It could be that they’re all just regular stormtroopers in janky armor, but that’s the least likely—and least interesting—explanation.

But April 26th 2011 is still 6 months before shooting started, so if that script didn’t contain any running naked down the street and otherwise closely matches the final film, either the scene was added after the “last draft” (far from impossible, but it seems awfully random to add one scene and then drop it right as…

it has an unnecessary, and therefore suspicious review embargo

Here’s a quick guide to the comic continuations. It’s not that complicated, but there is a ton of stuff.

Same formula, different family, still fun

Totally agreed — the lore was kinda interesting in the first one, but it was never going to stand up to the scrutiny of further exploration, and it really, really didn’t. But I would add that Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 not having endings is right up there too.

A mod? Nah, Bethesda should create an official patch that automatically does that for any reference to the player character if it detects this mod in use.

Didn’t they eventually kill all three Lone Gunmen?

then hopes to figure out a solution eventually

I think the issue is actually one of mediocre writing.

I don’t understand why Filoni didn’t open this show with a brief (5-10 minutes) prologue re-creating the final battle from Rebels in live-action.

There was tons of samurai influence in this episode. I found it quite refreshing that they went that way and cut out most of the over-the-top flips and tricks.

I was already let down when he couldn’t figure out how to end District 9 without cheating the faux documentary format throughout the climax. And then Elysium doubled down on his “I’ve got some good ideas but can’t figure out how to see them through” thing, and I’ve never quite been able to work up the enthusiasm to…

Based on the trailer, I suspect what he’s actually trying to say is that “this film’s vision of the future is closer to Neill Blomkamp than Joseph Kosinski”, but he’s waffling on about some imagined “tech war” because he thinks admitting that would make it sound derivative.

So it was like, imagine the Apple Mac hadn’t won the tech war, and the Sony Walkman had.

But doling it out piecemeal as exposition is not particularly great storytelling, and it could’ve been covered more effectively in a short prologue.

Ahsoka is not The Wire though. It’s not even Andor. It’s not sophisticated storytelling that expects the audience to keep up. Ahsoka is more like “what if Obi-Wan, but we hide the first episode for three-quarters of the audience”.

The interim agreement is basically accepting all of SAG-AFTRA’s demands, therefore demonstrating that it’s entirely affordable for studios to do that too. The more movies that get made (and are successful) under those terms, the more ridiculous it looks that AMPTP are refusing to sign up to them.

I would argue that the difference is that the backstory in A New Hope is much broader and less specific — characters are introduced as if you don’t know them (in part because it’s the first time anyone’s being introduced to them).

Oh, that makes much more sense. Bringing him up in the first place was such a non-sequitur that it didn’t occur to me that you were talking about him (plus Kinja doesn’t let you know which comment is being replied to if you’ve made more than one in a thread).