Always strive to learn something useful. --Sophocles

I did it by unsubscribing from Lucas emails! That's two Disney email series that I've received and unsubscribed from in as many weeks. I'M ON A ROLL! :-)

I grew increasingly disappointed by the movies and maintain that Episodes 4-6 were the best. I liked the first two seasons of Mandalorian, grew increasingly disappointed with whatever the Boba Fett series is, aside from kind of a hot mess IMHO. Personally, I probably wouldn't bother with the new Obi Wan series except Russet is in the "He's a pretty boy!" fan club, so we'll probably be watching that. She asked me about the status of our subscription this morning and she's also interested in Moon Kannnnnigit.

May the Fourth be another day on the calendar preceding the Fifth and following the Third.

Just refresh the page for a new card so you can have plenty for your friends!

https://www.darthsanddroids.net/bingo/Episode9/

The site is for the Darth and Droids web comic, where they screen cap the movies and ruthlessly turn them into a desktop role-playing game session.

It is ridiculously funny.

Right now they're playing with the Muppet Show which Mark Hammill appeared on, which turned into a Star Wars special of some sort, which I never saw.

I wonder if it might be a demonstration sport at the Olympics there in five years!

From the article: "Combatants fight inside a circle marked in tape on the floor. Strikes to the head or body are worth five points; to the arms or legs, three points; on hands, one point. The winner is the first to reach 15 points or, if they don’t get there quickly, the fighter with the higher score after three minutes is the victor. If both fighters reach 10 points, the bout enters a “sudden death” stage, in which the first to land a head or body blow wins."

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/feb/19/light-saber-duelling-official-sport-france-star-wars

I'm getting more interested.

One thing that's nice about having a mid-December birthday is that LOTS of awesome movies come out right on or around my birthday. It makes for some great presents.

http://www.wired.com/2015/10/star-wars-force-awakens-trailer-2/

May the Fourth be with you!

I hope Disney doesn't muck up the new series, I guess we'll find out. I'm a little paranoid about them getting Ford, Hamill, and Fisher back. That series started almost forty years ago, I remember seeing it as a teen in Phoenix. I know Harrison Ford is looking very craggy, saw him on Craig Ferguson a couple of weeks ago, and Carrie put on a lot of weight. Going to be interesting seeing Han and Leia as retired people. I have no idea what Hamill looks like these days, he mainly went to voice acting for a long time.

We watched the Abrams' Star Trek movie last night as a refresher as the new one opens really soon, and to be honest, I still find it kinda *meh*, and I'm not sure why. The characters are kinda cool, especially Simon Pegg, as limited as his appearance was. The Kirk/Spock characters really didn't grab me, I think Kirk just struck me as an arrogant jerk, but at least I could see his evolving arc a little more clearly.

I'll definitely see the new movie, and the new Star Wars movie whenever it releases, but what I really want is to buy the original Star Trek collections, which will cost about $100 for all three seasons. *sigh* Maybe one of these days I'll get a job.


Tonight or tomorrow: Iron Man 3! W00ties!

Very cool stuff. Very strange stuff. I had hoped that the season 2 DVD collection would have them, but they didn't.

http://www.adultswim.com/shows/robotchicken/stuff/rcsw/ivcp/index.html