Star Wars: Fannish Rambling on Moot Points

Yeah, it’s Lucas’ world, and we just watch it. Still….

Dave has already written a review of Revenge of the Sith, which spurred lively discussion, and even one suggestion that Lucas perhaps shouldn’t write and direct these things. Let’s face it: the visuals are stupendous, and the emotional scenes, generally, stupid.

So…. Just for fun, let’s play Monday Night Quarterback, or How to Unfairly Belabor a Moot Point. Come on! Bureauites’ ideas for Enterprise awhile back were cool. If you were setting up the three prequels (with knowledge of the actual three films, of course), what would you have done?

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Weekly Comics Discussion – May 25, 2005

This week’s shipping
list
is an expensive one for me, featuring
Green Lantern from DC, Emma Frost Vol.
3: Bloom
(which will lead to a review of the
complete 18 issue series), Essential Thor Vol.
2
, Secret War from the files of Nick
Fury
(a bonus issue to kill time before the next
eternally late entry hits shelves), and Ultimates
2
. Also shipping today is the first issue of
Fantastic Four written by J. Michael
Straczynski, but for that, I’ll wait for the TPB.