MisterFrog

You know what, the people are alright.

I suppose we just enjoy different things about Star Wars then, for me it's all about the world building, and seeing how characters act within it, the battles and action are just a climax to everything else (I feel this way about all sci-fi and fantasy).

Not saying you only watch it for the battles, but I do mostly watch it for the talking haha

It's why I still very much enjoy the prequels, despite them being pretty shoddy on the plot (Anakin's fall could have been written soooo much better written it hurts. Probably would have needed an extra movie to really sell it though. The Clone Wars TV show episode where Tarkin and Anakin meet for the first time was great if I recall correctly. It made kinda make sense why Anakin bought into fascism in the end.)

To me there's no such thing as a food sci-fi and fantasy without politics (in the sense that there's some disagreement which motivates people). More trade disputes and blockades please, less holdo maneuvers that break existing rules of the world. The holdo maneuver would have been great to destroy the Death Star with some Kamikaze X-Wings jumping to hyperspace through it...

The battles, to me, are only interesting if one fleshes out the world and the political disagreements.

I once started watching a Chinese fantasy show (was learning Chinese, and like sci-fi/fantasy) and it opened with a 10 minute battle, no context. Immediately turned it off, like why do I care, show?

Ah, I haven't been keeping up to date! Shall check it out :)

Not in love with all of Disney star wars, but Andor is hands down the greatest Star Wars I've seen, so I'll forgive them for the rest of the stuff I don't like as much (not including Star Wars episodes 7-9, straight to jail)

I desperately hope you don't mean episode 9.

Everyone's entitled to their own opinion, but damn, do you even like the rest of it? Or other sci-fi and fantasy in general?

The absolute disrespect of not bothering to try to create a coherent world in episodes 7-9 was staggering.

If a piece of media's plot or storytelling is a bit meh, that's forgivable, but when you're just straight up not bothering to think of the logistics or established rules within a fantasy/sci-fi world? Please no. Please stop.

Or at least be writing something supernatural where there are barely any rules and you can hand waive whatever you like.

I'm with you, I use ISO 8601 exclusively at work, even in emails and no one has once questioned me on it.

The problem is the other formats still exist, so MM-DD is ambiguous.

Yes, but we can all agree DD/MM/YYYY is far more valid than MM/DD/YYYY which should be taken out back and shot

I hope people take that as a contract and when they inevitably do it again, sue the hell out of them.

Not that it'll stop this phenomenon.

Get organised folks, join your local socialist orgs (provided they are sane and not Stalinists and don't think China is socialist).

I want off this ride, and that's only gonna happen if we get involved, all over the world.

Tiny dog breeds are animal cruelty. So much inbreeding, it's most certainly is not cute, I agree.

Thank you for somewhat restoring my head cannon haha

TIL then I guess. If I imagine someone saying this in a US accent, I just can't picture it haha

telcos

Are we Australians rubbing off on the international English lexicon? I don't know how to feel about this haha

Good to know :)