It still tickles me the guys like Charlie, Trent, and Clint Mansell that I listened to as a moody goth-industrial teenager are now some of the best film scorers out there.

He was designed and marketed by a committee at Lucasfilm to be the breakout character. He gets a special introduction in the Holiday Special which no other character appearing in a later Star Wars film got. He was made to get attention.

Ah, okay, those leather-band looking things. I gotcha. I’d still quibble, since off-black on black (is “off-black” a colour?) isn’t exactly easily to interpret when you’re quickly trying to determine who’s in charge in a crisis situation, but I guess we’ll know soon enough if that’s what they went with. :)

I wish I could take any credit for it, but I think it had more to do with his beloved godson coming out of the closet. I think at a moment like that, a person has to decide whether the people in your life are more important than ideology, and thankfully my father’s always picked the former.

Other Trek fans will give you their own reasons. I only have two major dealbreakers (well, maybe three), but the whole film’s structure rests on them, which is why I can’t get behind STID:

I guess even people the people who didn’t like Emperor’s New Groove at least remember not liking it. Tarzan just never gets brought up at all.

Is that what that is? The angle’s not great but I thought it was a First Order patch.

Not quite, but Space Janitors kind of hits that vibe.

Other franchises that use that vampire “rule” aren’t also built on the premise that vampires are your friends and lovers. That rule is predicated on vampires being social predators who take advantage of hospitality, and you can potentially save yourself from becoming prey by being rude to a stranger. Invite the…

Besides the Disney animated film (which did good box office but seems less remembered than most late 90s Disney properties*), has any version of Tarzan since the Weismuller films had any traction? I guess Greystoke has a cult following but is barely remembered, and when you look at both the popular successes and big…

Gym and diet aren’t enough; HGH use is pretty rampant among Hollywood actors now.

All the Allies got quite good at this by the later stages of the war. The United States had an entire non-existent army group!

JJ has a bit of a history in not understanding how rank insignia work.

Glass half-empty: A white male screenwriter in his mid-60s doesn’t originally think of the armoured badass villain being a woman.

But that’s exactly how it happened with Boba Fett. Lucasfilm was hyping him up long before <i>Empire Strikes Back</i> was released. He got his own animated featurette in the <i>Holiday Special</i>!

Well, if you want to believe the Comics Chronicle, in North America digital comics sales were about 3% of physical sales in 2011, 8% in 2012, and have been 10% for 2013-14. Have digital comics hit a plateau like ebooks have? We probably need a few more years of data to see.

A couple people call him “Darth Vader”, including Leia. Only Obi-Wan calls him “Darth” alone without “Vader”.

Late 80s for me, and same. I’m sad the Twenty Thousand Leagues Beneath the Sea ride is probably gone forever.

When Bond and Vesper are Sherlocking each other on the train in Casino Royale and Vesper guesses “orphan”, the way Bond’s face turns cloudy just for a moment is all we need to know.

It’s not too late! This guy once felt the same way: