hmm, I watched it with my dog and he looked unimpressed. Mind you, in his view nothing beats the scene with the tin of dogfood in the original.

Unexpectedly, I’d be happy if they just laid off with the relentless blitz of snippets. I need, in Jedi fashion, to clear my mind before seeing the actual movie in the right order of scenes and with no misleading cuts.

As one raised on Scottish cooking, I viewed American cuisine as a wonderland. Colors other than brown! Things other than meat and potatoes. Note: we were bloody lucky to have enough to eat, I now appreciate.

On the other hand. “Let them eat cherpumple” would have ended in laughter rather than bloody revolt.

Don’t let the leash, ball-licking and tummy tickling fool you: that was Medvedev.

What did you think of Star Wars AFTER seeing the other first?

I was out a wee while back and a guy there, who’s an otherwise very smart academic, was shouting about how he never saw a single movie etc etc and that he demanded his journalism students answer his question: “What IS Star Wars about?” and that none managed. Which seems unlikely.

there are people who learned about Star Wars because of Mel Brooks’ 1987 comedy Spaceballs.

Oh boo! on behalf of all orangutans, trained and untrained.

If this wasn’t a closed set, she needs a new management team. Done properly (within the context of such shoots being legitimate) only the photographer, stylists and vital assistants would be seeing the nekkid star.

What I wouldn’t give to send that news back to my teenage self, when facing my mum’s “what good will THOSE do you?” interrogation....

Love this. Science fiction mags and books shouldn’t be the poor relation, visually. Smart confident content should find a receptive and wide audience, and be kick-ass in its own right. Best of luck. If I meet these guys in my non-kinja personna, which is fairly likely, I’ll effuse in person!

I KNEW the kid would make a bomb.

Absolutely - and even a slight change in cultural values would have colossal ramifications for styles and behavior. Occupation by Nazis? Well, Summer of Love never going to be on the cards....

My hands look less healthy than this. Clearly a zombie manicurist is raking it in.

Off-white Stormtrooper’s Problems

It does make sense .. would the rise of plastics (assuming it happened as with our own timeline) lead to those long leather coats being PVC? Ok, not entirely serious point, but one would imagine that costume designer on some of these productions would be a fascinating/frustrating profession.

Spot on, I reckon. The thing that makes the series so visually compelling to us is seeing the familiar Nazi styles (from everything from clothes to buildings) imposed on America. There’s a billion alternate futures (from a Nazi victory in WW2), but it would have left us less able to make a connection with the show had…

I realize, too, that there’s a line one crosses that marks the difference between “enough” and “way too much” thought on a subject. By “one” I mean “me”.

That’s admirable attention to detail... I wonder if the Tu-144 is intentional, or laziness? I would have hoped Speer’s stuff would have long since been replaced, tho