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  1. 1 hour ago, Biff Tannen said:

    This is something else that just kills me.  If any other, literally any other, R candidate had won in 2016, we would not be reacting this way.  Sure, we would disagree with a lot of their policies, but that's always been the case.  We all knew what the dotard was.  Yet the Rs continue to think that we are just mad because he beat Hillary.  No, you ignorant sluts, we are mad because he's a fucking crazy person that doesn't know what he's doing and is destroying this nation.

    Mitch and Co. would be a lot happier as well if it had been any other R candidate, because any other candidate would not be fucking with their pet projects by accident, and wouldn't be causing the media to shine a spotlight on everything they do.

    Oh, and another candidate wouldn't have lost the House so quickly and decisively, as well as putting a lot of races into play in general.

  2. 1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

     

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    Damn, they are going way too far into the Uncanny Valley with Hotel Transylvania 4.  Dracula's cousin is one evil-looking motherfucker.

    If they scaled back a little on the sharpness and a few other areas that give it away as CGI, that could be a young Baron Afanas from What We Do In The Shadows.

  3. 29 minutes ago, Hanrahan said:

    I'm surprised more people don't watch during the day on Friday.  Anyway, episode was awesome.  Makes me hate that subhuman cum mop Rian Johnson even more for fucking up the sequels.

    JJ and Kennedy are the ones ultimately responsible - JJ left no hard outlines or characters, plots, etc., and she Kennedy didn't have him (or others) sketch out a 3-movie arc/universe.

    These episodes are a good watch over breakfast or lunch.

  4. 18 hours ago, UT_OB1 said:

    Kevin j Anderson is no slouch either. He did good work finishing Dune. I can’t pick a favorite between Thrawn and Jedi Academy trilogies.  

    He has something like over 120 novels published, amazingly prolific.

    He and Zahn would have been solid hires to put something together for a sequel trilogy.

    Or Filoni and Co.

  5. 14 hours ago, longhornmatt said:

    This whole process has Disney has been pretty amazing when you think about it.  They put some lady who wasn’t a fan of Star Wars in charge of the franchise.  They made a multi billion dollar value trilogy + ancillary movies without any kind of overarching plan for how they would fit together.  They hired some guy who wasn’t a fan of Star Wars to write and direct the 2nd movie himself, just whatever he wanted.  

    This is the same studio that did the opposite of all of that with the Marvel franchise and saw firsthand how well it worked.  

    Marvel's success and roadmap was happening before Disney bought them.  Marvel wasn't even fully integrated with Disney until 2015 (they were purchased in 2009), and even then, Disney made sure that Kevin Feige reported to Disney's Chairman and not the Marvel CEO.

    And therein lies the rub - Disney bought Star Wars three years after they bought Marvel - they knew how this shit worked.  All they had to do is find a competent and proven fanboy or two, which they had with Filoni, and make them the equivalent of Kevin Feige, and have them skip reporting to Kathleen Kennedy, and instead report to the Disney Chairman.  And Filoni was Lucas's protege.

    Kathleen Kennedy on the other hand...she's been around.  It's not that she's not a fan, it's just that she's a movie studio exec - she was a producer on some of the Indiana Jones movies, she was an actual producer on Jurassic Park, E.T., and a shitload of other movies, with Academy Award nominations on her resume.  She's been tight with Spielberg, and therefore Lucas, since the late 70s (starting with Raiders of the Lost Ark I believe).

    Unfortunately, Lucas and Spielberg were very comfortable with her, and rather than toss her aside when they bought Star Wars, Disney let her remain, but it sounds like her power is being reduced even further.

  6. 3 hours ago, Deej said:

    Well, that was all kinds of bad ass.

    Should be a bump in the stock prices of all larger companies selling lotion, as well as Kleenex.  Will probably be a million fanboys that called into work sick this morning, or at least came in late.

    These three episodes together are far better than any Star Wars made since the '80s, 

    Funny how The Mandalorian is the first Star Wars production since A New Hope to feature characters that have never been seen before.

    And the lady that directed this is the director of the Obi-Wan series.

  7. 6 hours ago, Jhawk said:

    I think the reason Pelosi didn’t want impeachment is because of the senate trial that will take dems out of the race.

    Actually, it helps the Dem candidates who are in the Senate, because it gives them a free, nation-wide platform from which to go after Trump. That is the kind of airtime and publicity that none of them can buy on their own.

  8. 10 hours ago, Beantown Express 2.0 said:

    He will be impeached with zero Republicans voting for impeachment and McConnell will refuse to hold a trial because we are too close to a election and we should let the American People decide his fate from this Witch Hunt.  He will then lose the popular vote but sadly this country is dumb enough to elect him again.  

    Mitch doesn't have a massive enough majority to roll that dice - that would probably put more than a few R Senate seats into play if people take that to heart.

    Trump still has to win a combination of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and now Arizona.  Possibly Florida, and hell, lots of folks are riled up in NC and Georgia.

     

  9. 20 hours ago, Texas Jeff said:

    He will then milk his post-presidency period for as much money as he can make of it.  He will sell tickets for rubes to come to rallies, sell merch, sell meet and greets, continue to tweet and rant against other Americans to get attention, do reality TV and generally try to stay in the public eye by attacking others and promoting whatever theory will make him a buck.

    And all of those rallies will be held at or near Mar-a-Lago, and he will make a shit-ton of money off of the rubes who travel there to hear his great words.

  10. 9 minutes ago, horncyclist said:

    Bad but not crime. Didn't go through with it. He didn't have corrupt intent. Republicans will run with those three lines...ramp up the propaganda machine and he's acquitted. Democracy does indeed die in darkness. And these are dark times. 

    Democracy is not dying - the House winning in 2018 and the Dem pickups this year shoulda told ya that.

    If it was dying, this thread would not exist.

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