My quibble is that the original Star Wars was an homage to movie serials. There is nothing like that in TFA. I can’t work up the appropriate attitude, however, to object. Another article where it’s not clear how the text justifies the headline. The details about the changes in the relationship have not been provided.

Forbidden Planet (1952) has amazing effects — particularly the Id monster becoming visible due to a force field. Even Robby the Robot is impressive.

I'm reading padding but GRRM is not paid by the word. Let's call it what it is, a hugely successful author who loves to read his own words and has indulged himself beyond his ability to reign it in and complete the saga. It happens to the best writers: PJ Farmer lost it on the Riverboat series and OS Card overindulged…

A moving Death Star makes a lot more sense than a planet that only moves due to its orbit. (And a bunch of them would be better than just one planet.) Oh, and what happens to that orbit when it saps all of the energy from its own sun? The Starkiller base is an absurd concept and bothered me from the get go. By the…

Thanks for posting that! I was SKH's editor for a series of books he did for Contemporary books. He brought his Grand Master to the US for a series of training sessions. Google Jack Hoban, who is another, legitimate American Ninja.