Datameister

I feel pretty confident that Mattris has a strong grasp of logic and epistemology, and we underestimate this grasp at our own peril. (So much easier for a troll to push people's buttons when they actually understand the topic at hand really well. I just don't know how he finds time for such a long-term, high-word-count trolling endeavor. What a way to spend one's life.)

I feel pretty confident that Mattris has a strong grasp of logic and epistemology, and we underestimate this grasp at our own peril. (So much easier for a troll to push people's buttons when they actually understand the topic at hand really well. I just don't know how he finds time for such a long-term, high-word-count trolling endeavor. What a way to spend one's life.)

I feel pretty confident that Mattris has a strong grasp of logic and epistemology, and we underestimate this grasp at our own peril. (So much easier for a troll to push people's buttons when they actually understand the topic at hand really well. I just don't know how he finds time for such a long-term, high-word-count trolling endeavor. What a way to spend one's life.)

I feel pretty confident that Mattris has a strong grasp of logic and epistemology, and we underestimate this grasp at our own peril. (So much easier for a troll to push people's buttons when they actually understand the topic at hand really well. I just don't know how he finds time for such a long-term, high-word-count trolling endeavor. What a way to spend one's life.)

This is all I wanted to know, personally.
 
I'm really looking forward to J.J. Abrams' Star Wars Episode X, to be released sometime before April 6th 2031!

I mean, I nearly always prefer to buy a physical album. But better to have it available digitally than not at all!

I bear absolutely no ill will toward the man. In fact, I hypothetically respect the idea of making a conscious effort to take the story to genuinely new places. I just don't like some aspects of how he did it.
 
That interview snippet is interesting … again, there's a lot of thinking that I agree with. But when you're planning the penultimate film* in a trilogy of trilogies created over the course of 40 years, that feels like exactly the wrong place to try to create a satisfying ending.
 
* Penultimate released film, I mean. Of course, we all know that the fourth trilogy is already secretly underway. Mattris, I'm kinda surprised you haven't caught on to the fact that the fifth trilogy is already in the can, though. The clues couldn't be more obvious.

Oh, I have no interest in trying to persuade you. I'm just fascinated with your answers.
 
How about this—what are some examples of multi-decade franchises whose films were not planned out? And how do you know?

Not sure what is a worse explanation: Luke's hand tumbled through space still holding the lightsaber, or "a good story for another time"

And that's nothing compared to what the conspirators would do to you if you spilled the beans. You know the horrors that would await you. Lucas and his forces are the most devious deceivers, the most incompetent concealers, the most perfect plotters of plots. They knew from the start that the Chosen One would come to lay waste to their plans like a bantha to its fodder. Darkness rises, and light to meet it. Just look at the writing. Scattered across the scripts of all nine films are the letters:
 
"K E E P   S C H T U M   M A T T R I S"
 
No, better to heed their undeniable warning.
 
Until the appointed time.

The Ken Ham of Star Wars discourse 

And that's nothing compared to what the conspirators would do to you if you spilled the beans. You know the horrors that would await you. Lucas and his forces are the most devious deceivers, the most incompetent concealers, the most perfect plotters of plots. They knew from the start that the Chosen One would come to lay waste to their plans like a bantha to its fodder. Darkness rises, and light to meet it. Just look at the writing. Scattered across the scripts of all nine films are the letters:
 
"K E E P   S C H T U M   M A T T R I S"
 
No, better to heed their undeniable warning.
 
Until the appointed time.

I dunno if I'll be buying this one for standalone listening, but we watched the film tonight and I thought the score was a lot of fun!

And that's nothing compared to what the conspirators would do to you if you spilled the beans. You know the horrors that would await you. Lucas and his forces are the most devious deceivers, the most incompetent concealers, the most perfect plotters of plots. They knew from the start that the Chosen One would come to lay waste to their plans like a bantha to its fodder. Darkness rises, and light to meet it. Just look at the writing. Scattered across the scripts of all nine films are the letters:
 
"K E E P   S C H T U M   M A T T R I S"
 
No, better to heed their undeniable warning.
 
Until the appointed time.

And that's nothing compared to what the conspirators would do to you if you spilled the beans. You know the horrors that would await you. Lucas and his forces are the most devious deceivers, the most incompetent concealers, the most perfect plotters of plots. They knew from the start that the Chosen One would come to lay waste to their plans like a bantha to its fodder. Darkness rises, and light to meet it. Just look at the writing. Scattered across the scripts of all nine films are the letters:
 
"K E E P   S C H T U M   M A T T R I S"
 
No, better to heed their undeniable warning.
 
Until the appointed time.

And that's nothing compared to what the conspirators would do to you if you spilled the beans. You know the horrors that would await you. Lucas and his forces are the most devious deceivers, the most incompetent concealers, the most perfect plotters of plots. They knew from the start that the Chosen One would come to lay waste to their plans like a bantha to its fodder. Darkness rises, and light to meet it. Just look at the writing. Scattered across the scripts of all nine films are the letters:
 
"K E E P   S C H T U M   M A T T R I S"
 
No, better to heed their undeniable warning.
 
Until the appointed time.

Of course, the title "Andor," or And/Or meaning "this and that," or "this or that," with the final two letters being OR, which, when flipped become RO, or Rogue One. Andor will be a complete retelling of Rogue One, from the point of view of the Death Star, which as we know from Tales of the Bounty Hunters, was secretly IG-88 all along. "The story is really about the droids." So it is George, so it is.

Exactly. You and I both know the terrible consequences you would face if you fully shared your brilliance. Go ahead, tell them the bad things that would happen!

Exactly. You and I both know the terrible consequences you would face if you fully shared your brilliance. Go ahead, tell them the bad things that would happen!

Exactly. You and I both know the terrible consequences you would face if you fully shared your brilliance. Go ahead, tell them the bad things that would happen!

Exactly. You and I both know the terrible consequences you would face if you fully shared your brilliance. Go ahead, tell them the bad things that would happen!

Oh, I have no interest in trying to persuade you. I'm just fascinated with your answers.
 
How about this—what are some examples of multi-decade franchises whose films were not planned out? And how do you know?

No, it's a gift that keeps on giving!

No, it's a gift that keeps on giving!

There are 17 minutes worth of Amistad samples to listen to on LLL's website, almost all of which is material not on the OST album