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Star Wars TV Show Gets A Name & Might Not Be Terrible

January 10th, 2012 By Michael Park

Yes, we know what you’re thinking and stop looking at us like that. You’re one of those Star Wars nerds that hate everything to do with the franchise after 1982, aren’t you? You don’t have any time for Ewoks or Gungans or modern, snazzy computer graphics. You want to watch monsters that move like they’re on rails and Anthony Daniels hamming it up without any interference from the modern world.

You know what? That’s fine.

Pretty much everything to do with Star Wars after ‘The Empire Strikes Back‘ (and maybe ‘Return of the Jedi’) was such a pile of complete dross that it’s enough to make Michael Winner consider re-releasing some of his films updated to HD. Those of you who groaned at the first appearance of the shambling Jar-Jar Binks would have found yourselves doubled over in agony by the time The Clone Wars hit TV screens.

Star Wars Episode 7: Return Of The Paycheque

June 3rd, 2011 By Kris Silver

George Lucas must have more dead horses on his Skywalker ranch than the stables after the Grand National.

How else could he keep flogging them?

Not content with ruining his own credibility with the Star Wars prequel trilogy and Indiana Jones vs the Aliens, Lucas has announced that he has 2 series worth of scripts ready for his new live action Star Wars TV show.

Creased or Folded? hecklerspray Tells You the Way it is

August 4th, 2012 By Chris Laverty

Good tradition of love and hate.

Folded:

The #tweetyour16yearoldself hashtag (starts out funny and then becomes your life story in 140 characters. Illuminating really)
Heidi Klum?s Halloween costume (your one was rubbish)
Boba Fett?s invoice for Jabba the Hutt (Carbonite costs more than you might think)
The competition prizes on The Gadget Show (enough tech to literally bury your house in and then die searching for a free plug socket)
Terminator 2 remade using Grand Theft Auto IV (this must have taken ages and you have to respect that)

Creased:

Top Six Disappointing Star Wars Characters

September 20th, 2012 By David Schwartz

Star Wars fans have had to deal with their fair share of disappointments. Return of the Jedi ending in a teddy bear’s picnic is one. Another was watching The Phantom Menace.

But maybe as Star Wars fans we see the series through rose-tinted spectacles. Maybe – and it hurts us to say this – it was never that good in the first place. Maybe as impressionable young kids we were just taken for the ride of our life through a galaxy far, far away and totally missed the dodgy script, hammy acting and bloody Ewoks.

All right, maybe not. That’s just crazy talk. But it has made me start thinking about things that could have been better throughout the series – not just the three prequels. What if the Jawas rather than the Ewoks helped the Rebels defeat the Empire on Endor? Would that have been better? Maybe. Would it have been even better if Yoda had done some actual fighting in The Empire Strikes Back? No, probably not.

Oh, and would the world have been a better place if Jar Jar Binks had died horribly at the start of Phantom Menace? Definitely. So what about the characters? Were there any characters that just didn’t quite live up to expectations? Quite possibly. Here’s six…