The Game of Thrones monopoly is Westerosized, apart from Go, Jail, Free Parking and Go to Jail. Free Parking still has the picture of the jalopy on it, and go to jail still has the American cop on it. You have to wonder sometimes. How hard would it gave been to substitute a picture of Varis and a caption “get the to…

Hipsters!

I’m pretty sure that’s not one of the messages of the movie.

Can I just say that as a non-American, I find this headline entirely baffling?

My parents instilled in me the concept that “context matters”.

Is it worse or less worse than taking your top off and prancing around in your bra on a major TV network?

Just coming!

I fear that says more about you than it does about the movie.

Exactly. It’s clearly designed to be driven on, so one would assume it was designed with that kind of weight in mind.

He’s genetically engineered, he isn’t anything. He was created in India so he has an Indian name, that’s all.

In the ANH novelisation (by Alan Dean Foster, though Lucas was credited as the author), Chewie does get a medal during the ceremony. These novelisations are generally based on a draft script, so it does seem the intention was for Chewie to get a medal somewhere along the line.

At least we made it onto the map this time.

I should probably have added, I really hope neither come to pass!

Also, let’s not forget Beckett’s replacement, Jennifer Keller.

I’m not in Australia. Australians strike me as the most casually racist people in the Anglosphere. I’m in New Zealand, which has had its own problems in the past but is consitutionally dedicated to racial, gender and orientation equality, even if it sometimes falls short. There’s no lack of will or optimism. The…

Never going to America. Hospitals that resent having to treat you, cops who see shooting you as a first option, politicians who barely count as civilised humans. Scarey country.

Sue perkins was a really great stand-up before she took to presenting. I’m sure it pays better, but it’s comedy’s loss.

Yeah, probably, hence “a Kenobi”, not neccesarily a daughter. But the premise does seem to be that being strong with the force is a dominant gene.

I think the loss of that character will leave a vacuum though.

Pretty good trailer for its day that.