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Yea they showed the new Darth Maul in the Clones Wars cartoon and that one is still canon, but I'll eat my hat if they ever show Darth Maul in one of the movies. Plus Obi-Wan killed him a second time in that cartoon, so the only place he ever even could appear is in a story set in the middle of the prequel films. Maul is THE coolest villain in Star Wars, he just suffers from almost no development in Episode I before Lucas committed the horrible crime of killing off the coolest villain he had ever created.

In one of the dumbest ideas ever conceived of in the Star Wars Expanded Universe, Darth Maul survived being cut in half.

I don't know what he saw so I have no clear idea on that. All he described in the film was a deep darkness...certainly the majority of that vision has come to pass with Kylo taking control of the First Order. What they end up doing could be far worse than we've seen to date, and it's possible that future is what it is he saw that inspired him to consider killing him. Given the decades of death, destruction, and oppression by the Empire either directly shown or implied by everything up through Episode VI, it's certainly clear that Mace Windu SHOULD have killed Sidious. Since Kylo is now in the seat of power closest to Sidious's, then the answer is probably yes, Luke should have killed him. He certainly showed himself to be as merciless as Sidious when he ordered Phasma's troops to kill that entire village on Jakku in the opening scene of Force Awakens.

Does this mean Leia isn't much of a Jedi?

Usually, but when faced with the "would you kill Hitler before World War 2" scenario normal standards of morality and ethics are out the window. Mace Windu thought so too at 3:08 in the video below when faced with the reality that Darth Sidious was in control of the Republic.

I like them too. Every time I see them I wonder when Emma Frost will show up...Skyler Samuels definitely looks like she could be January Jones's daughter.

That's generally good news, but I still want Disney to announce what they're going to do to work this into the Marvel universe. If they don't say anything over the next year, I can only assume this doesn't fit in at all, and that will always be a bummer that looms over the show and makes you assume that no matter how good it gets they'll probably still cancel it in a year or two.

HBO's approach to this baffles me. Why not pause the series two or three years ago once they had exhausted Martin's released material and spin off into areas we already know Martin will never delve into due to the slow pace at which he releases material and due to his advanced age? There's plenty of killer material alluded to throughout the books that they could have put on screen that could easily take a decade or more to fully develop. The rise of the Targeryens back when they had dragons could probably fill as many seasons as you wanted it to.

All we know from Last Jedi is that Kylo Ren saw in Rey's mind that the people she knows as her parents were addicts who abandoned her, but if they weren't her parents and Rey didn't know it, then Kylo Ren wouldn't know it either. I don't much care one way or the other, but the entire question isn't fans looking for ideas that aren't there because Abrams raised this question in the Force Awakens with the breadcrumbs he left in several places in the plot, i.e. Kylo seeming to recognize her, Leia seeming to recognize her, Anakin's saber reacting to her, the direct cut in the vision of Kylo walking towards her with the vision of her parents leaving her on Jakku, or the insane speed that she develops a control of the Force.

In what way is that revisionist? He first used that term in an essay he wrote back in 1977 intended to establish guidelines for authors writing stories within the Star Wars universe. He's claimed he originally intended to explain the concept in Episode IV, but only he knows if that's true. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Midi-chlorian/Legends

I've never seen good evidence either way that Lucas did or didn't plan for Vader being Luke's father in Episode IV--I lean towards it being a retcon in Episode V, but only he really knows--but it's definitely not fair to say he had no story. Obi-Wan tells us he was his pupil, which begs the question early in the film of why he went bad and casts him as far more complex than a purely evil character.

Apparently in some of the Las Jedi press there is a biography of Snoke and a reference to a second apprentice... Might have been cut from the movie... It's this book: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Last_Jedi:_The_Visual_Dictionary

It was specifically said that he was not. The new versions of the Jedi and Sith need to stop with the abstinence and rules of 2 and start getting much, much busier. The Jedi and Sith died out because they weren't reproducing fast enough. Is there reason to believe there's some huge difference between the Empire and the First Order or that Snoke and the Knights of Ren are all that different from the Sith, or did Abrams just renamed all these things for the sake of renaming them?

