Defending the Fantasy Genre with Terminal Intensity

Let’s all give Krull a try…

Surprise, surprise… there’s been some backlash against the latest Star Wars series — that’d be Star Wars: The Acolyte — because its depiction of people wielding laser swords is too inaccurate, or too woke, or something like that. Whenever I see that sort of backlash or feel tempted to lambast and nitpick some film or TV series myself, I just remember this wise scene from Edgar Wright’s classic Spaced series.

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