So Michael Arndt isn't just writing the next Star Wars film, he's set out a three film treatment.

But...but...but... the various novels in the Expanded Universe have been officially crowned canon by Lucas! This would... mess that up.

Once I would really have cared about this. Once, the Expanded Universe was consistent and awesome. That started to fall apart about the time I stopped paying attention (right after The Phantom Menace removed any joy from the universe for me) so it's probably really awful now, but in my brain the expanded universe - especially the Thrawn trilogy - IS what happens after ROTJ.

Just so no one else has to do it, I'm taking the b.org bullet and seeing the last Twilight movie. It has been an odd tradition with K-Bug but this is the most disturbed viewing yet. Our audience is almost half my age or older. And they are giddy. I'm here for the mockIng fodder. I need to go hit the bar that is in the theater lobby but I don't want to pay their crazy prices.

I don't think I'm violating FERPA or HIPAA if I say that I have knowledge of a certain imperial personage who is also seeing the Deluded Fairies movie.

And I'm home. Oh my. Ummm...there were a lot of laugh points that I don't think were supposed to be laugh points. It was nice to see KStew and RPatz, sorry, Bella and Edward smile instead of all the angsting . Some of the CGI was pretty painful though.

When I first read that, I got the impression you were saying that they had to use CGI to get Bella and Edward to smile. (For the record, I pictured something along the lines of the Quiznos spong monkeys. Silly, I know. They're totally Team Jacob.)

I just finished watching Crash. I had no idea that the total population of Los Angeles was approximately twenty people.

I just finished watching Crash. I had no idea that the total population of Los Angeles was approximately twenty people.

Also? When it rains there, it rains anvils.

Also? When it rains there, it rains anvils.

It awesomely does. And yet - and this is something I had never remotely imagined that I might one day say - I was really quite moved when Ludacris freed the slaves.

Suzi, did the Lee Pace at least help dull the pain? (I swear I considered seeing the movie just for his sake for like, a full twenty seconds. But if my love for him wasn't enough to get me to Marmaduke ...)

Lee Pace is in it?? Come on, man, look at your life, look at your choices.

Just checked his imdb page - he's got Lincoln & The Hobbit also happening this year. That should help to class him back up a bit. (Though, seriously, you could get whiplash from his choices. Guess a man's gotta pay the rent, though...)

edit: so busy playing with italics I managed to misspell imdb.