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Have you seen CollegeHumor’s “Are You Asian Enough?” sketch starring Loan Tran? It’s hilarious. Basically, a white guy claims Asian heritage due to being 1/8th Korean and a council of East Asian-descended representatives outline what is and isn’t acceptable for someone who is only fractionally connected to a culture through his ancestry. Depending on how you look at it, it’s either anti-appropriation, anti-cultural gatekeeping, or both. Hilarious either way and Loan does a great job.

I loved it 😂 Loan can do deadpan judgmental like nobody’s business!

I wonder if Solo 2 and 3 would have been infinitely better than Solo. But as TLJ demonstrated, maybe Lucasfilm doesn’t do well with improving on flawed but promising starts and we should be glad we’re only being told one third of Han’s story.

I mean back-loading the awesome is a terrible strategy with any kind of media but particularly in movies, since a weak first installment makes sequels that much less likely. No one has the patience to sit through a bad first part on the promise that it gets better from there. You make the first part awesome and THEN make it even better from there. Even if the end is kinda meh much will be forgiven on the strength of a good beginning and middle, see the original trilogy. The prequel trilogy was the opposite, a weak start with a much stronger finish, but with a start like TPM the prequels would never have gotten to the third movie if they weren’t Star Wars saga movies.