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   Your Name to Umbrella Carrying Sissy   
   Re: Star Wars VII: Is Kylo Ren really ..   
   30 Dec 15 13:36:13   
   
   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   In article , Gutless   
   Umbrella Carrying Sissy  wrote:   
   > Your Name  wrote in   
   > news:291220151042342329%YourName@YourISP.com:   
   > > In article   
   > > <9457ee4f-9710-4f61-af60-68cb8478a483@googlegroups.com>,   
   > >  wrote:   
   > >> On Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 7:51:43 PM UTC-5, Gutless   
   > >> Umbrella Carrying Sissy wrote:   
   > >> >   
   > >> > Expectations are running so high that a lot of people are   
   > >> > referring to him as "Jar Jar Abrams." (That joke will almost   
   > >> > certainly provide more amusement, both qualitatively and   
   > >> > quantitaviely, than the movie.)   
   > >>   
   > >> Well, Terry? Do you stand by this comment from November?   
   > >   
   > > Yep, it's certainly true that a lot of people are calling the   
   > > lazy, talentless hack "Jar Jar Abrams" ... me being one of them.   
   > >  :-)   
   >   
   > He's earned a lot of scorn for what he's done ot Star Trek, though   
   > he's gotten more than he deserves, mostly for the fact that what he   
   > made, while decent action movies, wasn't even remotely Star Trek.   
   >   
   > Now that I think about it, though, I'm more moderate in my hopes for   
   > the next two movies, especially the last one. As he demonstrated,   
   > quite vividly, with Alias and Lost, he's *much* better at starting   
   > interesting storiest han at finishing them.   
      
   I don't think he's ever finished anything. He always seems to walk out   
   part way through to go and do something else, meanwhile leaving the   
   hopeless mess he made behind for someone else to attempt to fix up.   
      
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