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As a center rightist, I’m surprised at how little I disagree with leftist TLJ haters, whereas right-wing TLJ haters make me roll my eyes sometimes. (They have a point about Canto Bight though. If any agenda was shoved most obviously down our throats it was that the 1% are baaaad. I’m all for condemning crony capitalism and war profiteering but they did it in most cringeworthy fashion.)

Agreed, and I discussed why conservative and left-wing fans can make common cause against TLJ (link). What progressive messages there were in the movie were just badly-done propaganda, done in a way that discredits the entire idea of progressive fiction. It’s like Atlas Shrugged for the left.

diversehighfantasy:

One part of the Rosa episode of Doctor who that really struck me was the part where they (the Doctor, Ryan Yaz and Graham) were in the diner and the Black cooks we’re standing in the doorway watching them.

That aligns with stories my mom has told me. When she was in college in Wilmington, Delaware in the ‘60s (she’s white and this was a while before she met my Black dad) one of her best girlfriends was Black. My mom – don’t ask my why she was like this when she was raised in mostly white rural Pennsylvania – didn’t register that there was anything unusual about being white and hanging out with a Black friend at the time. They did normal things like go out to lunch, and she told me that often, the Black kitchen crew would come out to look at them, a Black woman and a white woman having lunch together in public. Delaware wasn’t the Jim Crow South (fun fact – Delaware is the only state East of the Mason Dixon Line), so it wasn’t illegal and her friend was never told to leave, but the imagery of the Black cooks looking at The Doctor sitting with Ryan and Yaz really hit home.

That’s an amazing level of detail! Isn’t DW a British show? I wonder how the writers/crew knew to do that?

So today I got out of my house for the first time in three months to go to a music of Star Wars concert my local symphony orchestra was putting on. I bawled during Leia’s theme (didn’t help that the 21st was her birthday) and they let a bunch of kids in costumes have a little parade while they played the Imperial March. There was this adorable toddler dressed as R2. On the way out though this daughter of a hutt was complaining about it, saying it ruined the experience. I almost fought her.

lj-writes:

We can’t ruin the sanctity of the Imperial March now can we? That’s a time to reflect solemnly on the glory of the Empire. Seriously what is that chick’s problem. Looks like you went to a great show though, and I’m remembering that “daughter of a Hutt” insult for later 😂 Happy birthday Carrie, I look forward to seeing you on screen one last time 😢

False advertising! Booooo! I can understand why it would be easier that way, since the OT scores are the most played and rehearsed while the scores from the shows and the newer movies are fairly new, but then they should have reflected that in the advertising.

Saying Chief O’Brien only likes his wife Keiko “for the sex” is SUCH a disgustingly misogynistic thing to say when we actually watched this couple be loving and supportive toward each other and work maturely through child care, Keiko’s career, Kira’s surrogacy, and all the other ups and downs of marriage. A Miles-Keiko-Julian-Garak polyamorous relationship is an awesome idea that should not be tainted by your refusal to acknowledge Miles and Keiko’s relationship as genuine, you sexist fuckwad.