That’s because you’re describing Joseph Campbell’s “hero’s journey,” one of those influences that is core to the George Lucas brand. Master and Apprentice on a quest. Apprentice loses Master at a critical moment and is forced to finish the quest themselves.

Lucasfilm’s problem is that they fail to consistently grasp…

I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.

Another point is that maps in Star Wars are, more often than not, a path through seemingly impenetrable hazards (Sith Wayfinder, making the kessel run in 12 parsecs, etc.) more than a traditional navigational map. Distance is not the problem, is the directness of the route. This isn’t unique to Star Wars, in fact it’s…

There was slightly more merch, but not much. My friend and I got lucky and walked into a Toys R Us when they put out the single shipment they ever got of the action figures and larger figures of Jack and Sally, so we were able to score a complete set.

I saw Patton Oswalt workshopping a bit about Audition a few times, back when it came out. The premise was “ever watch an insipid romcom and wish someone would stab the lead in the eyes with needles? Be careful what you wish for.”

Learned about degloving from Jimmy Fallon. :)

I wouldn’t lose sleep over it, this just continues a thread from Rebels. Kanan trained her to use the Darksaber, this isn’t the first time she’s used one. General Grevious was also not a Force user who was trained (and/or programmed) to wield sabers safely. On top of that, there have been saber sparring droids around…

We’ve lost Pee Wee, Jambi, and Kap’n Karl, the three primary folks who conceived the original show, along with Edie McClurg and John Moody.

“Well, this certainly is going to put a damper on my winter SoCal trip,” said one disgruntled Theme Park Insider commenter. “Do I even bother with Disney for a third day?”

I recently picked it up on Steam for 9 bucks after playing it on GamePass. Despite a couple of recurring bugs, I’ve had a great time with it. The navigation UI that leads to the current quest can break, sending you to the bottom of some stairs in an empty club. A game restart fixes it. I’ve also had controller buttons…

Loki S2 is in post-production, What If is getting a new season, but the streaming gold rush is over.

Expect D+ show budgets to continue shrinking, fewer original projects, niche projects won’t be greenlit anymore, and failed shows will be immediately removed and licensed to ad-supported “free” services like Roku and…

One of my emerging hobbies is to take corporate bootlicking headlines and rewrite them in the style of The Onion. For example:

“Disney CEO Bob Iger Says Writers and Actors Are Not Being ‘Realistic’ With Strikes: ‘It’s Very Disturbing To Me”

“Activations” is a PR/ Marketing term. You don’t hear it because functioning humans with a soul don’t talk like that.

Perhaps that doesn’t sound like losing, but this sure does: https://www.npr.org/2023/03/04/1161070238/funko-pop-landfill

Cool, now prove Universal’s criminal intent in a court of law. The optics of the situation don’t meet burden of proof.

You’re confusing union-busting with strike-busting. They are not the same thing according to the law. Most laws having to do with strikes are about employees. What employers can and can’t do is far less defined - you can’t fire people, and you supposedly can’t retaliate. But there are plenty of methods to punish…

Plausible deniability. Despite the fact that you’re not supposed to trim trees in LA in the middle of summer, they can plead incompetence - very hard to prove that it was an intentional strike-busting tactic, regardless of optics. When I looked up the fines for what Universal did, it was minimum $5 and max $200 per…

Key phrase is “allegedly” - https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/victorian-table-legs-covering-myth

Get ready to clutch your pearls then, because comic artist Wally Wood’s Disney Memorial Orgy poster regularly comes up at auction.

Enjoy a GenX eyeroll for your comment. Leave us out of it.