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Loved it. They definitely brought their 'A' game!

There's one Jedi, Kanan.

The kid is an orphan with Force sensitivity.

Obi-wan only appears in a prerecorded message and there has been NO indication that Yoda will be appearing.

As for villains, there is one Imperial Inquisitor who weilds a lightsaber. He is not a Sith nor a Dark Jedi.

Kotaku is a cesspit.

The Giver (2014)

A bit of an uneven outing. Able to evoke emotion out of the audience some of time but not every time and certainly not when it matters the most. Fairly decent up until the end.

The Maze Runner (2014)

What a fantastic film. Excellent plot, writing, pacing and decent performances.   It accomplishes everything it sets out to. I really hope this does well at the box office. Definitely recommend it.

You keep saying there are JediS. There's a single Jedi and he keeps his saber hidden and only uses it under extreme circumstances.

You make it sound like the show is about a squad of renegade Jedi.

Wedge, Dak, Biggs....

Jeph Loeb recently did a radio interview for KFI 640 AM in Los Angeles where he touched on Daredevil:

"When I watched The Avengers, which is really one of my favorite movies, during the scene when the sky opens up, the Chitauri are coming and there's a giant battle over by Grand Central Station, even in the theater I was thinking, 'In the true Marvel Universe if you go about ten blocks over and an avenue down, there's a place called Hell's Kitchen and in that world are characters like Daredevil and Jessica Jones and Luke Cage, Hero for Hire, and those characters are not going to be involved in an inter-warfare-universe-colliding incident,'" Loeb said. "That's what the Avengers do and they do it really, really well and those movies are incredible. We wanted to have an opportunity to be able to tell stories about our street-level heroes and how that they could possibly interact in the world of Marvel without it feeling like it's completely detached and by the same token feeling like it's part of that world. And it's very much how it is in the comics, which is that Daredevil -- yes, one could argue that at some point he's been an Avenger but hey, you know, the reality is that so has everybody else [laughs]. The idea is that this is the world of people who are there to protect the neighborhood and if you believe in the neighborhood the way you believe in the planet then the emotional context is just strong."

"When we started talking to our actors and to our directors, this is with all due respect to the film, if you want to know what we're not doing, go watch the movie. If you want to know what we're doing, it's very much steeped in the world of the comics, but it also has a life of its own and that's really what television and our films really do is that we take the best....We hope and we're very confident that this is the beginning of something that's very exciting on Netflix."

Source

For the first time, Official Pix is offering officially licensed photos for Clive Revill in The Empire Strikes Back.

I doubt these are GOUT sourced:

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Telltale's The Walking Dead Season 2 (2014)

Finally finished the Second Season. =(

Darth Lars said:

That is why I say that I think that Lucasfilm would be disrespectful to the fans if they just ditched the post-ROTJ EU continuity outright.

 That's precisely what they've done and why everything is now Legends.

You're playing a dangerous game.

canofhumdingers said:

Perhaps the old x-wings were already just that - old - at the battle of Yavin? It would make sense that a rag tag band of rebels fighting the government doesn't have access to the latest and greatest military technology and instead has to scrounge whatever old junk they can get their hands on.

I'm not disagreeing with you in the fact that I, too, would love to see the classic x-wings in some capacity alongside the new ones. I'm just pointing out that there are some very valid counter arguments to your reasoning and that the new x wings do have a reasonable explanation using "real world" logic.

You seem to be saying that their appearance should remain unchanged in the thirty or so years between the OT and episode 7 b/c that's what happens to aircraft in the real world. I'm saying that, one: that's not entirely accurate and aircraft (commercial and military) DO have significant modifications to their appearance over time - even if the old models are still hanging around when the new ones come out; and two: you're implying by your first assumption that the rebels' ships in the OT were relatively new which I think is a very poor and illogical assumption for the reasons I already stated and this is backed up by the fact that they look freaking old, beat up, and worn out already at the battle of Yavin.

I love the original x-wing and really hope to see it onscreen again. When the new x-wing was revealed I was a bit disappointed at first. But having this conversation has made me realize that it actually makes much more sense to have new and updated x-wings than to have the same old ships still hanging around in large numbers. And so now I'm actually warming up to the new design quite a bit. But I hope maybe Luke at least still flys the same old ship he blew the Death Star to bits with! I mean, who would get rid of that ride after something like that!?

 ^Yes. That entire post.

Darth Lars said:

I think that a decision to rub out the existence of Mara Jade, Jacen, Jaina, Anakin Solo and Ben Skywalker would be a giant middle-finger to the Star Wars fan community.
Outside the little group of "Original Trilogy Only" die-hards on this and other movie-oriented forums, there is a great community of Star Wars fans out there who have embraced the dozens and dozens of books that have been published since the Thrawn Trilogy.

I do expect some things to be pulled from the EU into canon - which has happened before - , but we don't know anything yet about anything because nothing of Episode VII's plot has been disclosed yet.

I don't expect anyone to care about the specific stories, and about various side characters, though. Also, people wouldn't mind if some details are different or of some of the character traits of the Solo and Skywalker children were different.

 They wouldn't have done what they did to the EU unless their hand was forced. I can guarantee you right now that VII will completely contradict everything that has happened postROTJ before now.

The biggest indicator of which is that from the evidence we've seen the Solo's only have one child. I doubt her name will be Jaina but we'll see about that.

darklordoftech said:

The new movies should be able to tell their own story, not be beholden to another story.

