I love Star Wars, I always have and I always will, and I loved the way they handled the end of Luke’s journey in The Last Jedi. Sure there were some minor issues with the movie (like any movie), but I went into it with an open mind, knowing Rian Johnson has a way of surprising people, and I was mostly satisfied with…

Been enjoying James Clyne’s design work for some time, and he seems like such joyful guy in these recent interviews. Glad he got to lead the art department on Solo.

Not only was the recruiting commercial playing a version of the Imperial March, but there were snippets of “The Asteroid Field” music (from Empire) during the Kessell Run scene.

Lootboxes specifically, but there will still be microtransactions. Until those are gone completely, there is no reason to let up the pressure on EA. I understand people talking about cosmetic stuff being okay but not too long ago, we got cosmetic stuff FREE, as unlocks! The whole speech about how they need them to…

The evolution of video games from buy-em-once products to play-em-forever services is not going to stop.

There’s a difference between normal microtransactions and lootboxes. The random element in the latter taps into the same impulses that gambling does, making it an unethically exploitative practise.

The market at work. The best way to show ones displeasure to a corporation is with your money. When Battlefront 2 sold a million copies less then expected it showed this controversy was real. That is the difference between online anger and actual anger, when people don’t buy the damn thing.

But it’s been 30 years, and people change. Given what he’s been through, and what’s happened in the galaxy since

That’s why there’s such divide. Before I watched TLJ I was expecting Disney to fuck up the character, and make him a badass Jedi hero. To my absolute relief and joy they actually depicted Luke the way it aught to be, in honesty and deep understanding of the OT.

“Far Beyond the Stars.”

The one where Sisko is an olden-timey pulp writer is also an amazing bottle episode from DS9, with a likewise stellar performance from Brooks. I don’t know if it’s my favorite, but it’s the one I always remember first.

growing up as a little kid in the early 80's the story I always heard was that Han was some sort of Imperial soldier...the Empire had enslaved wookies....to work..once Han saw this he puked. fomented a rebellion, and saved Chewie....thus Chewie owes him a life debt....

That’s nice to hear, I just hope that him leaving the Empire is also still tied into him saving Chewie’s life.

I don’t really get why everyone was freaking out so much about Disney scrapping the EU. With how bloated and contradictory it had gotten, it was honestly the smartest thing they could do, and something Lucasfilm alone didn’t have the guts to pull the trigger on.

Starred for the Willow Hood reference

Less thrown into the trash compactor, and more put into the recycle bin.

There is something deeply endearing about the pre-EU expanded universe stories — the Del Rey novels and the Marvel series. They weren’t afraid to be weird or goofy, and acknowledged Star Wars’ place in the science fantasy/space opera tradition.

Eh, it depends, I think, on what you’re looking for in a Star Wars movie. If you’re looking for careful plotting, sharp dialogue, and coherent characters, then you ought to despise the original Star Wars, because it is haphazardly plotted, features often excruciatingly bad dialogue, and as for characters that behave…

The movie didn’t do that at all, no matter how badly aggrieved obsessives want to claim that it did.

This is weird, but: I kind of think that, by shutting down the possibility that The Force Awakens’s plotlines would lead to a trilogy-long rehashing of the entire original trilogy, and spinning off in surprising and new directions with the characters and their adventures, The Last Jedi retroactively made The Force…