Tobar

Going to chime in and agree that the RO soundtrack topped TFA. I adore Williams but he hasn’t had a strong soundtrack since at least 2002.

The Return of Doctor Mysterio

Well I was very pleasantly surprised. From the outside the premise sounded really stupid but they made it work. Loved the humor. It was a bit odd in that this didn’t really feel like a Christmas special but a regular episode of the series. Hopefully Moffat’s last season maintains this level of quality. If it does, he’ll go out on a high note.

Basically she found this article and it depressed her. And then she took offense at what Gareth said about why they used a body double.

Is anybody decaying, death marching ever closer? Are the sands of time so cruel that they should be arrested. Sent to a cardiac beach? Get CGI, perspective. Deal with it.

“People have aged so much that you can’t even get them to do the motion capture." - As though these folks are disobedient. Auditions are held. Gary(I) didn’t get cast.

Ugh, I’m praying she pulls through. Her last couple of tweets are very sad.

The Star Wars Tales comics had a nice mix of different and fun never-canon stories.

Can never go wrong with the newspaper comic strip.

Yeah, my gut says this is an upscale. Perhaps a monstrous hybrid.

generalfrevious said:

This should disturb any rational, clear thinking person.

So you’re fine with it then?

I saw one dude whose girlfriend had never seen a Star Wars film before. Rogue One was her first and she was excited when told they could watch the sequel when they got home.

MalàStrana said:

Tobar said:

MalàStrana said:

If he really wanted the plans he could have got them with the Force. The scene is totally dumb.

That’s assuming he knew one of the soldiers had the plans.

Could have been done very differently. All the set up of the scene is problematic. Like Leia and the Tantive IV being there the entire space battle… in a ship that was collapsing ! Leia could have been far away while receiving the transmission from the “sinking” ship, not directly within the sinking ship ! Also it would have been more consistent with the opening of ANH.

Now that I agree with. She should have been on her way to Tatooine when their ship received the plans.

MalàStrana said:

If he really wanted the plans he could have got them with the Force. The scene is totally dumb.

That’s assuming he knew one of the soldiers had the plans.

ROTS literally has him slaughtering children but a hallway of soldiers is a step too far?

You guys have some weird ideas. Anyway, let us not forget that the soldiers were the ones that fired first.

Vader’s objective is to prevent the Tantive from leaving before he can search it for the plans. Had those soldiers stood down and let him pass he probably would have let them live.

His eyes are the most important element to me.

Homecoming costume brings warm feelings to my heart:

Anchorhead said:

Rogue One brings back that seriousness. The last thirty minutes or so with Jyn on the tower, while the battle for the shield rages on above, is pure Star Wars. It’s the gantry scene in Empire coupled with the space battle from Return. I felt like I was home again.

^ This.

New podcast interview with a camera man that worked on the Special:
http://www.earwolf.com/episode/the-star-wars-holiday-special-with-larry-heider/

Included are some very rare behind the scenes photos.

I wish they would have posted a screencap of the Ghost parked at Yavin. You get a real nice look at the front of the ship.

Awesome! Though I wonder if they’ll be reprinting all of the Sunday strips in color. When Dark Horse put out Classic Star Wars they weren’t able to locate any of Manning’s color strips. So they ended up doing their own revisionist color job. Would be fantastic to see them as they were meant to be.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Of course he didn’t have sex with her. He’s a self-fertilizing hermaphrodite with no external genitalia; he literally couldn’t have sex with her.

Foreplay, on the other hand. . . .

Actually…

They literally advocated for the removal of “that space battle $#@%.”

Can review shows jump the shark? =P