Its seasons are "flaming ball of fire" "year"-round. To have a 3-day revolution, it has to be silly close to its celestial body.

It looks like they were remaking the LEGO Batman Batcave, which doesn't have the giant penny.

On the other hand, he found the actual Holy Grail, so silver linings and all that.

I'm with you - Pink Ladies make the best applesauce I've ever had.

Really well done. One of my college shows was a "Saturday Morning" show (which ended up being a mishmash of cartoons and video games), but I wish we'd had a chance to do a show like this that was just video game music. Their sets were great, too - the Epona set is really neat.

Different strokes, I suppose - I can definitely see the appeal of the "tongue-in-cheek revisionism" you (and many others) enjoy, but me (and others like me) equally prefer/enjoy the challenge of digging through the universe and finding minutiae that support its logical consistency. I think it's a matter of preferring…

Dismissal of the EU's a little silly (albeit necessary, I suppose, because if the author acknowledged it at all, the argument falls apart quicker than it does just by looking at the movies), but I'll play that game anyway, because the ads is a strong hand. The kind of text you see as nearly omnipresent on Coruscant…

It could be that we don't have enough evidence, true. That said, I don't think there's any precedent (either assuming in-canon or meta-analysis) for many of the worlds we see in Star Wars being anything more than colonies at the most. Like I said, there are big worlds where there are lots of people (although even…

No, I agree with you that it's largely impractical for them to govern or even necessarily affect everything. (However, Star Wars planets for the most part are like states or countries at best - they're single-biome locations with colonies and not really fully-developed civilizations - excepting a few large ones like…

I like to think; re: societies and technologies evolving, that in Star Wars the society is still catching up to those they inherited tech from. It's an extra-movie source (so the EU has to be taken into account here), but in KotOR it's shown that galactic society (a slave race[s] at this point) inherited technology…

There are other ambitious people, but that ambition is cultivated by those in charge - those who can use the Force. Every major war in the SW universe - going back to the earliest recorded in the EU all the way up to the ongoing Imperial/Rebel/Republic wars - is incited by a Force user or users.

Everyone's point is that there's basically no evidence for illiteracy in Star Wars, even if you focus on the movies alone. The argument posited hinges on the dismissal of those rare cases where it was necessary for the story for the characters to be reading (which would logically be the only times it was shown).

Except, to your first point, that's completely wrong. We see menus in Dex's Diner at each table, and again signage here that's letters only. Not to mention we see countless signs in the flythrough of the undercity of Coruscant (which surely is not a bastion of the most educated) that are comprised of only text.

I guess my point is this - you're already going "meta" by making suppositions based on strictly what you've seen, rather than extrapolating and using all available EU sources. And that's fine - universes in stories are not complete, by virtue of the universes being designed to support the story, and not a real…

Yeah, and Galactic Basic probably shouldn't sound exactly like English, too. The point is that Galactic Basic's alphabet is the same as ours (it has "A," "B," "C," etc.). The Greek alphabet has "alpha," "beta," "gamma," and those letters' names aren't how you pronounce the letters either.

Technological stasis is a non-factor in a magical setting (which this is). Would you say that characters in Lord of the Rings can't read, despite being in a similar technological stasis?

Then isn't the premise flawed? The whole argument is based on "we haven't seen people read, except for that person and that person and that person..." If the evidence is that most of the characters we read/watch can or do read, then where does the "well okay but probably not the rest" assumption come from?

"Cresh" - Galactic Basic (English) in SW is just a cipher of our letters.

The graph itself is fine, it's just that their data points don't match the positions on the graph that they would indicate (i.e. a score of 20 is at the 40 line, 50 is at the 60, etc.).

I don't know how many of the same filmmakers worked on L&S and HtTYD, but I have no reason to suspect that it's a whole lot - the "Dragon" film was made by DreamWorks, not Disney.