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Benjamin Sapiens
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The very first Star Wars expanded universe novels referred to R2-D2 and C-3PO as 'droids.

All the really fun ship names are ones that use elements associated with those characters - this usually happens in a super-hero team kind of show where each character has specific things associated with them.

"This batch, and it goes back a number of cycles, has always been about fearmongering and pessimism."

"that whole "love is faster than the speed of light and stronger than gravity" speech undid a lot of the good work that went into that movie"

Also, this theory doesn't take into account the fact that Leia spent countless hours in hyperspace during her career as an Imperial Senator/member of the Rebellion while Luke never entered hyperspace until he first left Tatooine.

What baffles me is how the Falcon managed to get from the Hoth system to the Anoat system - and then to Bespin from the Anoat system - with only sub-light engines.

For the sake of accuracy, it ought to be noted that tying her to a chair and beating her and hitting her in the head with a baseball bat were two separate incidents.

Sean Penn is actually right - comparing him to Terrance is entirely unfair.

Without the Red Matter from Future Spock's ship, the mining ship was capable of drilling a hole into the center of a planet, maybe turning a major city into a pit, and not much else.

Tartakovsky's Clone Wars, and the CG Clone Wars series that followed it.

Long John Silver and the Italian restaurant guys share the same shaped nose and general body-type, just as Mr. Smee and many of the dwarfs from Snow White do. That's the only similarity they seem to share, though.

I don't know too much about superheros, but I know enough to know that that particular tattoo makes him look exactly like Mr. Marvel.

I think his comment was more "offering guidelines on what works and what doesn't, aesthetically speaking" than "casting judgement on others."

I know a woman who has a tattoo of Tweety Bird riding a dolphin.

The fact that Kim was one of the few Asian-American men to have been featured on Star Trek - and even in television in general http://www.projectcasting.c… - makes the fact that his character was such a limp noodle all that much more disappointing.

"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross" - and that's what seems to be missing somewhat from the form of fascism presented here.

"it doesn't capture Fascism well at all"