Of course. I used to have a little Lobot toy - a really tiny metal one, that came with a micro-Cloud City set. That goofball took many a header off the city into the wild blue yonder. Never did care for the stupid Walkman he was wearing

Yeah, this is what happens when everyone who writes TV shows lives in LA.

i have seen every episode, and every time their names come up it takes me a half second to remember that.

Also, remember that Holt only recently came back to the 99. Perhaps the person who hands out parking spots gave the Vulture to a crappy, not-befitting-a-captain spot (because no one likes the Vulture) and when Holt returned, they didn't want to take the best spot from the beloved desk sergeant who had just got it…

You are correct. Boyle knew it was Holt's spot, he just didn't think it was Holt's car.

When my children were younger, I would read to them all the time. When I decided to read them The Princess Bride, a funny thing happened - I had to start making editorial choices, skipping many of the asides and even over some parts of the narrative, because it is a difficult book for an 8-year old, and not really…

Yeah, that was classic "refrigerator logic". If you stop and think about it, it couldn't have been that long since the fall of the republic (after all, Luke was a young man, and his father had been a Jedi). But you don't really notice it in the moment. Making the prequels was kind of like drawing a big circle around…

Honestly, they are the epitome of mediocre films. Had Phantom Menace been the first SW movie, there probably wouldn't have been a second, but no one would be hating on it today. It would have just been another forgettable summer film. I have seen lots of films worse, in every way possible - worse acting, worse…

So, it's kind of like getting takeout from a sketchy Indian place & getting really bad diarrhea, then driving by six months later and thinking, "Man, I really feel like Indian food. Maybe that place isn't so bad. Maybe I just had a touch of flu…"?

Worst part of the prequel: the way Yoda fought by flying around like the Vorpal Rabbit. He should have used his small size to his advantage by jamming his lightsaber up into everyone's junk.

Heck, when I was a kid it wasn't even the episode title yet. They didn't add that nonsense until the re-release.

You responded to "The creation of ILM brought blockbuster movie making to a new level" with "Peter Jackson and WETA came along right around the same time". Sorry if that's not what you meant, but I was just responding to what you wrote.

Well, ILM was created in the 1970's, when Peter Jackson was a schoolboy. Lucas & ILM were the biggest driver towards modern, effects-heavy blockbusters.

Maybe they have really crappy record keeping & a lack of decent historians. They spent all their time developing laser swords, and forgot to write stuff down.

Delivered a prize bounty that Lando & Headphone Guy (oh man, it's killing me that I can't remember Headphone Guy's name, but I refuse to google it) actually captured, and had like two lines in the whole film.

One thing that amazes me about this: the sheer number of people who insist that the prequels were among the most horrible abuses ever committed to film, and yet still attest to having watched them multiple times, including recently.

I think it's mostly because he had a really cool toy that existed before he did in the films, and it kicked off a cult-like obsession with him among people in a certain generation, which has carried forward since.

I have probably told this story in another Star Wars thread, but in 1979, when I was 8, I got into a horrible argument on the playground with a friend who insisted that Darth Vader died at the end of Star Wars & Boba Fett was going to be the main antagonist in Empire (The Fett toys preceded the film, and it was the…

Can I favorite this 1,000 times?

Jar-Jar did become a tragic character. He was a big-hearted dummy who just wanted to please everyone, and bad people used that to help them destroy democracy. That is pretty tragic.