That “small ship,” by the way, was 3.4 km long, more than twice the length of an OT Imperial Star Destroyer. So Snoke’s ship was just ridiculously large and must’ve had a crew complement somewhere in the tens of thousands.

As shown in production sketches, the entire Republic fleet (minus, apparently, four ships) was docked in the Hosnian system when it was destroyed, instead of spread out patrolling all the other systems in the Republic. Maybe Starkiller Base struck on a holiday, and they were all there for a parade or something?

Yes, as he had previously agreed to do as a condition of gaining the best bounty hunter’s service, but only after Solo was no longer of use to him. There was no reason for Vader to not live up to the bargain, as it cost him nothing to do so.

Vader paid the bounty hunters and Lando because if he didn’t, there wasn’t anyone to do those jobs in their place. He could absolutely murder the CEOs of all the arms manufacturing corporations without affecting their output of weapons in the slightest. He literally does so at the end of Revenge of the Sith.

But part of Palpatine’s plotting was decimating the corporate armies as well as the Jedi. Heck, he nationalized all the Trade Federation’s assets at the end of the war. He kept his lapdog corporations (Kuat Drive Yards, Sienar Fleet Systems) around to churn out war machines, but these were absolutely subservient to…

I believe Luke said “some” or “several,” not “eight.” Also, the Praetorian Guards had no lightsabers and no force abilities, which was why Ren and Rey were honorably fighting them without using force pull to disarm them immediately, or force push to topple them into Snoke’s Shredding Pits.

Wait, it’s Crait, not Krayt? Why did they choose the same name as something that already existed in Star Wars to needlessly confuse me?

She didn’t want to be shown up by Captain Medical Frigate.

You should mention that although Star Wars has laser cannons and turbolasers, these weapons also operate on the blaster principle and are not, in fact, lasers either.

But then, it would have made sense to brief her officers, and the pilots who would fly the shuttles, what the actual plan was, to at least prevent anyone else from thinking it was a suicide mission. Any of those people should have told Poe before the mutiny or during it.

Technically, it got them a destroyed Dreadnought, a gigantic ship designed to bombard defenseless planets from orbit, and a few thousand dead Space Nazis.

Just brief crime scene photos of the body. Much less intense than you’d see on a network procedural these days. The killing itself is not shown.

Me too, but all we have now are Abrams movies and Discovery. I’m ready for anything Trek that’s not like that universe.

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Taika Waititi confirmed for Tag and Bink: The Motion Picture. Or is the Dark Horse stuff just completely out of bounds now?

That’s got to be fake. Those pictures were obviously taken contemporaneously with two different men, as the woman in both photos looks exactly the same, give it take a hair dyeing.

No, you’re thinking of Aaron Taylor-Johnson.

Actually, I think he was on that other short-lived sci-fi cop show on FOX, starring Meagan Good.

I thought he did good work in that movie, with his character starting out a complete asshole, but changing to win Dennis Quaid’s respect.

Have both white guys and both black guys wearing similar clothing, then run off screen with the wrong partners, hold on the empty screen for a beat, then everyone runs back to switch teams silently before running off again.