At first I just wanted to type "GodfuckingDAMMIT 2016!" because I didn't think I could bear to compose anything else. But Carrie Fisher deserves better. Of course she was important to me because of Leia, how could I pretend otherwise? Carrie Fisher was stunningly funny and clever, she was dedicated to her art, and she was a survivor of so many ( Read more... )

2016, get your damn hands off Carrie Fisher. OFF, I say.

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Finally sat down to read Entertainment Weekly's big ol' cover-story interview with Joss Whedon--I haven't even finished reading it and I had to stop to type this: Joss says exactly what I've been lamenting for all these years:

JW: ...Empire committed the cardinal sin of not actually ending. Which at the time I was appalled by, and I still think it ( Read more... )

Holy cripes, I just finished reading a book I could not put down.

Star Wars: Episode III, Revenge of the Sith, by Matthew Stover.

I AM NOT S**TTING YOU AT ALL.Remember when I said I'd do it? That I'd read it and see if the essential story could work as a story and if it was just the execution of the movie that was s**t? Remember ( Read more... )