Anthony Giffen

Almost as funny as I think I am.

[Anthony Giffen @AnthonyGiffen]

Serial child murderer lies to/yells at sole survivor before giving him a candy factory dependent upon slave labor. #explainafilmplotbadly

[Anthony Giffen @AnthonyGiffen]

Got through the Eagles season so onto the next step of kicking this cesspool out of my life. Deleting the Twitter app off my phone. Keeping my account to keep it from being poached by others and in case something...changes.

See you on b-sky, 🧵s or wherever!

[Anthony Giffen @AnthonyGiffen]

@GailSimone I assume any film that you are watching in the same theater as Nick Cage.

[Anthony Giffen @AnthonyGiffen]

See you all on the other side. Wherever that ends up being.

(Shoulda' been tumblr) (8/8)

[Anthony Giffen @AnthonyGiffen]

It held the promise of being for my generation what a subscription to a daily newspaper was for my parents'. A one stop shop for all the important headlines with more in depth info just a click away (2/)

[Anthony Giffen @AnthonyGiffen]

I'll keep my account as long as I can to just keep it out of the hands of the loud, awful, stupid people, but it's clear this place is pretty quickly going to lose any significance. (7/)

[Anthony Giffen @AnthonyGiffen]

I have nowhere near enough social significance for this to matter to many people, but I think I'll finally be leaving Twitter at of the end of the year. At its best, Twitter was my up to the minute news, sports, and entertainment ticker. (1/)

[Ant 💀 FINAL EDITS For My Novel @AGramuglia]

They laugh at their children, and wonder why in a decade their kids want nothing to do with them.

[Bo Wulf @Bo_Wulf]

That apostrophe on "The Devito's" has ruined my Christmas

[Nick Piccone @_piccone]

D'Andre Swift is the smartest Philadelphia Eagle

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE - since 1978, Lucasfilm have released Star Wars-themed Christmas Cards. Here's some of the best...

1/24 - 1978, UK

[Darren Mooney @Darren_Mooney]

And, in the midst of all of that, there's a very difficult question: how do you respond to failure?

"The Last Jedi" is about grappling with that very adult and very timely anxiety, in a metaphorical framework that began as a commentary on the uncertainty of the seventies.

[Darren Mooney @Darren_Mooney]

"The Last Jedi" arrived in an era of cultural retrenchment.

The election of the first African American President gives way to the election of an openly white supremacist President.

Hard fought civil rights under threat. Decades of progress on the verge of being rolled back.

[Darren Mooney @Darren_Mooney]

"The Last Jedi" is just about taking the central premise of this sort of franchise storytelling - the good guys can never truly succeed, because then there'd be no more sequels - and exploring what that actually means.

It's a clever, necessary and mature approach to "Star Wars."

[Darren Mooney @Darren_Mooney]

Part of this is just good storytelling. For all that fandom complains about "Mary Sues" or whatever, the truth is that they don't actually seem to like the idea of characters who have flaws or failures.

But those are necessary for a story to function, on a basic level.

[Darren Mooney @Darren_Mooney]

Part of growing up is accepting that failure is just a part a life. Everybody loses sometimes, no matter their skill or their intention.

It's what you do with that failure which is important, often as important as the failure itself.

[Darren Mooney @Darren_Mooney]

I mean, "The Last Jedi" is fundamentally about how our failures don't define us and we can always recover - and even learn - from them.

But I think some fans aren't comfortable even acknowledging the idea that their heroes (or they) can fail.