It is a bummer that the cast had to be buffeted around by such stupefying circumstances. Even when I was disappointed by how much TFA was a retread of ANH, the new generation of characters were so good, I remained enthusiastic for the rest of the trilogy. For myself, TLJ actually took advantage of that cast and did…

This looks like it’s from the eventual photo shoot Annie Leibovitz will do of the actors for Vanity Fair.

Some sort of Dooga or Doogalina? Preposterous.

I’m sure if I watched the series for the first time as an adult it might not make sense, but it’s been so baked into my experience with the films, it takes deliberate effort for me to imagine it any other way.

Good point!

Last Jedi was for sure the movie that tried the hardest to understand the Force according to its eastern principles and apply it to the ethos of the movies. Which is why it’s among my favorites of the series.

It would be especially interesting if the prequels were essentially the same and so you just ended up with a sort or Scorsese take on the cost of evil.

Yeah, it was a very blunt way to demonstrate just how far he’d fallen. And ultimately, it reinforces the Western nature of the movies. He’s allowed to be redeemed, but he still has to be punished for his transgressions. And death is considered to be the ultimate punishment, despite y’know, happening to everyone. And…

Yeah, but for all the movie’s discussion of the force as embodying these holistic eastern principles, I think it’s fair to say that was largely window dressing and they always existed predominantly as a very dichotomous good vs. evil fairy tale. 

It never occurred to me that someone could read the redemption of Darth Vader as a bad narrative decision. It’s so fundamental to the movies, obviously more so after the prequels, that I can’t register it as poor storytelling.

Return of the Living Dead was the first movie I saw before I should have. Tarman gave me absolute nightmares.

It’s less an issue with Obi-Wan and baby Luke than The Mandalorian tearing through every single samurai/western trope that would dovetail with this show in it’s first season. So even if they choose not to go with the obvious Yojimbo/Fistful of Dollars that I would so love to see, there are tons of great directions the…

Canon has become my largest, non-bigotry related problem with contemporary nerddom. It really lays bare how pop culture has replaced religion for so many people. That need to infinitely finesse a narrative in an attempt to shore up all the holes in order to make a story more real is an endless, stifling endeavor.

Even by the lax standards of a space opera about glowstick-wielding star wizards, I had a hard time with a character instrumental to Anakin’s development who was never acknowledged after she left. But I’ve enjoyed the Mandalorian, so I’m totally down with this.  

I don’t have much relationship with Clone Wars nor Ahsoka, but as a general fan of Star Wars and Rosario Dawson, I find this news rad.

Don’t worry, they’ll be armed with Madcatz controllers with turbo button power to enhance their natural reflexes.

As long as Brady Games strategy guides remain only 50% online, you’re going to need a place to get the hard copy half.

After sporadically watching The Witcher over the last couple of months while folding laundry, I thought I’d revisit Wild Hunt a bit. And loot drops have become the worst aspect of modern game design. They’re kind of an unavoidable consequence the length and complexity of modern games, but it‘s really difficult to get…

Absolutely! I’m sorry, what’s that about a virus?

If you see him, tell him I loved “Bosom Buddies”!