...and then we saw it.
Abrams wants us to walk away happy. He just doesn't give us much to take home.
Stephanie Zacharek - "The Force Awakens is Everything is Everything You Could Hope for in a Star Wars Move -- and Less", 12/16/15, Time.com
Star Wars7: The Force Awakens is a welcome comeback movie for the franchise, and fan love will be enough to propel most viewers past its flaws.
Kofi Outlaw - "Star Wars 7: The Force Awakens Review", 12/16/2015, ScreenRant.com
Waitaminit! Blasphemy! God DAMMIT! This movie was supposed to make Star Wars great again! Don't tell me it's only good because I'm a fan! It's real to me dammit!
This equally anticipated event by an uncertain number of the vocal minority ( or is it majority? Electoral collegiate? Is that a thing?) will be no different. If you love Drumf, his Twitter feed reads like the sweetest of sonnets. Verbal ambrosia for die hard disciples of Cheeto-America, the Alt-Right (the pseudo-KKK with a hypocritically PC name), and the He-Man Hillary Haters club. You're assured that everything you saw in the campaign trailer will certainly be in the movie of governance. If, however, you chose to cast your vote for sanity with small side of Libyan dirt, his feed will have you thinking you've been transported to the Mirror Universe version of 1984. An incoming American President that praises an autocrat in direct opposition to his own American predecessor? The top elected official calling for the expansion of nuclear arms when we already have enough to destroy our planet 7 times over? A leader of the free world who displays a pettiness toward anyone that disagrees with him like you'd expect from a hormonal teenager? None of this was in the book of America we read. Who wrote this shit?
Honestly, his domestic and foreign policy tweets are consistent with a man who's supporters view nuance as synonymous with cowardice, patience as weakness, details as irrelevant, and opposing facts as lies. You could make an argument that the last point has always been the case but you can't argue that this era has taken it to an extreme. Bullying is now the preferred method of policy enforcement. Ask GM, Boeing, Ford, Taiwan, Mexico and the Chinese how much they hate Twitter now. Some will view those tweets as "wins." Except even if the actions of the aforementioned companies/countries were directly linked to the Cheeto's berating tweets, exactly how long can that practice last? He and his cadre are acting like they're literally high on his election win. Like a crack-cocaine addict taking his first hit. I fear they'll continue to behave that way even when they discover governing is very different than campaigning. Every addicts realizes too late they have to take more and more of their drug to get the same effect and the Cheeto is already a volatile character.
We have no idea what we're in for. Whether you voted for this farce or not, it looks like there are going to be several deleted scenes that were shown exclusively to buy votes. Case in point, any mention of the Mexican Wall lately? Where's that list of special prosecutor candidates that will go after Hillary after he takes the oath of office? Where's the secret plan for humane mass deportation? Expectations are a hell of a thing to live up to especially when you literally promised the world on a platter. Beyond campaigning, when you actually have to execute your policy and don't have the luxury of a scapegoat, no amount of tweets will save you from the backlash of an angry electorate. Not even Obama could escape it (Syria, Iraq, Benghazi, Guantanamo). Love the Cheeto or hate him, we all may end up disappointed in the end.
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