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JJ Abrams to direct Episode IX SIGH. http://variety.com/2017/film/news/j-j-abrams-star-wars-episode-ix-director-colin-trevorrow-1202548094/ Well, we knew it was going to be bad, didn't we? Now we know how bad, and how much to lower our expectations. Now, if you'll pardon me, I don't have a basement...

I'm waiting to find out the Porg's twist. Everyone thinks of Ewoks as cute but they are vicious. Ewoks had planned to cook and eat Han, Luke and Chewie. I like Ewoks. Porgs look cute and sound a little like turkeys mixed with penguins. Ewoks aren't vicious, they're evil[/i. Between them, those self...

Porgs are God's gift to Humanity. The only pure and positive light in an otherwise dark and horrifying world. Don't tell me. Let me guess. You're being held at Skywalker Ranch and they're forcing you to post that, right? Or your account has been hacked, right? RIght? The entire universe can't have ...

And I'm sure even more people will be happy about this! :laugh: I find it difficult to be happy about the sequel trilogy right now because...Porgs. Look like the inbred offspring of Ewoks and penguins. Do we have a "shoot me now" smiley? I can't even find a chin-scratch smiley. :( Oh come on, the P...

So we get another Ep 6 from JJ. Who do they put in the metal bikini? Rey or Finn? :wink: If it's anyone but Rey, and I don't get wind of it ahead of time, I'm bolting from the theater. Frankly, though Daisy Ridley's a pretty girl, I'm not sure she's right for the metal bikini. Horrible thought: Wit...

Kapit wrote: ↑

September 12th, 2017, 2:12 pm

thepepgal wrote: ↑

September 12th, 2017, 1:51 pm

Who do they put in the metal bikini? Rey or Finn?

Poe

Cripes, I just ate. And it seems we have neither a sick or a regurgitation smiley...

Well, pardon me while I barf.

"Cold War," Doctor Who Episode 7.8. Last night I watched the midseason premiere of Fear the Walking Dead, which was more meandering dud than Walking Dead.

Alien: Covenant. What. A. Steaming. Piece. Of. Sith. Came very close to being frisbeed into the backyard.

I reread [iAshenden][/i] by W. Somerset Maugham. Hundred-year-old spy stories. I gather there were more, but Maugham was convinced not to publish/destroy them, the implication being that his intelligence service during World War I was not sufficiently fictionalized in them. Probably be pretty intere...

The X-Files, 4.2: "Home." I had forgotten just how objectionable that episode was.

Could be, but I thought Disney decided to trash all of Lucas's ideas about the ST and go their own way. They can't completely scrap his ideas, since I would imagine, no matter whether they were worth anything or not, they were rooted in existing saga, which is going to push matters along a given pa...

The OS has announced that Colin Trevorrow is no longer directing Ep 9. The Hollywood Reporter is reporting he clashed with Kathleen Kennedy over the script. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/colin-trevorrow-as-director-star-wars-episode-ix-1035463 And I'm sure even more people will be ha...

Lord Tesla wrote: ↑

May 6th, 2017, 3:06 am

Anyone else thinking that #9 might be called Return of the Sith?

That, or "Icks"?

You know, "Icks," spelled Ix? Maybe not.

Hmmm. Guess no one has...

Okay.

I reread The Stars My Destination, by Alfred Bester.

An apple.

The X-Files last night, Episode 3.17, if memory serves: "Pusher."

Before that, Doctor Who, 6.13, again if memory serves: "The Wedding of River Song."

Right now, in the other room, to which I must return, Tucker Carlson Tonight.

Man, Tesla, you were always an acquired taste back in the day on the old boards, but wow....you've evolved into full-out GET OFF MY LAWN mode these days. "Full-out Get Off My Lawn Mode"? No one has to get off my lawn. They know better than to get on it in the first place. ;) I haven't changed much ...

The X-Files, 2.1, "Little Green Men." This is more what I remember the series being.

Last night, it was Doctor Who, 4.7, "The Unicorn and the Wasp." Notable for the presence of Felicity Jones, and being one of the more tolerable Donna Noble episodes.

Tonight's Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D./i].

It's finally picking up a little this season, now that there's only one episode left.

Elementary, two episodes, last night.

Pollo Caprese.

Determination, more than speed. The latter also felt true to what we'd seen from Vader before. If you look at the initial several moves of his, its all within a few steps. He sends their blaster bolts back at them, lifts the one guy up to the ceiling. Cuts down another. Then he slices up at the cei...

I was just looking at the trailer again. I don't think anyone's mentioned the books in this thread. If so, and this has already been addressed, well: Never mind. If not, then... Might those books be the Journal of the Whills? Yes, that is likely (at least some other Jedi literature lost to time). I...

I was just looking at the trailer again. I don't think anyone's mentioned the books in this thread. If so, and this has already been addressed, well: Never mind. If not, then...

Might those books be the Journal of the Whills?

Into the Badlands, 2.8, "Sting of the Scorpion's Tale."

I want to know how they are going to get R2 and C3PO into the film some how Easy. Yoda knew Chewbacca. Chewbacca helped get Yoda safely off--hell, how do you spell that, "Kashyyyk"? "Kerchoo"? (All those in favor of changing the name to "Wookinaar" raise your hands.) Seems likely he's part of the r...

Same thing that happened about six years before Return of the Jedi , only not as much fun. Well, four years before Return of the Jedi , but I agree. Four? 1977 to 1983...six, correct? I think you were doing Internal Chronology Math, while I was doing Release Date Math. ;) I can't say that I was dis...