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Episode 5 was a "catching your breath" episode after the tour de force of episode 4, but it was a good way to introduce a major new character who obviously has a hefty chunk of backstory but really couldn't be properly integrated until now. I did enjoy them getting used to their new ship, had...

It would be nice to see Snoke and by extension Kylo Ren be something other than Sith. The Nightsisters of Dathomir, by virtue of inclusion in the Clone Wars series, are canonical users of the force who are not Sith, so there is precedent. From the time of the first teaser I had always assumed...

Of course the discussion on New Years Eve gravitated to The Force Awakens at one point. It was interesting to hear the perspective of people who were only very casually interested in the originals as well as those who are actively hostile towards Star Wars in general. Most note worthy were...

I think it is quite telling and important that this is known as Star Wars : The Force Awakens and not Star Wars Episode VII. Much of the prequel trilogy was marketed as and known as the episode number, in this case you don't see Episode VII much of anywhere save the opening crawl itself.

It is a bit odd that public domain effectively ends at 1900. Late 19th century stuff is all fair game and has been Co-opted to death...

Supreme Leader Snoke is much more concerned with getting Kylo Ren and Hux off the base than he is with defending the thing. I think ultimately that Starkiller Base was not the major resource hog that the Death Stars had been. Sure there is a massive machine that is carved out of the planet...

They did have a whole sequence where Leia sends an envoy to the Republic with proof that the First Order is up to very bad things, but it ends up being too little too late in a very Battlestar Galactica sense. It really could use a small sequence where they let the significance of what just...

I just started rewatching Ex Machina and realized he was Hux. Domnhall Gleason and Oscar Issac are having a pretty epic year.

I only today realized that Poe Dameron is also the crazy AI-inventor guy from Ex Machina and stars as Apocalypse in the new Xmen movie. I did recall hearing before that he had been in Ex Machina and briefly wondered: "as who? There's only like 6 actors in that whole movie...maybe he was the...

When you have the labor intensive aspects nailed (game engine, sound, graphics, level architecture) it should be relatively easy to change things up and make a really compelling game from the component bits.

Clone Wars season 1 was rough, the art style had not yet fully gelled and it was indeed overly preachy and Ahsoka was kinda a brat. The series matured a lot in season 2, however, especially when they started really turning things toward an anthology style format where they had a single plot arc...

It really seems odd to me that it has been 10 years since Episode III. I mean rationally I knew it was quite awhile ago, but I think the overall lack of relevance to anything else meant it was easy to simply ignore. I was interested in Episode III when it came out and certainly saw it opening...

I did not listen to any of the interviews Burr did for this so maybe this was common knowledge, but I figured this was semi autobiographical and the middle kid is him. It's nice to see something focus on the early 70s because even "that 70s show" started in 1976/77 despite running for many...

Remember also that Palpatine really did believe that the Republic was bloated and corrupt where only the very rich and very criminal got any traction. The desire to fix that is what led him to crave power and succumb to the Dark. He did have a point in that the system was very corrupt and the...

It might be interesting to have a Fallout game set in Europe with a whole different take on post apocalyptic survival where the BOS haven't been seen or heard from, but they have a serious problem with being overrun by forces from an empire based in Africa (where things for the past 200 years...

I was thinking that once the Force Awakens came out that they would roll out some substantial DLC for this that incorporated the First Order and scenes from the movie... Apparently that is not the case. Mobile games seem to be the only ones really harnessing the new IP

It was a commercial-free advance airing right after the third part of Childhood's End. You had to have watched it live or DVR'd it as they didn't put it up online or even have it open on-demand. A couple friends who were eager to check this out were especially annoyed at that last bit because...

From that page, is Sella the woman who is at the center of the frame when we see Hosnian Prime go boom?

Leia is pretty much Adama from BSG who refuses to disarm because she believes there is still a very real threat, and she was right. From the opening crawl it sounds like the Republic started to take her seriously, but it was too little too late.

