RE: that ending
If you’ve read Crisis on Infinite Earths, then you should know who Lyla Michaels really is.
Heck, I knew who she was and would possible become when they introduced her in season 1.
Moments
The quote that stuck with me the most from the trailer?
“Confronting fear is the destiny of the Jedi.”
Because I’ve faced my greatest fear, finding my Dad’s lifeless body at home.
The image that made me gasp?
Similar to the first image of a Star Destroyer in the original film, which had the same effect, more or less, on 10-year old me.
The bit of music that hit me in the feels?
Tie between Yoda’s theme during Threepio’s line:
“Taking one last look sir… at my friends.”
And the overly-triumphant Star Wars main theme during the latter half of the trailer.
A friend said that I have 2 months to get ready for this film, after I stated that I wasn’t ready.
After watching the trailer more than a dozen times, sleeping on it, letting it permeate my dreams, and waking up on Dad’s birthday, I think I may actually be ready for this.
The Rise of Skywalker
Arrow Season 8 Premiere
To be honest, I wasn’t expecting much. I had stopped watching about a season or two ago, I think. When was Michael Emerson first introduced?
Anyways, the episode was pretty nuts, with Oliver on a parallel world posing as himself, and all the slight changes on that world due to his absence.
I couldn’t follow the flash forward stuff because I don’t know the background behind these characters. I guess I can either read up or watch a few episodes from last season.
But what really got me was the ending, and the red skies and the antimatter cloud annihilating everything it touches, just like in the comics.
I’m really looking forward to the crossover.
Lemme ‘splain
*thwip*
1977
1977 was not just the year I turned 10.
Or the year Star Wars first premiered.
Or even the year I got Baron Karza for my birthday (he was in his box on the kitchen table when I came downstairs for breakfast).
1977 was the first year that I seriously started to pay attention to baseball.
I considered myself a baseball fan since I was 4-5 years old, because on weekends we seemed to live at the ballpark, especially if there was a Sunday doubleheader. I never paid attention to the games as much as my parents and my brother did back then. I was more interested in when the next time the food vendors would come by our section (General Admission 28).
But two things happened in 1977 that changed the way I saw baseball.
The first was the premiere of “This Week In Baseball”.
Aside from the occasional Giants game, and that day in 1974 when we saw Hank Aaron break the all time-home run record, I’d never seen anything like TWiB, a weekly recap show of baseball, much like the older “NFL Game of the Week” show that would come on in the afternoon on Saturday, after cartoons.
TWiB introduced stars of the game who I was not familiar with, since we only ever saw the Giants on TV. And the dulcet tones of Mel Allen’s voice made the recaps somewhat exciting.
How about that?
The other thing that happened in 1977 was Chris Speier being traded away from the Giants to the Expos.
Speier was my favorite player on the Giants since my first exposure to baseball, which started my ‘root for the Giants player with your first name and last initial’ thing.
I don’t know if I ever rooted for Tim Foli. I simply couldn’t, because he took the place of my boyhood idol.
I think I ended up picking either Johnnie Lemaster (another shortstop) or Jack Clark or Bill Madlock or John Montefusco as my new favorite Giants player, mostly because they had cool sounding names.
Years later Speier came back to the Giants, just in time to watch them become a contender in the late 1980s. By then my ongoing love for baseball had become a permanent thing.
Star Wars Day 09.15.2019
Familiar
Spider-Man: Far From Home
There was a moment during the film that I felt like I was in a Spider-Man/Mysterio comic book by Lee and Ditko. It felt THAT right.
And there was another moment that I almost stood up and screamed, “I KNEW IT!”
It was about as good as Homecoming, maybe a little better at some points.
Tom Holland continues to amaze (heh) me in his role as Peter Parker/Spider-Man. This guy truly plays the part as I remember him when I was reading the comics growing up.
And it does wrap up the Infinity Saga quite well.
Two thumbs up. Recommended.
Go see it!