She’s only little, so if she wasn’t at the front you wouldn’t see her.

Valance was one of the first original characters in the initial Marvel run on the Star Wars comics and always looked like Star Wars Punisher. He’s made quite the comeback in recent years but I don’t recall he has trickled over into much other media, yet, but I think it is only a matter of time.

Aphra has been the big breakout hit and will eventually be everywhere (she’s in Galaxy of Heroes, for example) - I’d be shocked if they weren’t planning how to get her into live action.

Temu.

pin heads

Definitely pinheads involved.

It did seem an odd fuss over what could be easily hand-waved away if required. However, his previous age doesn’t seem to be canon, so I assume this was approved from higher up as it gives us two known GR Jedi on the Council at the time.

I use Calibre.

Yes.

Perhaps Boxey the Chosen One fighting robots was going to be a future storyline, pre-empting the Prequel Trilogy.

I live by the beach and am well aware that sand gets everywhere, everywhere (a couple of weeks back I started to suspect there was some kind of.sand poltergeist as there was so much sand around). However, I have never heard anyone say anything that clunky and, if I did, I’d worry they had been dropped on their head.

“I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.”

We know how sand works George.

Username checks out.

As Gillard recalled in a deep-dive into the making of “The Phantom Menace” lightsaber battle at Vulture, “George has never been in a fight in his life. So he didn’t bother, really, writing it. It would say something like, ‘A vicious lightsaber battle ensues — seven minutes,’ and you could fill in the gap there. But that’s much better for me.”

It is the best way to do it (get action directors in to nail it) but it does show the stuff Lucas was uninterested in. See also: dialogue and acting.

An Emperor-off!

It’s probably a relatively balanced fight although the Empire might regret killing so mamy of their Force users, which could have given them an edge.

The SW galaxy would probably struggle more against a Hive Fleet.

Now there’s a topic that has launched a thousand fan theories.

“I’m a stubborn guy and I didn’t want people to tell me how to make my movies,” is how Star Wars creator George Lucas summed up the secret to his success reason the Prequel Trilogy is problematic

Fixed that for you George. You’re welcome.

As has been said, it’s Visions - kind of a big deal when it landed. The first story especially is superb.

There has been a suggestion that the success of Marvel’s What If? could inspire a Star Wars version and there are a lot of interesting alternate timelines to be the basis of this (and yiu could sneak some Legendary material in too): what if Luke and Leia fell to.the Dark Side? What is Anakin didn’t? What if George Lucas didn’t have a weird obsession with amputation? What if Jar Jar was secretly a Sith? What if Order 66 wasn’t as successful and the Jedi regrouped and fought back?

Short but some tasty reveals.

“A Very Brief Analysis”? Great, I can get that boxed off before… Oh.

As I’ve said before, seeing it in the cinema for the first time in 25 years was interesting because I didn’t go in with my original high hopes, that were comprehensively dashed. Instead, I’ve chewed over the films failings for decades which had the effect of inoculating me against the worst of it, so I could kick back and soak it all in and there is a lot to enjoy.

You can increase your midi-chlorian count but that doesn’t change your Force sensitivity - it’s what Moff Gideon’s experiments involved.

Ultimately it’s kept a bit vague possibly so creators can hand-wave away possible issues that arise if yiu could merely make new Jedi or Sith.

The Technical Commentaries for TPM dig into the implications:

Many observers assume that midi-chlorians are the cause of the Force or else the exclusive means by which sapient beings interact with the Force. This is not necessarily true. They provide one kind of objective test for Force-sensitivity, but correlation does not imply causation. It may be that certain people with strong potential to use the Force tend to attract midi-chlorians, rather than the midi-chlorians being responsible for the talent. (This attraction may be medical and heritable, or a direct manifestation of Force power.) Alternatively, the talent and the midi-chlorian concentration may be symptoms of some other, deeper cause.

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The mere presence of midi-chlorians cannot be the only condition for Force sensitivity. Otherwise the Jedi or the Sith could cultivate midi-chlorians and then simply infuse them into the bodies of ordinary volunteers to create countless initiates with arbitrarily high potential.

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The practices and beliefs of the Jedi must be taken into account in any discussion of the midi-chlorians. The STAR WARS civilisation is ancient and technologically static; scientific tools exist, but scientific practice appears to be finished and absent. It appears to be a society that depends on artisan engineers and mystics only. The “midi-chlorians” may in part be invented Jedi jargon. So far as we’ve seen, they serve only to provide an objective measurement of Anakin’s messianic potential. Or at least the Jedi read it objectively according to their superstitions — there’s no reason why the midi-chlorian count must be any more “real” than the use of tarot cards.

Jedi from different schools of thought might disagree about the significance or reality of the midi-chlorians. In The Phantom Menace novel, Qui-Gon Jinn admits a bias towards a “living Force” interpretation, at the expense of knowledge of the “unifying Force”. Perhaps this means that he is sensitive to biological interpretations of the Force to the point where he regards the midi-chlorians as a cause rather than an effect. Perhaps he drives his analogies too far. This may partly explain the consternation of some of the members of the Jedi Council. Perhaps to them he seems to have eccentric biases or holes in his understanding, making him a frustrating dissident whose practical skills compensate for his weakness in some theoretical areas.