Posting here because Star Wars.
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Err, you mean special relativity of course, which is about the relationship of space and time. General relativity concerns gravity.
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The what now? I’ve always wanted to see the anecdotes Ben & Yoda share with Luke about his father’s past fleshed out into a proper backstory. Too bad they never made those films.
Yes, that’s what I said.
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I was talking about the main movies, but even in the spinoffs they’re leaning into any Skywalker connection to jazz up interest. Rogue One wasn’t even supposed to have Vader in it until reshoots, not that i had an issue with him being in the movie. But i am interested in seeing what they’ll do with other spinoffs moving forward, but i do wish they’d ease up on the volume of planned SW movies. But at some point they’re going to have to move into new territory and i hope to god it doesn’t involve the same connections to the original trilogy.
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Must be something in the water.
You know, that special brown water that comes in bottles with those weird Gaelic words on them like “Lagavulin” and “Macallan.”
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At least it made sense, so it didn’t feel like he was gratuitously dropped in there. His presence at the end really helped accentuate the urgency leading up to Ep IV, which I appreciated. I didn’t feel like we really needed all that much Tarkin, but regardless I enjoyed seeing him there.
But I hear you, and agree. I’m mildly interested in seeing what Eps VIII and IX do with Luke and Kylo Ren and Leia (insofar as she’s able to be included), but beyond that I don’t need to see another Skywalker ever again. And yeah, I do fear that the sheer volume of SW content is going to eventually and inevitably lead to their Cars 2 moment where the quality takes a serious dip.
I’m remembering how much stuff was written for the old EU. Sure, plenty of it was crap, but then you had most of the books by Zahn and Stackpole and Allston, and even a few pretty decent tales from the old Marvel and Dark Horse comics, and I’m reminded that there’s room for a hell of a lot of great stories in the new SW universe. And I’m heartened that Rogue One proved that a SW movie could be successful even with the Old Cast relegated to the background.
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I’m partial to the “Drambuie” myself, and without the beard, I’m almost always mistaken for being in my mid-30s. Actually, closing in on 50 very soon.
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I’m sorry to go off on a tangent, but why does everyone in Rogue One have metal pens or old school tire pressure gauges on the front of their uniforms? Good guys and bad guys. With specific little pen pockets on their chests or sleeves. The pic of Bail Organa has three of them at an angle. Krennic had one vertical on either side of his chest. Same with Galen Erso’s imperial uniform. Three on the sleeve of Cassian’s coat. One or two in Jyn’s pocket front. BECAUSE WHEN THIS WAR IS OVER, THEY’RE ALL GOING TO RIDE THEIR FIXIES BACK TO THE BIKE SHOP. spoilers
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Like the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s dip in quality?
That’s not even true 
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Costume answer: They’re “greeblies” and Lucas put them in there to make the uniforms look more interesting.
In-universe answer: Code cylinders.
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Some people claim that’s the Enterprise D. It looks like it on the VHS and DVD release, but if you look at the high-def release, it looks more like it’s one of the landing platforms.
Anyway, let’s keep in mind that Bail Organa is royalty on Alderaan and spends much of his time with politics, while Obi-Wan Kenobi has been living much like a hermit on a desert planet.
Anyway, Luke Skywalker is supposed to be 19 in A New Hope. In real life, Mark Hamill was actually 25.
OK, so let’s go with real ages for a second. Ewan McGregor was 33 when he filmed ROTS. Sir Alec Guinness was 62 when he filmed ANH, so 29 years difference. So let’s say Obi-Wan was 33 when he started his self-imposed exile, and he’s living the rough life on Tattooine. The hot, dry weather would dry a person out. To cross stories, in Dune, the Fremen call offworlders “water-fat”.
Another thing: Sir Alec was 63 when he filmed ANH. Jimmy Smits is 61. Different people age differently.
EDIT: Also, um, the Force is a bioelectric field emanated by all living things and can be manipulated by beings which have symbiotic bacteria known as midichlorians in their bloodstreams. A, ah, sonic screwdriver can easily manipulate this field on setting 1138.
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Not for another thirty years anyway?
When a new generation wants to re-exploit the legacy IP again?
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Wow, I was wondering why he got so much screen time and nothing to say.
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And that’s just counting the Jedi younglings, because Obi is a space racist who doesn’t count sand people.
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Two suns. Twice the aging. Did no one see this?? http://www.cbsnews.com/news/trucker-accumulates-skin-damage-on-left-side-of-his-face-after-28-years-on-the-road/
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George Lucas discounted the construction crew deaths when the second Death Star was destroyed, in the audio commentary, with a remark about how they were lizard people, not humans.
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Damn, that’s a pretty insensitive thing to say about Space Italians.
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Is that true? Holy crap. Between that and the “you can’t wear bras in space” bit, I think we can get past the idea of George Lucas being the ultimate Star Wars authority - a universe is gonna be extremely limited if we depend wholly on one imperfect brain.
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