I always preferred Pulaski to Crusher because I liked the Pulaski / Worf friendship and her hobby/knowledge of Klingon stuff, while Crusher was just there to stand around and talk about hypo-sprays.

Is that really true? I've always counted Atari adventure as the first Easter egg, and that was playable.

It’s the way sprites are stored in multiple of two “data chunks” (without getting into the not gritty of why and what a data chunk is). The artist saw that there was a blank space that was unused but was still going to be there anyway taking up data, and had some fun filling up the space.

This sounds very much like the star trek experience in Vegas, which was indeed very cool for it's time. I can imagine with a Disney-fied budget and current technology of trackless cars that it would be a lot of fun to experience.

I remember episode 4 being in the opening scroll in 1977 as well, but not “A New Hope”.

Given the generality of those stats, I wonder how badly those stats get skewed by sports games.

Actually, the “you suck you only have an Atari while I have an Intellivision” fights was a real thing. It's just that is was contained to your close friends because the internet didn't exist to screen at people you don't know who live on the other side of the world.

I got the sense that the main characters were filmed at completely different times than the monster suit guys. Or quite possibly, there was never more than one monster suit to begin with. Aside from the scene with cage, you pretty much never saw any of the characters in the same shot with a monster. It was kind of odd…

“the decision to stream it only on the phone and only in 10 minute chunks means it could have trouble finding an audience.”

“the decision to stream it only on the phone and only in 10 minute chunks means it could have trouble finding an audience.”

the game library was never that great or unique, with no real killer apps.

It’s kind of funny that as I was watching, I kept thinking how the Witcher didn’t “earn” the right to be showing of need naked boobies, but I couldn’t put a finger on why. The best I could come up (and it’s a really silly reason)with was that at least in the old Conan movies, everything was hot and dusty and sweaty…

I’m not sure why you’re focusing on “electrifying onscreen romantic relationships,” though, as opposed to “casual onscreen acknowledgment of romantic relationships.” I don’t think anyone’s particularly looking for the former.

Yeah. That’s sort of hard to do. It’s too easy just to find something else to watch if you even start watching something bad on TV nowadays.

But that’s sort of my point. If you have to dig to find Owen and Beru Lars as one of the pinnacles of electrifying onscreen romantic relationships in Star Wars, that’s a pretty good indication that looking for ANY kind of meaningful romantic entanglement is very pointless in Star Wars movies.

How many hetero relationships are in the Star Wars movies? Han and Leia, Anakin and Padme, maybe Poe and some-chick-in-a-helmet.

“precious on-screen time was instead used to interweave Poe taking over the Resistance with trying to hook up with a female figure from his past”

Just be prepared to read. Claremont books of that were are excessively words.... Which is a good thing because you do get you money's worth on a time per page basis. And also savor the Bill Seinkewicz art on the New Mutants. It's pretty one of kind, especially considering the era it was produced in 

For all the hate it gets on this site, at least Avatar built a world with rules and kept within those rules, unlike the JJ Star Wars movies which just felt like a 3rd grader playing with star wars to without much regard to concept Bible or anything (“look Jimmy, now the bad guy zaps an entire fleet of starships WITH…

Couldn’t Rey’s mother have been immaculately conceived like Anakin? Seems like that would be an easy trick for someone who can force lightning entire fleets of star ships.