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-Family expedition to see The Last Jedi. I was so underwhelmed by the previous movies that I actively dreaded seeing this one. However, I thoroughly enjoyed it!. 4 whole women with important roles and distinct personalities! Some actually poignant tear-inducing moments! Some other things that are Spoiler-y! (Not that I didn't groan at a lot of the dialogue -- especially Luke Skywalker Attempts To Be a Cynical Professor. But overall, I did not feel uncomfortable and miserable at how bad it was the way I did during Rogue One.)

-Also, got an R&R on a paper I submitted a while ago. I'm probably going to put off reading the reports until tomorrow. Then I can stew miserably about them for a few days and get to work on revising the damn thing. But -- this is a good break to the string of rejections this year, I hope.

Crossposts: https://ricardienne.livejournal.com/278299.html

Saw Rogue One tonight. Didn't enjoy it at all: the pacing was bad, no characters were developed, the dialogue was unbelievably awful and the long emotional-exposition monologues were worse, I wanted to feel all the feelings, because the kind of plot that it had is the sort that usually makes me very emotional and weepy, but I was left completely cold (except for being furious at how few women there were anywhere in the movie). I don't know whether this is because I'm a horrible cultural snob or because I have lost the ability to feel.

Also, as y'all may have noticed, I am trying out the Dreamwidth mirror, though I suppose one really should be abandoning lj wholesale not just mirroring it elsewhere. So if you have a dreamwidth account, tell me what it is and I'll add you over there!