"It looks like the little mama’s boy is going to hang around until
Margaery kills him. They want House Tyrell to take over, and she’s got
something up her sleeve uterus."

Maybe this is a consequence of how small the Galaxy really feels - we only ever go to a handful of planets and interact with a couple of dozen named characters.

Yeah, Arby must work here or something

Extra myelin for me, please!

this makes sense

yup - no one in living memory (minus some really old timers like the Emperor, Obi Wan and Yoda) should have any recollection of the Republic days. Having it be less than 20 years just feels dumb.

good point. Part of the problem is that the end of Episode III portrayed Vader as already being the Emperor's right hand man, while Episode IV has him as holding equal power among several high-ranking officers - enough that the one dude can bark at him to stop choking that guy and he complies.

The dude in the middle looks like he is thinking "Why does my jumpsuit have a big target in the chest?"

To your first point, I hate that Lucas pretends that he had it all planned out from the very beginning. I don't see how saying that your ideas developed and evolved in time is a bad thing.

agree. I hate to sound petty and say the sequels "detract" from the Originals, but taking things out of the mysterious past (the source of Force sensitivity, Vader's history, the Clone Wars) and showing them in such a gauche manner is more often than not a mistake

It's crazy that senior officers, in their 50's and 60's, who spent their youths and early adulthoods in a political system largely controlled/enforced by very visible Jedi who did nothing to hide their power or stay in the shadows, would have this arbitrary level of skepticism.

Ughhhhh… he is so going to win this election…

That's a silly name for them. I would have called them "chuzzwuzzers"

I always just picturing him warging into a dragon or a bunch of wights or something proactive, not going into the past and killing butterflys.

People are xenophobic assholes in most places, even with crazy magic seasons.

Whoever buys this had better get also get a working lightsaber to fend off the insane amount of poon that will be thrown his way.

Finally, someone with the stones to take on Hitler - Bill doesn't care whose toes he steps on!

I thought the greatest trick the Austrians ever pulled was convincing the world to give a shit about Franz Ferdinand.

Land is everything in a feudal society. Few things are more pathetic to a nobility than a dispossessed lord. Most lords (and by compulsion their serfs) would rather just tough out the winters (especially when "that's what our ancestors have always done) than flee south for X number of years and rely on the kindness…

"There is an argument to be made that our perception of water as wet just addresses our collective need to feel connected to something larger than ourselves."