Quite surprisingly, this movie ended up giving me one of my favorite filmgoing experiences.

I saw it at a radio station’s free screening in San Diego. Including me, the crowd was oh, about 75 percent Mexican/Mexican-American.

Cut to the scene in which Branaugh reveals that his “evil plan” involves returning Califas…

Yeah, the first trilogy are adaptable. I personally think God-Emperor is great, but so much of it is internal, and it’s fundamentally a years-long conversation on the nature of prescience and wouldn’t work outside of novel form.

Featuring such characters as Rorshark, Doctor Man-Cattin’, and Nite Owl, who, let’s face it, was a furry to begin with.

if you didn’t see Lube Man leading to this, you weren’t paying enough attention

Well, I can’t unsee that. 

oh great so it’s just me

-Carl Sagan

I thought for sure Bella was going to stand revealed as a hallucination of Ryan’s, and if you watch the episode, the first point at which that doesn’t hold up is when Bella grabs the gun and reveals her agenda. But prior to that, nobody but Ryan reacted directly to Bella. For example, when Graham is looking for Ryan…

“Abrams ignored that and gave us lens flared, splashy, action scenes instead of re-scoping current moral dilemmas into user friendly forms.”

It didn’t creep me out necessarily, but I was kind of like “...huh?” 

TLJ never happened, and we never need speak of it again.

I kinda felt like he was giving Anthony Daniels a chance to participate in the fun out of respect for his tenure.

It really feels like he was playing it like he wanted to tell her he loved her.  Maybe they changed their mind at some point?  (Like when Rey can’t accept Luke’s lightsaber but then does two minutes later.)

“handheld close-ups, lots of snot.”-

* or Control Z, Sense Z, and Alter Z, for West End Games Star Wars RPG fans

And we’re done here.

Idiom?

When I tried looking it up there were several results saying that Sifo-Diyas was real, but Dooku or Palpatine were pretending to be him when they commissioned the army. I think that may have been the from the first Clone Wars canon, which was also around the time when I stopped paying attention to the mythology stuff.

Veidt isn’t orbiting Mars.  He’s on one of the moons of Jupiter, probably Io, Europa, or Callisto. 

That reminds me of a joke...