I was getting incredibly nerdy fan-joy in that scene from them expressly using ion weapons against unshielded portions of the Star Destroyer to cause a ship-wide power outage. It was like reading the rules for Ion Cannons straight out of the old WEG Star Wars RPG Sourcebook.

That was pretty nice. I'm still waiting for them to use that top-mounted turret that can fire at things behind them, myself. Would have been useful in that Death Star trench run, I think.

As I always like to say when someone brings this up: prove to me that all of those Stormtroopers actually died. There's nothing to say they're not just wounded and out of action…just like a modern soldier wearing body armor is likely to be if they get shot. The armor is there to save the life, not to make them…

The wife hadn't seen ANH since the 80's and she didn't have much trouble following Rogue One…at least none that she admitted to me. When we got home from seeing it I had to queue up ANH to show her I wasn't kidding when I said that Rogue One took place almost literally five minutes before the original Star Wars.

Because you can't C&D the use a common word unless you're using that word in an uncommon way? The movies only mention spice in passing, "the spice mines of Kessel" and "navigator on a spice freighter" with nothing to indicate that it's anything other than actual spices. The idea that it's drugs is actually counter…

I'm not sure why you'd expect "The key to defeating the Sith" lead anywhere BUT Tattooine. We already KNOW the key to defeating the Sith. We've already seen it happen. We've been told what that key is since Phantom Menace premiered. The key to defeating the Sith is Anakin Skywalker, and the key to getting Anakin…

The Empire knowing about Fulcrum is the entire reason they used the name Fulcrum instead of the agents' real name. A certain degree of operational awareness by the enemy is expected.

Lightsabers have always been depicted leaving razor-thin cuts for some reason. It doesn't make a lot of sense, as from the way they look they should be carving broad gouges of fiery ruin.

It's yuuuge!

That's absolutely true in many cases. There have been a few people whom I trust to not be that way who have said the same thing, though, so I can't help but wonder!

I'll keep that in mind when we see it again tomorrow and see if I can pick that out.

Well…you're already past Mortis, so I guess the series doesn't have much worse to throw at you. Carry on! :D

Unfortunately Clone Wars suffered from a minor form of what the prequels had: George Lucas. Lucas was supposed to be more hands-off with the series, and he was to an extent, but still had the input that nobody could say "no" to. The smash-cut to credits at the end of every episode is his idea, for instance, and…

It's in the novel. That's what we were talking about, I thought :)

To be honest, I think that sort of obfuscative filmography would have been much more jarring than bad CG (and as I've noted I couldn't really tell that he was any more CG than any of the other characters). I honestly actively enjoyed his unexpected prominence in the movie. It was really great to see Tarkin…

It differs even further than you've noted. Dialogue indicates that while Palpatine may have been the first emperor, he's not the current emperor. Obi-Wan notes that Vader has used his power to serve a number of the "later corrupt emperors". Further, Biggs says that the Empire was actually a good thing, once, and…

Yeah, like I said, the writing is wildly inconsistent, and that Mon Cala arc is deeply awful, agreed. You pretty much locked down the best parts of it: The troopers and Ahsoka, though there's some decent Jedi stuff here and there too.

It's a little hard to pick a side in Prowse/Lucas, as neither of them behaved terribly well about all that. Definitely a shame, because he really did give Vader a character that is missing from much of Jedi onwards and he gets almost no recognition for it.

I think it's all in the body language for me, the way he just leans in like he's going to compliment your new shirt or something. It's one of the few places I think it actually matters whose in that suit. Prowse gives a very different performance, in a lot of ways, than the others.

That "pass" injured me.