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[hannibaltabu]

"Amazing. Everything you said in that sentence was wrong."

I just got done listening to the Mr. MoKelly spoiler-filled Nerdcast on Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

I was supposed to be on the podcast (and I was counted near the end), but I had to appear on a special edition of the Hall H Show podcast to promote the brand new Black Com!x Day in San Diego, February 17, 2018. I love Mo and Tawala, I love Star Wars and I love Nerdcast but this was about promoting independent Black comics, a financial benefit for me, so I had to make a call. Plus, my wife is in Cuba and couldn't pick up my youngest from Shakespeare rehearsal on this side of town, since the Nerdcast is in Burbank.

Regardless, I liked The Last Jedi even more after seeing it twice, and the following -- like the Nerdcast itself -- will be chock full of spoilers. If you have not seen the movie, you might wanna move on. Unlike their show, mine will have no profanity. Most of what I have to say will be a rebuttal, so I'll start with a declarative statement:

I can admit it's not an amazing movie, but I really thought it was a fantastic Star Wars movie. I liked.

... and then ...

Still amazing after the second screening. I'm in Normas Lee happy with this film.

iOS dictation made that weirder than I intended, but whatever. That was supposed to be "enormously happy."

Okay, here we go ...

Mo said there was nothing quotable about The Last Jedi. Ignoring the title of this post there was ...

"This isn't gonna go the way you think!" (used a lot with my kids already)

"The greatest teacher, failure is."

"He's a troublemaker. I like him."

"Hope is like the sun. If you only believe in it when you can see it ..." "... you'll never make it through the night."

"I'd like to put my fist through this whole awful, beautiful city." (may have missed a word on this one)

"Permission to jump in an X-Wing and go blow something up?"

"I really don't want to do this right now."

"... I'll hold."

I was cracking up too hard to get the "Have you seen some weakness in my apprentice?" speech.

Mo said, "We know nothing about Rey."

Kylo made her admit the truth: her parents were not some cosmic royalty. They were not high ranking Jedis. They were civilians, normal jerks. The darkness rose, so the Force -- always making Force sensitive children -- dumped a bungload of midi-chlorians (or whatever) into Rey and made her powerful. The stable hand boy with Rose's ring on the casino world could be next, as he already has control over some of his telekinesis.

This fits Disney's mold incredibly well, making Rey a new everywoman heroine. Anyone can be this powerful. It could be you. That is gonna sell a bungload full of merch.

Mo said: "We learned nothing about this principle cast."

Finn has been hugged twice in his life now and kissed once, leading him to do all kinds of crazy and sometimes stupid things. About 2/3 of the way in, he grew up a little, and beating Phasma freed him from a lot

Poe Dameron was not a believer, he was a gun set in one direction. In a different world, he could have been the most dangerous pilot in the First Order's apparatus. It took a lot for him to start to mature so he could lead instead of just fighting, which he did mostly because of his parents (as seen in the Marvel comic).

Leia wants to pass the mantle of leadership on to Poe, her new "son," into whom she has poured all her lost hopes from Ben Solo. That tragic tale led her to do all kinds of interesting things, from demoting him to stunning him.

We got a LOT from Rose, who grew up poor, lost everything to the First Order, lost her sister fighting back, was inspired by Finn, who she had a crush on and then had to deal with the real guy, then saw that she still was attracted to him once he tried to not be the idiot he's been for so long. She was likened to Knives Chau from Scott Pilgrim, which I thought was a spot on analysis by Thomas Cunningham the 4th (we're rarely on the same side, so this was weird).

Ben Solo never had a chance. He had too many expectations heaped on his shoulders, was too powerful and had a master who knew too little. He got the Obi-Wan treatment and it ended essentially the same way, with him under the sway of a powerful, organized Dark Side user.

Luke was broken by every failure in his life. He accomplished exactly two things in his whole life -- the first Death Star at Yavin and "allegedly" turning Vader (which no one can prove, honestly). He failed his sister, he failed his friend, he failed his nephew -- all at the same time -- and wasn't man enough to do anything about it, instead pointing to his organization's history as a precedent for him to give up. Sadly, that fits whiny farm boys from Tattooine (who either failed into the Dark Side or this) and Mark Hamill acted his butt off in this role.

Leia had become everybody's favorite auntie, as quoted and shown in the reverence she's showed by everyone on screen. She played the role well, from "I changed my hair" to shooting Poe to revealing Holdo's plan.

The casino sequence got Finn to his resolution with Phasma and swings the camera to the new Force sensitive kid. That doesn't happen without the casino scene. Saying it was a dumb sidequest ignores the plot's development.

