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The films would become too powerful, it might be dangerous
November 30, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Make him like the Predator. Have him reappear over centuries in different time periods solving historical murder mysteries.

Benoit in a 7th Century Irish Monastery. Benoit and the Song Dynasty regional governor. Benoit during the French Revolution.
November 30, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Note I am not saying Britain is actually effective in this role…
November 30, 2025 at 9:12 AM
In geopolitical terms, this is now Britain’s role on the world stage. The USA’s butler.
November 30, 2025 at 9:12 AM
One of Abnett’s best, I think. Must have been a real palate cleanser for him after the Heresy.
November 29, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Whenever I receive a medal from a princess, I always try to wear this outfit, my favourite Luke getup.
November 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Always the way: a politician pushes through a law rewriting an entire industry worth billions, and you discover they did it for a bribe of £3,000 and a lunch at Zizzis.
November 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Big franchises? LOTR, Potter, Pirates, Star Wars then Marvel?
November 28, 2025 at 7:42 AM
For some reason it reminds me of this Far Side panel
November 27, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Absolutely agree: terrible, terrible SW movie, the worst, but weirdly respectful of C-3PO: the whole structure of the plot is arguably based around him, makes him a valued member of the core “team”, he is amusing for the first time in years. Would have loved to see all that in a better movie…
November 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Strong contender for best Star Wars ranking this year
November 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
This stuff has been going on for a while. You know Trump would dress the secret service up in Custodes armour if he could. (Although it would be made of cardboard sprayed gold).
November 26, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Go bigger: there’s never been an adaptation of The Honourable Schoolboy, probably because it ends on a downer and you have to have a big budget Vietnam War movie happening in the background. But if you have an infinite budget it’s perfect! Then do it as a massive TV series and cover ALL of Smiley!
November 26, 2025 at 9:11 AM
A long form multi season series covering every John le Carre/Nick Harkaway book which features George Smiley, in chronological order. Starts with Call for the Dead set in the early 60s, has the definitive Smiley actor and ages with him, running for over 30 years, with a series every 4-5 years.
November 26, 2025 at 9:07 AM
With the obligatory 12 minute Force dream sequence where Luke is trapped in a red curtained room with dancing Ewoks and a floating disembodied Jar Jar Binks head that recites Delphic predictions about the future.
November 26, 2025 at 8:10 AM
1987-1999 West End Games RPG Puritan
November 24, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Quite a few Wars, though, to be fair.
November 23, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I like it when people in tv shows call their siblings “bro” or “sis” at the start of every sentence, exactly like people in real life don’t.
November 23, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Absolutely true. I dislike horror movies, watched hereditary because my partner likes them, disliked hereditary (I know it’s good, but I disliked it) and now all horror movies are like drinking water after doing shots.
November 22, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Someone on here in advance of the meeting said that Trump is a sucker for charismatic people and would just spend the whole meeting nodding & agreeing with him, and holy shit they were right.

Trump essentially defers to powerful people. He’s still impressed to meet a mayor.
November 22, 2025 at 7:48 AM
I just think “weak Jedi” ≠ “uninteresting Jedi”. I think the opposite is true.

A Jedi who can only block one third of incoming blaster bolts is going to come up with interesting ways to solve problems.
November 21, 2025 at 11:44 AM
My point is it’s more interesting imho if she *doesn’t* get better, and has to learn to accept/deal with that.

It’s a character thing, about accepting who we are, growing as a person within our limits.

The standard SW story is rapid force power growth: doing something different is interesting.
November 21, 2025 at 11:42 AM