I’m extremely angry with LF rn. That whole “The Fett standalone is 100% not happening and you should focus on The Mandalorian” thing KK said today. Not only is that the second time it’s been cancelled, it’s not even the first time this year I’ve gotten my hopes up for Boba Fett and had them shattered. And I am not touching that show until I know for sure whether or not he’s involved somehow. I’m not getting my hopes up again.

KK being KK again again, eh? I’ve been wary since John Favreau referenced Boba and Jango in the mockup crawl for The Mandalorian, thinking he might be using the Fett name to prop up a white protagonist by association with familiar names. Like you, I’m not getting my hopes up.

You missed the point of Mr. Yoda. The joke is that people SHOULD notice a human man is green, but don’t for some reason. Instead they make a big deal out of his below average height, which is completely normal. Kind of like asking why a talking horse has a funny-looking nose.

Well then I’ve actually gotten right to the heart of the joke, haven’t I? 😂

And now I have books on socialisst feminism theory in my reading list for the novel. I suppose it was always a matter of time, with female characters and domestic work being such important parts of the story. I want to kill the idea that only activities like hunting and fighting are worthwhile while housework, foraging and raising children are boring and unimportant–and, even more problematically, that the women who do these traditionally feminine things are boring and unimportant. That’s just a sneaky form of misogyny, that the only way women can be worthy is if they do things deemed as traditionally male and therefore worthwhile, but if they do girl things they’re just like other girls and so can’t be heroes.

I wonder if Solo 2 and 3 would have been infinitely better than Solo. But as TLJ demonstrated, maybe Lucasfilm doesn’t do well with improving on flawed but promising starts and we should be glad we’re only being told one third of Han’s story.

I mean back-loading the awesome is a terrible strategy with any kind of media but particularly in movies, since a weak first installment makes sequels that much less likely. No one has the patience to sit through a bad first part on the promise that it gets better from there. You make the first part awesome and THEN make it even better from there. Even if the end is kinda meh much will be forgiven on the strength of a good beginning and middle, see the original trilogy. The prequel trilogy was the opposite, a weak start with a much stronger finish, but with a start like TPM the prequels would never have gotten to the third movie if they weren’t Star Wars saga movies.

One of the asks you got reminded me of this video (youtube) /watch?v=pORNNBE4YVE

Rian: Ooh wait wait idea time, what if instead of putting a background on a green screen we just left it blank? LF: No, that’s lazy. Make it red so people don’t notice. Rian: Great! And then, can I burn it so the audience can see all the scaffolding?

He’s so avawnt guarrduh!

Prager U seems evil.

At first I thought it was an actual university course at first but nah, it turns out to be a right-wing propaganda outlet.

Excerpt from my WIP: Mr. Yoda was the Japanese man who lived down the hall. Like the character he shared a name with, he was short, green, and spoke English funny. He often attracted confused looks because of his height.

Why is a Japanese Mr. Yoda green?

I love what the new Star Wars is doing with TOR, especially since they haven’t touched it enough to ruin it. Only complaint is that Snoke isn’t tied into it and Revan isn’t canon again yet. But Tarre Vizsla? Lord Momin? The Scourge of Malachor? Frickin’ awesome world building going on. I feel like they’ve gotta do a comic sometime soon.

I certainly hope so!

Yeah, if Ben Solo wasn’t scared of the dark side, he’d basically be Palpatine. People like Momin aren’t afraid of the dark side, so they basically become Sith at age six. But Ben’s fascination with darkness is caused by an inferiority complex rather than sociopathy, so he has emotions that conflict with his fascination. His arc is about shaping himself into a sociopath so that he can satisfy his inferiority complex.

If anything he seems to have way too much entitlement going on. I agree he’s not sociopathic in the clinical sense: he’s perfectly capable of distinguishing between good and evil, he just chooses to do evil. He doesn’t seem to have a personality disorder or a mental illness other than perpetration trauma, he just has the wrongful belief that he is entitled to use others as a means for his own ends. I think his arc is about overcoming his remaining scruples so he can resolve this conflict in his beliefs in favor of sense of entitlement.