I’ve read the entirety of the THR, and I was left feeling very similarly about Phase 2. I don’t want to get into spoiler territory with my opinions, but I will say that Phase 3 went back to what I loved about Phase 1 and really stuck the landing for the most part. Phase 2 feels like an anomaly to me, and I bet it will to the article author when they finish THR as well.

During one of our discussions of Phase 2, one of my librarian friends explained the term “new adult fiction” to me and suddenly everything made sense. While it might not fit exactly, the article’s mention of the Phase 2 books feeling like YA books makes the term feel at least a little pertinent. I think the authors in this phase were going for that sort of style.

I really don’t want to hate on Phase 2 because I think THR was an awesome initiative overall, but… something about it just didn’t click for me.

I’m actually trying it out as my daily driver for a week or so trying to answer that exact question. I’ve got Pihole on my network so it won’t be a true test of Vivaldi alone, but I can say with the weaker Manifest V3 version of uBlock and whatever Vivaldi has built in, I’ve been satisfied. Granted, it’s just been a day, but I tried my damnedest to get some YouTube ads to appear with no success.

I absolutely do. I’ve often dreamed of setting up a forum for my immediate friend group but I don’t think the idea would get a lot of traction.

I don’t really have a lot of reason to believe that this will happen, but I wish Mozilla would back off the AI nonsense. I don’t want to switch browsers. I think Vivaldi is actually very cool and is my go-to any time a site is misbehaving in FF, but not being FOSS is a big bummer to me.

That said, Vivaldi’s built-in web panel feature is SO nice!!

Yeah, I’m on fin and minoxidil right now but I’m still losing ground and it’s super disheartening. But thank you for the advice and kind words all the same <3

No joke, these three radio dramas are some of my favorite Star Wars media out there and they have been since I discovered them. I love pretty much everything that comes out, but the OT holds a very special place in my heart and these feel like extended cuts of those movies in a way. ANH is my favorite just because there’s SO MUCH added context/story, but the other two are fantastic as well. Seeing bits and pieces from George’s original ideas/earlier versions of the film scripts is one of my favorite things about them. I shout my love for these productions from the rooftops basically every chance I get.

I saw a panel at Celebration… Chicago I think? that was kind of an oral history of these put on by two college professors. One of the best fan panels I’ve ever seen.

Also ESB gives us John Lithgow as Yoda? Incredible.

This list looks unlike pretty much any list I’ve ever seen, and while I don’t agree with all of your opinions (TLJ is second only to ANH in my book), I respect your unique thinking!

This whole album is so good!!!