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I'm in a couple of decent Discord groups for Among Us. The Reddit server is mostly good, and you start seeing the same people so you get to know a few of them. I'm also in a smaller offshoot server that has a good mix of "trying to play the game while also being silly" that suits my style. If...

Agreed. And you either have to have Obi-Wan leaving his exile and guardianship of Luke, or Vader going planet side on Tatooine and somehow missing Luke's presence. Both choices dilute something about the story as already told.

Ah right, I thought I was forgetting something about why the line worked without a post-Mustafar encounter. I don't think there's anything in the movies that contradicts such an encounter, but I get why it works better in the broader story for Obi-Wan and Vader not to meet between ROTS and ANH.

I was also trying to remember if there's any reason for Obi-Wan and Vader not to have met between ROTS and ANH. Obi-Wan does say Vader is "more machine now than man," which was not true at their last on screen meeting. Of course, it's not a stretch that Obi-Wan is aware of what Vader became...

Watching Terra Firma, it seems like the Terran Empire's aesthetic is borrowed from a bunch of historical empires, with Rome being the main influence: Latin titles in the emperor's name, a literal circus performance for Roman bread and circuses, the Aztec or Incan sun god crown, the Nazi...

The transporter raises similar questions...at least I think it does. I'm no expert in Trek technological lore. But doesn't it work by dissolving the body's matter into a digital pattern that's transmitted from one site to another? Or, in other words, it's a fax machine that destroys the original...

^One thing I really liked about the first three TNG movies were the musical themes. Well, Insurrection is a little sleepy, but still pretty. Overall I give the season a 5/10. The Good Picard, Seven, Data, Riker, Troi, Hugh all worked in their returning roles. Chabon's been clear in his...

I think that's probably right. More likely than a call-back to the Borg symbol (which I agree is a silly idea that is more about action figure packaging than in-universe logic). But I also hope we never go down the "Borg origin story" route.

This is possibly a stretch, but when I saw this: I immediately thought of this:

Completely agree. I think of it as if Spielberg adapted a Stephen King book...although this is much better than how that actually might have turned out. They really do get the atmosphere and storytelling style right. Set design, music, titles, kid actors that look like real awkward kids, even...

I like the song on its own, but it felt like the same grasping for the former glory of the LOTR trilogy that's hindered this series since the beginning. But then, I've been disappointed in these Lord of the Rings prequels overall. Makes me a little concerned about what'll happen if they ever...

Making my way through Humphrey Carpenter's biography of J.R.R. Tolkien.

I would like to root for Colombia, but we're traveling to Bogota on July 11, and I don't really want to be recovering from an all-night flight with a one-year-old with a World Cup Final match on the 13 and the country going nuts. :p Rock solid reasoning, I know.

How was it? I'm curious about it...largely because of the title and that it somehow got enough attention to be adapted as a big-budget Tom Cruise flick.

Totally agree. I'm usually reluctant to even post in a thread about something I haven't seen, since I can't personally add to the discussion. But since the thread turned in the direction of discussing the Catholic Church's relationship with science throughout history in general, I thought the...

I haven't seen the episode, but a friend of mine linked to this discussion which (with updates) both praises the episode and corrects some of the ways church history is presented. All in all, though, the update after the blogger watched the episode himself showed he didn't find too much at...

I caught up on a bunch of classic novels over Christmas that I somehow had never read before. Stuff like 1984, Catcher in the Rye, Slaughterhouse-Five, Brave New World, To Kill a Mockingbird and Lord of the Flies.

When I was younger, definitely books like The Narnia Chronicles, The Wrinkle in Time series (and later any other Madeline L'Engle fiction I could get a hold of), The Giver (I've also read Gathering Blue, but not the last two books in the series), The Hobbit and the Indian in the Cupboard series...

I'm currently reading Blindness by Jose Saramago. So far: depressing.

Maybe Book 3 will be titled "Dark" with 4 serving as "Light". It would be fairly daring if Korra failed at the end of this book, leading into the plot of the third.