You're missing my point, though — he was the only member of the cast who did not sign on for three movies and had to renegotiate every time they hired him. It isn't necessary to kill off the character for Ford to have not played the character.

Space-penguins and star-barnacles.

Only if "the same metric" is "lasting long enough in the business." Ford's a solid actor and he made a lot of folks a lot of money, but I don't think many people would argue that his level of artistic achievement comes close to Guinness', even 25 years too "late."

He wanted him to be killed off because, like a lot of not-as-deep-as-they-think-they-are actors, he thought it would add gravitas to the role. "he didn't want to do anymore anyway," doesn't really come into it, since he had no obligation to ever play the character again no matter HOW he was used.

I actually don't get the hate for the Wendig books. The present tense takes a minute to get used to, but considering he was obviously working under very heavy constraints I think he told an interesting story and created some interesting characters.

Sad and pathetic, yes. But what really annoys me is that it also isn't very interesting or even realistic. I was really hoping someone would have sat down and thought, "These characters are 30 years older, we should show how they've changed as people in that time"

No medal for Chewie, no post-death hug for Chewie, no respect for Chewie. It's enough to make a Wookiee want to just go home and masturbate to Diahann Carroll videos all day.

It also reflects a weird nihilistic viewpoint the new series seems to be taking on.

A little from Column A, a little from Column B? When the cast was first unveiled I just kind of pictured him in a boardroom with a cigar saying, "Get Felicia Day, nerds love her."

Look, anyone who has even vaguely followed Ford's public pronouncements and career had a reasonable expectation that A. Han would probably die and B. Ford would probably insist on both top billing and a focus on him (two things that he never had in the original trilogy but got in TFA). That doesn't mean the movie…

No, the new canon is pretty determined to establish the idea that after Return of the Jedi everyone started drifting apart pretty much immediately.

If they didn't want it to be a nostalgia trip, they certainly did not do a good job following through on it.

And he was entirely right. Of all the issues I had with TFA (and I had many), the fact that the opportunity to reunite these characters in even one scene was squandered actually depresses me, especially in light of Carrie Fisher's passing.

My two cents based on the first two episodes : I think the riffs have been great — good enough that my roommate, who isn't a big fan, laughed out loud twice just walking through the living room on the way to the bathroom while I was watching. The host segments have also been better than I expected and the chorus of…

I long ago got used to the fact that the Muppets' voices (with the exception, naturally, of Goelz's characters) are going to be slightly off compared to their original ones, but I was completely thrown by the new voice for Robin. It doesn't even have the slightest resemblance to Jerry Nelson's original…

The only thing that would make this news better is if the Roku app, you know, worked consistently. And I could actually watch the shows. In the 10 or so times I've tried watching an episode in the last two days these were the following results: 1. The commercial runs, the show buffers, it starts up and then…

No one ever said they "rescued" Fawcett. Of course, they also bought that IP about 35 years after the lawsuits, but if you're imagining some sort of decades-long Sith plot to own Captain Marvel you're certainly welcome to do so.

To be fair, though Hell's Kitchen the neighborhood is ultragentrified (try finding a studio apartment there for under $1800…just try…) the residents still take pride in calling it Hell's Kitchen. The only people I have ever heard refer to it as "Clinton" are real estate people. The name has never taken.

I'm not sure how a "no-killing" policy makes a character more noble when that same character has utterly no problem using torture, turning people into coma victims and quadriplegics, and routinely putting others in harm's way.

"Rapacious?" Exactly how is acquiring and rescuing obscure characters that would have never been used again "rapacious?" Or is there someone out there who actually thought Charlton was fighting to keep Blue Beetle sacrosanct?