fascist dictatorship.
Slavery is outlawed in the Republic. This is established by Padme in Episode I: The Phantom Menace. The Jedi do not "tolerate" the slavery that goes on outside Republic borders any more than public servants in the global north "tolerate" various atrocities in developing nations here in our world.
November 29, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Slavery is outlawed in the Republic. This is established by Padme in Episode I: The Phantom Menace. The Jedi do not "tolerate" the slavery that goes on outside Republic borders any more than public servants in the global north "tolerate" various atrocities in developing nations here in our world.
This is symbiotically linked back into 3. Viewers’ feelings of love for Luke are already severely diminished by the possibility he’d nearly committed such an atrocity, and he does nothing to atone for this beyond sulk on an island for years and then facilitate the supposed burning of holy books
November 27, 2025 at 9:16 AM
This is symbiotically linked back into 3. Viewers’ feelings of love for Luke are already severely diminished by the possibility he’d nearly committed such an atrocity, and he does nothing to atone for this beyond sulk on an island for years and then facilitate the supposed burning of holy books
Johnson, meanwhile, fails to provide any clarity to what was truly going on in Luke’s head during this night, for three big reasons that lead from one to the next: 1. Both Jake and Kyle are definitively unreliable narrators, so 2. There’s no reason to believe Jake’s revised story is true.
November 27, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Johnson, meanwhile, fails to provide any clarity to what was truly going on in Luke’s head during this night, for three big reasons that lead from one to the next: 1. Both Jake and Kyle are definitively unreliable narrators, so 2. There’s no reason to believe Jake’s revised story is true.
Anakin’s massacre of the Tuskens vs. his slaughtering of the younglings have such vastly different implications for his descent into villainy because Lucas understands that there is a world of difference between killing in blind passion and killing in premeditated focus.
November 27, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Anakin’s massacre of the Tuskens vs. his slaughtering of the younglings have such vastly different implications for his descent into villainy because Lucas understands that there is a world of difference between killing in blind passion and killing in premeditated focus.
TLJ fans will insist this movie has the most airtight screenplay ever and has zero defined inconsistencies, and yet not a single person can say for sure whether Yoda was or was not actually burning his own religion’s original scriptures.
November 27, 2025 at 8:53 AM
TLJ fans will insist this movie has the most airtight screenplay ever and has zero defined inconsistencies, and yet not a single person can say for sure whether Yoda was or was not actually burning his own religion’s original scriptures.
I like how Jake says he’d seen Rey’s proclivity toward the dark side once before, obviously referring to Kyle, and that it didn’t scare him enough then but does now, and his reaction is just to run from her, and then half an hour later he explains how his reaction to Kyle was to almost murder him.
November 27, 2025 at 8:44 AM
I like how Jake says he’d seen Rey’s proclivity toward the dark side once before, obviously referring to Kyle, and that it didn’t scare him enough then but does now, and his reaction is just to run from her, and then half an hour later he explains how his reaction to Kyle was to almost murder him.
This is the original post I was quoting, which Bryan Young seems to have detached from my post:
November 26, 2025 at 9:35 PM
This is the original post I was quoting, which Bryan Young seems to have detached from my post:
The researchers measured participants' feelings of closeness to the characters in the movie before and after watching it. As it turned out, participants felt severely less connection to nearly all major characters, including Rey.
Guess who they found the biggest decrease in closeness to.
Guess who they found the biggest decrease in closeness to.
November 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The researchers measured participants' feelings of closeness to the characters in the movie before and after watching it. As it turned out, participants felt severely less connection to nearly all major characters, including Rey.
Guess who they found the biggest decrease in closeness to.
Guess who they found the biggest decrease in closeness to.
Here’s my ranking
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Here’s my ranking
It’s fascinating how laissez-faire both Abrams and Johnson are about freely admitting that they both fully intended to just come in, tell their own “stories” without any care for the consequences their stories would have on Lucas’ art, and then just dip without a second thought.
November 22, 2025 at 8:10 AM
It’s fascinating how laissez-faire both Abrams and Johnson are about freely admitting that they both fully intended to just come in, tell their own “stories” without any care for the consequences their stories would have on Lucas’ art, and then just dip without a second thought.
