The first of several clips collected on Youtube exploring the connection between George and mythology scholar Joseph Campbell.
Another sneak peek at ‘Children of the Force’
A clone-centric bit from tonight’s episode. And on that note, the ForceCast has posted their Clone Wars Roundtable for ‘Holocron Heist’ and ‘Cargo of Doom.’
Trek Talk – It’s the story, stupid
Well, you knew you couldn’t interview JJ Abrams and Leonard Nimoy about Fringe and not start talking about Star Trek.
Leonard Nimoy talks about what makes good science fiction and what’s wrong with these sci-fi kids today. (Spock Prime. Hee.)
Speaking of story, JJ says that they’re starting to tackle the next script. They want to have fun going through old storylines, but not make it too inaccessible to those who haven’t been watching it the entire forty years.
They talk about Fringe, too….
The Clone Wars kids around with ‘Children of the Force’
After last week’s season premiere two-parter, we are back to single half-hour episodes of Star Wars: The Clone Wars – this week’s episode is “Children of the Force”. With a major story arc underway involving the list of every Force-sensitive child in the galaxy now in Cad Bane’s hands (and presumably, soon in Darth Sidious’ hands), the danger level has been ratcheted up.
Getting ready for this week’s episode “Children of the Force”, starwars.com has their placeholder episode guide and an interview with Ian Abercrombie, the voice of Darth Sidious on The Clone Wars, and who was at the first screening of Star Wars at Graumann’s Chinese Theater in May 1977. Examiner.com gives us a peek with the clip above where Darth Sidious details his plans.
Still catching up from last week? Check out Dave Filoni’s video commentary on “Holocron Heist” (Jocasta Nu and her impostor’s fighting style) and “Cargo of Doom” (Depicting the torture and death of Balla Ropal). Despite this season’s darker themes, the voice stars of the show reflect on how The Clone Wars is great for family discussions by giving lessons on life and morality in this video.
Dave Filoni gives dose.ca a big interview on Season Two, getting hired at Lucasfilm and not getting sick of Star Wars.
and for those wanting a little more The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes fun, starwars.com has a quick video on how to hijack and control a super battle droid. an online Clone Weapons Training game. The video game came out on Tuesday for pretty much every platform.
Video: George Lucas at Star Wars: In Concert in L.A.
Gate Geek: Doctor Jackson, I presume
The part of SGU that people universally wanted more of has arrived. The official site has Dr. Jackson‘s Stargate Tutorial on their site.
Okay, not the many hours of Stargate theory promised, but still funny.
And speaking of Stargate alum, Amanda Tapping has now been sufficiently harassed by her Stargate and Sanctuary families to get on Twitter.
Also, in anticipation of Friday’s episode, GateWorld talks to David Blue (Eli).
Vote again for the Death Troopers fan trailer
One of the finalists one in violation of the rules and so they’re starting over… The first, above, has my vote.
A new glimpse of Star Wars: Visions
StarWars.com isn’t saying much, but they did reveal a new Obi-Wan portrait by Donato Giancola.
The Tauntaun sleeping bag is coming! Really!
A prank no more! ThinkGeek (newly redesigned!) will be selling their internet-famous Tauntaun Sleeping Bag for real come November. Or you could win one in their Geeky Pumpkin Template Design Contest Extravaganza.
My first inkling of this was a tweet from Lucasfilm’s Leland Chee (@HolocronKeeper,) who also confirmed that a (licensed) lightsaber Wii remote will soon be available. Okay, so the Wii thing is old news, but my memory isn’t what it used to be… At least not for game peripherals.
Everything old is new again in concept art
Any excuse for a gallery, and this time io9’s is concept art that reimagines the greatest space epics. The Star Wars offerings are the best of the bunch, naturally.