Saw SKYFALL this afternoon. It was okay. Entertaining. The action was good, the plot...less so.  Better than Quantum of Solace, which was almost all chase scenes.

Bardem seemed to be channelling the late Raul Julia at times, coming off as a tad campy. His character was too much like Michael Bean's from Goldeneye. It's like the well of villainry has run dry in the P.C. world.  There's so few acceptable baddie types left and their schemes have to be more grounded nowdays. On the other hand, at least there was no satellite weapon.

The films makes Bond seem old and tired, I guess to make him more vunerable.  Craig is in better shape that I've ever been in, but damn he does look old and tired at times. Not that I want him to quit, he's got at least 2 more films in him (both contractually and physically).

Anyway, I wasn't disappointed in SKYFALL, but I wasn't expecting much.

Went to a Wal-Mart today, saw they still had some of these, sign above them said $20. Surely not. Scanned a legends one...yes, $20!  Glue annoyances aside, that's $2.50 a figure. 

I rather liked the episode and I'm not an astromech fan. Sure, the tiny colonel was goofy*, but at least it was as numbingly dull/repetative as any episode of the Onderon arc. Funny how the only regulars were R2 and briefly Mace Windu, but it was nice to have an Ahsoka-free episode again (I don't dislike her, but  being in 8 episodes in a row is too much.)

Got a Terra  Sinube cameo (non speaking).

R2-KT.

The mad doctor droid upgrader was pretty silly, but cliches/homages abound in Star Wars.

Not sure why a pit droid was needed. for the mission..can't astromech's autopilot ships? But storywise we needed another talking character.

*Though, the Colonel's stalk eyes reminded me a bit of that spider creature from John Carpenter's The Thing.

Star Wars Origins: Palpatine

Jedi Council: First Class

Multiple films per year might reinvigorate the franchise or burn it out.

Star Wars films were EVENT releases in the past (animated Clone Wars movie aside, which had a lukewarm reception).

Jedi Temple Archives reported that Gamorrean Guards were found at a Five Below by Dan Curto.

Not sure they do that sort of thing (exception being the better legs for the AT-TE). More likely to tell you to return it or they'd send you a shipping label and you can return the whole thing to Hasbro and they'll send you something random of equal value.

Impressive. I remember seeing that station in a book in the 90's. Wasn't there another one, too?