Star Wars in the news

Bryan Young defends the prequel trilogy at perhaps one of the last places one would expect such a thing – The Huffington Post. If he was at CIV, I think I may have asked him (or his son) a trivia question or two…

Also, among the things we missed due to C4, Empire’s special Star Wars section, including a marathon interview with George Lucas, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher. Whoops.

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A New Crew In Town: Clever Battlestar Galactica filk. Why is Baltar the only one with an English accent?

Return of the Jedi Extended Scene. Wasn’t there a Robot Chicken sketch like this once?

The real reason Christopher Eccleston quit Doctor Who.

For the Karrdes: Leia Live at ConnectiCon 2006. Also: Stuff blowing up real good.

TFN’s fake Episode II trailer. Remember this? It has Christopher Walken!

The rest of the garbage

When fanboys attack (each other)

I waffled back and forth on this one – while certainly relevant to fandom, these interviews with Star Wars spoilerfolks get pretty obscure if you weren’t a part of the spoiler scene. (Let’s put it this way: Once the discussion gets past TFN, Jedinet, Starwarz, etc, even I fail to recognize half of the sites being discussed. And I was by no means spoiler-free.)

Joshua Griffin, surprisingly, makes the best impression; T’bone, for all he denies it, comes off like someone hauling around a very bad case of sour grapes; Fatboy Roberts has the most interesting historical perspective; there’s one more yet to go, but although I remember Episode X I have no clue who this Tai person is, so I’ll just let it go.

But whatever your position, the interviews form an intriguing look at one of fandom’s more cutthroat periods.