Better known as "Thrawn McEwok". Sithposting on sci-fi, occasional remarks on other things. Once co-wrote a Star Wars book, but that doesn't count for anything!
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Today, I will mostly be doing an impression of Obi-Wan doing a Jean-Luc impersonation.
*buycepaw*, as Mandalorian Ewoks say.
This is an excellent example of what good editing is and does. There's also one moment in it that made me laugh out loud...
The whole concept of "territorial waters" being limited to a few miles off the coast is made-up lawfare designed to steal things from Scotland (it was invented by the Dutch in the 1600s to avoid paying tax on fish).
This is the official map of Scotlands territorial waters (dark blue 12 mile limit) and the UK EEZ (yellow boundary). There is virtually no oil & gas in Scotlands territorial waters (as I recall maybe one small gas(?) field off the coast of Moray). Less than 1% of oil and gas is in Scotlands territorial waters.
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Not getting involved in whatever is going on with the green jedi drama. Had positive interactions with some who seemed genuinely passionate about the EU books and got quietly mass unfollowed/blocked by others. I’ll just continue enjoying Star Wars with whoever is chill with me.
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lol the dumbass Google AI still thinks the fake planet we made up 20 years ago is official Star Wars lore
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This is why I love the internet:
Until today I didn't know Inspector Morse was such a cunning linguist.
He knows about -ize.
(Thank you @Dbrown_beer for pointing me in Morse's direction)
The opening and closing episodes were the most impressively canonical additions to the STAR WARS mythos in the Disney era - and most of the show's problems were editorial things that could and should have been fixed easily in post-production. What puzzles me is, why weren't they?
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This is like finding out “Torn” was a cover.
The fact that the Royal Navy uses the letter R for its aircraft-carrier hull numbers is perhaps the last functional trace of the strangulated RP ("Air-Pee") pronunciation that was de rigeur a centuy ago.
This little thread is an interesting read, and I'm glad that people are still discussing Luke Skywalker's character-evolution in the pre-Sequel post-RotJ continuity - but while I agree with the quoted post, the OP's reading of that evolution is very, very different from my own...
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One of the bigger mysteries of the original trilogy was how Vader found out so much about Luke Skywalker between ANH and empire. Marvel filled it in with a Boba Fett adventure.
The only one to do it in a very profound way was Randy Stradley’s Empire run for Dark Horse. He told the story of a “good” imperial officer named Janek Sunber. Sunber does the right thing and wants to make a difference. We see him navigating a collapsing system of corruption in the empire. Then the bomb drops. We have already heard of him. He is “Tank”, Luke’s friend who went to the academy with Biggs. We are given a reunion between the friends and then the break off between them.
Vader who is pursuing the Rebel who destroyed the Death Star finds out it is his son, but more than that. He finds out all about his son from one of his best friends. How he grew up, Owen and Beru, all of it.
The only two people that realize Luke is Vader’s son is Vader and the reader. The story of Janek Sunber is one of the best comic stories told in the Star Wars universe and worth the time if you find the issues.
Fat little Norman rounceys advancing at the trot, and the infantry show their backs. The local police in Yvelines know their business, and love what they know. Cromwell quotes notwithstanding, it's infinitely more French than the Garde Republicaine and their ridiculous Selles.
The answer is that straight-wing TIEs are more than adequate for the 95% of Imperial Navy fighter duty that involves reconnaissance, sensor perimiters, stopping civilian ships, and vaping single-seater Y-wings flown in unimaginative three-ship vics.
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In 1996, English TV presenter Alain de Cadenet asked legendary New Zealand born fighter pilot Ray Hana, who was 70-years-old, to do a low pass in this Spitfire fighter plane as de Cadenet spoke to the camera
Apparently this isn't AI, but it almost wouldn't matter if it was. Coolest thing I've seen all year...
