Chewie, we're home.

[extemporanea]

Saw Force Awakens yesterday. Three things. Non-spoilery things.

1. That was Star Wars. That felt like Star Wars. That was, in fact, so much like Star Wars it was almost comical. It's like JJ took a judicious sampler of the most Star Warsy character archetypes, tropes, plot points, flavours, conflicts, visual cues, scenes and confrontations from the

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[virtualkathy]

Been dying to hear your thoughts on this, we saw it last week. I definitely agree about the nostalgic (and very well done!) nod to the original trilogy. I also think the way to a new era has been opened by That One Scene. (Even though I had to clean my glasses afterwards. More than once.) I have high hopes for what comes next.
(And I*love* that video!)

[extemporanea]

That One Scene was horrible, and inevitable, I spent the whole build-up mentally going "Noooooo! not going to work! going to go horribly wrong!", which of course it did. But in a narratively satisfying way, at least.

That a capella arrangement kicks butt, it's beautifully done; the cast are endearing (and have good voices! Gwendoline Christie's contralto does it for me) and the professional singers are ace. If I still did SCA I would totes have made Belladonna sing it.

happy new year to you and yours!