Moreso than even Thrawn, who’s returned with much fanfare, Mara Jade was the face of an era of Star Wars. I still think that Lucasfilm will reintroduce her at some point, in some form, but knowing how differently everything went in the new continuity has me missing Mara even more.

Dash Rendar was simply a literal Han Solo fill-in who embodied the 90s, for the 90s. He wasn’t a great character or anything, but i’d say say he made sense. Borrowing costume ideas is part of Star Wars.

I found this amusing. *shrug*

This is one of the better ‘about Star Wars’ videos that I’ve seen. Professional and even handed in its approach.

Yeah, I found them boring and obnoxious myself.

As with many things, the art on this VHS set seemed a bit off at the time, but that was because we didn’t know how much worse things would get. Some of the mid-00s DVD sets actually had the human characters photoshopped from the wrong films in the cover art.

I wonder if merchandising concerns are included, because if so then that multiple of Star Warses might make more sense.

Isn’t it just New York, Chicago, San Francisco, fictional European city, Johannesburg, rinse and repeat?

I believe that you mean Oscar, not Cookie?

*facepalms* Too many funny but not funny jokes are coming to mind.

I agree about the X-Men being better off separate from the MCU, and vice versa. In thinking about how it might actually play out if it did combine, though, it occurred to me—here I go on a hypothetical tangent—that Marvel Studios could almost wind up transitioning to the X-Men being the main thing in a few years time.

I haven’t really cared for Esme up to this point, because ever since she ‘joined’ the Underground, she’s basically skulked and schemed ambiguously. Do that for one or two episodes, fine, but I was getting sick of her just lurking all over the place, every time a couple of other regulars were having a private…

Pretty cool episode. Having everyone interact in a new-ish location is good for the show’s energy. It felt as though more things were happening this week.

My thing with Revenge of the Sith is that it’s the only one that is conventionally watchable. Some of it is silly, but the pacing and the—I would say—excellent sense of building tension are powerful enough to overwhelm the bad parts.

Maybe hubris is involved, but I think that it might be more about the clone troopers simply being conditioned in such a way as to make it different from someone else planning an assassination. And even then, Yoda does sense it.

That’s a huge, huge “if.” And a big part of what is frustrating about the prequels is not just the story and dialogue, but how stiff the actors seem, possibly because of having to work against green screen, also because George Lucas isn’t really an actor-director.

Episode I does kind of go for the ‘classy’ approach in a way that the other two prequels mostly gave up on. Interspersed with podracing and lots of amphibians, of course.

They’re just about polar opposites, hard to compare beyond drawing up charts of sharply differing strengths and weaknesses.

I would’ve gone to see I, Tonya if it were accessible yet. I wasn’t sure how limited the release was until I read here that it was only four screens; it’s a bit unfortunate that a film so interesting looking doesn’t get a wide release to accompany its reviews.

It’s reassuring to see that the internet has its top men on this.