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There are only 3 Star Wars movies.  And one glorious LSD-induced television Christmas special.

So it's still awesome.

Well if we're living in that world, then Peter Capaldi was the last Doctor and therefore Dr. Who is still awesome. 

Works for me, although I'd substitute Tom Baker...

In another week or two, there will probably be a lot more information out about this, and I reserve the right to change my mind.  I just said that based off what I know from the report ELA and 847 shared. 

They say the Waltz guy added the Atlantic editor to the chain.  That's who I was talking about.....he needs to go. 

I don't know a lot about the logistics of the way they communicate with each other, or should communicate with each other....that's not my world.  It was reported that previous administrations also use the Signal app for some stuff, including some classified stuff, but I have no clue if that includes military plans.  If none of them should have been communicating this way and they should have known better......chuck them all.  I'm not holding my breath.  People who illegally set up private servers and exchanged communications that got personnel killed didn't really have any consequences.....I'll believe it when I see it for somebody being held accountable for this. 

The funny thing is that what's not being discussed is that if he was accidentially added it means they were already communicating via Signal.  Just like how you mess up in your own phone, you may have Mike S under contacts, and Mike Smith....and you text the wrong Mike.  He had to be in there already.  

I've heard that Signal is very secure, and this proves that even gov't officials with Top Secret clearances think the same thing.  

I don't consider myself a Star Wars snob but there was enough wrong with the new ones that I found them more unlikable than not.  The new movies lacked so much classic story-telling mechanism that it made the new characters hard to invest in.  And it more or less crapped on the legacy characters.  So that was a "no thanks" for me.  I can't see myself ever watching them again.

btw, every time Amazon puts out a Rings of Power season, I let the Peter Jackson movies play in the background even if I can't watch them, hoping they'll get the message.  Of course, they don't. 

Anybody who defends Rings of Power or Amazon's take on Tolkien's work and legacy is, to use your term, the dumbest motherfucker on the planet.  

I think I generally share UTee's view of the Star Wars franchise. I like it, but you'll never see me at Comicon. The first one was the best, but Empire is one of the great sequels. I never loved Return of the Jedi--it was a step down, and almost inevitable given how good the first two were. I actively don't like the prequels, but seeing them through my kids' eyes, I can at least understand them (but the Anakin Padme relationship is just awful, as was Jar Jar). The most recent crop was mostly fan service, but without a solid roadmap to follow, so the second movie didn't really fit with the first and third. And none of them were very good stories. But they were fun, which is the point. Some of the spinoffs have been good, many have not. I liked Rogue One, I really didn't like the Han Solo movie, and I just got bored with the TV. I've heard Andor is quite good, but I've lost interest, at least for a while. I suspect Disney knows this is a common reaction because we haven't seen a big movie release in a while.

Someday I'll come back to some of it (Andor, I heard Bad Batch is solid), but I'm also ok with just knowing the first two movies were all-timers. That's enough for me.

When my kids were little, I narrated the original movie to them several times, to the point that when SFIrish was away for a weekend, I decided they should just watch the movie, and I would fast forward the "scary" parts. That worked great, and they loved it. Parenting win, even if I had a little explaining to do when the wife got home.

I have to kind of laugh about the "scary" parts of the original trilogy.  I saw the original Star Wars movie in 70mm in a huge theater when I was 6.  It stayed in theaters for months and we went back several times to see it.  And then I was 9 for the release of Empire, and 12 for the release of Return.

At the same time, my good buddy Bald Greg who some of you have met at the tailgate party, was traumatized by Darth Vader.  He's the same age as me.

So I guess some kids really did find it scary, even back then.

The TV show Andor was good as hell.