I'm mildly skeptical. The trailer didn't make me think "ravishing vision of the sea, drawing on two centuries of maritime art, from J.M.W. Turner’s painting etc." It made me think "overwrought League of Extraordinary Gentlemen-style crap CGI." Also, "Ron Howard's best work since Far and Away!" is not exactly selling…

I read it mostly and thought it was goddamned terrible.

Tom Hiddleston is the voice of the CGI whale! I think the giant CGI squid is voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch. I could have that backwards, though.

I am stealing "stormtrumpers."

Yeah, I couldn't do that. The first rule I would paste in the space for new rules is NO DESTRUCTION OF BOARD GAME PARTS.

Holy crap! That IS some pretentious douchebaggery!

There was a sequel? Dear god.

The scene where Han Solo does a terrible improv on the Death Star intercom is nice, too.

I was thinking it might be time to watch Babylon 5 again.

Somebody at AV Club wants to get haunted by Robert Loggia'a angry ghost, I guess.

BECAUSE OUR DESIRE TO HATE-WATCH MUSICAL THEATER ON TV WAS THWARTED BY THIS EXCELLENT PRODUCTION OF THE WIZ.

General Veers was in Harry Potter? Who was he?

"The Day That Hitler Cried" is that timeline's most successful Jerry Lewis movie.

So very Dr Seuss-y.

I can imagine a sad alternate universe where Luke is played by Jan-Michael Vincent, and people pay 20 bucks for his autograph at conventions not because they want his autograph but because they feel so very sorry for him.

If Kirby had drawn the comic by issue six Darth Vader would have been the size of Galactus.

Well, that's interesting. Thanks!

Jimmy Carson really dominated late night tv on Earth 2.

Gotham is gritty French Connection-era New York. Metropolis is Kansas City in some iterations. For the Superman creators, Siegal and Shuster, I think it was an amalgam of Cleveland and Toronto. The distance between them has been pretty variable. I think now they are next to each other, just separated by a bridge.

I wish Jack Kirby had drawn the comic adaptation. If all he had to go on was a couple of production stills of Vader and a McQuarrie drawing, and he was free to come up with enormous cosmic-crackle machines in the Death Star, that would have been awesome.