General Nerdery

Well, technically Han shot.  Period.  Because Greedo didn’t really have a chance to shoot back. But two different instances this week have solidified what Star Wars fans knew all along.  Questionable morals are part of Han’s roguish charm. First, a librarian found a copy of a script from 1976 that still had …

It took the Machete Order to make the prequel of Star Wars finally fit into the rest of the episodes–well, except for the-episode-we-should-not-speak-of. The Machete Order, for those unfamiliar, involves watching the movies in the following order:  IV, V, II, III, VI.  His argument is that you don’t lose anything from not …

Phantom Menace (the movie we shall not speak o—crap, broke that rule), came out when I was in high school.  Which was recent, right?  Right guys?! In the internet’s constant attempts to make me feel old, it has pointed out a cold fact. Or rather, the comic strip XKCD has. If …