12/19/23 — Open 6-9p. Mask recommended. No open containers, please.
Table-top role-playing games, and entertaining books of knowledge, secrets, & pop-ups can entertain kids of many ages for the holidays, but... be cautious with the fancier books, to keep them in good order.
I’m reading Star Wars Ahsoka (trying to finish my books TBR this month) and I must say I really like her. It’s an interesting character and a nice addition to SW stellar crew. But I think it’s so upsetting all this discourse of “not being a Jedi” just because she doesn’t belong to the Jedi Temple Studio 54. So, to be a Jedi you must be a member of a country club and that’s it? #starwars#ahsoka#books#reading@bookstodon
That’s so uncannon and go so against the very core of Star Wars. We all have learn that Luke is a Jedi. “Return of the Jedi” means something to anyone? Luke even restored the Jedi Order in EU (what they call Legends now). I know it’s an identity issue for her, but it really is… boring. #starwars#ahsoka#books#reading@bookstodon
@factolvictor@bookstodon One of the most interesting aspects of her character. She walks a different path and if you read/watch her story it's easy to see how she got her. It's great. #starwars#ahsoka
4 years ago today, I was holding my nose and watched #TheRiseOfSkywalker on its German premiere. Was really fun to have a few days advance knowledge over the Americans about the HOT MESS they were unaware of. This movie is #StarWars at its least ambitious, most cowardly, most cynical, most... content, most Disney. It's an empty shell of a movie that throws away everything TLJ offered it. In a way I'm not even angry, I'm just disappointed.
⭐️ Battle Star Galactica
⭐️ The Expanse
⭐️ Star Trek: The Next Generation
⭐️ Raised by Wolves
⭐️ Foundation
⭐️ Star Wars: The Mandalorian
⭐️ Star Wars: Andor
⭐️ Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi
⭐️ Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett
Now onboard:
⭐️ Star Trek: Deep Space 9
⭐️ For all Mankind
The great science fiction writer Leigh Brackett was #BOTD
The “Queen of Space Opera” wrote SF/F for the pulps of the 1940s and 1950s. In 1944 she wrote her first mystery novel, which came to the attention of legendary director Howard Hawks. When Hawks needed help on an adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s ‘The Big Sleep’…
But instead of heading to Hollywood after the end of the pulps, Edmond ended his long career at DC Comics. She died from cancer in 1978, but not before turning in the first draft script for what would become “The Empire Strikes Back!” Although her script was rewritten by others, many key elements remain.
...he told his secretary to "get this guy Brackett." She then left for Hollywood, leaving a half-finished tale for Planet Stories 'Lorelei of the Red Mist'. She asked her emerging writer friend to complete it for her, which Ray Bradbury did seamlessly. Her husband was another SF/F writer of the era, Edmond Hamilton.
@ColesStreetPothole@allstartrek
I went and watched the 1st episode of #TheCloneWars season 6, and even when the droids surrender, the Republic clones seem to enjoy destroying them.
It's a weird coincidental fictional progression of:
Data in #StarTrekTNG taking such care of potentially new artificial life, to
the #StarTrekDS9 episode where Sisko is suddenly cool with using horrendous subspace mines, to
This is one of my favorite Star Wars books. I’ve always liked the way Michael Stackpole writes. In this book we can also see how the next generation of Skywalker is equally powerful, but not invincible. It’s worth it. #starwars#thenewjediorder#swnjo#eu#legends@bookstodon
The thing with #Ahsoka is that Thrawn is obviously some badass empire dude who was so evil he was banished to some galaxy only reachable by massive space whales, but unless you're the geekiest of #StarWars nerds then you're like "if Thrawn was such a stalwart of the Empire, where was he in the original trilogy?"
Seeing "Clone Wars"-era Anakin and Ahsoka in live action feels strange. I'm so used to them in animated form.
I was struck by how much younger "Clone Wars" Ahsoka seems in live action. The Jedi throwing an untrained child into battle—in a leadership position, no less—was unconscionable.
For all I like #Ahsoka I do worry a little that it's by far the most intra-referential show yet for nu-#StarWars. Like to get the most from it you need to have seen TCW, Rebels, Mando + played at least Fallen Order, + read Zahn's books and I wonder how sustainable a model that is
I’m enjoying #Ashoka a little more with Ep 3. Fun action. I didn’t watch Clone Wars or Rebels, so I’m sure there is a lot I’m missing.
I thought some of the “A New Hope” callbacks were a little on the nose, but I didn’t mind them at all (e.g., Force training with the blast helmet, rookie in the tail gunner spot).