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I liked Watchmen much better than Suicide Squad - easily Snyder's best. I was talking more about Snyder's "DC Cinematic Universe" entries.

I've been very slowly reading through the "Legends" catalog by release date, and am in the middle of this Han Solo trilogy. In those books, Garris Shrike runs a sort of criminal orphanage, with a bunch of laughable Oliver Twist references. Han escapes in chapter 2, losing his parent figure (a Wookiee named Dewlanna) in the battle. Shrike plays no part in the bulk of the book - does not reappear and does not affect the main plot (which is about a Hutt slavery/spice ring). At the end, Shrike pops up again in the next to last chapter, having hunted Han down. Then Han shoots him dead pretty unceremoniously. There ends the full exciting story of Garris Shrike. I don't care if they use the name Garris Shrike or not. It's not like the character has potential (like Thrawn did) of being an exciting new canon character. They'd literally only be using the name as a shout-out to people who have fond memories of a somewhat middling book series.

Star Wars doesn't explain what the Old Republic is in its relation to the Rebel Alliance either.

The film was just as dumb as you've heard, but somewhat more fun than you've heard. Better than Snyder's dreary DC entries, at any rate.

Lucasfilm's Pablo Hidalgo implies on Twitter that Harrelson misheard or didn't know what the person was asking. So a bit of a reach for Slashfilm to call this "confirmed" in an article that also quotes one of Pablo's tweets.

For a generation, Yoda and Obi-wan were the last* Jedi. Then Luke came around. Obi-wan and Yoda croaked, and Luke was the last Jedi. Then Luke trained a bunch of Jedi and they were the last Jedi. Then Kylo Ren killed them all and Luke was the last Jedi again. Then Rey came along and she and Luke were the last Jedi. *barring a Kanan and Ezra or two Additionally, Jedi is a specific category of force user. Jedi and Sith are not a binary. Rey is a force user without an affiliation (we assume Jedi eventually). Kylo Ren is a Knight of Ren. Inquisitors (Rebels/books/comics) are dark force users who are non-Sith. Ahsoka practiced the light side of the Force through the time of the OT, but left the Jedi order in S5 of TCW. So maybe Luke and Rey become something else.

Jedi is also plural.

No, I've never seen the Rogue Cut. Maybe a second watch would help me, but typically I'd rather watch something new than rewatch a movie.

I had no problems with it. I liked the Magneto in Germany stuff, although his hero turn towards the end didn't feel earned. I liked all of the Professor X, Mystique, Cyclops, Nightcrawler, Jean Grey stuff. Psylocke was a pointless character for the most part, as was Angel - although I understand the need to have disposable villains. I didn';t think it was great, but it was fine and I didn't feel like I wasted my time watching it. Days of Future Past was a bore for me, especially after I loved First Class so much. So I was happy with it

We just watched Apocalypse yesterday and I actually liked it a lot. More than Days of Future Past, at least. Maybe it was the low expectations. You can go back to current discussion now.

I'm not familiar enough with any of the scores to know what's missing from the OSTs, and I don't like fan edits or session leaks, so I haven't heard those either. But I know that I enjoy the Star Wars scores more and that there's quite a bit missing. So those.

I've been here for 17 years and I don't even have 2000 posts yet. And I'm the best poster on this board! Take whatever guidance you want from that statement.

At this point, I can't think of any. I usually don't watch movies second times, so a track would really have to leave an impression on me to make this list - and most of those end up as highlights on the OST anyway.

People making Star Wars music are aware of this - it popped up in an early Kiner "Rebels" score.

That's the first time it popped up in an in-universe book, but that's a George Lucas original which had been sitting around Lucasfilm for years, per a Luceno interview around the time of the book's release.

They are two separate scenarios. Michael Douglas: 1) was alive and on the set (unlike Cushing) and 2) has pretty much the same face and body proportions as his younger self (unlike Fisher) So in Ant-man, they just had to do some digital de-aging - removing wrinkles, etc. The actor's face performance was already there. They didn't have to reproduce subtle movements, etc. Just smooth everything out.

That's something that crossed my mind, but it seems like a really minor thing to make twisty: "remember that food critic that visited Twin Peaks during season 2 that happened to be Norma's mom? SWERVE!"

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Lucasfilm will open every Indy movie with a similar but non-infringing mountain logo

I think I read somewhere that they did the main title theme just as an orchestral warm-up.

http://variety.com/2017/film/spotlight/michael-giacchino-rogue-one-score-1201952495/ New Rogue One Giacchino interview - not a lot of new information, but a quick read.

He was the primary villain to our protagonists. Jyn had personal stakes with him. Vader was the primary villain to our protagonists in Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back, even though he was subservient to Tarkin and The Emperor, respectively.

It's written by Mark Frost, who cowrote the whole S3 before the book was written, so I'm tempted to think there's a plan in place for much of the information. It certainly was not the book I wanted/hoped for. Oh, and

BTW, I finished reading this last month. It's...not the best read. Most of the book takes place from the 1800s through the 1970s and a lot of it focuses on UFO type phenomena and government cover-ups. There are a few ethereal woods things that happen that are more mystical in nature, and those interested me. The biggest characters in the book are characters that are minor in the show (i.e. Doug Milford, aka the Mayor's brother) or siblings/relatives of characters in the book. You get a little background into some of the "major families" of Twin Peaks - the Packards, the Martells, the Milfords, the Jennings, the Hurleys, the Briggs, the Jacobys etc etc. It might be more interesting POST-season-3 just to see why the seemingly non-Twin-Peaksy things are relevant. The narrator of the book is most certainly a new series character - "Agent T.P." throughout the book, who signs off at the end as The best part of the book were the last, like, two pages, which take place shortly after the end of S2 and which got me excited for S3. Book spoilers ahead: I also noticed a continuity error involving Norma's parentage (we met her mother in season 2, yet the book notes that Norma's mom died in the 1980s). Frost has dropped hints that there will be a second part following Season 3, so we'll see how much juicy stuff there is.

Honestly, I rate Season 2 of Twin Peaks much more highly than most people. I love the stuff you mentioned, as well as the supernatural/Black Lodge plot that builds until the end of the season. I liked Windom Earle and his game. The bits I don't like are subplots featuring minor characters for the most part (all of the men falling for Lana Milford, Nadine going back to high school). The season opener, the few episodes leading up to the killer's reveal and capture, and the finale are all amazing.