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That's a take. I don't think the movies show any great sign of Padme acknowledging Anakin's darkness or trying to change him.

Yeah, but you're not touting them as the best actors, you're touting them as big names, which they weren't particularly back then.

And midichlorians, and an opening scrawl that would make a decent insomnia cure.

I saw it on a long weekend trip to New York, before it came out in the UK, along with this weird-sounding movie called The Matrix the next day. Fully expected Star Wars to be the clear winner there, but wound up profoundly disappointed with it and hugely impressed with The Matrix.

The second one has a longer casting time due to the transformation sequence, but also can't be interrupted.

Unless episode 8 is a misdirect, and there are actually only seven episodes this season.

Actually, episode 7 will be on the 24th. Episode 8 will be on the 31st, world-ending events aside.

Well, that one was as... unusual as the premise suggested, and then some.

She was piloting the ship because they were bringing her to Earth. She was literally the same being they collected from Egypt in the prologue, just having been decanted from that sarcophagus since she was now needed active. She doesn't look anything like the Mondochiwans we see in the prologue...

No, she's literally the Fifth Element, the unique and special being destined to defeat the great evil once every 5,000 years. I have no idea where you're getting the idea that she's a Mondochiwan soldier.

That is what pretty much everyone in the thread has been referring to - the ability to save at any time to resume later without losing progress. You're the first to reference savescumming.

When did that ever bring peace to the entire galaxy?

Yeah, but size isn't mass, especially when it's a big hollow object. A deliberately designed metal ship would use significantly less mass than a hollowed-out asteroid of equivalent internal volume.

Why do you need to know whether it's a zero or one? So long as you're getting some signal through, and can tell "right now there's a signal coming through, and now the line is dead", you can just revert to Morse code - brief or long bursts of signal are dots and dashes. Or zeros and ones if...

Will he be The Last Starfighter?

Yeah, while an asteroid solves a lot of problems in terms of better shielding against things like radiation and high-velocity particle collisions, it's also a lot harder to move than a similarly-sized ship. Also, I seem to recall seeing that our current understanding of large asteroid formation...

But by the same token, if there's an infinity of pre-FTL civilisations that get visited by such show-offs, there's also an infinity of civilisations that never happen to get noticed.

Kinda makes you wonder what resources we don't have in abundance that a culture developing elsewhere might consider to be an obvious essential to cultural or technological development. Getting too caught up on what worked for us to the extent of assuming it's what any civilisation would need may...

Hmm, Dennis E Taylor's Bobiverse series might work, then. They're not without conflict and ups and downs, but they're very much about building a better galaxy.

A show ahead of its time, in the sense that it wanted to be the antithesis of conventional superhero stories at a time when conventional superhero tropes weren't yet really in the public consciousness.