Cobalt Stargazer

I don't disagree, but a key ingredient here is Kylo's idolization of Darth Vader. Did Han and Leia keep all that stuff to themselves when the boy was growing up, the two things at the top of the list being the destruction of Alderaan and Han being imprisoned in carbonite because Vader turned him over to Jabba? I mean, either Kylo never heard those stories, which seems unlikely due to an entire planet being vaporized, or he did and he....what? Thought that was cool? Yes, Luke acted rashly, and yes, it turns out Snoke was manipulating Kylo for his own purposes. But I don't think it can be discounted that the man we're initially presented with wanted to be exactly like his grandfather, which is why he kills Han and might have killed Leia if he'd gotten the chance. To sever those ties. Can't blame Luke for that.

The Skywalker Whining Gene, in other words. Though there is always the argument that it would have ended that way without Luke's mistake. No one who faults him for his actions with Kylo ever takes the next obvious step, what Kylo does in response. "Why would Luke ever think Kylo would become evil? He <i>saved</i> his father! Why would he jump to.....oh. Well. Never mind, then." Replace Luke's other students with the younglings, and it's Anakin all over again.

We don't even proportionally treat male victims the same way we treat female victims. If more people had publicly sided with Sinead O'Connor back in 1992 instead of laughing at her or acting like she was a kook, would there have been a much more serious take on the abuse allegations she was making? The accusations against Michael Jackson have followed him beyond the grave, but we may never know how many boys he assaulted. I try to stay out of this kind of thing because it all leads back to the same place, but the system not being equal applies to other things too.

Isn't that what happened to Drew Barrymore? Not being assaulted, as far as I know, but her parents were taking her to parties and clubs when she was as young as ten, and that's how she became a cocaine addict. Fair enough to say maybe the kid lied to get out of the house/into the party and the parents are totally responsible as far as providing a good upbringing, but I do wonder if there's no curfew or something involved here.

With an assist from Rudyard Kipling

I mean, maybe, but I'm kind of uncomfortable putting the onus on Britney's children. If it's "just" that Jamie and Lynne messed her up in a way that can be eventually mended, that's one thing, but at this point I'm convinced she's mentally ill and can't/won't seek help, despite having the resources to do so. There's a piece here where the boys have already been parentified over themselves, because Britney and Kevin are disasters. I'm not sure it's fair to expect one or both of them to 'see the bigger picture' when she clearly is part of the problem in the present.

For an actress, she's a pretty good director, though.

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"Ransom? Are you back again already?"

I do feel bad for Lady Gaga, who for a non-actress has some acting talent and screen presence. But this is not the project she should have chosen.

'Course, her presence does give us this: "I'm Lori Craven, and I'm an actress." "An actress! Really! How nice for you. I'm Betsy Faye Sharon, and I'm a bitch. Now get out of here."

"Maybe I should have sent a memo."

"Apes don't read philosophy!" "Yes they do, Otto, they just don't understand it."

Book spoilers, because I don't know if Villeneuve will follow that storyline. Really, the changes to Chani are because Zendaya was cast, and that's not a bad thing. Chalamet needs strong scene partners to interact with, and as a character Paul needs the pushback from someone. Might as well be the woman he claims to love, wife or no wife. Honestly, I'd be interested in seeing Chani and Irulan interact a lot more, because there's a moment where they make eye contact before Chani leaves, both furious and heartbroken. They'd be tied together through Paul, especially as the war starts.

Which is valid, but that would include Michael Stipe, Bruce Springsteen and U2's Bono. There's others, but people have mocked Bono for years because of his activism, his involvement in political causes far beyond anything that's about music. 'Course, they're all old, rich white dudes, so that could play into it just a tiny bit. Maybe? There's a piece in there where it becomes about wanting an echo chamber, and I mean that for both sides. If you (the general You) already agree with what someone else is saying, you (again the general You) are way more likely to say, Hey, keep talking, I like where you're going with this. The stuff about COVID is an extreme example since it's proven to be deadly, a threat to public health, but there's other stuff that's way less serious, and yet it can elicit the same reaction. There's a reason there were all those memes in the wake of Justin Timberlake's arrest, even though DUI is a thing that happens to people who aren't celebrities and there's no real fuss over it. It's easier to make fun of him for being an idiot than it is to consider he might have a problem with drinking, and I was guilty of it too. The echo chamber effect.