Tawala is mad at the X-Wing working so well on the dreadnaught, ignoring the fact that the large scale, shock and awe philosophy of the Empire (sampled enthusiastically by the Cosplay Empire, also known as the First Order, but never really played originally by the latter) has a well documented weakness against snub fighters. The First Order are so hell bent on recreating the Empire that they didn't learn anything, which makes the Yoda quote even more interesting. The Jedi failed. The Republic failed twice. The Sith failed. The Empire failed. The First Order ain't doing so well. What is the galaxy trying to teach its inhabitants that they're not hearing? That's the question that most haunts me from this film.

Likewise, Tawala asked why not send in a fleet of X-Wings. The Resistance was on the ropes. They lost ALL their bombers in one run on a single dreadnaught, which wasn't even the biggest thing the Kuat Shipyards ever built (the Eclipse was much longer, dunno if bigger). The Dreadnaught was a fleet killer -- and against capital ships, that's likely true. They could barely field the fighters they had.

Mo said, "There's no gravity in space." There is gravity in the bombers. Momentum would carry the bombs through the vacuum. I was more mad that the bombers were so slow.

Tawala is mad about Rey's dream sequence from The Force Awakens not matching the recollections of two people who were actually there. That's illogical. The dream sequence was an interpretation of the facts, not a retelling of it. Many on the podcast kept trying to say The Force Awakens is a factual recollection of events. That's clearly -- based on this -- not true. Despite the fact that it doesn't matter, based on new canon from the Darth Vader Marvel comic, lightsabers turn red when they are bloodied in anger.

The emperor's "As I have foreseen" was not prescience it was psychology. The Dark Side cannot be reliably used for information. Tawala and Mo misunderstand how the Emperor worked. His myth was way bigger than his actual ability. All of the movies have proven that Dark Side users are limited in their ability to gain knowledge and prescience from the Force.

Mo judging Snoke by the Emperor's yard stick is not judging this movie on its own terms. Snoke was what he needed to be. Historically, I want to know where he was around Endor and what he was doing, but I can move on now without questioning it, despite his vast power.

I can also tell my Star Wars Ring Theory link didn't get absorbed by the class here ... if you love Star Wars you should check it out, it messes with your understanding of a lot, especially the prequels.

It takes maybe 60 seconds for a non-powered person to die in vacuum. For the daughter of Vader to telekinetically figure how to save herself in that amount of time is not implausible. Leia's force abilities already shown? Communication across distances, sensing the safety of her brother from a distance. This isn't that big a leap for someone of her heritage given how far Rey got without training.

Someone wondered why Yoda's Force ghost wasn't fighting the First Order. Yoda is free from the cycle of life's struggles. He needed to teach one last lesson to his final student. To say he should fight the First Order after he already died is illogical, even if there was a powerful enough Force user in the Resistance who could reach him. You also forget the Bindu, which was a largely spiritual creature, could use lightning as a weapon too.

"Face" /= kill. Tawala forgot that in ROTJ Yoda told Luke he must "face" Vader before he could become a Jedi. Luke (like Tawala) misunderstood and said, "I can't kill my father" or something. You forget that Jedi lie and misdirect a lot. Spirit, come on, guys, this is stuff in movies we've seen a million times.

Mo thinks that he was cheated because he didn't know why everyone was after Luke as a non-factor. If Malcolm X or Marcus Garvey magically appeared today and went to the middle of Times Square to start speaking through my mobile 15" speaker, it would galvanize a freaking nation and terrify the power structure. Luke the Jedi wasn't the threat and even Luke said that. Luke the Legend was what Snoke had to stop, what Kylo had to exceed, what Leia wanted to manipulate. The Legend could inspire, could sway worlds and systems to resist. Luke the Jedi was just moderately successful. He was nobody's #1 seed. He was a Cinderella story wild card winner.

I will admit to wondering why no star destroyers went to lightspeed away and then jumped back in front of the Rebels until I remembered that Hux is literally bad at everything he does.

"Two hours in the middle" doesn't give credit to the entertaining dialogue, doesn't give credit to the time for character development for Poe under Holdo's stoicism, doesn't count Leia's "you made me get out of this bed" and shooting her favorite boy ... tripping, Tawala.

Tawala asked about arms purchasing but doesn't know that the Empire worked with the Mining Guild and the Banking Clans even after the New Order was established. Likewise, comics canon show that the Empire subcontracted a lot of weapons development, as does the Tie Defender program on Lothal.

Rick asked how Benicio del Toro (or as Mo called him, "Benicio del Lando," which was fair) knew about the small ships. While Poe was trying to mutiny, he told Finn about them while Benicio was hacking the door. Rick apparently missed that.

IN SUMMATION:

My final ranking of all the Star Wars films based on my tastes.

Episode 5: The Empire Strikes Back

Episode 6: Return of the Jedi

Episode 8: The Last Jedi

Episode 2: Attack of the Clones

Episode 4: A New Hope

Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith

Episode 1: The Phantom Menace

Rogue One

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Episode 7: The Force Awakens, or whatever

Ideologically, the BBC's Will Gompertz wrote a review I pretty much agreed with that summed up my thoughts.

