I figure they’ll split the difference between book Red Sonja and comics Red Sonja. So, basically Xena.

Another solid episode marred only by the jarring inclusion of modern music into a period setting. Which I guess is just their thing, since they keep doing it.

Awwwww yissss

This level of consistency is seen throughout the film partially because never for a second is there a question if aliens exist. Another movie might tease that: “Are they real? Are they in his head?” Not Close Encounters.

Wait--did they not get a music award, somehow?

The whole series already has the feel of a prequel anyway. It was even specifically written as to illuminate that gap in space opera settings between “humanity colonizes the solar system” near-future and “system-spanning star empires” far-future ones.

I was thinking that grooming standards must have slipped after Jakku.

At long last, we have ornithopters that flap.

Filoni added that they’re working to make this season bigger than ever, noting: “You want The Empire Strikes Back to be better than A New Hope.”

I’m waiting for a Nemesis movie, too:

I get the sense that newly-assigned ensigns are sort of in the same positions as unrated enlisted personnel in the USN—actively encouraged to strike for a particular specialty, even if it means shopping around.

There will have to be a lot more tanks this time around.

This is all well and good, but I’d like to get back to Eda’s story.

It feels like a disconnect between ROTJ and the prequels, since all the use of it meaning “shit” came from TPM. Jabba’s use of “poodoo” was in the context of describing how dead Solo was--and if Banthas were scavengers, not grazers, this makes sense.

I never really got used to the idea of Ventress having visible pupils.

Two years on, my assessment is still the same: pretty, yet unnecessary. Also hampered by the decisions to cram all Solo origin lore into a two hour setting where they were also trying to explore new ideas.

Addendum: with the seen gone, we lost Koo Stark being in the film.

Well, the book is certainly different. The anticlimax ending worked in book form, but would have fizzled as the end of a 2-hour adrenaline rollercoaster ride. The fraught relationship of Brody and Hooper was interesting, but wouldn’t have done anything but slow the movie down.

I remember seeing this movie in the theater when I was 7. I should not have seen this movie when I was 7.

<awaits the further adventures of IT-0>