Technology is all just tools for telling a story. I say if there’s a point where it “peaked,” that point will different for each storyteller, based upon what tools they need to use to tell their story.
November 16, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Technology is all just tools for telling a story. I say if there’s a point where it “peaked,” that point will different for each storyteller, based upon what tools they need to use to tell their story.
Oh well, pobody’s nerfect. The important thing is that you learned from your mistakes so you know what to do differently in the next holocaust!
November 15, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Oh well, pobody’s nerfect. The important thing is that you learned from your mistakes so you know what to do differently in the next holocaust!
It's insane to me that there are people who try to lambast Qui-Gon as an immoral person for freeing Anakin from slavery in part because he suspected Anakin was the Chosen One who would destroy the Sith and bring balance to the Force.
November 14, 2025 at 5:16 AM
It's insane to me that there are people who try to lambast Qui-Gon as an immoral person for freeing Anakin from slavery in part because he suspected Anakin was the Chosen One who would destroy the Sith and bring balance to the Force.
Just realized that in Revenge of the Fallen, because Sam Witwicky basically uploads the Transformers Wiki into his brain when he touches the shard of the All Spark, he becomes… Sam WitWiki
November 14, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Just realized that in Revenge of the Fallen, because Sam Witwicky basically uploads the Transformers Wiki into his brain when he touches the shard of the All Spark, he becomes… Sam WitWiki
This is why J.J. Abrams’ The Force Awakens fixed the errors of Lucas’ prequels. Because we and the characters actually SEE Not Coruscant get blowed up, even if it makes absolutely no sense for them to see a planet in another solar system explode. THAT’S how you make a movie.
November 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM
This is why J.J. Abrams’ The Force Awakens fixed the errors of Lucas’ prequels. Because we and the characters actually SEE Not Coruscant get blowed up, even if it makes absolutely no sense for them to see a planet in another solar system explode. THAT’S how you make a movie.
As far as I know, most people just think of each new actor as a separate timeline anyway! They’re all just their own thing.
November 12, 2025 at 5:40 AM
As far as I know, most people just think of each new actor as a separate timeline anyway! They’re all just their own thing.
James Bond’s ‘death’ is a sacred canon event now.
November 12, 2025 at 5:09 AM
James Bond’s ‘death’ is a sacred canon event now.
There it is. That’s what this review is about. “The millions of people for whom it has occupied a central place in their fantasy lives deserve better.”
That’s all the backlash to the movie was ever about. The most entitled people in the whole world feeling that they deserve something else.
That’s all the backlash to the movie was ever about. The most entitled people in the whole world feeling that they deserve something else.
November 11, 2025 at 7:56 PM
There it is. That’s what this review is about. “The millions of people for whom it has occupied a central place in their fantasy lives deserve better.”
That’s all the backlash to the movie was ever about. The most entitled people in the whole world feeling that they deserve something else.
That’s all the backlash to the movie was ever about. The most entitled people in the whole world feeling that they deserve something else.
Pro tip for any aspiring scholar of film. Once you find yourself devoting an entire paragraph to making ad-hominem attacks against the filmmaker you’re writing about, you’ve lost control of your own writing. Reconsider if this profession suits you.
November 11, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Pro tip for any aspiring scholar of film. Once you find yourself devoting an entire paragraph to making ad-hominem attacks against the filmmaker you’re writing about, you’ve lost control of your own writing. Reconsider if this profession suits you.
“Lucas gives us no time to drink in any of these sights, forgetting about them after a few quick vistas and then scurrying along.”
That’s because The Phantom Menace’s pacing is designed to be as breakneck as possible. This is called a POSITIVE QUALITY OF THE MOVIE.
That’s because The Phantom Menace’s pacing is designed to be as breakneck as possible. This is called a POSITIVE QUALITY OF THE MOVIE.
November 11, 2025 at 7:56 PM
“Lucas gives us no time to drink in any of these sights, forgetting about them after a few quick vistas and then scurrying along.”
That’s because The Phantom Menace’s pacing is designed to be as breakneck as possible. This is called a POSITIVE QUALITY OF THE MOVIE.
That’s because The Phantom Menace’s pacing is designed to be as breakneck as possible. This is called a POSITIVE QUALITY OF THE MOVIE.