“Streaming is about convenience, I’ll give you that. But it still suffers from the same availability of a physical video store...” Nope. Unless you live near one of the world’s biggest video rental shops, the availability of on-demand streaming movies will beat your local options 99% of the time, and your occasional Ne…

“Streamed HD beats DVD resolution is not remotely a fair comparison” - oh, but it is. It is when you’re faced with a choice of paying $4 for an HD streamed rental, or buying a new Blu-ray for at least $20, plus shipping (unless it’s a Amazon Prime order), or a used Blu-ray for maybe $10, plus shipping, or a used DVD…

“Physical media trumps digital. Always.” Hell, no, not always.

“I cannot understand this” - well, not defaulting to straw man arguments might help you gain insight.

Despite the evidence, I still find it difficult to believe that this series actually exists.

“Disney Lucasfilm don’t much like Jedi” - um, what? Of course they do; that’s why they’re bringing back Rey to train new Jedi, and they’re advertising Ahsoka as being a Jedi even though she technically/nominally isn’t one. Lucasfilm doesn’t have anything against Jedi; they just treated Luke horribly, and are…

March 2022.

“I am always a bit annoyed that everyone always immediately recognizes the world’s greatest secret spy.”

I love the Thrawn Trilogy as much as anyone. I love how mysterious Thrawn is, and how we know nothing of his motivations apart from wanting the Empire to win. I love his battles of wits against Luke, Leia, and Han, his fragile alliance with C’Baoth, his ingenious siege of Coruscant, his failed attempt to bring Mara…

I get the sense that those who still affirmatively call themselves Star Wars fans, in the active and online sense at least, are pretty well united behind Ahsoka by now. I think the main questions now are, is the general public going to subscribe to a series without a name recognition hook or a baby Yoda, and are they…

Excluding my comment, and its three direct replies, this piece has garnered... eight comments. I don’t have any data about page views, but I’d be surprised if Rome episode reviews couldn’t easily beat that number every time.

“everyone is excited to see more from fan-favorite her Ahsoka.”

Meh, but at least it’s nice to see Titus Pullo getting work.

Man, Filoni really has to start explaining/detailing just when and how Ahsoka and Luke met, and soon. Like, in this season of this series.

Um, no offense, but is a recap of a cooking show episode really expected to get more clicks and engagement than, say, a Rome TV Classic review?

It’s truly amazing how a tiny set of particular songs from decades ago gets played over and over on a number of pop/lite rock/80s stations, while the vast majority of songs are long forgotten. Because they’re played so often, they may seem hopelessly generic, but these survivors often have a twist to them that makes…

“Plus, she’s played by Jackie friggin’ Hoffman.”

I hope it’s not a case of Filoni figuring he became popular with SW fans for “fixing” the PT, mainly by adding a bunch of crap to it, and now figuring he’ll just do the same for the ST. “People didn’t like that whole Palpatine cloning stuff, but if we just add a bunch of crap to that story, and show how it got there,…

“They used this one trope before, and the story was deeper and better for it, so I see no problem with them using it over and again, despite said trope now making the story shallower and worse. They did it once, so they should do it whenever they want. That’s just good writing.”

“Grogu’s past. I want that story. I think we all do.”