makyo

Yeah it's so damn lazy, like they introduce these things like they're in a vaccum, situationally just to have a cool scene and toss any kind of continuity aside

I should go back and read that again, I remember loving it so much. Also remember when Disney announced that the extended universe would be discarded to make room for new cannon and how much my heart sank hearing it.

Rogue One was really close to what I want the franchise to be. Having a universe with the force users instead of about the force users is so much more interesting.

I have always wished for a serious grown up version of Star Wars. Like not being afraid to sever limbs like they used to, or worrying about your scoundrels being too scoundrel-y. Also really taking an inventory of everything and seriously thinking about how it would interact.

Like to your point - no need to toss out the more magical force elements but maybe just tone it down a bit and ground them in reality a little better? Because it's absolutely ridiculous how they've become these invincible laser blocking demigods. They should be afraid to deploy, just like anyone, if there's going to be shooting. It's just lazy writing most of the time and it would be wonderful to see what a skilled hand could actually do with it all.

We don't need to split hairs - 'sci-fi fantasy' or 'science fantasy' is a real genre and common enough term.

Yep, Colorado is probably as geographically mid-west as it gets and you'd get resistance from almost anyone living there if you insinuated they were Midwestern.

Plus, hasn't he pretty well decimated the GOP ranks? Any worthy competitor has been exiled or humiliated or both leaving the ranks filled with only sniveling sycophants and uncharismatic bigots.

My partner hates them so I always try to get them to a safe location as soon as I see one.

It's not unpopular, it's just stupid.

Decades indeed - this coalition of the ignorant and racist and hateful and afraid doesn't happen overnight. They've been pulling these people together for a long time - I mean Willie Horton was like in the 80's and even that wasn't the beginning.

This is true, they describe themselves as descriptive rather than prescriptive: https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/descriptive-vs-prescriptive-defining-lexicography

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