@amirtalai.bsky.social I have since this post been diagnosed with a brain tumour which was resected and I now need to go into treatment - so I probably can’t organize anything as I’ll be busy with this fight.

But I could probably connect you with local people who could do it.

Why a spoon cousin?! 🤣🤣

Philosophy Tube (Abigail Thorn) has a video that is somewhat about this - the effects of the constant bombardment of news. I definitely would recommend giving the video a watch for anyone interested in the topic: youtu.be/4F9QzXjUB10?...

I bet if you streamed it you could get even more donations.

If you head to the Calgary Fan Expo again next year I’d be happy to try and organize something. I’m sure I wouldn’t be the only local film industry person interested in helping out.

youtu.be/p79gC8L3bhc?...

Even if I knew nothing about PP - when any politician takes themselves too seriously to talk to 22 Minutes, I just can't trust them at all.

I mean I know it’s a sales gimmick, but in Alberta there is a level of “how many of my neighbours can I trust to not be pro-American?” - so here at least I can only take these shows as a good sign

Pity, I had fun with Veilguard. Although I probably come down somewhere in the middle on it. It has flaws, but it also has good things about it. It was a decent experience over all. One might call it impressive even given everything that went on behind the scenes.

Of Note - It's probably more accurate to say a world with "super people" in the sense that they have costumes and strange code names. There's actually very few powers on display. But that kind of makes it better to be honest.

But that’s my personal feelings on it, and as you can see, I can't really say Rian Johnson was given much to work with.

If I try to look at Last Jedi independent of all of that mess, it was, in my opinion, a mediocre film. I personally found it to be a bit of a meandering mess filled with far too much slow exposition.

The strange middle ground they struck was just messy. And has yes resulted in people saying things like, "Luke Skywalker wouldn’t do that," because in C-Canon, he wouldn't have.

And all of that is just part of why so many Star Wars fans were upset. I personally think it would have been better if the films had gone their own way entirely or if they’d stuck more closely to C-Canon.