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A mildly interesting development. <snip> Interesting, because it may affect when the next leadership challenge comes. Will the Tories let this go ahead, or destroy him before he can embarrass them further? The Tories won't be able to get rid of him easily, they've had a VoNC and party rules mean th...

The change away from Inhumans, I get and I actually think the powers is an interesting mystery for the series. Did her grandma have superpowers? Do the powers come from the gauntlet or just activate ones Kamala always have? If she takes it off does she still have powers? Obviously 5 more episodes t...

It's more like she got the job because she's a hardcore Brexiteer, super racist against Muslims which is useful in the upper echelons of the Tory party, and because she's so obviously thick and inappropriate for real leadership she's absolutely no challenge to Boris. That's the Boris way, surround h...

I had my money on Patel to emerge as the post BoJo leader, under a promise to have the face of a modern conservative party, with the cruelty of an old fashioned one. I think this underestimates just how toxic and stupid Priti Vacant is. When campaigns are on they absolutely do not let her out of he...

If Finland has any more soldiers like Simo Häyhä I doubt Russia could defeat Finland, especially in light of their poor performance in Ukraine. Well one can't rely on the Russian performance staying as bad as it is currently, to do so would be at best unwise. Russia has enough manpower that they co...

I'll be honest, 98.6% of what I got from this trailer is a reminder that yes, David Bowie really was that good.

Focusing on the gun is a bit of a red herring. Long hours and inadequate safety precautions in the name of doing things quickly and cheaply find many many ways to injure and kill, that's why the union crews insisted on better standards and walked because they weren't getting them. But Hollywood righ...

The Death Star was the biggest and most obvious symbol of Imperial power. It was a permanent reminder that the might of the Empire could go anywhere and threaten anyone all throughout the galaxy forever, even beyond its ability to blow up planets it was a giant fleet base and quite possibly had thin...

Yeah, and the rebels are, remember, actually led by well connected politicians so they would have the resources to mobilise extra relief effort to safely deorbit, destroy, or move such debris as remained hazardous. We know they did clean up after the battle as well, because Rise of Stupids made it a...

What more explanation do you need than that a galactic civilisation capable of building the thing in the first place can tidy it up afterwards?

Not for me. Oh it earned the right to use the 'name' and it turned out a lot better than I initially expected but to me it will never be real Star Trek No, but with reboots it may be the "real" one for a whole new generation of people. You and I can fire up the nostalgia glasses when we s...

Yeah, one of the smaller unions has also ended its affiliation.

This is, overall, a Labour party conference the Tories will be quite happy with.

No, see you still don't understand. What you get from the movie is that a Star Destroyer is bigger than the heroes' ships, and it's pointy and mean. That's called good visual narrative communication. The baddie ships are big and threatening. The Executor is even bigger than that, and even pointier!...

It's basically the old "The Executor is only 8km long" nonsense all over again. Anyone that watches the movie can see that is wrong by at least double. (Hence the modern accepted length of 19km.) See here's the thing. "anyone who watches the movie" can see that the Executor is B...

Yeah, if Star Wars ever had a problem with scale it was in the number of characters allowed to be relevant within the universe. With the extended universe being ever more focused on the doings of the same six people over and over again and then somehow managing to compress that further in the sequel...

I still think anything less than Palpatine (or someone even more powerful and threatening) would have been anticlimactic as fuck. All the ideas for such a trilogy remind me of Tolkien's aborted sequel to LOTR and why he decided it wasn't worth doing. Tolkien decided he wasn't going to do a sequel t...

If anything it just makes the Star Wars galaxy look puny. Here's the thing though "How manly does our made up stuff look compared to other made up stuff" is not actually relevant. It does not help you tell good stories in the slightest. Versus debates are an idle pastime for the internet ...

Of course they do. They're listening to Mandelson again. Blame the left, ape the right, pretend you're the centre. When you lose blame the left harder for not shutting up and falling in line. Also I think there's something that Labour just won't let themselves think. That there is no path to a non-T...

Not really, he's just exasperated by weird nerds being hung up on details of the franchise that matter less than when that one stormtrooper bonked his head on a door that didn't go up all the way.

It's basically the old "The Executor is only 8km long" nonsense all over again. Anyone that watches the movie can see that is wrong by at least double. (Hence the modern accepted length of 19km.) See here's the thing. "anyone who watches the movie" can see that the Executor is B...

Re-reading the comic, she can't be more then 3 levels higher then Hailey. Otherwise, Hailey would have been flanked, and she wouldn't have gotten Uncanny Dodge. Serini is going to have problems with the party I think. Flanked by who? Flanking requires two adjacent attackers on opposite sides of the...

If the last 5 years have taught us anything, reality will be far dumber than anything that was imagined before 2016.

I would have had a Thrawn shaped character who was not actually Thrawn. (A problem with Thrawn as an antagonist to the Republic is that he really doesn't have an ongoing reason to be loyal to the Empire.) Establish the scenario that the New Republic has done some good but a lot of the forces that we...

This sums it up pretty well. It's pretty much Blair and Bush that did it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICHNcdqxTMo I couldn't help but laugh when the UK parliament voted to censure Biden for the pull-out. In fact, I laughed so hard that I couldn't pick between two analogies: a) It's like getting ...

I’ve seen a lot of takes trying to assume Tobey Maguire or explain why doc knows Holland is Peter and none that go with the obvious: Maybe in that scene, he is seeing Pete costume. He doesn’t have to recognize Tom Holland. Someone casting a worldwide memory modificaiton spell and it having unexpect...