I do love speculating just how much Lucas’ first marriage ending messed him up. I think the Special Editions are in some way an attempt to overrule her editing decisions that he disagreed with, and his attitude towards love and attachment in the prequels is vastly different from what the OT implied. In the OT Luke is…

I don’t really think it does. ‘No attachments’ strikes me as the type of thing that a young male writer in his 20's would come up with as a form of ‘wisdom’ after a particularly dramatic breakup of the type that people have in their 20's, followed by gradually more and more attempts in the prose to attempt justify…

Oh yeah, the Halo backstory is insane in how non-utopian it is. I’m playing through Reach again and the whole opening of it is Noble Team going off to murder insurgents completely unaware that the Covenant is on the planet. And at that point, the war with the Covenant had been going on for 27 years, but they still had …

They’re very clearly referring to the modelling of the weapons that are referred to by those terms in the game. (Guess what, there’s also a Pistol and a Sniper Rifle and a Rocket Launcher.)

Cortana was a galactic supervillan in Halo 5, so I’m not exactly sure if Microsoft cares.

Having just finished a playthrough of CE Anniversary, I can say that he’s a little deeper than people give him credit for, but the game really makes you work for the depth. Yes, I know this is going to sound like a massive cop-out, but you have to infer facial expressions on a helmeted character, and let Cortana’s…

Mötley Crüe was also the type of band that made voracious sex core to their identity, carving one of the most storied legacies of the era of arena sleaze rock bands

There’s also a huge hole in the plot because how did Tyler pay for those explosives? That’s right, with capitalism.

what many of them apparently didn’t realize is that this ending is...weirdly closer to what happens in the book.

It was funny how they even let it use it’s hologram projecting ability like you would use for the map pop-up in Fallen Order.

> Every other untrained yahoo will inevitably slice themselves in half with one.

Seemed believable to me. The kid is off to school so he’s having an empty nester mid-life crisis and buying a sports car.

I think helmet-removal for eating (and hopefully dental care) is okay, and the question had the implication ‘have you been flashing your naked face around in front of other living beings like a shameless face-hussy?’

yeah otherwise it’s just sparkling puppet.

“Just a point of interest given the discussion on how big the Empire remains to our experiences with Star Wars in comparison to how short it actually was.”

And the Confederacy only lasted 4 years, but here we are.

One slightly bum note for me was how accepting Din seemed of the Armourer’s helmet-shaming him. Throughout season 2 there was this subplot of him realising that he’d been brought up in quite a weird, cloistered environment, to the point where by the end he was willing to break its rules and show his face. But I guess…

“Keep at least one eye open, ‘cause Boba’s old pal Din Djarin just might pop in to...take over for a whole episode and remind everyone of the far superior show they wish they were watching. Hoo boy.”

I’d bet a bit of Column A and Column B.

I would love if the show just committed to the semi-comedic theme that “Boba Fett is a great fighter, but an incredibly incompetent manager and maybe not super bright. Like Michael Scott with a jetpack”

Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought you could physically tell a dummy round from a real one right? The ends look different intentionally, so there is no mistake?