I love Grampa's old-timey delivery here - it's more 'What're ye lookin at me fir?'

Here's my desperate explanation - the beam is obviously travelling at hyperspace speeds, which must be many millions of times the speed of light considering it doesn't take millions of years to cross the galaxy. So, perhaps the 'light' it gives off similarly travels impossibly fast. That's my…

It really casts a pall over the OT - when Han and Leia are ripping on one another on the Death Star, completely unaware that their son is gonna be a genocidal nutjob.

I quite like that the Star Wars films have always been brisk in how they mourn characters. Beru, Owen, Obi-Wan, Biggs, Yoda, and Qui-Gon all have moving death scenes - they all get dramatic camera shots, and some beautiful death music. Vader and Padme get a little more - about 20 seconds of funeral scenes.

Ah, but what would Han want? As he dies he lays his hand on his son's face - even though he's just been murdered he still loves his son.

Princess Leia was on her way to Tatooine to find Obi-Wan; she sent R2D2 to find Obi-Wan; Obi-Wan lived there because he was watching over Luke. The only coincidence is the Jawas selling the droids to Luke's uncle.

This was my opinion too, but recently I read a comment where someone pointed out that if planet destroying weapons were a thing in real life, people would not stop making them. If Star Wars politics reflected ours point for point, by the time of Ep. VII the Republic would have built a couple of Freedom Stars to act as…

When Jar Jar says 'it's pretty hot' he's referring to the weather/situation when they arrive on Coruscant, he's not commenting on Padme's attractiveness.

I think his rivalry with the General is a sign that he is in thrall to Snoke - it's motivated by a desperation to impress his new father figure.

Kylo Ren tells Hux at the start that Snoke should have perhaps used a clone army rather than brainwashed conscripts.

Helm's Deep gets much, much more focus in the film than in the book IIRC, so it's maybe a consequence of embiggening it.

I love the LOTR films, but I would love to glimpse an alternate universe in which Towers and Return had another six months of post-production each. Fellowship is the tightest and the best looking - the second and third are both largely amazing and beautiful to look at, but the seams do start to show a bit in places.

Look at the colour grading in that still! I thought this trend would've gone away once everyone realised it looked terrible.

I'm surprised no Hollywood exec has noticed the similarities between Luke, Harry, Katniss et al and tried to start a hit fantasy franchise based on Jesus.

I know there's precedent for monster meets monster films, but I really doubt there is anyone that enthusiastic for Avengers-style crossovers beyond the Avengers itself. Perhaps I'm wrong, and in the next few decades the Titanic reboot will feed into the Sink the Bismarck franchise; Shrek will team up with Wall-E and…

If they're still bitter about those six movies not being better, they obviously got a lot more out of the films than 'great, really good, OK, boring, improvement, decent'.

MRS KRABAPPEL: Hah! Nobody cares!

The defense: the guy created Star Wars and Indiana Jones, and has done more to develop film-making technology than any other single person.

It wasn't a massive international success back then - I can appreciate why the BBC would be conservative when it comes to having the two main cast members represent both sexes.

I think they likely took the few actors they needed - the Doctor and Kate Stewart - filmed the shots, and were back within a day or two. Nothing complicated enough to require the whole process of international casting.