For work. While my emails on my personal account are more interesting, if they were leaked, they wouldn't make my employer look bad.
"And no Emojis in professional correspondence."
Exactly why I don't have a Facebook or Twitter page. once again, people have mocked me for this, but when all their dirty laundry or when they did something stupid, they lost out on job opportunities.
Yeah, especially as Facebook (at least) makes you use your real name. Though, they don't know it's your real name, it just has to not look fake (or Native American) or you'll get banned. Not sure why people don't just use fake names, but then again, not sure why people commit crimes and post to FB under their real name about it.
Pff. I have a Twitter account specifically to make myself unemployable. So there!
You should leave psychoanalysis to professionals. Movie criticism too, while I'm at it.
Well, you basically summed it up without realizing it. Dumb as rocks version of Luke works really well for a dumb as rocks premise and storyline. The trilogy started OK. I actually liked The Force Awakens, despite it being such an obvious copy of A New Hope. It was a good copy with a cast of promising new characters. But then they made the sequels. And the whole thing just collapsed.
More likely Abrams introduced the character to set up a mystery to be solved later without knowing ahead of time what the reveal was going to be. Which is fine in drafts, but Abrams has this habit of introducing a mystery and then trying to retrofit the explanation in later.
Disney listened to dudes like you and gave the complainers what they wanted, taking them at their word, a decision that has never once resulted in a satisfying finished product. The problem here is that Disney did not have a plan for the trilogy and while that may have worked out originally for George Lucas, it's a fool's errand to try and make that lightning strike twice.
I think we're in agreement, more or less, on this.
I actually thought his characterization in TLJ remains one of the best and more grounded depictions of Luke, both individually and in the circular traditions of Star Wars.
My Facebook doesn't and never had my real name because I always thought social media was stupid way back with MySpace (never had one) and my friends kinda made me make a Facebook. Facebook is useful for planning events, but that's about it.
There was a certain point in the movie where something truly spectacular was teased. That being Kylo and Rey saying 'fuck all that Empire v.s. Rebelion and Light side v.s. Dark side shit, we're off to do our own thing'. It suddenly made me think of just the average shmuck-alien who has nothing to do with the Empire, the Rebelion, the Jedi, or the Sith, and who just lived their life trying to make ends meet, and how they must be thinking 'Is this shit STILL going on after 30+ years? Really?!'
Yeah, that bit was great. The "Let the past die. Burn it all down" and the promise of forging something new.
No, they didn't. If they had listened to people like me, the entire trilogy would have been planned well in advance.
100% agreed on that. It was completely unexpected and way more dramatic. Really wish they had committed to that.
Wasn't this part of Mace Windu's (entirely unexplored in the movies) backstory? That he could harness aggression without being consumed by it?
Eh, I think that just goes against too much in Star Wars and it's just such a massive change in message from the movies
