Is it just me or anyone else getting a strong vibe of Shatner-era Star Trek from that picture? For the record I think that’s a good thing.

I’d say Steerpike is a more pivotal casting than Titus; I always felt Titus was something of a cipher whom the main events of the story revolved around, and far from the most interesting character.

Yeah, this has 100% looked like Mars Colony research to me; it’s so obviously not fulfilling the brief it’s supposedly working towards.

Irrespective of anything else, she really shouldn’t get to play Groot. That’s Vin Diesel’s job.

What a fucking idiot.

He looks like the haunted, decaying picture Roger Goodell keeps in his attic.

Me too! I’m a big hairy overweight dude who recently came clean to various people in my life about depression and panic attacks, and cheesy as it may sound, part of that beginning to happen was seeing Fat Thor, and the line ‘I’m still worthy!’ I felt represented, not mocked.

How did Disney manage to make that look so cheap? It’s objectively lavish, but just- WAAAY less than the sum of its parts.

I’m pretty sure Ian McDiarmid has accidentally confirmed this ‘Skywalkers’ idea; in this Celebration interview I think he says ‘Skywalkers? Rising? I don’t think so!’ at some point.

YES YES YES! She’s as good as anyone else on The Day Today. I’m really excited at the thought of her and Armando Iannucci working together again. 

Outside bet at outcome; Sansa marries someone with a claim to the throne. Someone who the north rather likes. Of course, Jon will do this under protest, but perhaps it will be the only way to unite the north after what I assume will be a tragic end for Daenerys, dead and at the side of the night King. (bold…

That sounds right to me; I figured the Emperor’s Ghost would haunt the site of his death. The mission you describe might explain that odd white object Rey is holding when they look out at the ruins: maybe it’s something for storing Kyber crystals.

The other thing that comes to mind for me is that apparently the Leia…

My pet theory: The ‘Skywalker’ who will ‘Rise’ is.... Anakin.

To be fair, we don’t know he didn’t ask.

I’d also suggest that he gets more creative freedom kicking off an entirely new sequence of films- IX is even more burdened with the existing story than VIII was, surely?

Thanks for reminding me of this song.

There was a quote from Daisy Ridley; ‘I just assumed it would be Rian, but then I heard it was JJ coming back,’ which would seem to support that view of things.

Consider the potential line: ‘So I confronted them. I thought i was following Obi-Wan’s example, when he fought my father. But then I realised I was wrong; these were not Jedi. They called themselves Knights, but they were students. Children. When I faced them, I saw the fear in their eyes. I wasn’t doing what Obi-Wan…

You know, I really like TLJ but yeah, that would have been better. A miserable, haunted Luke who had felt compelled to hunt down and kill the Knights of Ren, committing his own Jedi Purge, then repenting once he found out that one of them had hidden a marriage that went against the Jedi way, Rey being the child of…

That’ll either be a chapter in a crappy tie-in novel, or an episode of one of the cartoons. Pray for the latter :)