Lit Eleven-ThirtyEight and stuff

Nice piece, Coop. I always try to make sure I know exactly what the other person is saying before I argue with them. It's a particularly bad problem on Twitter - you're knee-deep in an argument and you realise you could've saved yourself a lot of grief just by saying "sorry, I'm not sure I'm entirely clear on what your argument is - can you please clarify?" in the first instance.

 

I like this one on history in the SW-verse:

http://eleven-thirtyeight.com/2014/05/storytelling-and-perspective-history-in-the-gffa/

 

I agree, TMG--it's funny, people on Twitter are always talking about what a no-man's-land this place is (and in certain forums, they're right), but I see just as much BS over there as I do in Lit.

BTW, congrats to SithGirl132 on her first solo piece as staff writer!

 

Hmm the name Sithgirl and a Vergere avatar. That set off my spider sense.

 

Think RC-1991 in a wig.

 

I was talking about the nature of arguing on Twitter more generally - I rarely argue SW on Twitter because I use it a lot for work-related purposes. I think the only time I got into a protracted argument with people was over The Phantom Menace, when I said it wasn't as bad as everyone said it was

 

A couple of interesting articles:

http://eleven-thirtyeight.com/2014/05/do-droids-dream-of-electric-nerfs/#more-4316

http://eleven-thirtyeight.com/2014/05/everything-disney-needs-to-know-it-can-learn-from-greg-keyes/

The droid article in particular is thought-provoking - though I agree that Keyes's writing has much to recommend it, as well.

 

The fact the two The Elder Scrolls novels that bridge the gap between Oblivion and Skyrim were written by Greg Keyes is as much a reason for wanting to read them as the fact they are The Elder Scrolls. Though I probably should get around to playing more than just Skyrim before I get them.

 

Seconded. Thirded?

 

That Rebels Cosplay Family is Exactly as Awesome as You Expected

 

An interesting article on Lando:

http://eleven-thirtyeight.com/2014/06/hes-a-main-character-too-respecting-lando-calrissian/

 

I would go even further than "interesting." I would go as far as to say, "necessary and important". It puts words to what many of us have been feeling. Nice work Havac .

 

Maybe he could get a role in Rebels? Isn't it set about 5 years before ANH - same time as Lando was flying around in the Falcon?

 

Spoiler

Rumor is he does.

 

Edit: What Coop said!

 

You aiming to low! Lando needs his own series!

 

Lando's not a system, he's a series!

 

I really hope that rumour turns out to be true. Reading that piece just made me sad. Thinking about poor Billy Dee Williams, just standing by the phone, waiting for a call...

 

I posit that Lando is the true Chosen One, as it was only when he joined the good guys that things really turned around.

I mean, regardless of whether Anakin killed Palpatine or not, Lando was going to kill him either way. Because the fall didn't kill Palpatine, splattering the windshield of the Millennium Falcon did.

 

Nonsense; he's keeping busy.

 

Any one else bothered by the fact that Lando seems to be in Rebels but not in VII? I don't see how he should have anything to do with any Rebels before ESB, and it doesn't seem like he should fall off the main cast after. I'm happy we are getting more Lando, but I would rather it was the other way around. Unless we are getting Billy Dee voicing a different character for Rebels, but that would mean no Lando at all...

 

It's like poetry. It rhymes.

 

Stop that.