Well yeah, the thing about 300 is that Miller ignored a lot of inconvenient history in order to make a comic about real ‘Muricans.

(I’m sick of the Battle of Hoth.)

Godzilla is so much bigger than King Kong.

Well the problem is that the Republic is really much more of a federation, and even the old EU had this element - Republic member planets still had kings or presidents and governing bodies, but also they report to the senate for “international” disputes. It seems like the Empire installed sector governors as a…

First, the Galactic Senate is the Senate. It seems like each planet appoints their representatives in whatever manner they see fit—election, appointment, fight-to-the-death, etc. All simplicity goes out the window when you get to Naboo.

THIS BOOK IS SO GOOD AND DOES AN AMAZING JOB OF CREATING SOMETHING COMPELLING OUT OF THE SITUATION IN EPISODE I.

I sort of hope Ren is just *wrong* and Luke is doing a really good job of hiding the dozen or so students he’s got hidden on some out of the way planet, meditating and doing their best to just stay out of it.

Evolution in space, you say?

Vader’s pyre?

I am currently in the process of checking out the sequel. :D

I just finished reading this first contact story and it broke my whole heart.

True true true

But it’s not about casting a young Tarkin, per se. It’s more about casting a Tarkin who is roughly the same age as he was in the original.

Oh.

Everything we know about this movie is that it’s a group of Rebels and/or mercenaries stealing the plans for the first Death Star. Nothing about that premise sounds to me like Tarkin *needs* to be an on screen presence - like not having FDR in a movie about any given mission in World War II.

Better yet: write around having Tarkin actually appear.

Snowcomotive.

As I understand it, it used to be a phrase used by liberals with irony to describe people who took up causes loudly because they were popular but did not actually champion them well. This was true of of the phras “politically correct,” as well: it was used to criticize liberals who focused more on correct language…

I think it’s probably more that lightsaber badguys are attracted to this kind of thing.