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People have been pointing out that The Child and Vader would be the same age... that this might mean that he was the counterpart to Vader in the whole 'balance of the force' business. Seems a bit far-fetched, but the 50 year age has to be somehow significant I figure. Its also worth...

The whole GamePass thing has really been a great deal so far. I'm sure they are banking on us getting so used to it that we happily pay for it once the promo ends in like a year or two. They may actually be right...

It was already precious with just Harley and Ivy, but adding in Clayface, Dr Psycho and King Shark has been excellent. Forced the NYE guests to watch the first episode and they demanded we continue watching the next two as well. It's also run by the same people who had done Powerless, that DC...

Oh shit!

Yeah how dare he not be a thief and steal product. I'm sure you are cool when your customers at work steal stuff too yeah?

To be fair... everyone that isn't a Robinson or Robinson-adjacent is kinda stupid. Though I am still trying to work out how their portable super forcefields work and how useful those would be in many other situations other than a campfire.

SyFy had a rotten deal. They only had rights to the initial broadcast and limited streaming for like 4 weeks after broadcast that they could hook commercials onto. They had no part of the bigger streaming revenue (Amazon had that worldwide already) and the live viewing numbers and associated...

I have to second this. I ended up playing the DLC solo since everyone else was done with the game and it was very good. I want to know who developed the DLC... was it a 3rd party or was it done in house?

I had a hard time with a lot of the first season as it seemed to drag in parts, but I'm enjoying the first couple of episodes of the second season so far. Parker Posey is the best part of the show by far as so incorrigibly evil and yet just useful enough to keep from shoving out an airlock.

The Final Order fleet will just get justified down the road as having been the product of some heretofore unknown cache of Rakata lore that led to the rebuilding / repairing of the Star Forge.

Well the military was also crashing as a result of the end of the war with Earth that had been building for ages. The war itself released all the pent up tension on both sides and allowed everyone the chance to refocus (plus most of the warmongering types got killed)

They used the time-honored Russian strategy of throwing tons of 'just people' at the military and it worked. Sith Troopers were such a let down.

I felt the fact that Rey was clearly training under Leia ever since TLJ was meant to address the Mary Sue issues. It's implied that Poe and Finn have been on a great many adventures in the interim while Rey has mostly just stayed back and worked on her training. As far as Force abilities...

I wonder if releasing closer to Xmas caused the box office to be lower than originally expected. I know several people that were busy with family / travel / holiday stuff and were annoyed that they wouldn't be able to see it until Mon/Tues when they had reached their destination or whatever.

It's the 'reverse form V' style that is used in a bunch of games plus Ahsoka Tano in Clone Wars. Not saying it isn't a bit silly, but there is substantial prior art.

I was one of those oh-so-pretentious theater kids so I felt I had an obligation to see this, especially before the aforementioned 'digital update'. I know all the songs and have seen Cats a few times in theaters both on Broadway and in travelling casts. I feel eminently qualified, therefore...

Jared Harris seems genuinely willing to do all sorts of projects. He's one of those actors who has nothing to prove and just seems to enjoy immersing himself in different roles.

Im 4 episodes in and I now get what they are doing with the three main character stories, but I still feel like I'm getting people / places messed up trying to keep track of it all. Henry Cavill is, however, just damn attractive.

Apparently Also -- Don't you dare say something bad about Babu Frik.

Well despite Threepio being assembled by a kid he did so using various leftover Droid parts which included, presumably, the central core of a protocol Droid. It might have been ancient as fuck which is why it even had the translation matrix for Sith in it and came with a post Sith War old...

Now now, there's no need to bring that kinda filth in here.

Because these dumb fuckers seem to enjoy inventing new Jedi/Sith planets instead of using the ones they already have. Well at least it allows people to use Korriban in other media. I feel the animated / game / Disney+ world is where Star Wars lives now.

Things I genuinely liked about the film: Things that annoyed me: I still enjoyed the movie and it was a fun romp, but goddamn it the whole thing needed a script editor with balls.

Saw the early show and had a good time. There's at least 3 movies worth of content jammed into this one film. I have a feeling that had someone sat down and plotted out the whole trilogy at the start they could have had a pretty baller bit of storytelling. Instead we have a mad dash Sprint to...

This would also set up the end of the season to resemble the original poster where we see a team of Mando, IG11 and Cara Dune as a 'crew'

I also require an Outland Tie Fighter LEGO model... now.

Let us also not overlook the live action debut of the Imperial Troop Transport! Those of us of a certain age who had one as a kid were already chuffed to see them used in Rebels, but to get one in live action was a definite winning bit of fan service.

Burn Gorman was the perfect person to play him as well. He is excellent in those 'complete and total asshole' characters who, nevertheless, do have a point. Murtry was absolutely correct in his initial charges afterall and was pretty broken up about some of his crew being killed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/18/opinion/the-macroeconomics-of-the-expanse.html Note: contains spoilers for season 3 and 4!

Who thought one of the standout characters would be a freaking Ugnaught?!

It moves well beyond that

Deborah Chow being the showrunner for Obi Wan's series has me feeling that it's in good hands after her episodes of Mandalorian. The ending was super sad though :( Note: why don't all the TIEs land like that?! Makes so much more sense than the silly hanging racks.

Yer going too fast!! Pull-up or you'll melt on re-entry!! Man was not meant to consume an entire season of Expanse every day! In related news I failed in my attempt to ration the season out and have now finished Season 4... Only 350ish days to go until Season 5 I suppose

Did they say why they recast Arjun (Avrasarala's husband)?

Im waiting for a generational upgrade of resolution / frame rate. Every time I've tried VR I've gotten nauseous. I forced myself to push through the VR Xwing demo on the PS4 that came out at the same time as Rogue One and I was sick for like a day afterwards.

Of course he caught it...it was his one actual true feat of superhuman martial prowess!

Class diversity isn't a huge issue if the narrative is suited to it, but in terms of making archetypes that appeal to all sorts of gamers its not exactly great. For example: one reason why I can never get into many Korean/Chinese MMOs is their tendency to make magic-using characters be chicks...

Star Wars is horribly inconsistent when it comes to travel and hyperspace. It's why they had to invent the Interdictor class Star Destroyers for games set in the universe, because there's no reason not to just hyperspace away whenever a fight happens. Ideally you would have a semi-complex...

I had to chuckle at the final Peteypedia entry.

The side plot I liked the most was the change in Mars. Once the possibility of all those worlds manifested it was only natural that terraforming Mars was a lot less interesting.