I actually laughed when it started, like, they’re intentionally making fun of that trope, right?

Main thing I took from this trailer is that Burn Gorman is in the movie, which is a bonus.

I’d throw in his scene-stealing performance in The Bourne Identity as well. All silent menace until right there at the very end, when a rush of humanity pours out. “Look what they make you give” always gives me goosebumps.

They don’t even edit in English.  Bilingual copy editing sure as hell isn’t in their budget.

What about all the people who work on her show who aren’t writers, but have been out of work for the last several months?

This really has never been true. The MCU rewards you if you’ve seen it all and really rewards you if you’ve seen it multiple times.

Major League Eating

It’s a vexing scenario.

It’s been 13 years since the release of the movie. 13 years!

It was a short short episode, but in some ways that was better. The whole thing was better paced and moved briskly along from point to point. Neither the training scenes or the politics scenes dragged on too long.

I wouldn’t necessarily describe it as “full speed ahead.”

Bringing in an extragalactic threat is the easiest way narratively to have enemies reconcile without needing to show a lot of [studio executives shudder involuntarily and make gagging noises] politics.

Liberation of Lothal was 1 BBY, Battle of Endor is 4 ABY, Ahsoka S1 is roughly 9 ABY, so there’s a decade of missing events, and at least a half decade of peace, although I kind get the sense that the Empire noped the f*** out of Lothal after the space whale debacle, so it might be effectively longer than that.

Hey, trust us, we would MUCH rather this site go back to the way it was when run by Annalee and Charlie Jane and have nothing to do with your Gizmodo.

io9 has been part of Gizmodo since it ceased to be an independent site about five years ago.

I know it won’t be, but in my heart of hearts I’m rooting for it any eventual extragalactic threat to be the Nagai from the Marvel Star Wars comics:

The YV never really felt particularly “Star Wars,” more like something a hungover EU writer typed up in a proposal after a long weekend of drunken Warhammer. And this was during the early days of the prequel era, so everything Lucas was introducing in the new movies, like the Sith, was largely out of bounds.

I’m mostly fine with the retcons. Was not as thrilled with the world-weary dry Ahsoka with no emotions besides the occasional smugly-annoyed smirk... She was far more lively in Rebels than that, though I recognize a cartoon to live action conversion is always tough, and visually they did a great job. 

Oh, Dex. To be fair, you weren’t the genius Jedi Grand Master who thought, “Secret army supposedly commissioned by a mysteriously dead Jedi Master and built from the DNA of a bounty hunter who worked exclusively for a Sith Lord? Hell, yes, I want to use that army!”

Dexter Jettster contemplating the ineluctable loss  of all things? Now that’s some pure uncut Glup Shitto