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I suppose they avoided the obvious because there was the Dark Horse comic Star Wars: Empire, along with the contemporary Knights of the Old Republic from the other J. J. (Miller), one of the very best runs of SW comicking to date. 

So uh Sheridan and CalHab old mates old chums,  if you're uhm bored with the Dante minis, I'll happily take them off your hands, save you a bit of storage space, that kind of thing.  Always willing to help a fellow squaxx!

From reading this promo, I wonder if they are going to revise the traditional 6 month duration given for the gap between V and VI. 

To be honest it already seemed a bit implausible that Han's rescue took *that* long, even allowing for Shadows of the Empire-style distractions: there really isn't much to do, beyond Lando getting a job at Jabba's palace.  Lando's status in the Alliance is explicitly addressed in RotJ (a rep as as pilot,  a famous military action at Tanaab, combined with being a successful civic/industrial adminstrator - almost everyone in the Rebellion of necessity has a rank based on prior experience,  rather than working their way up),  and all Luke needs to do is build a new lightsabre and buy a black ensemble -  he clearly *hasn't* got his shit together, and hasn't even found time to go back to Yoda to get some rather critical answers.

That said,  it looks pretty.  And maybe,  just maybe, we'll get the story of how an enterprising ugnaught retrieved that lightsabre from a vent and flogged it to Maz. 'Cos I'm sure JJ isn't planning on telling us.

Holy stomm,  man!    . It's all lovely,  but that entire SD episode and the Simpson Kraken page.... insanely great.

Was  just served up a Polygon article containing the shocking news that the superhero Rorschach whose visage apparently dominates HBO's hit show Watchmen was not in fact intended as a loving homage to Batman.

(Deeper down it's actually a pretty good piece that touches on Moore's attitude to Ditko and Rand,  but you have to get through many paragraphs that assume you think Rorschach is a goodie).

((I've read an alarming amount of Tweets this week that assume Moore's name isn't on the show because be disapproves of how Lindlehof subverts the 'happy ending' of Watchmen by not having Adrian's scheme result in eternal world peace)).

Sadly the rest of us have now given up on the UK. If a policy doesn't draw from arrogance and hatred, and its implementation won't maximise misery and division, then it's not on the Tory agenda. We feel nothing but sympathy for the people of the UK,  but you really need to organise, change some minds, think tactically and vote those creatures back to the 1800s where they'll be happier.  That said, in NI it'd be a case of going *forward* to the 1800s.

And as the aforementioned vote shows,  we're not far behind ye. And the shit hasn't even reached the general area of the fan yet.

That too, obviously - and Ireland is particularly shit in dealing with asylum at every level - but voting to let people drown because saving them is a 'pull' factor... f**king hell.

So on this day of horrific news about migrant deaths in an Irish truck,  all four MEPs from our governing party Leo 'I'm such a Statesman," Varadkar's Fine Gael voted *against* a resolution for search-and-rescue of refugees crossing the Med - on an EP motion that was defeated by 3 votes.

Your Brexit Ltd. employees stood up and cheered the defeat of course, what would you expect (although WTF it has to do with them I don't know)  but for representatives of a republic that suffered needless famine, coffin ships and mass emigration, and a party that only exists because of the impetus of, and US funding deriving from, that event, it is an outrage.

Here's some of the (damning) text of the resolution:

...whereas saving lives is an act of solidarity with those at risk, but first and foremost a legal obligation under both international law, as Article 98 of UNCLOS – ratified by all Member States and the Union itself – requires States to render assistance to any person in distress at sea

I must admit that £65.00 one is very tempting...

Yeah,  that's the sweet spot for me too.  Glad I held off!

"Oh darling wife, I have my Santa List written... ".

Yeah presence of throne room* and association of film with the Emperor strongly suggests the Mk. 2. But then JJ does like his little deceptions.


*Not really a throne room so much as a gazebo with a swivel chair in it.  Presumably Palpidious had somewhere more formal  to sit for the preceeding 20something years.

[spoiler]Hershey's death,[/spoiler]  I assume. Probably a fair point, it was only last month. Great interview though, thanks to Kevin Hall (and Frank for sharing).

Oooookay.  Not the moon it was in ridiculously close orbit with,  or the gas giant that moon orbited in turn,  but another inhabited moon.  JJ really hates everything about space, doesn't he? Crossing my fingers for 'rebels towed the wreckage there' to save the Ewoks (but ignored the people and space horses living there)  but not expecting to hear it.

Watching RotJ earlier,  and you can definitely see larger pieces of the DS2 when Leia and Han are watching the explosion from the surface.  As Sheridan notes,  if any bit of the station survived,  it's more likely to be the bit sticking out furthest from the core and the unfinished parts. It's more that it appears to have survived re-entry and ended up upright and level. And it occurs that the books had the rebels using tractor beams and whatnot to protect Endor from the impact of larger debris,  so maybe they effected soft landings for the bigger bits?

Still convinced this isn't Endor, mind.

I've no problem with those big lads expressing disdain for the production line of Marvel movies: they know their craft and they know what they like. But the long sad history of superhero films would indicate that making successful, satisfying ones is very far from easy. See also: Star Wars films.

** For a long time, I maintained that Jedi was better than Star Wars, which it obviously isn't, but I believed that sincerely. Mostly based on the terrifying throne room confrontation and the way that sequence switched between Death Star Canyon II and AT-ST porn, which I still consider masterful.[/i]

Coincidentally I just finished rewatching  that one, and no question, Jedi from the point they meet up back at the fleet is just fantastic. Not that I dislike Jabba, but there's so much repetition in the first half: 3 arrivals at Jabba's Palace,  2 arrivals at the Death Star (again) and then Dagobah (again): it's slow, and a bit of a mess.  But anything with speeder bikes, fleet engagements, Ewoks and the Emperor: brill.