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SPOILERS, OBVIOUSLY.To criticize The Force Awakens for “recycling” the first three Star Wars movies—to complain that it’s “un-original” compared to that original work of genius—misses the point of the franchise so thoroughly and dramatically that this critical impulse seems more interesting to me than the movie itself. The one thing the original trilogy…
No, Rey from ‘The Force Awakens’ Is Not a Mary Sue By Rebecca Pahle | Star Wars | December 21, 2015 | Comments (View) Go to www.addthis.com/dashboard to customize your tools A new Star War came out over the weekend, and it’s kind of a big deal. While the rest of us were lusting…
Take a wild stab at how many Reys are available in this aisle, or how many women altogether. I hate to break it to you, but Rey is not a role model for little girls. The Force Awakens has been out all of a few days now, and already I’m over hearing this. “Oh, she’s…
J may be up to his old tricks — or just in need of a copy editor. In the opening crawl for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, there appears to be a punctuation error. If there isn’t, it’s one hell of a hint as to what might be coming in the next two episodes. Note: Spoilers…
It’s episode 100 of Half in the Bag! Mike, Jay, and their new friend Kris Kringle celebrate this momentous event by participating in a normal episode and see the newest Star Warts movie. Lightsabers! via Half in the Bag Episode 100: Star Wars: The Force Awakens – YouTube.
Image: Screenshot, YouTube Warning: Spoilerz. The results are in for The Force Awakens, the receipts tallied, the reviews aggregated, and just look at all those zeros and blissful tomatoes. Critics and fans seem thrilled that JJ Abrams has concocted an exciting, fast-paced Star Wars installment that is genuinely fun to watch. That captures the…
Editor’s note: This is a review of repeated viewings of the latest Star Wars movie, and what changes over time when rewatching this ridiculously rewatchable movie. As such, it must venture deep into spoiler territory. Consider yourself warned. A week ago Monday, I had one of the most incredible experiences of my life: attending the…
Daisey Ridley as Rey, left, and John Boyega as Finn, in a scene from the new film, “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” (Disney/Lucasfilm via Associated Press) This piece is chock full of spoilers for “The Force Awakens.” Also, feelings. One of the downsides of trying to sum up the year in pop culture early in…
Over the weekend, even as most of us were celebrating the fact that a new Star Wars movie did not in any way suck, some portions of the internet got sucked into a pointless, silly debate. Is Rey, the film’s hero, a “Mary Sue”? The answer is no. Next question? Some spoilers for The Force…
After Josef Stalin’s death in 1953, a mysterious note was found among his private papers. It had been sent by Nikolai Bukharin, Stalin’s revolutionary comrade and for many years the Communist Party’s intellectual figurehead, while awaiting execution after his 1938 show trial for numerous imaginary crimes. Using a nickname only known to the dictator’s oldest…