Tom Bacon

A lifelong fan of superhero comics and films, with a love of in-depth analysis! You can now check out my writing at

[Tom Bacon @TomABacon]

As a Christian, one of the things I find hardest about this new incarnation of Twitter is that it seems to bring out the worst in us as Christians. A big reason for this is tied to the concept of "freedom of speech." 🧵

[Tom Bacon @TomABacon]

@PSWsenate @matpolloy In Andor's case, it wouldn't have been appropriate. It would've pulled you out of the story that was being told, which was more grounded; and so Lucasfilm chose to use the swear words. Which is fine as a creative choice.

[Tom Bacon @TomABacon]

@PSWsenate @matpolloy Because they felt it was appropriate for the medium they were writing in. And, as I say, sometimes it worked; sometimes it really didn't, and was resoundingly mocked (NJO being a case in point).

[Tom Bacon @TomABacon]

@matpolloy @PSWsenate I think that's the thing; mental association is what makes a swear word work. In theory, I suppose you could find ways to evoke that same sense, but given we're believing this other galaxy uses all our other words anyway...

[Tom Bacon @TomABacon]

@matpolloy @PSWsenate But I remember even some New Jedi Order books where you had the incongruity of things like the Embrace of Pain moving to "Sithspit" and it just... didn't work. Not at all.

[Tom Bacon @TomABacon]

@matpolloy @PSWsenate Honestly? I think most of the time they infantalise the text, and actually pull you out of the story by making you laugh. They work fine in some contexts, maybe younger books or when done with a self-aware wink. I'm fine with them in the KJA books, for example; they work so well.

[Michael Shanks @MichaelShanks]

🙋‍♂️I also dispute their claim

[Tom Bacon @TomABacon]

@PSWsenate @matpolloy Eh, it means tons to *some* Star Wars fans. I've seen it being repeatedly mocked by so, so many fans for as long as I've been in the fandom, and defended vigorously by others!

[Tom Bacon @TomABacon]

@matpolloy I remember "kriff" being mocked on the Jedi Council forums all the way back in 1999 😂😂😂

[Tom Bacon @TomABacon]

@BlazeBinges Not this weekend, no... Just came back from it!!!!

[Tom @DarthInternous]

This is stranger than when Pierce Brosnan got turned into Thrawn.

[Tom Bacon @TomABacon]

#MOTU is absolutely wonderful. I laughed so, so much - in the best way. Well done, Travis Knight. WELL DONE.

[Marco_milk @MarcoMilk]

I’m very confused when someone shoots a door panel. It either locks the door or opens it. What causes it to have a different reaction? What if you’re trying to lock it and you accidentally open it?

[Tom Bacon @TomABacon]

@SCentralized @Wexie14 @StarWars5W From an article going up later today... "Dan has the curious distinction of being the galaxy's only real expert on this alien race, known as the Dor Namethians." 😂

[Tom Bacon @TomABacon]

@SCentralized @Wexie14 @StarWars5W (I seriously associated you with Dor Namethians :P )

[Tom Bacon @TomABacon]

@SCentralized @Wexie14 @StarWars5W Wait, it wasn't you who originally spotted it hahahahah?

[Tom Bacon @TomABacon]

@LukeTryl (I'm always fascinated to see the difference between those of who are into politics, and those of us who aren't)

[Tom Bacon @TomABacon]

@LukeTryl Genuine question here, I'm curious: Did you poll on what the general public thought his advice *was*?

[Frances 'Cassandra' Coppola @Frances_Coppola]

Sarah Everard was raped and murdered in cold blood by a serving police officer. Where is your "cold hard rage" about this, @Nigel_Farage?

[Tom Bacon @TomABacon]

@forwardnotback I saw the value of Starmer, Streeting, and Burnham; the leadership contenders. But it's kind of turned into a fashion.

"See? I have thoughts!"

[Ethan Croft @EthanCroft98]

The most telling quote in the latest Mandelson files is not, I think, Pat McFadden's revelation that the median Labour MP didn't go into politics to cut welfare spending (durr), but Peter Mandelson's admission that he simply did not have the answers to the questions that desperate Labour figures were asking him about how to run the country

From this week's New Statesman politics column, in which I try to explain the party's disastrous dalliance with a man who they thought possessed the secret sauce