“We’ve almost got some of their telecommunications cracked; the front end even runs on a laptop!” The Mac that sunk a thousand ships could have been merely clunky product placement, not a bafflingly stupid tech-on-film moment.

“Senator Amidala is in a coma. Even if she recovers, she will never be the same and may not live long.” But no… George had to have his god-damned funeral scene, even if it demanded Simone Biles levels of mental gymnastics to save Carrie Fisher’s most emotionally resonant moment from ROTJ, as well as one of the more intriguing OT lore dumps.

Bonus points if a scene was scripted or filmed and got cut.

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    48 months ago

    In the Phasma book there’s a stormtrooper with red armor named Cardinal “like the bird”. I wanted to throw the book across the room when I read that but I was reading it on my tablet so I restrained myself.

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      28 months ago

      There was a Star Wars novel where the author liked using the phrase “Soandso looked at Sosandso like he’d turned into a huge spider.”