I did see the controversy earlier this month when the Force Awakens poster in China has shrunk Finn down to miniscule size and stuck him in an area where he kinda blends into the background as well as completely deleting Poe. I was wondering why the hubbub at the time.

"The Dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural..." There was always a promise that 'Sith magic' was much more interesting than what we actually saw on the screen. It is worth noting that the whole scene with Palpatine and Anakin in the opera booth is...

Actually the first Star Wars IS a defining moment in cinema. Look at cinema before Star Wars and after. The overall production values and general character of cinema changes immediately after Star Wars took the planet by storm in 1977-78. Remember that this film stayed in first run theaters...

Supreme Leader Snoke is a head-scratcher because from his appearance he looks to be rather old which would mean he was around during Palpatine's time. So he's one of three things 1) A previous Sith (like Darth Plageis the Wise) who managed to survive as a contemporary of Palpatine (perhaps...

As an astronomer I laughed out loud when they doubled-down on the "kessel run in 12 parsecs" bit from the original Star Wars by mentioning it again there "I heard he made the kessel run in 14 parsecs" "14? It was 12!"

Ultimately this movie is forgettable. I actually DID forget it until a screenshot from it during a year-end retrospective made me realize that PIXAR had two flicks this year. Inside Out is an instant classic and one which will be talked about for years to come... Good Dinosaur is bargain bin...

They divided the archetypes up between the various characters in a different way than the original trilogy but still covering all the bases. Poe Dameron = Cocky self-sure pilot / scoundrel. Note that in the opening crawl it says he is the most daring pilot in the Resistance. He takes on the...

I am kinda expecting part of the 20-30 mins of cut footage to include a bit more from Leia / the Resistance Base on the fallout of the Hosnian System being obliterated and making it clear that instead of the Resistance being a disavowed offshoot of the Republic they were now the only military...

I'm thinking Supreme Leader Snoke is the Wizard of Oz. Not literally of course, but since he's already using giant floating he...err hologram to appear then who is to say what he really looks like.

Well he did receive second billing in the end credits right after Harrison Ford and notably before Carrie Fisher.

Well Kylo knowing who she is would make sense given the degree to which he went to capture her plus his reaction when he found out a girl from Jakku was involved at all. The whole sequence when the Xwings show up and start kicking ass was very nice. Especially that extended shot of Poe just...

I also like how his cell phone / computer is cracked.

I dont know how much is from the books, but I love the casual use of plausible future tech in scenes like Julie's apartment. Having to calibrate the voice faking utility and then using that to access her stuff felt very natural.

I figured the smaller scale battle was intentional both because the Resistance was more akin to the Mission Impossible crew rather than the U.S. military. So it's them fighting against an evil madman bent on destroying the world and not a whole other country. It also allows things to be more...

So the planet at the very end... is that supposed to be Tython, or are they creating a new birthplace of the Jedi Order? Some things I noticed on second viewing: 1) Carrie Fisher's daughter(Billie Lourd who was also in Scream Queens this past fall) is all over the place in the scenes on...

They did announce a second season prior to the first episode even airing, so they seem to have confidence in it.

I read a demo chapter on Amazon that seemed to cover most of the first episode, so I think at the very least it is one book per season and I'm not even truly sure they would make it to the end of the first book in these 10 episodes. I feel they have plenty of material to use.

The bad news is that are only 10 episodes. The good news is that this more than likely means the quality will remain high rather than stretching out plot points or devolving into filler episodes. Adaptations of written works do at least benefit from having a clear mandate with respect to plot...

That is what happens for one of the core faction companions when you become an enemy of their faction but are still max reputation with them. It seems particularly idiotic in Danse's case since he was always picking fights with the BoS vertibirds flying around. Talk about self-loathing....

I became enraged when I realized that Danse rejects you if you become an enemy of the BoS...even though having him around makes you an enemy of the BoS.

Intentional attempt to gauge popularity / demand following the end of the two-night premiere? By leaking episodes 3 and 4 but not episode 2 (having already shown episode 1 on the web for a month) you may rule out those who are just accumulating episodes rather than those who have seen episode 2...