You think that’s bad? So are people born in ‘98...

I think I remember reading somewhere that, like a lot of things in Star Wars, The X and Y wing were actually named by Kenner when they made the toys - they weren’t actually referred to by those names in the first movie.

Its totally driving me nuts that in half the shots, the Tie Fighter is flying backwards. It happens in shots from both ends, too, so its not like he didn’t have images of the thing from the back.

His every quote is pure gold. I also love how, in an episode that revolves around superhero naming issues, he’s another example. He really should be “The Cockroach” or something. His appearance, his car, everything screams “Cockroach”, but he went with “The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight” (Which, I can’t…

Dude, that’s a direct quote. It may not have been what you meant, but it was what you wrote.

I’d argue it wasn’t even unethical for Han to shoot first. Greedo was pointing a loaded blaster at Han and had just announced his intention to kill Han in cold blood. At that point it seems like a pretty clear cut case of self defense, even if Greedo hadn’t actually pulled the trigger yet. All it said to me was that…

...no. It really wasn’t. You said that:

Oh, but you did. You claimed we were the only species understand and manipulate reality. We are demonstrably not unique in this, just particularly good at it.

I guess my point is that the difference is a matter of degree. You described it as a binary “we have it, they don’t” thing. All creatures have some, it just varies how much of it the world they can understand. There’s no clear line there - nothing we have that its quantitatively different, only qualitatively. Some…

See, no, that’s just more self-aggrandizement. Every species can understand and manipulate reality to some extent- that’s the very definition of intelligence. Different species have differing capacities for that understanding, and ours is certainly greater than most, but it isn’t complete any more than a cat’s is, or…

Yeah, my first thought on seeing this was that I would be forever bumping it on things and popping it open, or setting it down and having it fall over, hit the catch on something, and spill everying out on the floor.

Its my headcannon that Starman is the prequel to Guardians of the Galaxy.

Plus Stark’s reckless impulsiveness isn’t really a big secret. Its possible he anticipated Tony would try that before Tony even thought of it himself.

Yeah, this trope definitely applies:

Ah yes, the Tyia. I always liked Revwiens.

OMG this. Thrawn was a badly written “genius” whose plans only worked because the author said they did. Between author-powered Blue Space Moriarty, Hot Femme Fatale Jedi, and Alien Space Ninjas, these books were a big ball of juvenile fan-service. I can understand why they’re popular among the same kind of fans that…

Yeah, I felt like it spoke to what a civilized, sanitized place Xandar was, that their computer system would auto-censor obscene gestures to protect their police officers from having to see them. It made Star Lord all the more incongruous and funny.

I’m conflicted. I like the new one well enough, but at the same time I can’t unsee the duckbill face.

Yeah, no argument here. Screw Zhan and his fanservicey nonsense - the X-wing books were the best!