 Sounds like something you-know-who might have said while the prequels were being written.

point5 said:

I've been trying to think of any Disney animations and movies that have explored dark themes or had dark moments.

 Gargoyles (1994)

The creator of this series is now an Executive Producer on Rebels.

People's pets brought back to life in the dead of night who then go on a killing rampage.

I saw it coming a parsec away knowing that the new trilogy was being based on an outline from GL.

Despite what the EU fanatics have come to believe, George has always maintained that the EU was not his and he was not beholden to it.

George Lucas said:

Once Vader dies, he doesn't come back to life, the Emperor doesn't get cloned and Luke doesn't get married.

Which is fine with me. A lot of the EU is just terrible. I liked the basic outline of Luke rebuilding the Jedi Order post-ROTJ but the execution of it left a lot wanting.

If what we've heard is true in regards to Luke's life after ROTJ in this new trilogy, I gotta say I'm a little disappointed. Why wait so long?

It seems like George might be recycling the original ideas he had for Luke's sister and using them for Luke now. Which leaves me feeling a little apprehensive.

Pet Sematary (1989)

That was MESSED UP. Not what I thought it was about at all.

New promo for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 2

Meh, you're far better off sticking to the graphic novel. The adaptation is pretty faithful but they completely muff a few iconic scenes/lines.

Warbler said:

But everyone seems to think it is bad.

 I didn't, I thought it was great. Most Batfanatics regard it as one of the best Batman stories of all time. I don't know that I'd go that far but I thought it was a good story.

The showrunner for Daredevil recently came out of the woodwork:

Paste: With Spartacus—and also with Joss’s work—every time you have a battle scene or an action sequence, you have to balance it with emotional character development. From a writing perspective, how do you approach that?

DeKnight: The character stuff is the important part of it. The action part of it, I always feel like anybody can really write action. It’s not that hard you just need a blueprint to tell the stunt team where they’re going, and let them take it from there. The most important part of any action scene, was the question, What are the emotional stakes of the action scene? It’s got to propel the story, and illuminate the characters. That was especially true in Buffy and Angel with the action and the monster of week. It was a metaphor and something to shine a light on what our characters were going through.

Paste: I talked with George Mastras about Breaking Bad, and he said something that could also apply to working on Daredevil—Every time the character wins, he also has to lose a little bit. When you’re handling a superhero, how do you think about his arc?

DeKnight: With this version of Daredevil, we wanted it to be grounded, gritty, as realistic as we could portray. That naturally fits in with the Daredevil character. Matt Murdock, on a regular basis, would get the shit beat out of him. That’s one thing that makes him a great character. He’s not super strong. He’s not invulnerable. In every aspect, he’s a man that’s just pushed himself to the limits, he just has senses that are better than a normal humans. He is human. The other thing that really drew me to this character is that he’s one of the most morally grey of the heroes.

Paste: How so?

DeKnight: He’s a lawyer by day, and he’s taken this oath. But every night he breaks that oath, and goes out and does very violent things. The image that always stuck in my mind was the Frank Miller Elektra run where he’s holding Bullseye over the street, and he lets Bullseye go because he doesn’t want Bullseye to ever kill anyone again. When I read that originally, when I was young, I’d never seen anything like that in comics. Superman scoops up the villain and puts them in jail. This time the hero didn’t do that. It was a morally grey ground that I found absolutely fascinating. There are two sides to this character. He’s literally one bad day away from becoming the The Punisher! Frank Castle went just a little bit further than he did. Daredevil has no qualms about beating the hell out of somebody. He’s not going to tie them up with his webs! He’ll come close to killing somebody. And it’s that fine edge—Why doesn’t he go all the way? I really liked the flawed heroes, the human heroes.

full interview here

Well I'm intrigued!

unamochilla2 said:

darklordoftech said:

unamochilla2 said:

If the Inquisitors existed during the OT, then where were they this whole time?  Why weren't they working with the Empire?

Same place as Thrawn, Mara Jade, and Jerec. If equating not appearing to not existing isn't world shrinkage, I don't know what is.

Well, so far, those characters aren't canon according to Disney and they probably won't be.  Inquisitor existing in Rebels and Episode VII would make their existence canon.

Just because they weren't depicted doesn't mean they weren't around.

Oh and apparently your publisher's been trying to contact you.

Carthage said:

During the part where Luke is blasting off in his ship to Bespin, Obi wan is talking to Yoda and says "He's our only hope", Yoda says "No there is another". What exactly did he mean by that? Was he referring to Luke's course of action and how it would change, or that there was another way to do things?

 The lines were as follows:

YODA

(sighs) Told you, I did. Reckless is he. Now matters are worse.

BEN

That boy is our last hope.

YODA

(looks up) No. There is another.

The context of this conversation is just after Luke rushed off to help his friends against their advice to stay and finish his training.

Remember Yoda was against his training but Obi-wan insisted. In Obi-wan's eyes Luke was their only hope in defeating the Emperor and Vader. Not knowing Yoda's secret about there being another Skywalker. Which he presumably reveals to Obi-wan offscreen following this scene.

During the writing of ESB, George had originally planned for a nine episode saga that could be stretched out to twelve if the box office was good enough.

Episode VII was originally going to be about Luke going off into the galaxy to find his long lost sister. But, after the stress of the ESB production Lucas decided to just cap the series off after just three. Which is why they shoehorned in the whole Leia is his sister stuff at the last minute.