Tyrphanax

He’s referring to Jeremy Clarkson, also known as “Jezza”, a presenter on a British motoring show called Top Gear.

A “popular” “radio host” named Chris Evans (not Captain America) took over his presenter role once Jeremy was sacked for punching a producer over a food-related incident and the rest of the team (Richard Hammond and James May) left as a consequence.

Edit: Filthy Millennials.

ATMachine said:

Anchorhead said:

If they cast Solo correctly and stick to a serious story, A Han Solo stand-alone could be be really interesting. They need to stay away from the OT. The world is very aware of Han Solo and who he is as a person. We don’t need a bunch of name-checks or OT references. Something along the lines of the Brian Daley novels. Han Solo and Chewie long before we ever met them.

I’d go with Stars’ End and tweak it as necessary. Show us The Corporate Sector. Let us meet Jessa. That’s a perfect spot for a female lead. Nothing wrong with taking a break from The Empire, The Force, and The Sith for a few hours. I’d certainly welcome it.

Emma Stone in her natural blonde would make a great Jessa.

She’d probably make a better go of it than Chris Evans.

Ha!

Mike O said:

Had another bad bout. I. can’t stop watching these atheist videos and theist debates and stuff. It’s driving me fucking crazy! I did manage to get an appointment with a local shrink in a few hours.

Good luck. Just remember to be as open and honest with them as you are with us.

Yeah, that’s straight out of the novel, in fact, this script follows the novel fairly closely. The book actually starts up quite slow with the nurse in Costa Rica and the Tina incident. You don’t actually meet any of the main characters (with the possible exception of Ed Regis) until a few chapters in.

Anchorhead said:

There is a big difference between a 30-year-old female in an R-rated film and a 20-something in a family-oriented film. Particularly so with one as globally recognized and popular as Star Wars.

My point wasn’t that there is finally a female lead for girls to admire and emulate. As LoveLike pointed out, there have been some before. My point is that Star Wars is now a much deeper franchise character-wise and the lead is a well-written and realized young woman. I was glad to see that Disney\Lucasfilm took the heat and made one of the main characters (arguably the main character) a strong young woman.

The girl I saw yesterday was engaged in our world. Something that (in Star Wars) was a much bigger stretch for girls with the first six films. I’m unfamiliar with the last two prequels, so I can’t speak to how Padme was portrayed. However, I don’t remember there being near the admiration or appreciation for the character that we’re seeing with Rey.

To me, Rey is far and away the best part of the film. She’s a three dimensional character unlike any in the franchise before, at least that I’m aware of. She’s introspective, she has strengths, she has doubts, she’s sometimes fearless, she’s sometimes afraid, she stands up for her beliefs, and she has a strong moral center. She does the right thing even when not doing it would be considerably easier and safer. She seems to me to be an outstanding role model for young girls.

This is what I was saying. Thanks.

I don’t remember hearing about a whole lot of little girls interested in Ripley from Alien.

20-23

A different dinosaur reveal and facility tour.

SilverWook said:

Best fast food burger I ever had was at Roy Rogers back in the 70’s. Consumer Reports actually rated it the best burger in the early 80’s. Always served plain, and you’d take it over the fixin’s bar, where you could pile on whatever toppings you wanted. Used to drive me mad they didn’t have Roy Rogers out here on the west coast, even though Roy had his museum and lived here.

Anybody want to freeze a Roy Rogers burger and mail it to me? 😉

Hmm, they do that at… Harvey’s? In Canada. With the fixins bar. It’s awesome.

Culver’s is the best shit ever. Good lord.

It’s so dense.

Much like Ric.

Well I mean he’s seen the first season at least.

That was the second layer of the joke.

Ric would have done the same thing if he was still with us, god rest his soul.

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

Head Hunters, Herbie Hancock

Whoa man, get your real music out of here!

Nobody laughed at my joke.

TV’s Frink said:

Confirmed Hansi sock.

I’ll wait for the inevitable (and always fresh and hilarious) “Markdown Syntax” post before I draw my conclusions.

I can’t stand most modern dramatic TV shows. My parents are going through Homeland and Bloodline right now, and it’s just so much graphic death and sex and shit. Then there are things like Sons of Anarchy and Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones. Christ, it’s exhausting to watch. I just want to have fun and relax when I watch TV.

My point is that it was a minority. We have plenty of people here who were bullied for their preferences in film and television.

Characters like Rey in a world that is far more accepting of traditionally nerdy genres are making it much more widespread.

I believe there’s a thread for this in the off-topic section of the site.

Atta boy. You go for it. There is no shame.

Definitely take Bingo’s advice and don’t be afraid of meds, either. Remember, this is like a broken leg: it’s okay to take some painkillers for that. Same philosophy here, too. Sometimes your brain needs a little bit of help to focus on the right things.

Keep moving forward.

Ric’s already 12 inches, baby.

lovelikewinter said:

TV’s Frink said:

imperialscum said:

TV’s Frink said:

imperialscum said:

I don’t see how would having a female lead be more inclusive than having a male lead.

This is so dumb it’s not even worth explaining to you.

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My young daughters love Star Wars and Rey has a lot to do with it.

It is not dumb. You just don’t get it, despite being very simple.

If you have a female lead then young females will be able to associate/relate more. If you have a male lead then young males will be able to associate/relate more. Either way you “include” one more than the other.

The point of the thread is that strong female leads have been few and far between, and therefore having one opens up the universe to more people, making it more inclusive.

If you want to pretend that you don’t understand the thread, that’s on you.

Strong female leads have been a staple of Science Fiction/Fantasy for the past 40 years. It might be different in other genres, but not here. It gets me when people say that Rey is something amazing and new.

While this isn’t untrue, sci-fi wasn’t exactly a mainstream genre up until recently because it wasn’t cool to be into those things, even for boys. It’s easy for us to talk about all our favourite sci-fi ladies from back in the day, but shows like BSG, Dr. Who, and Buck Rogers weren’t exactly “cool” (yeah yeah, cool to nerds like us, I know; but I mean to the general public) shows; sure they existed and laid the groundwork for what we have today, but they weren’t exactly popular, and especially not among females. And I’m sure those ladies had plenty of damsel-in-distress, helpless-without-a-man moments. =P

Today, every other show has some sci-fi element, and with things like Star Wars, we actually have cool sci-fi female characters who are just cool characters who happen to be female. Like I said before, that’s what surprised me most about Rey: she wasn’t just a hollow, flag-waving, “LOOK I’M A COOL GIRL but I still need to be rescued by a dude”, girl-power female object character trope. She was just a good character and her being female wasn’t a central aspect or reason of that. That’s what I see as real progress.

DuracellEnergizer said:

I’d welcome snow right about now.

Ditto. 109 (43) right now. Fuck that.

Density said:

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

Density said:

I still think the idea that Anakin turned to the dark side to save his child and then turned back for the same reason was the best idea Lucas had in the prequels and it’s what makes machete order work.

But he didn’t. He did it to “save [his] wife from certain death.”

I guess his unborn child had no bearing on that then? Come on.

She was the one dying in childbirth, I don’t think the kids were in danger or he’d have mentioned it.

As for TPM, I feel like it would work best in this day and age as an Anthology film because it’s basically an exposition film, like Rogue One more or less is. Move it further away from a new Episode I that kicks off the Clone Wars, reshoot Episode II because it’s a total loss, and maybe edit Sith to work.