I think it's going to be like The Clone Wars. A lot of stuff is going to get retconned. But a lot of stuff from the EU's also going to be used. And in the end, the EU will survive the transition.

Ben Skywalker. It's an obvious choice. We already have indications that the new trilogy will be about "passing on the torch" and the start of a new generation. So he's a logical choice.

If we're going with effects it probably should be noted that Matthew Vaughn worked with the special effects director of the original Star Wars when making First Class.

It's not the first time Chinese newspapers have been confused. The last time a Beijing newspaper got its news from The Onion it refused to back down from the story for quite awhile, before begrudgingly admitting they'd gotten their facts wrong and writing that "some small American newspapers frequently fabricate…

The Daily Show comments on actual news, even if it's got a satirical bent. The Onion is also satirical, but it's approach is different in that it makes up stories rather than making fun of real ones.

I'm going to be totally non-traditional and tout my favorite underappreciated space opera again. Qwaar-Jet-class heavy cruiser, all the way.

That's a good one for sure (both of them, actually).

It looks (vaguely) aerodynamic to me. It's basically a plane with smaller wings and weirder looking fore end.

Wow, you chose a firestarter for a topic. Generally, I agree with you (I don't ascribe to any particular religion but I'd say I'm probably a theist at heart), but I'm not sure what I can add to the conversation other than bravo for calling out some of the more annoying atheists while applauding those (like Carl Sagan)…

Seems like it'll probably be a good move. After all, we're talking about a story that involves time travel.

I may be wrong, but wasn't there already sort of a live-action miniseries based off of Grave of the Fireflies? I think it was from the perspective of the aunt or something like that.

Never let it be said that the Japanese don't love their puns.

I would say that Lucas has to bear some of the blame for selecting him in the first place. But there's no question that McCallum was an enabler of some of Lucas' worst ideas and a poor substitute for someone like Gary Kurtz.

We all know Mjolnir's not his real hammer.

Oh, I'm well aware that Lovecraft intended his space monsters to be kind of ambiguous and vaguely theological. It's just that ultimately they do more harm to humanity than good it would seem, even if they did sort of inadvertently create humans. It'd be interesting to see a writer try and tackle the idea of a space…

Pretty much. Which is why I think it would be interesting to see Lovecraftian space monsters who are depicted as (sort-of) benign, rather than just (sort-of) malign, as is typical.

Which is more alien really than something that is completely inhuman. Artists have known that for awhile. I mean, a brick isn't very human-looking but it isn't all that alien-looking either. The same goes for a tree.

Yeah, you're right on that factor. But I thought it worked within the context of the film. It's pretty clear they're not God in the sense that most monotheists would imagine.

I can dig it. The idea of God as inhumanly alien is more interesting anyway.

I think you may be right (about how ESRB and the MPAA might change their ratings metric if retailers carried those ratings).