Isn’t it way past time for a Womandalorian?

I instantly liked Mandalorian. It was Star Wars unburdened from the Skywalker story line. And it was made by people who obviously like Star Wars and weren’t all “The stuff you like about Star Wars you’re wrong to like so I’m going to subvert expectations!”

My 4yo was saying a very nice prayer last night, asking God to help her not be afraid of the dark and go right to sleep, and then added at the end “and please destroy my family.”

Saw a new thing on Disney+. They have Swiss Family Robinson, and in the short description it says see details for viewer advisory. In the details it says the movie was kept as is but contains “outdated cultural depictions.” Well, zip-a-dee-doo-dah.
It’s been a long while; I don’t remember what the cultural depictions were in it.
Will we eventually get something like that for Mario games with his “Lets-a go!”? Currently, those cultural depictions are not outdated.

Would be nice for Disney+ to have some list of the Marvel movies in order. I notice they’re missing a few though (I know about Spider-Man, but do they not have full rights to the Hulk standalone film?).

I am much more excited to see what happens next after the first episode of The Mandalorian than I was with The Last Jedi.

Not to get all feminist, but the high heels on Zero Suit Samus in Smash Bros really grates on me. She’s the no-nonsense, intergalactic bounty hunter and they have her running around in impractical shoes and the powersuit equivalent of underwear.
Alone together, we faced the horrors of planet Zebes. Treat her with respect.
Oh man, and don’t get me started on Other M…

Man, I don’t know if I’d want a billion dollars because then people might not like me. But I guess if I had a billion dollars, I wouldn’t care what people think. I barely do now.

Has enough time passed that it’s not spoilers to talk about baby Yoda?
Anyway, first order of business, we need a name for that baby, as timeline-wise, it’s obviously not actually Yoda.
And, yay, we finally got to see what that disintegration Darth Vader warned Bob Fett against looks like.

Disney+ is pretty sweet. Just watched the 2nd episode of The Mandalorian with my kids (son very upset has to wait a week for another) and now they’re laughing at Lady & the Tramp.
The original. I’m morally opposed to the live action remakes.

Oh, I was trying to remember what’s the “outdated cultural depiction” from Lady and the Tramp, and then I hear “We are Siamese if you please…”

The second season of Jack Ryan did not grip me as much as the first, as evidenced that it took my like two weeks to watch the eight episodes.
And it was hard to get over that bizarre choice to have it take place in Venezuela—famous for collapsing from socialists policies—and have it collapsing from vague right-wing policies.
And I had trouble buying that the Venezuelan president was so oppressive that he’d throw anyone opposed to him in a camp but not so oppressive as to prevent a viable opponent to him an election.
And then there was the whole helicoptering into the presidential palace and shooting everyone. I’m no foreign policy expert, but some countries might interpret that as an act of war.
Hopefully next season doesn’t take place in a North Korea torn apart by capitalism and deregulation.

I see some people getting really sensitive at the idea they are too far left, and it is a bitter pill to swallow that maybe your ideas are so terrible that Trump is literally the better, more compassionate option.

Can’t the right and the left unite around how we need to protect baby Yoda?
There may be things we disagree on—like whether or not it’s necessary to disintegrate Jawas—but the important thing we all agree on is that baby Yoda is precious and needs to be protected.

I’m still not voting for Trump in 2020, but I understand why Barack Obama is.

I’m going to try that “I have spoken” on the kids. If it works, then I’ll try using it on the wife. #TheMandalorian

ME: “First time your uncle was deployed, he wasn’t an officer and went to door to door in Iraq.”
9yo: “Wouldn’t that cause a war?”
ME: “We were already at war.”
9yo: “Why? Did Iraq attack us?”
ME: “Um… it’s more complicated than that.”
Someone want to help me out here?

My 9mo spent ten minutes yelling at his own shadow and I was all like, “Ok Boomer.”

#ReleaseTheSnyderCut into a volcano.

I’m really enjoying The Mandalorian which makes me worried Rian Johnson is watching everyone enjoying it and lobbying to be the showrunner for the 2nd season. “I have some ideas to really subvert expectations.”

I enjoy watching The Crown even if some of the historical liberties it takes are a bit grating, like the way President Kennedy is still alive in the show because Queen Elizabeth threw her crown just in time to deflect the bullet.

The Salvation Army is verboten now?

I kind of feel bad for Rian Johnson now. I don’t think he meant to ruin Star Wars… though some of it did feel malicious.
He might have actually done an interesting movie if they just had him do some Star Wars movie unrelated to the Skywalker story line, but as the middle part of a trilogy, The Last Jedi was just an absolute train wreck.

You can personally like The Last Jedi, but you have to admit it failed as the middle of a trilogy based on the reaction to it. Know the mark of a great Star Wars film? You don’t have to constantly argue with half the fan base that it wasn’t terrible.
I have a similar thing with my novel Sidequest. I love the ending. Many readers loved the ending. But I had a lot of reviews of people who said they loved it up until the ending. I could explain to them all why it is in fact a good ending, but maybe I messed up a little.
Everyone loves the ending to Hellbender… as far as I know or care. Buy Hellbender.

I put up with a lot of negativity on Twitter, but I don’t know what I’d do if I saw someone say something bad about baby Yoda.

Showing my kids Gargoyles off of Disney+. I remember it having much more complex storylines for a kids’ show (the premiere spans 5 episodes), so much so I didn’t completely feel silly watching it when I was fifteen.

The reason they get frozen as statues for a 1000 years was bad writing, though.
“Without evidence, I’m going to believe other people killed the princess, so I’m going to cast a spell on you. …Oh. She’s alive. My bad.”

And I don’t know how to explain the relationship between Goliath and the female gargoyle. Is she his girlfriend? Wife (spoilers: It is later revealed they have a kid)? I don’t know if there is gargoyle marriage.
Anyway, I hope they learn some good lessons from the show, like if you become a billionaire, spend your money on extremely convoluted schemes.

I think a good surprise to end the season finale on would be finding out President Trump has no idea what Twitter is.

I’m not trying to be over the top, I’m just saying I don’t want anyone who liked The Last Jedi near my kids. If I found out one of my daughter’s teachers liked TLJ, I would try to get that person fired. And since my daughter is home schooled, that might result in a divorce.
I checked, and my daughter’s teacher thinks the Rose “love” speech near the end was really really stupid.