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  • He’s pretty playful in “Attack of the Clones” when Kenobi is looking for Kamino. “Master Kenobi has lost a planet, how embarrassing” or something along those lines.

    He’s also teaching Younglings in this scene, so being more playful is fitting.

    Most of the time we see Yoda he is at the council or doing war things, so you can’t really be a silly goblin in those cases.










  • Exactly. It also gives students the ability to improve and not just give up.

    Let’s assume 10 assignments determine your grade in a class. You completely skip the first 4 assignments and get 0%. If you completely turn around and score 100% on the next 6 assignments, your overall grade is 60% and you fail the class.

    But! If you were the student who skipped the first 4 assignments, what incentive do you have to even try and improve?

    The 50% score is to give students without hope a chance. If it’s college level, sure maybe failing is the best option. But high school? Middle school? Even younger? Give kids a chance to improve.




  • I agree with everything about this article except the title.

    For me this film is at its best after the vampire reveal and ends when most of the vampires are killed. The intro is fine but goes on a little long and while I’m always a fan of killing Klansman it feels like an unnecessary action scene after the climax of the film.

    My vote is for One Battle After Another. It could be argued it starts slow as well, but once it gets going it is paved perfectly.


  • Hacks is excellent. The Last of Us is excellent. Although both of those are preparing for their final season.

    Euphoria is excellent, although I expect season 3 to be their last.

    That leaves The White Lotus which is also excellent.

    I’ve also heard IT Welcome to Derry is excellent, but I haven’t seen it.

    That being said they’ve been trying to get Dune as a series, Prophecy is getting a second season but I’m not sure the first season really worked.

    We also have the whole of DC Studios. I agree it’s possible Gunn departs if the deal goes through, which would cause some major quality issues.

    But there is the golden goose that is Harry Potter. It’s probably going to have a shit ton of people watching it.

    So for big existing franchises, they’ll probably be ok, and GOT fits in there. But for original stuff, I agree they have fewer options.



  • I mean we should absolutely build more railways and we should absolutely have more bus routes, but there are times when a car makes the most sense.

    Especially in more rural areas. If I want to visit my parents I can take a short walk to a bus or rail to a different bus or rail, but then I’m stuck. There isn’t and there will never be a bus or rail that goes anywhere near their home because it’s just too far in the middle of nowhere (and honestly it’s not really that far in the middle of nowhere).

    Not to mention that the US was designed for cars. Arguably that’s where a lot of these problems started, but you can’t just be Captain Hindsight and demand we rebuild absolutely everything.

    We should absolutely be investing and funding rails and buses much more than we are now. It’s embarrassing how far behind the US is.



  • An “Aegon’s Conquest” film is probably the best way to tell the story. It’s not a particularly interesting story since it’s just man (and sister-wives) steamroll Westeros with dragons.

    I’m sure you could spice it up a bit, but also Aegon is a conqueror and kind of a “bad guy” in that sense. He’s just chilling at Dragonstone and Westeros is mostly just chilling doing their own thing, and he just decides naw… it’s mine now. I’m guessing they’ll add some prophecy to give him reason, we saw this touched on in season 1 of HOTD. Basically there must be a Targaryen on the throne in order to stop the white walkers. Although GOT season 8 sorta disproved that, which I guess makes the whole of Targaryen rule and Aegon’s Conquest moot. So…

    Either way, could be fun, but I don’t expect a lot from it.