I’m pretty sure Warhammer at least started out as a parody of these kinds of novels. Same thing as Judge Dredd -- if you know the context, you understand where the creators are coming from. If you don’t, you’re liable to see it as a straight-up Fascist endorsement. 

Compared to the OT, the PT definitely had more complex worldbuilding, though a lot of it was implied rather than shown. The OT, on the other hand, is pretty much a straightforward good vs. evil story. We never learn how the Empire is run, beyond references to the Senate, and that’s dissolved halfway through ANH. When…

The New Republic needed to be less League of Nations, and more post-WWII and post-Cold War United States; an all-conquering hyper-power whose very presence was historically stabilizing as compared to the absolute chaos and bloodshed of the previous “multi-polar” world. 

I think you could probably put a lot of the blame on Iger and Kennedy as well. They wanted to make Star Wars movies like in the old days, with nothing that reminded audiences of the prequels — i.e., no complex worldbuilding or political discussions — and took that mandate to literally mean remaking the OT as close as…

I could see an Andor-type show set during the ST era about how the remnants of the Republic government responded to the destruction of the Senate and set about taking action to protect the Core Worlds from invasion. This would explain how Lando found the giant fleet for the Battle of Exegol on such short notice.

There’s always been a pretty big right-wing element in military SF and pre-1980s space opera, especially the Jerry Pournelle-type stuff, and I think a lot of those attitudes went into the classic EU because you had some of the same kinds of authors writing Star Wars novels, including  Zahn (easy money in those days…

There’s also the fact that “sublight” travel seems to be enough to get you from one system to another (see the Mandalorian episode with the lizard mom’s eggs), which leads me to believe that distances between stars in the Star Wars galaxy are much smaller compared to the ones in our own galaxy. Or that the Falcon is…

Yeah, Apple and Sony would not have remotely considered each other competitors in the 1980s. They were both consumer electronics companies, but operating in completely different markets.

He’s never struck me as particularly bright. 

Yeah, a lot of these movies resemble open world video games in that respect: vividly “realistic” but lacking anything like immediacy or physicality.

And there’s also Rebel Moon, but I assume the Snyderisms will overwhelm any sense of Kurosawa’s influence. Throne of Blood, bruh... but Mifune dodges all the arrows in 3-D slo-mo! Jawsome!

During a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, McG discussed the possibility of directing a third Charlie’s Angels movie starring Lucy Liu, Drew Barrymore and Cameron Diaz.

Yeah, and until Jobs returned to Apple, Macs looked about the same as every other computer aesthetically — beige boxy plastic enclosures. The iMac did, to some extent, change the way tech companies thought about the aesthetics of PC design, though it was first released in 1998. But the overall look of the ‘80s was…

“Grey Jedi” seems like a pretty meaningless term in an era in which there are very few Jedi and no formal organization to speak of. It would be like someone in 21st Century America announcing they were running for office as a Whig.

I never read a whole lot of the EU, though it seems like the showrunners are raiding it wholesale for story ideas.

My guess is that Filoni doesn’t care for the sequels and thinks of them as this thing that runs counter to the world he inherited from Lucas. So the idea of establishing other threats or factions that don’t figure directly into the ST timeframe is probably something he’s deeply invested in. Obviously the ST isn’t…

They are not traveing faster than the speed of light, or their mass would become infinite and they would die.

I’d imagine that if you’ve grown up in a world where entertainment exists mainly in the form of digital files or plastic discs, there must be something utterly captivating about audio and video cassettes. Here’s this contraption full of gears, tape, and various other moving parts, and music and movies come out of…

Like I said, I don’t love where that story ends up but I think that the internal story logic of it makes perfect sense.

The upside is that the ST era lasts maybe one year at the most, so it’s easy to have all these other things going on besides the war with the First Order.