My Review: The Last Jed

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, there were an insufficient amount of Jeds.

10/10

My Review: Covid

 While I am not personally a fan, in order to be properly objective and serious about it we need to judge it not by how we personally experience it, but as itself within the genre it exists it. It would be unfair, for example, to judge the classic movie Casablanca by the same standards that we judge the word Casablanca -- we need to judge them both by their own standards, their own goals. If a movie is to be judged for its cinematography, its acting, the way it makes the audience feel, and a word is judged by its memorability,  ease of spelling, awkwardness of saying it -- by what standards do we judge a virus? 

Infectability? Survivability? Symptoms? Ability to encourage workplaces to let employees work from home? 

Quite infectious. A multitude of symptoms, both immediate and lingering. The most profound shift towards people being able to work from home since the development of the internet. 

Most of the effects from it are bad, of course, because it is a virus and not a lasagna or a classic movie or a time-limited seasonal milkshake. It is not an area where good things are expected or welcomed. But the bad things a virus is supposed to do? It does them very, very well. Too well, some would argue, but does anyone argue that Casablanca is TOO good of a movie? Is that at thing people are arguing about these days? 

I mean, are they? I haven't checked. Have we adopted the Jason Mendoza scale? Am I going to have to start judging things in the areas of coolness, dopeness, freshness and smart-brained?

I can only hope so. 

In conclusion: 

Casablanca the movie: 10/10 even if there's no reason they couldn't have all gone on the plane at the end, it's like shooting your way into a bank, gunning down the guards, blasting open the safe, and then only taking the $209.43 you had in your savings account. 

Casablanca the word: 10/10, good use of assonance, good mouth feel. 

Covid: a begrudging 10/10, have you considered putting your talents to work in an area OTHER than being a virus? You have a drive and go-getting attitude that could take you far if you could just let go of this whole "making people sick" thing. 

Jason Mendoza: 8/13