As someone who once made a 58-track, two-disc train themed mix CD set (called "Train Tracks", in case you were wondering [I know you weren't]) I would agree that, yes, there are just way too many great songs about trains.

Nice rundown. The people at the board game group I've been going to love Codenames. I haven't gotten in on one of the games yet, but it's fun just to watch too.

"Garbage fire" seems like an apt description, Genevieve. There was plenty to despair about with this episode. I know Mary isn't going to go back to Scotland - the cost for getting a whole other castle would probably be outrageous - but the way the Valoisseses kept her at Fronch court this week felt particularly…

You can stop about halfway through and not miss anything, but yeah, I had fun watching it, and I did make it all the way to the end. The whole thing is weird as hell. I'd rate it as significantly easier to sit all the way through than Southland Tales, if that's a salient reference point for you.

You mean it wasn't made by an actual actual actual vampire?
Well I'm sure disillusioned.

That's the most plausible explanation I've heard. It's so weird, because it's not even a clean vertical line that New England got cut off along.

Is Rocket Girl ever coming back? #7 came out, but since then I haven't heard anything about it, and I haven't seen any date announced for #8. I was curious if it got quietly cancelled or something.

Hasn't the amount of incest in modern pop culture just rendered it boring at this point? Like when I watching Crimson Peak (which, yeah, spoilers for that, but if you've read this far I guess it's already too late) it was basically like, "Oh, yeah, incest, duh." I had to try and remember that there was a decade in…

Heh heh, Tyr-anus.

Those redubs are probably the only good justification there is for the prequels' existence. I could watch 3P0 raving on about stealing flesh for hours.

Good point… Khan never really had all that much wrath, and that boogaloo wasn't very electric at all.

For all its success in effects work, RotJ is probably the most unoriginal film in the series. There's a second Death Star, the battle on Hoth gets kind of redone in the forest with teddy bears, and Han and Leia's scenes are a pale shadow of their banter in ESB. I do think it's better than Sith, but I'm just saying.…

What, like… The Dark Crystal? It is pretty badass.

Was that not supposed to be sarcastic? It sure read like sarcasm to me.

It would be a smidgen less creepy.

Or at least our Wednesday.

Anakin killed all the Yuenglings? Well then he should go buy more! The liquor store around the corner is 24 hours.

They're Canadian, they're just being polite. The headline is provocative, but even the people they interview for the article can't actually bring themselves to call the prequels "better".

What the ANH and Empire created, for me, was a feeling that this was a galaxy populated by real people, who spend their off-screen time doing real, grounded things. Think about how we meet Luke, working on the moisture farm, looking through binoculars at the space battle. One of my favorite moments is when he's trying…

I would concur with this. I was just thinking about some of my oldest short stories, since my writing back then involved a significant amount of Star Wars fanfiction and, well, apparently it's Star Wars Week. Alas/thankfully, the corruption rate of 3.5" diskettes seems to have already gotten rid of most of the…