According to the commentary, that shot was Frank Oz’s idea too

+1 High-school chemistry credit?

This is my perpetual answer to “who should compose for any sci fi property I care about.” The BSG score was so, so good.

I “won” a little writing contest in college and the prize was a fucking Thomas Friedman book. I’m now an engineer.

British sports jargon? Hand me my mashie niblick. One more leggie and he’s out for a duck. Balls-on.

Bingo.

I think Rose works a whole lot better if we see her “working with pipes” and stunning four deserters before she ever encounters Finn. It would build her credibility as an active presence in the movie, and as a bonus, give a chance to show some of the desperation and human stakes for the non-hero characters, which imho…

I agree with you. I think and wish they could’ve found another way of conveying Luke’s 1. fear of the Dark Side 2. tendency to make the wrong choice by drawing his lightsaber first and 3. ability to come back from the brink of giving into fear and anger — all of which are perfectly established Luke traits in ESB/ROTJ…

I feel like the way that scene played out and was recounted was a big miss, but it’s not backbreaking to the story because you can tell yourself, “it was a flashback, it was told from two highly biased points of view” so it’s possible to believe that something like that, with the same result, but not so fundamentally…

If Sagan is not a sufficiently learned source to address the question of “by whom might be disputed the claim that Frankenstein was the first work of science fiction”, try Isaac Asimov, who called the Somnium “perhaps the first real science fiction story.”

In 1608, Kepler wrote the Somnium [wiki link], a novel imagining what the Earth would look like from the Moon. In the third episode of Cosmos (“Harmony of the Worlds”), Carl Sagan said of Kepler [youtube link] that “he had written one of the first works of science fiction; it was intended to explain and popularize…

Carl Sagan, for example

If only they articles went through a similar process

Unnecessary passive voice is arguably bad. However, it’s a long way from horrible. It’s easy to come up with several perfectly acceptable examples of antecedentless pronouns, like when one says that “it’s raining.”

Author is unliterate

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coup fourré!

You’re a bold one

It’s an understandable feeling for sure, but nobody who reasonably expects to have the last word on a creative project signs on to a licensed property, right?

They’re connected! With piano wire!