Smased through 3 eps this morning
Peaky Blinders S6 - impressed so far with just the first episode.
I’m still enjoying it, but it did jump the shark a few series back.
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I think many great series have an expiry date. TWD is another good example of that.
Now up to date on ST:Picard, and loving it.
It’s not Easter yet, and the amount of Easter eggs is staggering…
Plenty for the trekkie in me to hark back to previous series…
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One of the problems with SW it got too big with no real direction and has created backstories with no real foundation, at least Marvel comes from a long comic book history.
Don’t get me wrong I quite enjoy the SW films and saw the original 3 on release, but I waited until they brought out the videos/DVDs of the prequels and then got a DVD set of the first 6 and subsequent films the DVDs.
Me and my mates queued for over an hour in the cold in 1978 to get into a cinema that had 2300 seats and not many empty ones. I’ve never known a film that created so much excitement. Of all the later ones I’ve enjoyed Rogue 1 as it was interesting knowing the story, as to how they would get rid of all the characters. It was quite cleverly done and I quite liked Solo, it’s a shame they are doing Obi Wan as TV series and not a film. In the last 3 films Ren has all the menace of a jelly tot and the Rey story really lacked direction. Ren did not have the menace of Vader, when he appeared on screen, you just knew.
My son has watches all the series, but I just want 2-3 hr films.
If you think Star Wars doesn’t have a solid foundation of fiction outside of the films, you don’t know Star Wars.
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It’s the same with Star Trek.
My teen years spent trekking (see what I did there? 
) down to Forbidden Planet in Southampton, and seeing the rows and rows of ST fiction.
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Is there a canon of Star Wars literature pre say 1975/6 when Lucas would have been punting the idea1977 from which to draw on and develop storylines etc?
Marvel started as Marvel in the early 60s, after 2 or 3 earlier publishers from the late 30s, (thanks Flog It) so a long publishing history and character development. Similarly for DC which IIRC started earlier.
George Lucas may have had a storyline for the first one and some ideas and people written stuff after which is IMO not the same.
It’s exactly the same. Marvel started with nothing as well, why does their canon have more legitimacy because it started with print and moved to film, rather than the other way around?
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Because that doesn’t suit his narrative of “I know more than you”.
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Always good to know I don’t share that
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Watching the rugby Italians played the best I’ve seen them for a long time. The ref had probably the best ref performance I’ve seen for a long while, telling Finn Russell it’s my call very reminiscent of Nige and stopping advantages after a phase or so of play so a much more flowing game, not letting the advantage run for ages and coming back 10s of yards when you forgotten what it was for.
Then the England game. If they lose which is highly likely, go to Paris and try not too hard. Not that I could see us beating the French.
Isn’t all of the EU officially non-canon though? I thought Disney stated that when they took over the franchise??
Not All. Some has been confirmed, but it’s a bit of a mess. The early stuff in time has a greater chance of being canon, but stuff later in the timeline is largely gone. Like the Zahn trilogy, which is a shame it was a better story than the trilogy we got.
The old stuff is now called the Legends I believe?
The same with the original Han Solo origin trilogy far better than the film we got.
Question.
Is man in the high castle worth investing in?
Satisfactory ending or nonsense like lost?
Ta
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I enjoyed it - but then endings to these things are always a bit marmite
Easy to get a good premise - difficult to bring to a close
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I quite liked it, it had a definite end & you were kept gripped at the end. It does get a bit lagging end s2/start S3 but i quite liked it.
Four seasons of 10 episodes, no sequel hook at the end reasonably diverting series.
Can be a bit depressing at times though.
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It is brilliant
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