Club Jade

The first episode of Sci-Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible, which premieres Tuesday on the Science Channel, will take a look at lightsabers and a Stargateesque portal. Sure, the History Channel has been-there done-that, but the more the merrier. As for the ones in the pictures… I doubt those are actual plasma tubes, io9.

• The L.A. Time‘s Hero Complex blog has a report from the Egyptian Theatre premiere; More photos at Monsters & Critics.

• George Lucas tells reporters why The Clone Wars was able to forgo most of the prequels’ big-name actors.
• Mental Floss has seven reasons The Clone Wars will be worth seeing. (Snark alert!)
• Scientific American has a lengthy Q&A with The Science of Star Wars author Jeanne Cavelos on the scientific possibilities of The Clone Wars – they also sit down with Dave Filoni.
• Cinematical’s Monday morning poll asks if you’re excited for The Clone Wars. As I type this, it’s 52.9% ‘Nope, not excited at all.’
• Controversy! A (negative) AICN review of the movie was taken down at Lucasfilm’s Warner Brothers’ request.
• Since Rotten Tomatoes still isn’t calculating, here are some reviews from the majors: The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, Empire. We’ll start getting the bulk of them later this week. When I’m on a plane and most of CJ will be getting drunk. Great timing, huh?

Two new commercials: “Brothers” and “Celebration“. Alas, I am on a computer with no Quicktime, but I’m guessing they’re light on Palpy action. There’s also a “Science of Star Wars” special airing on Discovery.

Hayden Christensen is on the cover of tomorrow’s Entertainment Weekly. It appears that this time there may actually be a real article to go with it.

Crazy fans at Grauman’s refuse an offer from George himself to be escorted by Stormies to the ArcLight.

The Scotsman on why Star Wars has universal appeal.

CNN Money explores the financial impact of ROTS on Lucasfilm, theatres, and the toy industry.

From the Christian Science Monitor (via CBS), yet another George Lucas article.

Master Replicas! You want one. Hell, I want one. And it looks like they’ll be making costumes by Halloween…