You can still see the remnants of trying to address the “realism” issue with things like Riker existing at all. Writing in an XO was supposed to divide responsibilities. However if that had been stuck to rigidly, Picard would never be written into many exciting situations.

MACOs on ENT should have logically made Malcolm redundant, but the show kept finding things for him to do.

Sir, this is a Quark’s Bar.

Yes, it’s a 3rd person action game with a jetpack solidly part of Jango’s kit.

I haven’t watched it yet, but RLM tends to dunk on the over politicization by the fandom.

I have never found browbeating people into enjoying something that they don’t to be a successful strategy.

Discussions about why you enjoy something are more successful and simply more positive than trying to ‘gotcha’ people by clawing at them for enjoying/not enjoying something.

There is nothing wrong, and nothing that makes someone a lesser or greater fan about liking or disliking certain parts of a franchise.

I do not like discussions made wholly for the purpose of fan infighting.

Often these media analysis have the same energy as a kid trying to hit the word count on an essay. Just babbling for the sake of it because Salon needs a Star Wars article this week.

That’s the one. It was IG-88A, the original of the four, uploading into the Death Star II.

My first thought is very surface level that I want to see a live action adaption of the Tales Of The Bounty Hunters book. It’s a perfect opportunity to get a variety of directors and to lets each segment really push into different genres. The IG-88 story always stuck with me personally because it has so much going on. IG-88(series) is created as a shady off the books project, which goes wrong for the creators. It’s like a horror movie section with a terminator coming to life. Then it becomes a kind of strange scifi conspiracy with the IG-88s taking over a robot production planet while keeping up appearances. Simultaneously it incorporates bounty hunting and brings in Boba Fett in his classic cold blooded EU incarnation. It’s just fantastic. And much as I gush, the other stories in the book are all interesting in their own ways as well.

After that, since Star Wars is heavily “WW2 in space”, I’d like to see some kind of submarine warfare analog. Perhaps it makes more sense to put the rebels in the shoes of a wolfpack hunting down Imperial supply convoys, and evading their counter measures with wit and luck. Think of all the tense submarine movie cliches and port them into a Star Wars setting. I think it clicks.

These ideas fall short of high concept, high minded examination of deeper things, but they come to mind for me when I think of what I’d be gripped by in Star Wars live action. I’m sure there is a lot more examination that could complement these ideas and fill them out to be more substantial.

This is off topic but your profile picture of an Ian Banks cover looks like a very dramatic Jedi.

Oh no. I can’t think of any small knives showing up in the original trilogy (there were spears, axes, and other melee weapons though), but I don’t think that was out of any kind of ban.

In a lot of legends material, there are knifes being used. In the Thrawn books, which are some of the establishing EU, an officer under Thrawn has his throat slit in front of the crew. Visual depictions of knives, especially vibroblades could be found in games like Knights Of The Old Republic, and Republic Commando.

It’s not a plothole if it’s wormhole.

Star Wars can be brutal when the production feels like it. I was still taken a little out of how overchoreographed the fights seemed, with many moments of total dramatic pauses seemingly so the character could again leap into a sudden action. I want the fight style to break out of this particular strange stylization.

This is a mistake that has apparently just been discovered this month, so answers are thin.

Here is the only decent one I could find:

“What appears to have happened here,” u/itsjustmonty_ reports, “is that the camera traveled slightly too far and somehow no one noticed while cropping the footage.” They include a string of uncompressed shots from the Blu-ray and a wild behind-the-scenes clip that shows a crew member off in the distance while filming the shot roughly 10 seconds in. In other posts, they reiterate that this was not their original discovery and they are simply reposting on Reddit to shed light on something that bubbled up from other corners of Star Wars fandom.

Regarding the real-life identity of Anakin’s overlooker, an early suggestion was that it could be Nash Edgerton, Ewan McGregor’s stunt double.

Link.

Luke Skywalker had a weird wife named Mara Jade

Yes, the old Starr Wars [cool typo] Expanded Universe was a bit of an odd duck, and you can maybe see why Disney shunted it to the side in favor of a new continuity.

The smug flippancy of this writer, good lord. That preamble’s tone towards the EU was entirely unnecessary for an article on a game mod.

Oils are very popular as all over tools because once you get used to them they are quite easy.

Just do any of your acrylic main colors and do a clear varnish. Then the thinned oil paint wash on top, a black or brown color. Oil paints take days to dry, so you have a lot of time to push them around before you’re happy. Then just wait a few days and varnish again.

A black oil wash to really bring out all the details and some silver drybrush or sponging on his blaster would be sick.

In regards to unmasking the Breen and removing the mystery, I think back to the words of Spock: “After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting.”

There it is.

the finest moment in an already immaculate piece of television is all about the ways to enact violence without lifting a single finger

Rude. Garek worked really hard on that plan.

I’m pretty sure the darkest ST episode was Enterprise’s Rogue Planet.

You can’t see a thing!