Martin Kopischke @kopischke@mastodon.social

Baron Noir is, by far, the best piece of TV made these last few years. Nothing compares, not even remotely.

House of Cards? Artsy meta crap in comparison. Marseille? A pale if expensive copy. Nothing, really.

18. To the entitled knobs calling themselves fans I can only say: cry yourself a river until you grow up to be fit enough for adult conversation, or until you dissolve into an acid puddle in your cave. Just leave the rest of us the fuck alone.

16. (another associate shoutout to Adam Driver and Domnhall Gleeson for their superbly merciless portrayal of Nazi knobs. You are doing just great; however, your fans are not).

17. Misguided Space Nazi sympathies make you a pitiable human being, but doubling down on that and trying to bully the world into complying with your opinions is taking the step from pitiable to despicable.

14. If your idea of cool is Vader, a psychopath wearing a German WW I style helmet and gas mask, surrounded by minions in Nazi paraphernalia who use the name the Nazis gave to their paramilitary thugs for their army, you are not just a few synapses short of a functioning brain.

15. If you are incensed that pasty faced white boys like you are only found playing literal Space Nazis in the new films, and that no coolness is on offer there, then grow up and face the fact you have embraced Nazism.

13. Having stated all this, I can say that the thing that really, really enrages me is (mostly white male cishet, like me) folks feeling entitled to harassing people for not fitting into their idea of fandom. Believe a true fan here, you all are nothing but sad knobs.

11. Each new episode was a much expected highlight. I drew Death Star plans and the Battle of Hoth. I get it, I really do, even if age and professional training have lead me to a more critical appraisal of the original trilogy.

12. I also hated the “digitally enhanced” edition and wished the prequels had never been made. Still do. I bought every edition of the original trilogy I could lay my hands on: VHS, DVD, iTunes. So much for my Star Wars fandom bona fides.

9. So, ladies and gents, y’all hang in there (or keep the upper lip stiff, for the Brits among you). You are welcome, much needed and very much appreciated!

10. Now to the Dark Side. Before I start, I want to remind you I am as old school a fan as they come. I watched A New Hope at age 10, on the biggest screen Paris had on offer at the time, and I played at literally nothing but Star Wars for ages after that.

7. (associate shoutout to Oscar Isaac for demolishing the myth of the trigger happy, gung-ho hero saving the day with verve and obvious gusto).

8. As to John Boyega and the “troopers ain’t black” stupidity: a) you don’t even know your canon and b) who fucking cares? Boyega rocked Attack the Block (alongside Jodie Whittaker, who probably knows all too well what I’m talking about) and I simply can’t think of a better Finn.

5. I can recognise a force of (acting) nature by now, and Daisy Ridley is it: http://klugscheisser.kopischke.net/post/135534278678/daisy-ridley.

6. Shoutouts also go to Carrie Fisher’s revisited Princess Leia and to Laura Dern’s Admiral Holdo, the first second rank leader figure in the Star Wars universe that is not a cardboard cutout. Both the acting and the part design are simply superb.

3. Remember how we all hated Luke, with a fervour, because he was every bit the geeky adolescent we all wished we weren’t? Well, I was instantly in awe of Rey. Here is a heroine who literally takes my breath away by dint of sheer spunk, tenacity and will power.

4. It took me decades of mellowing and of professional training in the movies to appreciate how superb Mark Hamill’s acting was back then, given the stupidity of the base material he was given.

1. As an elderly white cishet male who grew up on a diet of Star Wars (original trilogy), I can only say I am livid over this. The phrase “white hot rage” does not even begin to cover it.

2. What I am NOT in arms about is the new, diverse, thriving for gender parity cast. Whatever flaws the new movies have, the participation of Daisy Ridley, Kelly Marie Tran and John Boyega has indisputably been a net positive.

Having read Kayleigh Donaldson’s great article on toxic white male fandom in ,#StarWars (http://www.syfy.com/syfywire/star-wars-has-a-white-male-fandom-problem) I had a minor rant breakdown and addd a few choice words of my own on birdsite (thread).

My bird site timeline is full of Americans bemusedly commenting videos of British and Canadian people resolving conflicts without resorting to violence. I think I am just going to leave this standing right here.

Aaaaaaand we’re out of surgery. All bits present and accounted for. Onwards, then.

Surgery today. Knock on wood. *knocks on own head

Râââhhh … me font rager, les éditeurs de BD français et leur mépris du numérique. Bande de luddites !

I cannot be the only one to hear “Republic of Gilead” when they say “incel” or “redistribution of sex”, can I?

I mean, come on, folks…