This couch still open?

[mrissa]

This morning you can read my latest essay in Uncanny, Save Me a Seat on the Couch: Spoiler Culture, Inclusion, and Disability. It's about, among other things, not getting to see the new Star Wars movie yet.

I had to write it before other people could see The Rise of Skywalker, before I had any spoilers, and I knew it would look different once that was out in the world. It does. Welp.

Many of the earliest spoilers I heard were on the way to get my emergency appendectomy. I don't remember those very well. I just asked Mark to talk to me about the movie he'd gone to see because it was better to have some kind of talk than no kind of talk, driving through the central Michigan night, and that was one where I could set him going and not be expected to have a lot of input, which is it turns out not my strong suit with appendicitis.

The world is full of all sorts of things we don't expect, and less full of my appendix and Rose Tico than I would have wanted, is what I'm saying.

Comments

[sartorias]

That's a terrific essay. (And yup, I'm another who has to wait until I can watch it on my iPad. Even then, I might have to fast forward, or flick my gaze away.)

[mrissa]

Thank you!

[sovay]

The world is full of all sorts of things we don't expect, and less full of my appendix and Rose Tico than I would have wanted, is what I'm saying.

I kind of want an adventure with Rose Tico and your appendix now.

I can see movies in theaters, but I can't see movies without earplugs; I can't sit more than a row or two closer than the back of the theater to the screen and if it's an IMAX theater that kicks up the bass right into the seats, I shouldn't even bother to try. Even most chain theaters are right out.

[mrissa]

It's astonishing the range of ways the modern world finds to let people in, and also the range of ways it finds to shut people out.

[sovay]

It's astonishing the range of ways the modern world finds to let people in, and also the range of ways it finds to shut people out.

That.

[snippy]

I'm with you on having a balance disorder and hating modern camera work. That was very well written and meaningful.

[mrissa]

I'm so glad it could have meaning for you. Thank you.

[carbonel]

For various reasons that definitely don't rise to the level of disability, I am generally more comfortable watching movies at home than in a theater. But for me, it's a choice. It sucks that movie makers seem to think that warnings and exclusions are the best they can rise to.

Less appendix and more you seems a worthwhile trade-off, if a less than ideal one to have to make. I hope you're recovering well from the experience.

[mrissa]

Follow-up appointment this morning went well. Thanks.