I do see a lot of people who think the Jedi had the right idea, and it’s all Anakin’s fault for not simply quitting the Jedi if he wanted get married, or have his mother not be murdered. “Quitting the Jedi” apparently being a common and socially acceptable thing, not something where only twenty people did it in three…
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I don’t remember if it was actually in one of the shows or if it was someone putting two and two together, but I saw something about the “Trial of Mastery” was to successfully train a Padawan. I don’t know if it’s been confirmed, but I don’t think there were any ever graduates of Luke’s Academy, which means he…
What I’m taking from this is that Luke’s post-RotJ career was spent devolving into a shitty prequel Jedi, culminating in him seriously considering murdering his apprentice after a chilling vision of things to come (and if you think Mace Windu wouldn’t have cut up li’l Annie like a bushel of fresh sunflowers if he’d…
The first few Halo games really did reward reading between the lines. If you were coming off of Marathon (where you were literally reading between lines with the story material all coming across in text), you were definitely looking in for all the subtext crammed into the pew-pew aliens action. I’ve been casting my…
Ironically, this show (even just this particular version of the show, not the idea of a live-action Halo adaptation in general) has been in development hell since before George Lucas even thought, “Wouldn’t it be great if someone who wasn’t me was making more Star Wars, and I also had a few billion dollars?”
Not for nothing, but I wouldn’t mind if Clausen put some of his new free time to a big fat multi-disc soundtrack of Simpsons score.
They’ve explained that the review embargo dates kind of tie their hands on this. Reviews are going to start running as soon as they’re allowed to run, and then they’ll get kicked back to the front page once the thing being reviewed is actually coming out. Holding the review until it’s relevant means losing out on the…
Bold of you to assume AV Club writers are being paid, what with the recent news.
It’s just indexed to Death Star Day being the release date of the original film. So in that scheme, ESB takes place in 1980, and RotJ in 1981. And TFA and TLJ are in 2011. Aside from the first film, the real-world releases of the movies and show don’t correspond, it just gives you a better handle on the scope…
On Twitter, back when he was still willing to talk about Star Wars, Pablo Hidalgo once said that his Star Wars timeline notes used the Gregorian Calendar (indexed to May 25, 1977 as the Battle of Yavin, IIRC) for the same reason, that it made it much more intuitive to understand the magnitude of the passage of time.…
I know that’s a common joke, but I feel like, in-universe, it’s far more likely for “Tusken Raider” to be regarded as offensive, and “Sand People” is likely as not a calque of their name for themselves. “Tusken Raider,” on the other hand, is referencing, well, the raids that were done on Fort Tusken. Most Sand People…
Came off way too cartoony compared to the Netflix shows.
I see an icon for “Bonus Features” on the X-Ray screen when I pause the episode.
I have no interest in this movie whatsoever, but after seeing a trailer for it every time I went to a theater for the past three years, I’m a little wistful about it finally coming out. It’s become a part of the movie-going experience to say, “Wait, didn’t that already come out? Like, a while ago?”
FYI, this season has a companion series of minisodes, “One Ship,” in the episode’s bonus features, which focuses on Drummer’s crew/marriage. The first short, at least, takes place after the first episode, and I assume the pattern is going to continue throughout the season.
I’ve been suspecting that there was some kind of weird contractual or legal thing going on with The Expanse that requires them to “end” it now, but in a way they can work around to produce it in some form to finish off the ongoing story. Similar to whatever the hell is going on with another Prime show, Bosch, where…
The Flag-Smashers never went quite so far as to say it in those words, but they were quite clear about how much they wished all the people who came back could just go away again in some non-specific way.
I’m all, “How is the Division still around if the Master killed all the Time Lords?”
The whole point of psychohistory is that one or two people are meaningless.