It could be. By that point I had basically stopped paying attention to the collectors’ market and the EU stuff, so I’m definitely not an authority on it.

You’re right - although I don’t think Lucas ever used the name in the prequels. A cursory Google search reveals that Lucas came up with the name but it wasn’t used until 2014 in an EU book.

No wonder everyone is so mad that Bill Maher talked about him! IT’S RIGHT THERE IN THE SONG

If you want a different descriptor, I guess we can call them his “storytelling tics” - and we can include his addiction to puzzle boxes in there too.

It’s the whole “I alone know how all of this stuff that was never meant to link together weaves into an intricate and wholly explainable tapestry” thing that soured me on Filoni. At first it was kinda cool, but then - like many auteurs - he got caught up in his own narrative navel-gazing to the point where now we’re…

For me, at least Lucas’ naming quirks were at least dumbly funny. Like, you’d see this awesome-looking background character and you’d discover that his name is something like “Horf Wangbortle” and you’d at least get a chuckle out of it.

I dunno. It certainly is possible - great way to sell more toys, after all - but with how idiosyncratic Abrams is (LENS FLAAAAAAAAARE! UPSIDE-DOWN CAMERAAAAAAS! etc.), it 100% tracks that he’d think that “The Resistance” and “The First Order” would sound more impressive than “The Rebel Alliance” and “The Empire,”…

I’m starting to come to the conclusion that Dave Filoni and J.J. Abrams are two sides of the same coin - guys with a very distinct style and an inflated sense of their inner stories’ self-importance. It’s just that J.J. probably believed he could do Star Wars better than Lucas did and just remade it with dumber…

I had the exact same worry. I thought that they’d drop out of hyperspace and end up on prehistoric Earth where we discover that the Purrgil are the ancestors of our whale species (or maybe that Purrgil are to whales as we are to chimpanzees or something like that).

Holy shit. I think you might be right.

If she’s anti-vax, it’s pretty clear that she’s not actually taking care of her entire family.

I’m guessing Penn is referring to when he was dating Madonna and famously punched a photographer who he believed was attempting to assault her at a media availability. That would make his quote seem a bit more relevant to Smith punching Rock in “defense” of his wife.

Really casts a whole new light on the concept of “Pickle Rick.”

I knew I recognized her! She’s done some amazing work in some pretty extensive practical costume effects between Avengers and Ahsoka...

Didn’t stop me from laughing my ass off at the line!

The difference - to me, anyway - is that I believe these talk shows are coming back because they are marginal performers who see a real opportunity to capitalize on the entertainment vacuum caused by the strike. Colbert, Conan, Stewart, et al., on the other hand, were leaders in their category. And I understand how…

I have always thought that the performing moment that came closest to Martin Short’s true persona was in Three Amigos! when Ned Nederlander is talking to the village children about his run-in with Dorothy Gish’s sister Lillian. The pleasant performer craving an audience and letting fly with a humblebrag or two, who as…

Because fans have forgotten the narrative truth that the unexplained creates imaginative magic.

Sadly, not even he would fuck him.

*Cut to Sabine in the ship’s bathroom, staring off into near space with occasional small squints of her eyes, and then looking down pensively at a roll of toilet paper*