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The gritty war aesthetic of Andor and Rogue One has been hugely popular. Solo probably would have been something special if it stuck with full comedy as I’ve heard rumours it originated as.

I wrote a fan film when I was younger in a Coruscant based Sex and the City style. It sucked because I’m a guy and I didn’t understand the nuances of the show, but I just wanted to see an out of the box story in the universe.

So, what ideas do you have that could work as a standalone or series, that shakes up the norm?

My country had Star Trek on Netflix until quite recently and the ad placement being outside of the original aired timing was bugging me. This was a network show that was built around its ad breaks. TNG “Cause and Effect” is a time loop story, when the ad breaks separated the individual loops. Now they were just randomly placed, based on an algorithm or something? Even in the middle of scenes!

However, Disney+ has been a much more pleasant experience. Marge Simpsons saying she was going to think about products she wished to purchase, or Kent warning us the next ad we see may kill us, while Homer ads “we’ll be right back” are followed by ad breaks, as intended.

Even as I watch original movies and shows not made with breaks in mind the transition seems more natural. After fade outs, or big reveals and definitely never in the middle of a scene.

So, congratulations Disney+! It actually feels like someone watched the show and thought about this, or used its original blueprints in terms of old network shows, as opposed to a robot telling me it’s been x minutes, time for an ad!

https://web.archive.org/web/20030210201437/http://www.theforce.net/timetales/tt1-1/sect1-1.shtml

Around the prequel era, TheForce.net had a huge timeline that detailed events from the Big Bang, until over 10,000 years ABY, when a record of the galaxy’s history crash landed in George Lucas’ backyard.

The way back machine seems to have section 1 of this timeline backed up, but I can’t access the rest. I feel silly because I had this backed up on a disk way back then, which could honestly be floating around my parent’s house, but I have no idea.

Did anyone, like me, save this? Or know an alternative source of accessing it? It’s mostly fluff these days, but I just wanted to have a fun afternoon going through it again.

Zahn is fantastic, so these have intrigued me for a while, I just have trouble accepting the new timeline. Do these contradict it much? Are they a worthy read for EU fans? It’s starting out strong, I’m looking forward to where it’s going, but is it gonna mess with my canon too much?

This gets asked too much. A single thread, that wouldn’t even be that long, could sum all this up.

For those of us who started collecting before the internet, this was simple and we didn’t even think twice about it. Most of the time, someone showed you a comic, you liked it, you headed to the news stand and bought something else that looked cool. It might start you on a storyline and you collected that until it was done and started on something else.

Yes, this does relate to a time past, but there’s ways to do this now, you just gotta consider your surroundings and your budget.

Do you have a comic book shop or newsagent (that stocks comics still) nearby? Or a book store with graphic novels? Or a library? You can walk into any of these and do the same thing. Just think about whether you prefer the weekly read (floppies at the comic store, cheaper option initially), or do you like to read a whole story at once (graphic novels at the bookstore/library, cheapest when borrowing, expensive when buying, but not as often laying down money as buying weekly)?

And then there’s digital, which you can treat the same as well, the only downside being you might have to think beforehand about which characters you would like to read, rather that just browsing them all at once. This is probably the cheapest in the long run, or completely free if your library has a good service. You can dive in with the “new this week” section and when you like a character there is usually lists of essential stories and what not.

I don’t know what else can be said about this, and I’m not trying to be rude, but it just doesn’t seem like the giant conundrum some people make it out to be.

I have a PlayStation 5 and Plus as well. I just want to drive through some diverse scenery and not race anyone, or upgrade anything, or any of that. I have GTA, but it doesn’t take long to drive around the whole thing and the scenery doesn’t change too much.

Will The Crew scratch this itch? I don’t want to have to do much to unlock the roaming mode in whatever I play. I just wanna download something, jump in, drive and not see the same scenery for a decent amount of time.

I’m that guy who owned a lot of tapes, replaced them with DVD’s, only to start replacing them again with Blu-rays. Although, about fifteen years ago, I stopped there and started buying digital. I love it. I moved house a lot since then and only recently settled, but moving my collection was no longer a problem. Movies I bought in HD are now in 4K. I’ve sold off a lot of my old collection of physical media, with the exception of a few rarities.

I’ve slowed down a bit now, with money being tighter and streaming services filling some of the gaps, but I still have a look at the $5 movies and grab some of the gaps in my collection. The terms and services say we don’t actually own these movies and they can be removed from the library, but this has never happened to me. Has anyone experienced this?

One was just making fun of my middle name once. It’s a really ordinary name too, Eliot. But bullies be bullies. Anyway, I said something along the lines of “oh yeah? And what’s yours? Princess?” I’m not great at comebacks, I’ll admit.

Anyway, his friends heard this and started laughing up a storm. Bullies don’t have the best friends either, I guess. And then they just started calling him Princess. I think it stuck as a nickname, because I’d overhear them from time to time. “Hey, Princess”.

I’m sure some of you have better stories.