What’s really interesting is that these books and comics were being written at about the same time as Discovery’s third season. It’s like the two groups tapped into last year’s zeitgeist and just sort of knew a disaster was approaching...

I have to assume he was already working on The Bad Batch when he directed that first ep with her in Mandalorian. Dave really knows how to plant seeds that bear some seriously cool fruit.

The wife and I would often stay at the same hotel as he and Peter Mayhew for a particular convention, and we’d occasionally get to chat with them as we all crossed over to the show floor. Both of them were just delightful human beings. Mayhew was so British-ly polite, and Bulloch always had some amusing story to share.

Regardless of where any of us fall on the spectrum of Rise of Skywalker as a movie, I always fall in love with the concept art. What Doug Chiang and his team do is nothing short of stunning every time I open one of those books.

The unused stuff is just as interesting, if not more so. I love that the scrap yard in last…

Speed Racer is pure unvarnished eye-candy, and I love every neon minute of it. In fact, the only part of it that I dislike is when the original Speed’s voice actor (Pete Hernandez?) says “You bet your ass”. It’s such a little thing, but hearing OG Speed swear is jarring to an old like me.

I know it has some whitewashing problems (Sean Connery as the leader of a group of Barbary pirates), but I still love her (and everyone else) in The Wind and The Lion. It’s a really entertaining look into Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency, and has some genuinely sweet character moments between Bergen and Connery.

That would be living perfection, and it’s the gift we all deserve after this awful year.

I went back to this game over the weekend (rage quite in January after dozens of falls off a toboggan trail on Zeffo), and encountered this same rope. I think I noticed Cal passing through the rope on the third try. I checked my map, saw only red/blocked pathways, and figured I was done with Dathomir for that moment.…

I really have to give it to Pascal in this episode. He looks SO uncomfortable for every second his face is visible in that scene. It was just a great performance.

Nah, you lost me at sand. I hate sand.

OMG, I hate you! Now, that’s ALL I’m going to be thinking about today :)

Luuke!

Whoever it is will have a pretty high bar to meet. Erin Grey is delightful.

And if Oscar doesn’t come back, then maybe Kerri Russel will? Seems like Zorii would be a good character to train a new generation of hot-shot pilots.

Well, this really cements my opinion that Chris Nolan is a pissy, pretentious ass.

Totally get your point, I just worry about over-telling any character’s story. You end up with things like “Anakin built C-3PO”, or “Wolverine started off as a riff on Secret Garden”.

Just as we didn’t get or need to see every precise detail of Maul’s survival, it isn’t necessary for Boba Fett either. Contextually, we get that he somehow escaped from the Sarlacc and lost his armor. He probably spent some quality time with a Tusken tribe too, something that likely cements one’s sense of duty and…

If memory serves, Jaster Mereel was Boba’s “real” name at one point. Jodo Kast was a guy basically impersonating Boba Fett (duplicate armor somehow). The Kast family name made the Disney jump, but I’m pretty sure this is the first time Mereel has been referenced outside of the old EU.

Well, I guess I walked into that one. But even I have to admit that was...................................................Good.

I read that rumor, but thought Stan would make a better Ezra than Luke.