Battlestar Galactica is the latest Entertainment Weekly cover story. Watch for spoiler bombs, true believers…
My Little Ponies go geek
I wasn’t into Star Wars as a kid – I was all about My Little Pony and Barbie and all that critical mass girlie stuff. So a year or so ago, when I found a picture of Lord Pony, I was amazed and extremely covetous. (Alas, it is not to be.) Today, I found an amazing Alien pony, complete with step-by-step pictorial. Such an oddly compelling combination…
Other custom ponies of interest: Yoda, Spock, gargoyle, Borg, punk, and Masque of the Red Death (one of a series!)
Forget Transformers, LFL – here’s a crossover toy I would buy!
Umm… Lasers?
How to blow up a star. Also, I just realized how silly the name Sun Crusher really is… Also: Tycho! (via SF Signal)
Teh cute
Points for random bizarrity: Darth Vader flowergirl.
TFN thread of the indeterminate time period
“The biggest problem with Star Wars books today.” The real meat of the matter comes from Carnage04 a little more than halfway down, and it boils down to a simple fact: you can’t please everyone. (And that goes double for TFN.)
Weird things on the Wookieepedia
Spaceballs: The Animated Series
We’ve heard it all before
Mark Beall at Cinematical talks about the prequel trilogy, at length. Nothing new, really – the entertaining part is the commentary over at Big Dumb Object:
I’m so sick of this. No one seems to understand. Let me spell it out (hopefully for the last time).
When you saw the original Star Wars films you were a child. Children love the new Star Wars films. Your expectations of the prequel films are not that of a child.
A bit harsh, maybe – Beall isn’t all that obnoxious, on the grand scale of fanboy obnoxiousness. (It goes to eleven.) But true enough. And as a ‘hardcore’ fan, I really don’t see why it’s so hard to just shrug off the prequel films if you don’t adore them. I certainly didn’t enjoy them as much as the OT, but I don’t feel the need splooge over fandom because of it. They’re just… there. They were a good excuse to gather and do fun fannish stuff. And snark. Very, very good for snark. But why continue to dwell on the bitterness?
And can we please drop the ‘true fan’ crap already? You don’t have to adore everything about Star Wars to be a ‘real’ fan, otherwise most of CJ would have been disqualified the moment the notion of a burgerpult entered our heads. (Looong before TPM.) There is NO SUCH THING as a ‘true fan’ or ‘true fanboy.’ You like the movies? ANY of the movies? You’re a fan. It’s not an all or nothing situation. Star Wars is much too large, both as a franchise and a fandom, for such a mindset to be practical. So, yes: deal.
ANH: Now with more dinosaur!
A complete guide to the changes made to Star Wars IV: A New Hope.
Crude and kind of in-jokey, but there are a few that made me laugh out loud, including this: “Enterprise added to improve continuity with The Next Generation.”
Come with me if you want to live
I admit, I tried to ignore this one. Bad blogger. Last week, TV Guide writer Michael Ausiello was talking to Edward Furlong (The kid from T2, remember?) and he expressed a possible interest in the Star Wars TV series.
Erm… Please, no. Please.