You're assuming R2 had the lightsaber when it arrived, but even if we grant that, that was all part of Luke's plan, which was not developed in consultation with anybody else.

You're assuming that was the actual plan. Here's what I think is more likely:

It's replicating; shutdown signal isn't working.

What do you mean "good"? One isn't inherently better than the other, they're just different (says the guy who used an iPhone to replace most of his stompboxes for his electric violin).

While I prefer GIF, this raises the question- if acronyms are their own words, shouldn't they follow the common model of pronunciation?

"Superman..."

I'm currently fighting to get my Star Trek themed improv team USS Improvise booked at a local sci-fi con. I lack the connections to talk to the right people, but I'm working on it.

Man, I want Felicity to replace Clara as the Doctor's companion now.

Which raises an interesting question- what's the best Old Who jump-on. I'd honestly lean towards Caves of Androzani, just because that's easily one of the strongest episodes ever. That's a pretty late-era jumping on point. The Troughton-era Invasion reconstruction, with the awesomely creepy animated Cybermen might be…

"Science", as in, "I've gotten someone with no background on this person's medical history to speculate about the work they may or may not have done." No offense, but this is tabloid bullshit.

Or, "After Jane's mother died, she consulted several mediums, desperately seeking closure."

One of my favorite games, my character ended up being "the mom", and that's who she was- she had a shithead son, but she supported him, and was mostly ignorant about how awful he actually was. That's why she ended up in a car, in a lake, drowning and on fire.

It's just a book. You bring a big pile of six-sided dice, preferably evenly split between two colors (the book uses white and black, but so long as you can tell them apart, it doesn't matter).

My personal favorite game these days is Fiasco. Combine the flexibility and imagination of improv with the trappings of a tabletop RPG, and in the space of 2ish hours, play out a story about people with bad decision-making skills and poor impulse control. A good game never ends without dropping a few bodies along the…

So, Vinnie Jones is playing the same character Vinnie Jones plays in every Guy Ritchie movie? I now kinda want to see an episode of "Arrow" directed by Guy Ritchie.

Eh, I was in a rush. And no, it doesn't hurt my eyes, because it is a word- just not the correct word to use in this case. On the other hand, the more I think about it, the more I dislike the irregular plural as applied to "medium". I may abandon it entirely, because it is ugly and stupid.

The rules of narrative are internally consistent. They have nothing to do with spells or technology- they're about causes and effects and patterns. Don't get hung up on details, because this crosses all genre boundaries. If John has $1B, then she can solve a lot of problems by throwing money at it. We've established a…

This is all wrong. All of it.

There's a basic rule of storytelling: start as close to the end as you can. While it's not a hard-and-fast rule, for some mediums it's a good idea (film especially). Prequels violate that rule. Another look at it- a film is about getting to the good stuff, which means coming to a climax. If the first film stands…

From MST3K, I'd argue that Hobgoblins is still a worse film, because it's a hateful little turd of a movie. It's not boring or incompetent, it's just vile. I hate it so much. The only thing that I like about it is KissKicker99 (the "Pig Licker" song).