These are my opinions. In the immortal words of the philosopher Robert Ginyard, "you don't like it, so what? I don't care."

[southsideunicorn]

@MrMokelly It does I know, but trust me I have thought about some of these guys, I have seen my own opportunities come and go, some I would not take no matter how much they paid me, because it would cost me too much,, I wouldn't want to be Kaepernick for a million bucks 😎 #KenWhite4444 #TheSouthSideUnicornShow https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc9iPIsrBkS/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[kamiartist9]

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[theitachiguy]

THIS IS ME WANTING TO WATCH CAPTAIN MARVEL AGAIN! 😂 - - It was such a good story, well written and a bunch of twists! It had humor, action and I felt Carol's struggles throughout the film! The best though was the end credit scenes! I'm not going to spoiled them though. 😉 Go watch #captainmarvel Thanks to The Mo Kelly Show @mrmokelly @mrtawalasharp @kfiam640 for getting me this opportunity! - - #nerdorama #captainmarvelmovie #katsucon2019 #cosplayer #nerdy #katsucon #defenders #netflixpunisher #punishercosplay #thepunisher #marvel #marvelcomics #cosplayworld #cosplaynation #disneymovies #cosplayboy #nerdlife #mcuedit #marveledit #daredevil #lukecage #ironfist #thepunisherseason2 #jessicajones #netflix #avengers #endgame #avengersendgame (at Captain Marvel) https://www.instagram.com/p/BusWdvNjghn/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=2fl7lhz36bke

[operativenetwork]

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[jobsearchtips02]

Listen: Roger Stone calls Black radio host a “Negro”

President Trump’s former consultant Roger Stone appeared to use a racial slur while on-air with Black radio show host Morris W. O’Kelly from “The Mo’Kelly Program.”

In one minute during the interview, after he was inquired about how Trump commuted his sentence, Stone can be heard muttering: “I don’t truly feel like arguing with this Negro.”

After being asked to duplicate himself, Stone firmly insisted that he didn’t use any racial slur, informing O’Kelly: “You’re out of your mind.”

The radio program host later tweeted: “Hey everyone. I heard what I heard. The audio is the audio … I am no one’s NEGRO.”

See Business Insider’s homepage for more stories

President Donald Trump’s longtime consultant Roger Stone appeared to utilize a racial slur during an interview with a Black radio host on Saturday.

Stone, who was spared a prison sentence this month by President Trump, appeared on “The Mo’Kelly Program” to discuss his conviction.

At one point in the conversation, the radio program’s host, Morris W. O’Kelly, asked Stone about his relationship with Trump.

” There are countless individuals dealt with unjustly daily in the justice system. Hell, your number just happened to come up in the lottery. I’m guessing it was more than just luck, Roger, right?” O’Kelly asked over the phone, according to the New york city Times.

, the 67- year-old previous political consultant to Trump acted as if the connection had actually cut off.

A few hours later on, however, he took to Twitter to resolve the occurrence, writing: “Hey everyone. I heard what I heard. The audio is the audio … I am no one’s NEGRO.”

— Mr. Mo’Kelly (@MrMokelly) July 19, 2020

Stone was spared 40 months in jail in June after President Trump signed an executive order to commute his sentence.

In a declaration released at the time, the White House said Stone was “a victim of the Russia Scam that the Left and its allies in the media perpetuated for several years in an attempt to undermine the Trump Presidency.”

Earlier this year, he was convicted of five counts of making incorrect statements to the FBI and congressional private investigators, one count of witness tampering, and one count of obstruction of justice.

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[harokells]

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[itskomplicated]

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[hannibaltabu]

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[southsideunicorn]

@MrMokelly You're right about that as soon as Colin Kaepernick "SOLD OUT" he cashed in, he makes more now sitting on Nike's Porch than he did actually playing the game, so what gives here?, why "BEG" to come back? maybe he should try getting on both knees 😎, rich or not he's a loser!! https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc9RXFOJvn4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[southsideunicorn]

Sadly @MrMokelly , the dirty chickens of the Dems have come home to roost, time and time again we saw the "Leftist Machine" MSM, Democrats, Hollywood, the sports industry all sided against President Trump, Sen.Kerry disparaged Trump while overseas, the rules were thrown out then My family has bled and died for this Nation and even still I am prepared to do the same all over again, so perhaps you are wrong this time. And to all you "Black Folks" liking Mokellys responses tonight, if you think Border Patrol on horse back is racist, but Canadian police on horse back is ok, then kindly bow out of this one , you're not capable if dealing with this.. https://www.instagram.com/p/CaT4MTSLpRw/?utm_medium=tumblr

[sicilypublicity-blog]

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[hannibaltabu]

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[hannibaltabu]

I will have much to say about #thepunisher on the @mrmokelly #nerdcast tomorrow. #nonstop http://ift.tt/2jDxrvM