😈 He's a Tramp, But I Love Him... Since taking over LucasFilm, Disney has developed a bit of a scoundrel problem. Not that there's too many, per se --scoundrels make for great characters. Han Solo is one of the most iconic scoundrels in all of cinema. But since they started making Star Wars content, Disney has gone all-in on anti-heroes, scamps, and ne'er-do-wells. The problem is, though... they kind of suck at writing them. I mentioned this being one of the main problems plaguing The Book of Boba Fett , but it's endemic to the franchise at this point and goes back at least as far as Rogue One . Now, don't get me wrong, I liked Rogue One quite a bit, and not just because I was crushing super hard on Felicity Jones at the time. But think about Jyn Erso's character progression in that movie. And if your immediate reaction to that question is "What character progression?" then you know exactly what I'm talking about. Jyn makes practically no
🌱 Feed Me, Seymour... The Crime: In Defense Of Food: An Eater's Manifesto The Guilty Party: Michael Pollan Overview: Read words. Mostly books. Not this one. Why I Hate It... There's some good advice in this book. The cover, for instance, has the words "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." That's pretty sound advice, if you ask me. And you can pretty much just stop at the cover. This one angered me more or less from page one. I went into it expecting to like it, and I was immediately repulsed. At least a portion of the blame must go to the narrator Scott Brick, who performs the audiobook with maximum condescending smarm. It's whatever the exact opposite of charming is. But Brick was reading from a terrible script, and the end result was bad enough that I found myself constantly reacting against it--even during the times when I knew Pollan's facts were right. He correctly, for instance, dives into the technical obstacles of doing good food science and