I was born March 1971 and collected the GI Joe smaller figures that started in 1982. Buying the first issue of that comic was a huge part of what got me started with Marvel after having mostly read Richie Rich before that.

Yes, but this observation suggests that Episode VI would have made MORE than V overseas, but it made much less. There's some other reason for it.

Those are the same domestic numbers Box Office Mojo has.

ESB was at $538,375,067 and ROTJ at $475,106,177 based on the numbers on Box Office Mojo. I was basing my statement on that. It is possible those numbers are incorrect. I'm sure he meant domestic only since he's right about that number. I've never known how trustworthy those overseas numbers are for older films since Box Office Mojo doesn't break them down by country. Were both Episodes V and VI released to the same countries but VI just made less, or was the release of VI narrower for some unknown reason? All details are hidden in the amounts there.

That makes the most sense.

I assumed she was waiting for the transports to get to the base before she did it, but once she realized they had spotted the transports (because Poe screwed it all up, which she never realized, she just saw the transports exploding at some point) she had to do it earlier. Beyond that, I'd have to re-watch the scene to have an opinion because I'm not exactly sure about the times on these events: How long passed between the time the first transport got whacked and the time she jumped to hyperspace. At what point she realized the transports were getting destroyed. If it was minutes between the time she realized the transports were getting whacked and the time she went to hyperspace, then yea, I don't get it either.

Luke had to inherit his whininess from somewhere, so I just let it ride with Anakin as I did with Luke in Episodes IV through VI.

I rank the films as such: Empire Strikes Back Revenge of the Sith A New Hope Force Awakens Attack of the Clones Last Jedi Return of the Jedi Phantom Menace That's a personal ranking, not the films I see as best, although I'd only change the list by moving Revenge of the Sith from second to fourth ranking them more objectively. I've never understood why people hate Episodes II and III...they've got the best action and lightsaber duels of the entire series by far, barring the Darth Maul duel which is the best by the virtue of Ray Park's acrobatics. The most underrated is Attack of the Clones...I'll never understand why more people don't love the Dooku fights, or the Jango Fett sequences, or the Geonosis battle in the arena. Nor why people aren't more wowed by the space battle at the start of Episode III, or General Grievous, or the Mustafar lightsaber battle.

Gotta check this series out.

Overall this has been an awful year for Marvel-produced television shows. Inhumans was terrible, Iron Fist was terrible, the Defenders was bad, and Punisher was just OK. Legion and The Gifted were probably the best Marvel-related shows, but those were produced by Fox and are about to come under the Marvel umbrella. My understanding of the power structure with Marvel media is that the films are produced by Marvel Studios under Kevin Feige, and the shows are produced by Marvel Entertainment under Ike Perlmutter and Alan Fine. Feige has proven to be the savviest media executive in all of comics, whereas it's clear that Perlmutter and Fine struggle just like all the others do. Strangely, DC's shows have thrived of late while their films have languished, whereas with Marvel it's the opposite, the films are booming with Feige but wilting under Perlmutter/Fine. Is there any reason to believe this will improve? Why isn't Disney actively trying to fix this? They must know by now that Perlmutter needs to either be outright fired or to at minimum have Marvel Entertainment taken away from him, so why isn't it happening?

Pretty sure this guy will love the film, although he won't be able to watch it for a few years.

You never saw him on "Girls" then...they were showing off his physique during that show constantly right from the first episode, presumably as a contrast to his girlfriend on the show Lena Dunham's chubbiness. He didn't get buff for Star Wars, he was already that way years before. Plus he signed up for the Marines after 9/11 and served for almost three years, so I've always found the idea of him being purely emo as strange.