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ChristJayzusB, there's threadjacking and then there's mentioning Ayn Rand!

Well anyway, this was fine, but I recall when Sliders was on the go, a common thing among fans was to nitpick how the different worlds they visited actually worked on a day-to-day basis rather than as a brain fart premise - IE: gender-swapped history: how work?

The most improbable world of all is the one where there are Sliders fans.

That's a solid take on John - how long can you keep chronicling a guy whose m.o. boils down to making new friends, using them and then getting them killed (worse again if you're family  - eternal damnation beckons). That final Milligan run where in short order he ruined (or ended) the lives of Phoebe, Epiphany and Gemma...  Ouch.   It's more depressing than writing vacation ideas for Jessica Fletcher!

(Not that I don't love Hellblazer - a complete re-read a few years ago was really satisfying,  barring a few wobbles).

So watching it again over lunch,  it's not water that Star Destroyer is emerging from,  is it?  And then SPECULATION [spoiler]look at all the pointy triangular peaks on that ice-asteroid thingie..[/spoiler].

Tips is correct, the water modelling is insanely effective: way beyond anything I've seen before.

Alan Moore is judging you lot through the all-seeing Eye of Glycon. He has weighed your withered souls against a 10-spot of finest Morrocan and found them less than worthy. There'll be no pints waiting down the Jolly Smokers for ye.

I quite liked the "REYders Of The Lost Ark" vibe to the opening shots too.

Yeah, that's nice. It does look like we're off on another maguffin hunt (the map to Palpatine?), and I'm happy with that part, as it builds on Rey's scavvy background and mirrors the (alleged) plot of TFA, which is what these movies should be doing: referencing and building on themselves and not some 40-something nostalgiafest.

If we get a kind of Last Crusade thing (Rey as Indy, Ghost Luke as Henry, Poe as Salah, Finn as Brody, Kylo as... Elsa?) it could be fun.

And if as it now apeaea the Death Star ruins are just a stop along the way (ahh, Venice!) as opposed to figuring in the climax, that would be less irritating.

Golly, that's some serious cheesecakery from Romero on Supercats!

Better art than our Valkyries, mind you.

As possibly the world's only Valkyries fan, I am honour-bound to disagree. (But it is).

I'm fundamentally against bringing Palpatine back, so I'm naturally down on this thing, but for my money that trailer is ostentatious in the wrong places. The idea of [spoiler]Palps hiding his super-huge secret Star Destroyer fleet underwater (it's the last place they'd look - unless they'd ever seen a JJ Abrams film before!), and then having them hover about in the atmosphere just so Our Heroes can ride space horses about on them is just...[/spoiler] well, I can't say silly, because it's all silly, but maybe better suited to a certain kind of mid '90s SW novel.

Similarly the clip of a ragtag rebel fleet with (presumably) Lando leading them again should be arsom, but it's just a very ugly shot with way too much jammed into it.  At least there are loads of new (and old) ships there to pick at.

On the positive side, the 'rebuilding the rebellion' thread does seem to be developed, and it is good to see the heroes all in the same place. Wave effects and starfighter action both look amazing, and I like that Threepio gets something to do, even if it is just [spoiler]Get Converted Into An Evil Robot for Reasons of Subterfuge[/spoiler].

And much respect to all involved for giving Carrie top billing.

As ever, it's not like I'm not going to see it opening week, so just have to wait and see.

Golly, that's some serious cheesecakery from Romero on Supercats!

Before they started acquiring everything in existence, 90% of Disneys output was absolute dreck.

Is Absolute Dreck the one where Donkey has half-dragon babies? Cos that was Dreamworks.

Urrrrgh, meant to add that by noting the tone of this discussion here I meant to make a wider point about gatekeeping: if my views, as a fat white beardo who saw every movie multiple times in the cinema on release and lives in a termite mound made of merch, are discounted as the ravings of a child by the modern post-RLM cognoscenti, what must it be like for other less-stereotypical demographics?

My twitter handle will shock and amaze you!

But there's no way knowing it will make anyone's afternoon less boring.

It all started with responses to this gem of cherry-picked nonsense: Disney doesn't understand lightsabers .

I'm having an amazing conversation about Empire Strikes  Back on Twitter with two self-proclaimed scions of SW fandom who have so far suggested I've (a) never seen the film, (b) I'm a child lying about my age, (c) if I did see it when I was 9 I should have understood it better and (f) I'm bashing other people's pastimes by suggesting that perceptions people had of a film in 1980 may not be the same as those they and others hold now.

Gatekeeping a 42-year-long fanboy talking about his favourite film seems pretty hardcore!

This all started with an observation that people get hit by lightsabers in both TESB and AotC and don't die/lose a limb, so maybe Finn and Kylo's injuries in TFA aren't as unprecedented as the anti-TLJ lobby assert.

Agreed, it's amazing - i'm also a big fan of the entries by Eoin Stephens, Mi Jei and Dan Wats. To be honest, I like almost every pic.  Sad this one has to end, it's been a real treat - reminiscent of ye olden Art Comps!

I can accept many failings in the otherwise-wise, but this....

Brazil

...is very disappointing information.