Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
Run over any mundanes lately? Have a new master plan for world domination of your RPG? Dr. Horrible made it. Now’s your chance.
The Evil League of Evil is now accepting applications to the League. So get out that video camera and be creative, people! (And if you get in, let us know. Or will you have to kill us?)
Okay, I’m not even reading this article (just in case), but SyFyPortal is reporting that Aaron Douglas (aka Chief Tyrol) blabbed some major spoilers for the end of Battlestar Galactica on a radio show.
Was what whatever he said true?! I can’t imagine that Mr. Douglas isn’t contracted up to the gills in non-disclosures. And if Kristin hasn’t jumped on it (since she’s a big ol’ BSG fan), then it’s probably just a bit of teasing. But it’s still fun to speculate while we remain in the eternal hell of the “mid season.”
Tonight! Tonight is the long-awaited showdown between two of the fastest talkers in the business: Michael Shanks and David Hewlett. Yes, Daniel Jackson and Rodney McKay head out on what’s being described as a “heist movie” in tonight’s episode First Contact. (The fact that it represents the mid-season break will not depress me in the least.)
Oh, just go watch “the best [and last] season ever.”
Check out ‘The Prototype’ and two other Star Wars pieces from illustrator Benjamin Carre at ConceptArt.org.
November 11th sees The Clone Wars movie released on DVD – and it’s the first Star Wars movie to make the jump to the new-fangled Blu-Ray format as well. There will be one-disc and two-disc versions of the standard DVD, plus Best Buy exclusive versions of all three. Get all the details at StarWars.com.
TFN reports that a Clone Wars preview special, hosted by Ashley Eckstein and featuring behind-the-scenes content, will be airing on Cartoon Network tomorrow at 8pm. It’ll repeat at 10pm and again Saturday at 2 and 10:30pm.
The sitcom How I Met Your Mother explored that tense moment in every relationship when you have to ask those big questions: “Have you seen Star Wars? And, if so, do you love it as much as I do?”
One of the characters faced that moment. io9 has very conveniently compiled all the critical moments for you.
A limited edition print of Leia in the style of the 80’s favorite artist, Patrick Nagel. Honestly? I’m a little creeped out, and find myself with a strange urge for a corned beef sandwich. (Back in the 80’s, my parent’s favorite deli had a Nagel theme.)
Random House has posted their spring catalog as a PDF, and it includes a blurb (though no cover) for Fate of the Jedi!
Fate of the Jedi launches a huge story arc, with heroic roles for the galaxy’s most beloved characters — Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa Solo, and their surviving children, Ben Skywalker and Jaina Solo. While Luke and Ben set off on the journey of a lifetime — of discovery and hardship, of obstacles and victories—the others remain in more familiar territory, dealing with the aftermath of the civil war that rocked the galaxy in the Legacy of the Force.
Some of that is familiar from early rumors but it’s good to have some sort of official confirmation. (When are the print catalogs sent out, exactly? Could it be the source of the early leak? Plus there are a few recently-revealed things missing, like the title of book 1, Outcast.) We can also expect a seven-city author tour, a “free PDF sampler giveaway,” an “original prequel short story” and a live chat (that’s been a while) on StarWars.com. (No, FateOfTheJedi.com isn’t live yet!)
Millennium Falcon also gets a page, which touts that it will have an excerpt from Outcast. Excerpts in hardcovers? That’s new…