Patty Ice

He/him • Resident lurker on twitch • Pro wrestling enthusiast • Diehard Commanders fan #TakeCommand • #Destiny2 • Always playing something

[Patty Ice @rams_sharpe]

Well if this place ever goes down and blue sky takes off, here is my handle there

[Sean W. Malone | That’s just, like, your opinion. @CitizenAmedia]

I've made this point so many times and it never seems to sink in.

There are innumerable problems with TLJ, but the biggest by far is this. And the movie's defenders never seem to be able to understand it at all. They'll argue with the strawman version all day, claiming that their taste is more sophisticated and deeper because they like a darker, broken, washed up Luke and anybody who doesn't like it just wants childish levels of moral simplicity.

But the OT isn't actually childish in that way. Luke is complex and he has a real arc throughout that story.

And because he has a specific and well crafted character arc, when he shows up in TLJ as the polar opposite of the man we knew, that is pretty jarring. It's jarring, not because it's impossible to write a story where Luke went from the hopeful hero who struggled with but ultimately rejects the dark side and redeems his father in the process to a sad husk of a man years later.

I might question the wisdom of that direction more than other directions, but I can think of several ways to do it well.

That’s never been the problem. The problem is that none of Luke's character change is earned or explained within the film, so it makes zero actual sense. And when I talk to TLJ fans about this, they'll deflect and say that Luke being a hermit is explained by his failures with Kylo as if *that* is the core issue I'm concerned about. It's not.

Luke self-imposing exile after trying to kill his own nephew makes some sense.

What makes no sense at all is how Luke's entire OT character arc was completely reversed and undone in between RotJ and TFA, such that he'd ever even remotely consider killing his own nephew over a vision (remember how a key part of his early Jedi training involved learning to separate force visions from reality and how he literally lost a hand learning that lesson?), let alone actually begin to take action.

No excuse gets you around this problem.

All of the the character changes that would have had to have happened leading to Luke having any intent whatsoever of killing Ben and then to display the level of absolute cowardice thar is required for him to run away while he knows Kylo Ren is out there trying to glorify Vader and join the dark side, is just missing from the entire sequel trilogy. There's zero explanation for how Luke went from a hero who wins through refusing to kill his father and who instead offers him charity, compassion, and redemption... To a guy who would get so freaked out by a little nightmare that he tries to kill his nephew and then runs away, leaving him to become Vader 2.0.

[Patty Ice @rams_sharpe]

It took me a month to land a single interview and I nailed it. I then slowly bled through my severance and had to dip into other backup funds just to get by as I waited for clearances to start. The times were rough but now I'm in a much better place financially than ever before.

[Patty Ice @rams_sharpe]

I was let go from the first company I worked for out of college a year ago today, yes fired 3 days before my birthday and after seeing Metallica 3 times the week prior as the uncertainty loomed over me. I'm now 9 months into my current job and I fucking love it.

[Patty Ice @rams_sharpe]

Ready for the season

[Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com @SeanRossSapp]

Dark Side of the Ring season 7 episodes

• TNA Wrestling & Jeff Jarrett
• Mr Wonderful Paul Orndorff
• Big Boss Man
• WCW's The Renegade
• Missy Hyatt
• Necro Butcher vs. Samoa Joe
• Zach Gowen

- Variety

[Wyatt @BeastWrestler21]

Nick Jackson "What Da Dog Doin?"

vs

Speedball Mike Bailey "When The Fajitas Come Out Sizzlin"

vs

Andrade "Okay How U Know?"

[Patty Ice @rams_sharpe]

First wrestling show in awhile, missed this

[brandon @JayDanielsMVP]

Here is new #Commanders EDGE Joshua Josephs’ first collegiate sack against LSU & Jayden Daniels

[Patty Ice @rams_sharpe]

Survivor 50 hasn't even been a bad season just has some remarkably glaring bad moments like Zac Brown spear fishing and now this with Christian, Jeff buddy I hope you're prepared for whatever happens with Mr Beast next week it can't get worse right?

[Patty Ice @rams_sharpe]

I started watching survivor again with David vs Goliath and Christian quickly became one of my favorite players ever, it was a delight to see him again here on 50, that was the dumbest twist I've ever seen, honestly takes away from the fact he was already getting voted out

[Ry (mourning mothervieve) @survivormothers]

Honestly good on Christian for being mad at Jeff about the stupid twists. He should have an idol right now, and to have to vote for himself is stupid. I don’t even like him but love him going off at Jeff #Survivor50

[Washington Commanders @Commanders]

Assembly complete. #RaiseHail

[Washington Commanders @Commanders]

Down to the last detail

[Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com @SeanRossSapp]

"Pat McAfee, you buggy whip armed, no brained hillbilly. You want to talk about ticket sales? Call up that agent shoehorned you into this product and tell him to LOWER THE TICKET PRICES"

[Washington Commanders @Commanders]

special delivery... see you April 15 📦

[Spider-Man @SpiderMan]

A Brand New Day starts now.

Watch the official trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day - exclusively in theatres July 31.

[Patty Ice @rams_sharpe]

AEW continuing to deliver on ppv time and time again, yes they're too long, yes they have too many matches, but they consistently pay off or further stories they've been telling in mostly logical conclusions or directions. That's pro wrestling and it's hard to be upset about that

[Marcus is Fighting @CosmonautMarcus]

The only reason resident evil is popular enough to get new games every year or two is because not every modern gamer wants to play a ps1 game to get into a series. Getting mad at that fact is a waste of time. You either get well made, faithful remakes or you get no Resident Evil.

[Patty Ice @rams_sharpe]

WHAT

[Ian Rapoport @RapSheet]

From the #Raiders:

[Patty Ice @rams_sharpe]

Also people pooping on AJ Styles in aew as if wwe has done anything significant with the guy for the last 2 years or so, what did the tag title reign accomplish? Dragon Lee went right back to the lucha vortex, let Will Osperay get the match he's been begging for 2 years

[Patty Ice @rams_sharpe]

There's no way they hold off Jacob, Drew, and Cody until wm, Cody is gonna win that triple threat and get the belt back and Roman will pick Cody thus leading to Cody Roman 3 just as they told us back at the end of War Games