In a galaxy far far away

Now that Disney has thrown a lot of cash at George Lucas and are going to make a lot of movies that continue the adventures of Luke and Leia, I've started a new Star Wars website, In a Far Away Galaxy to see in the new movies - here's some questions I've started answering....

Who is directing Star Wars?

The director of Episode VII is the very popular JJ Abrams - currently riding a wave of popularity due to Star Trek Into Darkness, JJ is a very successful writer and producer of several films and TV shows - most notably Super 8 and Lost. 

That also sounds nice and grand but does he get Star Wars? Is he fan? If he's doing Star Trek movies why is he doing a Star Wars movie?

When will Star Wars start filming?

Byran Burk is the producer of Star Wars Episode VII along with Katherine Kennedy and JJ Abrams. He was quoted by Collider as saying: “We’re progressing on a schedule to hopefully begin next year, or the beginning of next year, and the location is still kind of floating around in the air all depending on script and a whole bunch of other issues. As I just said, everything is kind of a free-flowing thing, and when we feel like the story level on this script and everything is really coming together and schedules are all working and pieces line up, we prowl ahead, and Star Wars will be no different.” Which basically means there's firm plans to do SOMETHING .....

Is this the best top ten Star Wars quotes list ever? What about this cosplay?

How good a pilot is she really?

How many new Star Wars movies are there going to be?

Starting with Episode VII (being directed by JJ Abrams) in the Northern Hemisphere summer of 2015, it will alternate every summer with a stand -alone film until the trilogy is all sewn up. So that means 5 but you can guarantee Disney is gonna make a boat load of movies.

How did Han Solo and Chewbacca become friends?

Their connection begins when Solo boards a derelict slaving craft to find that its cargo of Wookiee children had escaped and all that was left on board was a severely wounded Wookiee in the pilot’s seat. 

Han was ordered to skin the helpless Chewbacca alive but refused. A court martial and an escape ensued as a result of this insubordination. Chewbacca later swore that he owed a life debt to Han and wouldn’t leave his side.

And that was the beginning of a beautiful friendship! 

What's the best way to blow up the Millennium Falcon?

If the Millennium Falcon was to be destroyed in the new Stars Wars movie, how should she go?

This evocative fan art of a crashed or derelict Millennium Falcon being used as a starting point for Episode VII is pretty cool.

It’s suggesting that yes, the original trilogy has been and gone, it’s time for something new.

Which got me wondering, if the Millennium Falcon was to make a grand exit from the Star Wars franchise how could she go? 

7 ways Episode VII could destroy the Millennium Falcon

1.  Han’s drunk and showing off so attempts to to again do the the Kessel Run in less than twelve par-secs. Hits an asteroid during the first par-sec.

2. Someone finds the droids they were looking for on her. They blow it up, trying to get R2D2 out of a smuggler’s hidey hole.

3. Greedo’s long lost son hunts down Han and plants a bomb on her in an attempt to kill Han. Han survives due to be way too hungover to do any work that day and stayed in bed.

4. Out of his mind on Ewok whiskey, Chewbacca crashes her on a midnight booty call trip to Kashyyyk.

5. Luke uses it to try and kill some womprats back home and comes face to face with the ultimate womprat.

6. Han doesn’t pay his parking fines and the city of Mos Eisley takes the ship as punishment. Han stubbornly does not pay his fines and the Falcon is crushed and sold as scrap metal.

7. Princess Leia, late for a girl’s night out, enters incorrect co-ordinates and drives the Falcon into the hanger exit.


Originally published at In a far away Galaxy as 7 ways Episode VII could destroy the Millennium Falcon

I found this lil guy in my back yard

He might do for Easter lunch?

Bats: Foe or food?

What goes around in nature:

Lunch is served

Comes around on the street:

The Dark Knight was to never rise again

These bat-a-riffic images and more can be found at What do bats eat? and this this post where obviously a snake was found eating a bat on a road in Australia.

Peta has no idea about video games. No surprises there!

Why did the whale cross the road?…To get to the other tide

It would seem by recent media comment that animal rights lobby group PETA think that killing whales in the new Assassin’s Creed video game means that players will go out and kill “ALL THE WHALES” themselves. Or something.

Whale lover Matt Bruce from Peta said:

"In Assassin's Creed 4, you get ahead by killing. Joe Shmoe who plays this game in his mother's basement in the safety and comfort of his home will feel a sense of accomplishment by killing this whale."

And he’ll probably get gamer achievement points too Matt. Those are really important to gamers.

"This would be a different story if the game portrayed the cruelty and horror experienced when a whale is literally fleeing for her life and then shot with a harpoon — or even several harpoons — and forced to struggle for hours or be hacked apart while still alive aboard a ship," Bruce said.

So basically PETA reckons whales should only be depicted when they die with fear in their eyes?

Personally, this writer doesn't support the killing of whales and thinks the Japanese people suck when it comes to their whale culling for ‘scientific purposes’.  However PETA is being rather stupid with their Assassin’s Creed admonishment – their argument is pretty much akin to saying that all copies of Moby Dick must be removed from libraries all over the world and burnt. Good luck with that Matt Bruce!

 Ubisoft's senior PR manager, Stone Chin (what an awesome name!), who must be loving the free publicity for their new game ,responded with some common sense:

“History is our playground in Assassin's Creed. Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag is a work of fiction that depicts the real events during the golden era of pirates. We do not condone illegal whaling, just as we don't condone a pirate lifestyle of poor hygiene, plundering, hijacking ships and over-the-legal-limit drunken debauchery."

Ha. I love it when PR folks forget the dry drivel they usually serve up to the press and  choose to mock pirates instead.

And let's put all this in perspective. Except for Star TrekIV: The Undiscovered Country where it was learned that whales are more important than humans in terms of saving the Earth from a strange alien force, I'm pretty sure that human life is more important than the lives of whales. So for a game franchise that’s about sneaking up on humans and killing them (indeed, ASSASSINATING them) why is no body jumping up and down about that?

Oh wait. 

Originally published at Post Game Lobby as Save the whales! OR As usual PETA have no bloody clue