Sure, but if you go by more than the superficial for most characters’ baddies they get way more interesting. Crossbones, for one. He’s basically the Anti-Cap, and it leads to some really interesting stories. Spiderman benefited from having by far the most stories told, because he became so popular, so all his…

Ah. Shows how often I’ve set foot in a casino.

I think at this point Marvel might start to feel like they’re competing with Lucasfilm.

So much this. You also left off Mysterio, whose powers are literally just special effects. Outside of Venom (which is a giant mess of history), most of Spidey’s villains are super lame.

Well, he could read the minds of the other players to get a better idea of what cards are in the deck, but that’s still just counting cards.

Based on the deleted scenes with Biggs on Tatooine (and all their dubious canon status) Biggs and Luke were indeed talking about the Imperial Academy. Apparently there was some thought that it was for training pilots for more than just the Imperial Navy though; some trainees also went on to become civilian pilots.

Give…

I think it’s been less simple than that. IMDB doesn’t show how he was actually credited on a lot of things, but I know for sure he was credited as Siddig el Fadil on Spooks in 2003, so it might be a US/UK split. Seems like he sticks with “Alexander” sometimes now just due to the DS9 fame, but in other circumstances…

I don’t think he’s actually used Alexander in decades. On Spooks/MI-5 he was credited as Siddig el Fadil

Amazon is lagging behind at the moment, they only have the first pair.

Probably, but they’re an asshole.

Hey now. Saruman totally figured out how to build steam engines. It’s just that Tolkien used him to tell a industrialization is eeeeeviiil story, so the world never changed. (In fairness, Tolkien was living in post-war Britain, so industrialization being evil is a pretty reasonable story to tell.)

The movie would almost certainly try to make you cry by dialing the poignant music up to 11 in all of her scenes.

To be fair, Clone Wars did brazenly disregard a hell of a lot of established continuity about Mandalore, Mandalorians, the Clone Troopers, Order 66...

But it was all Lucas being involved with it. The big revisions were all story arcs he personally intervened in.

An awful lot of Scots are none too fond of the concept either.

He’s hypnotic in A History of Violence.

Now that is actually an interesting take on it. I think it would have survived adding a few more living beings to the Separatist side more often, but it does dovetail well with him getting too used to casual violence.

I agree that it could have been clever. I disagree entirely that it was clever. There were fleeting moments of brilliance mired in a sea of mediocrity, sadly. The way the droid army was executed was one of the greatest blunders of the Lucas-helmed outings, even into TCW.

They were too feckless, too toothless, and…

And this is why the way they used a droid army massively undercuts the potential of the prequels. They thought they needed an enemy the Jedi could slaughter without seeming like the bad guys... but by Episode III we needed to be able to see the Jedi as bad guys. A droid army could have been used to tell stories…

Also from what I hear a lot of them go a little insane.

Bo Katan is actually scheduled to show up again this season or the next. (I forget which).