Honestly, since this show doesn’t have a douchebag like Kevin Sorbo in it to hijack the production, I doubt that that’s going to be a problem. :-)

To be fair, the Force wasn’t only strong in the Skywalker family, and the longer the EU went the larger that family got; to the point where a century later there is a new Empire run by one of Leia’s descendants who actually has their own order of pseudo-Jedi who are on orders to kill him if he ever falls to the Dark…

To be fair, the sequel trilogy was meant as the finish to the Skywalker saga, and Lucas had always designed the saga to be very circuitous and loop back in on and mirror plots, moments, and scenes.

I mean, in the old EU they could. There was a comic that takes place, like, over a century later and stars a Skywalker who is literally a deadbeat drug addict. Naturally, all of his ancestors are disappointed in him, to the point that its the very reason he takes drugs in the first place. In one scene, Anakin’s ghost…

I mean, it does, but so did Attack of the Clones (but backwards). Neither are particularly good movies, though I can at least see the mirroring in Clones as being less superficial. When Last Jedi mirrors Empire, it mirrors the plot beats without mirroring the themes at all. The main themes of Last Jedi are 1) let go…

The Old Republic Jedi also had methods of predicting when a force sensetive child would be born to normal parents. There was an entire database and jedi holocron that stored the info. I’m a bit shady on where this was covered either the Clone Wars Cartoon, or Rebels or perhaps another set of novels. You’ll have…

What was wrong with that narrative, exactly? People forget that Lucas went with a Chosen One narrative specifically to subvert the narrative. Anakin’s destiny was always to become Darth Vader, even though the characters thought he was supposed to do the opposite. Of course, because it was a prequel the audience knew…

There is no “sorta” about it. In the Expanded Universe under George Lucas’ ownership, Luke had to rebuild the Jedi by finding “nobodies” who happened to be Force sensitive. Yes, it turned out that his nieces and nephews were also Force sensitive as well, but most of the recruits were not. They came from every…

IIRC, there are safe haven clauses in most of the relevant laws that prevent you from suing websites over content uploaded by a user so long as the site makes some kind of an effort to police itself, on the principle that no policing measures are ever going to be perfect. A site only gets in trouble when it knowingly…

Its almost like Melee is a broken game and its fans refuse to acknowledge that.

I mean no offense to you when I say this, but the ugly truth is that many of them DO come from the military, and the rest are being trained by those who wish they had. Cool heads, hot heads, the problem is their approach towards conflict resolution. When they should be de-escalating situations, they are instead…

Body cams were never meant to provide justice. They were sold to us, the people, on that premise, but they were sold to the police on their ability to do the opposite— as a tool to provide evidence of when people are wrong to complain about a cop’s behavior, because the cops are not obligated in the slightest to…

I’ll tell you who does want to replace all biological life with machine life in Star Trek— Lore, Data’s brother who once formed an alliance with a Borg splinter group. If Control is a time traveling version of him, then it would make sense that he would know how to utilize Borg tactics towards his own goals.

That, and there is the way Trek assigns canonocity to the novels— it doesn’t. Only films and TV series can establish canon facts, while comics and novels do not. Events and details in the novels only become canon when mentioned onscreen. On the plus side, this is why the novels and comics can do crossovers with other…

Yeah, but being lied to repeatedly isn’t gaslighting. No matter how stubborn a liar is, they are just a liar. Being told you are delusional for believing something the abuser knows to be true is gaslighting. Both of our definitions show that the writer of this article does not know what “gaslighting” actually means.…

I would actually hypothesize that its the other way around. Early religion wasn’t about morality at all, but rather served the purpose of placing meaning onto the natural world. Morality was something that came from society and people knew it. But later, specifically in Greece you start to see a trend towards…

For that matter, there is plenty of evidence for a similar contagion effect with mass shootings as with suicides. Journalists have already adopted standards regarding suicide, but they seem reluctant to accept their responsibility in the proliferation of shootings. You don’t need to talk about the killers and the gory…

Right, I’m just responding to the possibility that it is a DNA scan, I’m not saying that is actually what it is. Again, its treknobabble, it can play by its own rules so long as it serves the plot and doesn’t actively create plot holes in the grander scheme of things.

Because time travel was depicted as insanely easy to preform in TOS, believe it or not. Its actually only starting in the films that they realized that easy time travel could be problematic and retconned it as hard, but doable using 23'rd century tech.

Well, they probably don’t know that time travel can create parallel timelines. Plus, there have been multiple Trek episodes where time travel has caused characters to be briefly “stuck” outside of time as a kind of artifact of the true history so that they can go back in time and restore history to the way it was…