Tag: Star Wars

Petition To Allow George Lucas Back To Star Wars

Seriously? There’s news that someone’s put together a petition to have George Lucas direct Episode IX.

I can only assume that the author of the petition hasn’t seen the prequel movies or listened to any of the dialogue within them. I love Star Wars and, by and large, really enjoyed Episode VII even though I’d spent the previous year saying I didn’t want to see Han Solo in his 70s (I was wrong about that, by the way) but having Lucas return to direct Episode IX?

Are You Joking

The totally unrelated picture above comes from Bryan Talbot’s excellent Grandville Noël which I had as a Christmas present and when I saw that picture yesterday, I thought “Must save that – it’ll come in handy for a blog post when someone suggests something ridiculous on the internet.” One day later . . .

Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Review

Mrs Earth-Prime and I went to the five past midnight showing of the new Star Wars film last night and, after getting home at 3am, crashing out catching up on some sleep, here’s my review.

Be warned – this will contain spoilers so here’s a large picture you can scroll beyond if you want to read them.

Jaxxon

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Waiting For Star Wars

Episode VII

I am currently avoiding the internet (and any potential spoilers in reviews following the world première) until I see Star Wars at five past midnight tomorrow.

That is all.

That’s No Princess!

Nice article on the BBC News website today about how difficult it is to find toys or action figures of female characters from popular films. The most recent example, as mentioned in the article, was the clear lack of Black Widow figures following this year’s Avengers movie – she plays a big role throughout and yet, no toy.

It’s a problem that needs to be addressed and will hopefully get better – I’m not a parent but I have two young nephews who are just getting into Star Wars and this weekend I was looking to pick something up for them. Tons of stuff from the earlier films and plenty of Kylo Ren stuff from Episode VII but Rey – one of, it not the principal character – was nowhere to be found.

However, and not wishing to make light of the subject, a couple of things did make me smile; first, this line:

Wonder Woman – the world’s most prominent female hero – is also not immune. She once disappeared from a set of Justice League sheets, ironically replaced by notorious bed wetter Aquaman.

Ha! Aquaman still gets no respect!

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