Every Star Wars show is basically a live action EU story, for better and for worse. There are only a few kinds of stories you can tell in this universe without breaking the franchise’s guidelines.

Star Wars is fantasy disguised thinly as SF, so I wouldn’t worry about its brand of xenobiology.

Really hope it turns out to be a stealth expansion of Jews in Space.

Eh, I think TotK is its own game. It plays off the players’ experience of exploring Hyrule from BotW, but it subverts those memories and expectations in interesting ways.

Cheerfully so.

It looks fun, which is what a good video game needs to be. As much as I love BotW and TotK, there’s something to be said for old-school top-down Zelda.

You gotta be real careful with those die-cut, foil-embossed variants.

Definitely something along the lines of the Comix Zone guy.

I guess they felt the need to distinguish the MARVEL COMICS from the MARVEL SUPPOSITORY PRODUCTS division.

That really captures the raw shittiness of mainstream superhero comics in the ‘90s, that sad, desperate Milhouse-like need to be “radical.” If that logo were a human it’d be a jacked-up dude with a mullet, Gargoyles shades, and a leather jacket, chugging a 16-oz. Pepsi Clear.

Yep. They started going downhill fast after they ditched the banner logo.

This just looks (and sounds) like an animated version of the Snyder movie. Why go for a generic style phone game when Gibbons’ art already looked like animation?

Reminded of how in a 2000 episode of The Best Show On WFMU, Peyton Reed (not yet a big-time Hollywood director) appeared as a disgruntled effects artist who’d been fired from the as-yet-unnamed second prequel. He revealed that a big part of the plot would involve Anakin and Jar Jar investigating the Coruscant…

Yeah, “checked out” is a good description for RotJ-era Lucas. And by the time he got around to the prequels he was basically making the Flash Gordon meets Foundation stories he’d wanted to tell all along, now that he had the money and technology to make them. Like he was bored with the movies that had made him famous…

Whoops, meant to say “And in the later movies and shows, you have virgin births, bilocation, healings, and resurrections, to the point where it basically drops any pretense of not being religious imagery.” (Correction in bold.)

The Force is basically magic, and Star Wars is essentially fantasy (despite the spaceships and robots), and as someone who’s always felt magic in fantasy lit should be weird and loosely defined, as opposed to rigid, RPG-like systems, its mutability has never really bothered me. It’s not so much a question of taxonomic …

Like I said, the nature of the Force depends on the needs of the story. In the original movie it’s mostly just psi powers, stuff from old X-Men comics. Later on you get voices from the dead and then literal ghosts. Eventually it’s just straight-up magic out of a fantasy novel with Palpatine shooting lightning bolts…

I feel like a lot of the business with the Sith, Rule of Two, etc., was something that Lucas came up with in the ‘90s when he was writing the prequels.

I always saw that as not about the act in and of itself, but about the motivation. Luke wouldn’t be killing the Emperor to save his friends (though he would accomplish that), but for revenge, to satisfy his own anger.

Hamill was like 25 but Luke was supposed to be around 18, Biggs was maybe 3-4 years older, which would be enough time to graduate from a school of higher learning. (The actor was in his late thirties at the time, but hey, I guess that spaceman life ages you in a hurry.)