Ah, the onet that got away. It’s a great feeling when you fall in love with your partner’s family–I quite like my inlaws myself. I think, though, that inlaws are deal breakers not deal makers. They might suck so badly that they make it impossible to be with the person unless they’re willing to cut the family off, but no matter how lovely the family are they can’t make a romance happen in themselves. The inlaws are not the ones you’re getting in bed with, literally and figuratively. If you find someone who’s right for you, consider inlaws who are anything above “tolerable” to be a bonus.
Does RJ look like he has loved ones or friends with any amount of sense? That study obviously does not say what he says it does (link). From the author of the study himself:
“The suspected Russian trolls are so few that it is basically the
normal amount of Russian trolls you would expect to be present in a
high-profile online debate.“
But I for one hope RJ keeps embarrassing himself. It’s way better entertainment than TLJ.
Rose taking comfort under fire in the fact that if she and Paige die, they die together
(Consider everything in the notes a potential spoiler)
Oh wow, this book has actual, proper grieving scenes for the characters’ losses in battle! Who’d have thought such a thing was possible? Everyone knows this is so hard, even billion-dollar grossing movies have characters grinning like idiots with no one ever shedding a tear after losing of most of their friends and comrades.
That said, who thought it was a good idea to go out and fly the exact same mission again when a TIE fighter had escaped in the previous battle and the enemy was ready for them? Without, say, a fighter escort to fight off the TIEs? If the Resistance couldn’t properly protect their supply ships they should have admitted they were overextended and declined to help any further, or deveoped a different method so the enemy wouldn’t see them coming. You can’t just send out your crew hoping for the best, ffs, especially when this mission was about giving aid to an outside group and was not vital to the Resistance’s work. There was no mention of Atterra being of particular strategic importance to dislodge the First Order.
If the Resistance were at all serious about Atterra, why not go to the Senate? By this point members of the Resistance had seen more than enough to testify before the Senate about the abuses in the Atterra system. Whatever happened to those spy droids in the opening mission? They must have gathered some evidence, as the Resistance who visited the planet must have. They had two real live Atterran witnesses right there!
And let’s say they didn’t go to the Republic because the Senate was willing to let the FO do whatever the fuck they liked in their own territory, blockade entire populations into dying of thirst, dissolve the bodies of their victims in the acid oceans. If so, the Resistance was violating its own mandate and potentially starting a war with the FO. It would have been better to fly humanitarian missions to evacuate the Atterrans instead, because there is no indication the Bravo Rising resistance group could hold territory and keep their supply lines open even if they defeated the FO.
Argh. I like the worldbuilding and character development in this book but the story makes no sense once you really look at it.
Rose thinking she’d rather blow herself and Paige up than let either of them be taken by the First Order
Also let it be known for the record that you have not lived until you have heard Loan Tran doing a British accent.
Oh, these kids. They’re going to kill me. They devise a new plan on their own because their commanders didn’t, and now they’re flying into the very space where they lost their comrades, eager to do the job and win it. These beautiful, doomed young people at war.
I so, so wish Paige and Finn had gotten to meet. Finn would have had so much to contribute to the bomber squadron, and he and Paige would have hit it right off with their strategic brilliance and penchant for gamebreaking ideas. I can see why Rose latched on to Finn so hard: he and Paige are a lot alike, and he could brainstorm with Rose much like she used to do with Paige. The execution is so much better in Cobalt Squadron, though. In TLJ it was just bewildering, while Paige’s plan was presented very clearly and excitingly in the book.
Rose taking comfort under fire in the fact that if she and Paige die, they die together
(Consider everything in the notes a potential spoiler)
Oh wow, this book has actual, proper grieving scenes for the characters’ losses in battle! Who’d have thought such a thing was possible? Everyone knows this is so hard, even billion-dollar grossing movies have characters grinning like idiots with no one ever shedding a tear after losing of most of their friends and comrades.
That said, who thought it was a good idea to go out and fly the exact same mission again when a TIE fighter had escaped in the previous battle and the enemy was ready for them? Without, say, a fighter escort to fight off the TIEs? If the Resistance couldn’t properly protect their supply ships they should have admitted they were overextended and declined to help any further, or deveoped a different method so the enemy wouldn’t see them coming. You can’t just send out your crew hoping for the best, ffs, especially when this mission was about giving aid to an outside group and was not vital to the Resistance’s work. There was no mention of Atterra being of particular strategic importance to dislodge the First Order.
If the Resistance were at all serious about Atterra, why not go to the Senate? By this point members of the Resistance had seen more than enough to testify before the Senate about the abuses in the Atterra system. Whatever happened to those spy droids in the opening mission? They must have gathered some evidence, as the Resistance who visited the planet must have. They had two real live Atterran witnesses right there!
