The Galactic Senate

"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 Ashenden 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 interesting r...

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 cha...

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.) S...

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...

I rewatched Humans, episode 1.8, thinking to perhaps add season 2 to my viewing schedule next week.

I have to confess I haven't done much reading or viewing concerning the creation of TFA since the film opened, so maybe this has already been addressed somewhere, in which case excuse me repeating the topic. That said, has anyone else thought that the name "Ren" might be derived from the J...

Same thing that happened about six years before Return of the Jedi, only not as much fun.

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

That, or "Icks"?

By Jove, it is the Day! May the Fourth be with you! Should we sing the Yub-Nub Song now?

There are some very weird references in it, some political, some not (last week, there was an ESB reference), but they make me wonder. Makes you wonder...? Makes me wonder if they haven't got a clue what to do next, so they're killing time with references and homages while they try to figure out wh...