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5 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
An interesting exercise for an aspiring film critic: "The Empire Strikes Back is the only good Star Wars movie. Explain why this is, both in terms of its merits and its sisters' flaws."
My answer: ESB is the closest that Star Wars gets to making the Jedi way seem as mystical as we're repeatedly told it is. The cave sequence was the height of Star Wars. 1/2
The rest of the films treat the Force either as hippies see Buddhism (original trilogy), as litRPG books treat magic (prequels) or as wineaunt-run writers' workshops treat talent. (sequels) 1/2
2/2, sorry.

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Lol, the glowies dropped their how-to book. 😂
Like what we did with menaq tweets except gαγ.
Apparently, it was dropped by Greta Thunberg, who didn't realize the implications of it lol. Autists: always on our side, even if they're not. archive.is/7sUd0
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Now that No-nut November has begun, it's time to start with the REAL horror stories.

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@ktherese2 I don't even know where to start on this. Really wish I was home rn so I could type it all up. But, long story short:
1. He brought his capeshit story techniques into TV drama which laid the foundations for the MCUing of visual media.
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@ktherese2 (compare it to other similar-genre shows from before Buffy like Xena and you'll see what I mean)
2. He gave ua the "snarky" and "quipster" dialogue that has plagued us ever since. It became impossible to take any situation seriously, & eventually studios stopped even trying
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