And let’s say they didn’t go to the Republic because the Senate was willing to let the FO do whatever the fuck they liked in their own territory, blockade entire populations into dying of thirst, dissolve the bodies of their victims in the acid oceans. If so, the Resistance was violating its own mandate and potentially starting a war with the FO. It would have been better to fly humanitarian missions to evacuate the Atterrans instead, because there is no indication the Bravo Rising resistance group could hold territory and keep their supply lines open even if they defeated the FO.
Argh. I like the worldbuilding and character development in this book but the story makes no sense once you really look at it.
Rose thinking she’d rather blow herself and Paige up than let either of them be taken by the First Order
Also let it be known for the record that you have not lived until you have heard Loan Tran doing a British accent.
Rose taking comfort under fire in the fact that if she and Paige die, they die together
(Consider everything in the notes a potential spoiler)
Oh wow, this book has actual, proper grieving scenes for the characters’ losses in battle! Who’d have thought such a thing was possible? Everyone knows this is so hard, even billion-dollar grossing movies have characters grinning like idiots with no one ever shedding a tear after losing of most of their friends and comrades.
That said, who thought it was a good idea to go out and fly the exact same mission again when a TIE fighter had escaped in the previous battle and the enemy was ready for them? Without, say, a fighter escort to fight off the TIEs? If the Resistance couldn’t properly protect their supply ships they should have admitted they were overextended and declined to help any further, or deveoped a different method so the enemy wouldn’t see them coming. You can’t just send out your crew hoping for the best, ffs, especially when this mission was about giving aid to an outside group and was not vital to the Resistance’s work. There was no mention of Atterra being of particular strategic importance to dislodge the First Order.
If the Resistance were at all serious about Atterra, why not go to the Senate? By this point members of the Resistance had seen more than enough to testify before the Senate about the abuses in the Atterra system. Whatever happened to those spy droids in the opening mission? They must have gathered some evidence, as the Resistance who visited the planet must have. They had two real live Atterran witnesses right there!
And let’s say they didn’t go to the Republic because the Senate was willing to let the FO do whatever the fuck they liked in their own territory, blockade entire populations into dying of thirst, dissolve the bodies of their victims in the acid oceans. If so, the Resistance was violating its own mandate and potentially starting a war with the FO. It would have been better to fly humanitarian missions to evacuate the Atterrans instead, because there is no indication the Bravo Rising resistance group could hold territory and keep their supply lines open even if they defeated the FO.
Argh. I like the worldbuilding and character development in this book but the story makes no sense once you really look at it.
Rose thinking she’d rather blow herself and Paige up than let either of them be taken by the First Order
Rose taking comfort under fire in the fact that if she and Paige die, they die together
(Consider everything in the notes a potential spoiler)
Oh wow, this book has actual, proper grieving scenes for the characters’ losses in battle! Who’d have thought such a thing was possible? Everyone knows this is so hard, even billion-dollar grossing movies have characters grinning like idiots with no one ever shedding a tear after losing of most of their friends and comrades.
That said, who thought it was a good idea to go out and fly the exact same mission again when a TIE fighter had escaped in the previous battle and the enemy was ready for them? Without, say, a fighter escort to fight off the TIEs? If the Resistance couldn’t properly protect their supply ships they should have admitted they were overextended and declined to help any further, or deveoped a different method so the enemy wouldn’t see them coming. You can’t just send out your crew hoping for the best, ffs, especially when this mission was about giving aid to an outside group and was not vital to the Resistance’s work. There was no mention of Atterra being of particular strategic importance to dislodge the First Order.
If the Resistance were at all serious about Atterra, why not go to the Senate? By this point members of the Resistance had seen more than enough to testify before the Senate about the abuses in the Atterra system. Whatever happened to those spy droids in the opening mission? They must have gathered some evidence, as the Resistance who visited the planet must have. They had two real live Atterran witnesses right there!
And let’s say they didn’t go to the Republic because the Senate was willing to let the FO do whatever the fuck they liked in their own territory, blockade entire populations into dying of thirst, dissolve the bodies of their victims in the acid oceans. If so, the Resistance was violating its own mandate and potentially starting a war with the FO. It would have been better to fly humanitarian missions to evacuate the Atterrans instead, because there is no indication the Bravo Rising resistance group could hold territory and keep their supply lines open even if they defeated the FO.
Argh. I like the worldbuilding and character development in this book but the story makes no sense once you really look at it.
Rose taking comfort under fire in the fact that if she and Paige die, they die together
(Consider everything in the notes a potential spoiler)
Oh wow, this book has actual, proper grieving scenes for the characters’ losses in battle! Who’d have thought such a thing was possible? Everyone knows this is so hard, even billion-dollar grossing movies have characters grinning like idiots with no one ever shedding a tear after losing of most of their friends and comrades.
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