Well, the mainline saga is now ruined beyond repair, and the coherence of the universe has been fucked up, by switching to madlibs Calvinball mode. However, by sticking to telling stories that are set before the ST (and thus to all intents and purposes ignore it) it might remain viable. Hiring writers suitable for the…

Gross because...he’s not sufficiently good looking? He’s only a year older than Ford. 

Although I’m betting this skews towards those who bought a house before the early 2000s. 

And young kids today can barely cope with it. Their attention spans can’t deal with the longeurs of the film’s opening reel. 

One other smart thing Lucas did was to have these beautiful sets built and then draw no special attention to them. He mainly uses mid-shots and close shots rather than spectacular wides. Fox was pressing him for the latter, feeling that he was wasting the potential of the sets. He insisted that for the sense of…

The sequel trilogy was doomed from the outset. By choosing to make a direct sequel to the events of the OT set only thirty years later, you’ve already lost the battle. There is no way to do it without retconning the narrative universe to undo/diminish the achievements of the heroes in the previous story. This…

West End’s Star Wars RPG and the various Lucasarts starfighter sim games also started to cement the codified nerdiness of the IP. 

It was actually off most people’s radars for the best part of a decade. Interest started to spike up again in the mid 90s. 

The sideburns sported by the likes of Tagge and Bast (and the suited pilot seen briefly at the Mos Eisley cantina) are fairly 70s in their look.

I have to say the one day Gavilyte cleanse definitely worked for me.

No way am I making this if Michael Jackson is going to serve it to me. 

They only got to interview the women who hadn’t fainted. 

Gervais has never been cancelled, except by a small group of professionally-offended attention seekers who appear to hold a genuine belief that Johnathan Yaniv is a trans woman.

Correct. 

He’s not imitating being black. He’s imitating being Jamaican. They are not the same thing. 

Gen Y and Millennials are the same thing.
Millennials = Gen Y

Presumably Kurt Kobain is the deadly rival of Kurt Cobain. 

I’m fairly confident that somebody rode a bike off a cliff at some point, but that doesn’t make me terrified of bikes. 

I really don’t know why this elaborate design is necessary when a simple system of mirrors and lenses would do the job.

It’s funny because it’s men.