And the Spoiler Space is now up.

Kinda amusing that the central character just has a regular ol' American name like Luke Skywalker and then everyone else in the galaxy is named like Bez Jurpo or Sloom Snord.

Ah, so you saw an advance screening. Actually, they wave. But yes.

The unscrupulous private eye!

Fixed. With Ultra and Super, can never remember which one is spherical and which one's anamorphic. (There is an easy mnemonic device—"Super is Spherical"—but I don't do mnemonic devices.)

Saw Gerrera, a character who previously appeared in the Clone Wars animated series.

If you wanna know: I wish it did. It actually ends inside the Tantive IV, with a creepy digital Leia. That's what happens when you're working from a treatment written by an ILM effects designer who wants to try stuff.

This does in fact happen, though he never meets the characters face to face. (You do see him board a Rebel ship.)

Hey folks,

Because this is set days before the first scene of A New Hope.

There is a vague Mujahideen vibe to the "extremist" faction they encounter on Jedha, led by Forest Whitaker's character. Also, it's buried in the sound mix, but I believe you at one point hear an Imperial officer refer to them as "terrorists."

Right. I meant to write "cel animated," and have corrected.

Or we're not based in the UK.

Rank 'em, Justice.

Fond of both Le Baron Fantome and Thomas The Impostor (someday, I'll write on Franju and Jean-Pierre Melville's "non-genre" movies), but The Eternal Return I was indifferent to. Care to make the case for it?

Степь. English speakers can't make different p sounds, so it sounds the same as step to them.

Unedited. They're seat-back screens.

The italicized thing at the top.

If it makes you feel any better, 50% of this book is just them talking about Leonard Bernstein.

Yes, I normally note this, since I almost exclusively review translations. I realized I had cut a reference to Rubin from the text, but by then it had gone through editorial.