and we’re done here.

The secret is booze.

Venus de Milo is a statue, not an artist.

No objections to having a female turtle, but would it kill them to update the artists they’re naming these characters after?  Where’s Whistler?  Munch?  Grandma Moses?

I don’t know much about Hollywood, but I have to imagine that announcing a new movie to be released next year without deals in place for the cast means that everyone’s price automatically goes up 20%. Seriously, is anyone on that cast hurting for work right now?

The article does a little bit of a disservice to the concept of the West End Games RPG keeping the flame alive from 1987, and — more importantly — creating the “bible” that the LFL folks running canon (unlike Star Trek works) would more or less consistently refer back to...

“Gutsen Glory? A little on the nose, don’t you think?” -Victor von Doom

Sounds a bit like Caprica ..where an existing sci fi show script about AI was “massaged” into being a BSG prequel..

They’ll, at best, pull a Mando and pretend to be about something else until the finale. At which point S2 would be all Alien prequel all the time.

I like the idea of filling in the backstory for Earth. We always hear about how Weyland-Yutani wants the aliens for “the weapons division.” This implies that things are tense on Earth and in its various colonies. Why else would they have heavily armed Colonial Marines ready to deploy on a moment’s notice?

we already have that and its called the suburbs. 

But when they open Disney-themed funeral homes, will they be called “Storydying”?

One question: does Natasha Lyonne say “cock-a-roach” at least once per episode?

This round of io9 writers are sounding more like bitter old people.

The weirdest thing is that this might be the first time we’ve seen someone read or write anything in Star Wars.

Yeah, I’m not digging the needless snark that’s been creeping in lately.

I’m convinced that’s what happened with the Watch series. The production company would have been working on a cop-based fantasy series and someone would have gone “Hey, don’t we own that Discworld license? If we just change the character names all those nerds will just eat it up!”

The former makes no sense, though. The changes are to the timeline Tolkien presented in the source materials to make a lot of stuff that Tolkien set thousands of years apart all happen within a decade or two. If anything, events will be moved significantly forward in the timeline to make this show work. Based on the…

I have to admit, I wouldn’t have minded them doing something where each season covers a particular major event or something from the 2nd age, and just bring in new (like with humans) characters as needed. Almost treat it like an anthology that way. Not sure how this will go, but I’ll give it a chance.