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Flight cancellations two days before Christmas.

Airlines.

Finn/Poe for life

Rey/Finn/Poe also for life

This killed me.

The Confused Notes of a Star Wars Newbie Who Felt Compelled to See The Force Awakens

@Arkandel That's certainly true. Don't get me wrong, I love Obi-Wan!

@Coin He was her only hope because she knew he had helped her family decades before. BUT I GUESS HE DID SAVE HER AND LUKE WHEN THEY WERE BORN AND STUFF fine.

@Arkandel CLEARLY THEY SHOULD HAVE NAMED HIM CHEWIE. Chewie would never fall to the Dark Side.

I know Abrams actually talked about the difference between the fighting styles in the original trilogy versus the prequels and him preferring the less refined, more brutal fights of the original trilogy. I've always agreed with that thought, so I was excited to see fights more in line with that style. And that's a great Reddit quote about it, so thanks for posting that.

Overall? I was kind of underwhelmed. There were moments that I really liked and that I found very affecting, but I actually spent long stretches of the movie a bit unenthused. I'm wondering if a second viewing will let me relax a bit more and be more into it.

One thing I've been bothered by, though: why Ben? That is, why the name? Like, it was Obi-Wan's alias, to begin with, and neither Han nor Leia were the ones close to Obi-Wan. Luke was the one with the close personal connection to him. It just felt like a strange choice to me. I guess it could be more of a note of respect -- Obi-Wan was integral in rescuing Leia and beginning the journey of the trio together -- than personal.

New Yorker ^5

I legitimately asked people at brunch next to me not to spoil anything when their conversation turned to Star Wars. Fortunately they were super chill about it.

This is super appreciated.

Really, you could kind of think of each comic book writer as an individual player with all their titles kind of competing with the other titles for which characters they can use and who they can kill off and what giant changes they can make. And the editorial team is the staff trying to keep everybody playing together in a manner that is generally collaborative and matching with the overall theme and narrative of the universe.

@Jaded NOPE CHRISTMAS SHOPPING OVER

@Jaded Oh nice, I was waiting to see if any of my brothers' wishlist items would go on sale!

It's also not really fair to say that comic book writers -- at least superhero comic book writers at the Big Two -- are the only people involved in their process. They have an editor for their books, and also teams of editors for whatever grouping their title may fall under. (The Spidey books have a team, the X-Men books have a team, etc.) Along with the higher-ups at Marvel who absolutely have opinions about what can or can't happen in a given title. Sometimes the process works great, sometimes you have writers fired because they couldn't get along with their editorial team, sometimes you have writers quit because they found the writing conditions to be unamenable to the stories they wanted to tell. But there are definitely multiple people involved.

X-Factor that I staff on is based in the X-Men movieverse, but in the future and more street level rather than big superheroes.

@Thenomain It's more like accents. Everyone has one, but everyone also denies having them and just says that everyone else has one.

Uggggggggh my office chair that I loved and have hoarded for the past two years since my coworker moved away and gave it up now has a crack in the plastic base that is making it tip like two inches to one side when I sit down.