by Doctor Science
The idea behind Jews going to the movies and Chinese food on Christmas Day was that these things were both open, yet mostly empty because the Christmas-celebrators were busy elsewhere. This concept has been breaking down in the past few years, and now we find that the movies are packed and we could only get a table at the good Chinese restaurant because we came at 4:00 — every table was booked and overbooked for the evening. mmmmm, Peking duck.
Like a significant subset of Everybody In The World, we’ve now seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens. I had been avoiding social media for the previous week (for fear of spoilers), but I went in knowing that my e-friends were divided into a large group of ¡Yays!, and a smaller group of Nays. The Nays all say the same thing: “The Force Awakens is too derivative in both plot and characterization.”
Spoilers within!