Star Wars, Geek Culture, and Power Converters
When last we met our intrepid hero, Kaz, he was demonstrating his eagerness to be a spy and his resistance (see what I did there?) to learning the trade of his cover identity.
The latest episode, Fuel for the Fire, finds Kaz still straining against the expectation that he work competently as a mechanic. He’s still obsessed with racing and intent on spying, but this week, we also see that he’s hungry for friendship. Continue reading
After last week’s bombshell of F$@*ed up news from Marvel et al. I am please to being you a relatively brief, largely positive check-in from the galaxy far, far away.
First: Battlefront II players and Clone Wars fans (the Venn diagram of which I understand has a great deal of overlap) got excited this week by news from EA Games that beloved voice actors from the soon-to-return animated series will be adding their talents to the popular video game. Beginning on October 30th, Battlefront gamers will be able to hear Matthew Wood (General Grievous), James Arnold Taylor (Obi-Wan Kenobi), Corey Burton (Count Dooku), and Matt Lanter (Anakin Skywalker) returning to their familiar Star Wars roles. The characters will be introduced over time: with Grievous coming first, followed by Kenobi (November 2018), Dooku (January 2019), and finally Anakin (February 2019). Battlefront II gamers will have time to get reacquainted with their Clone Wars favorites before the series’ new episodes appear on Disney’s streaming service in late 2019.
And in other, completely-not-terrible-and-in-fact-pretty-cool news, this week we got additional behind the scenes photos from the upcoming Star Wars live action series, The Mandalorian including the deep-fandom Easter Egg ice cream maker (made famous by the legion of Willrow Hoods who take a spirited dash through each and every Star Wars Celebration). The photos are available on Jon Favreau’s personal Instagram to anyone who cares to look. Make sure to check out the set photos from when George Lucas himself surprised Favreau on his birthday!
And that’s it for this week. Yes, really! It’s been a cool and calm week for us in the galaxy far, far away. Enjoy it! Who knows what’s in our future. As always: send Star Wars news tips to ToscheStation.net and send obscure Clone Wars errata to @MandaTheGinger
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This week on TSR: reading and writing, space is dangerous, places to drop F-bombs in Star Wars, and how to deal with our problematic faves.
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Welcome back to the Brewhouse! This month Heath from Rogue Podron joins us to craft a Zuvio themed saison utilizing Picobrew’s Model C system and Freestyle PicoPak Crafter. If you want to brew along with us, the recipe is below!
Justice for Zuvio Saison
Characteristics: 6.5% ABV | 25 IBU | 6 SRM
Base Recipe: Saison
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Art by Heath Williams.
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We’re very excited to be starting CANTO BIGHT this week, starting with Saladin Ahmed’s Rules of the Game! Join us as we discuss Canto Bight as a microcosm of the galaxy, Star Wars‘ proud history of lovable gunslingers, and the importance of author diversity in the franchise’s writing. Plus, we address Marvel’s bullsh*t firing of Chuck Wendig.
This podcast is NOT spoiler-free!
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This week on TSR: We saw First Man, Star Wars: Resistance is here, there’s a new Doctor in town, and Marvel makes a catastrophically bad decision.
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Resistance‘s second episode focuses on Kaz’s covert mission on the Colossus–being a mechanic. He’s not good at it. Actually, he’s pretty terrible at it. (He’s also terrible at keeping his cover by talking about his mission in public.) Which is bad because a ship has come in with a need for a rush job. Tam is unhappy with his abilities as a mechanic, Yeager is disappointed with Kaz’s lack of dedication to his job, the inhabitants of the platform are annoyed by his antics, and Neeku is…well, Neeku. Continue reading
After the glut of news from New York Comic Con, this week’s post was supposed to be relatively short and sweet. Then Chuck Wendig was fired by Marvel. So…yeah. Let’s jump right into that and get it over with.
Just last week we learned that Wendig was writing a new miniseries called Shadow of Vader. He can explain what exactly happened better than I can summarize it, both on his Twitter and his blog. Suffice it to say, an editor at Marvel was displeased with the negativity brought on by his Twitter feed and dropped him from the final two issues, as well as an unannounced project. Not necessary because of what he tweeted, but how he tweeted it (though that claim by Marvel seems a bit dubious). Because of this we at Tosche Station will no longer be covering Marvel comics on the blog; Brian posted a comment on that immediately after learning about Chuck’s firing.
This situation is very disappointing for a myriad of reasons. The emphasis on being “civil” no matter what the cost, the willingness to capitulate to Comics Gate, firing someone for social media when their persona was already well known upon hiring. While I am not a comics reader, I appreciated Chuck’s contributions to Star Wars and am saddened this may mark his last job in the universe.
In other, less disappointing news, Jedi Knight Revan joins the Galaxy of Heroes mobile game. This addition is to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Knights of the Old Republic game. (Side note: 15 years? Holy crap.) According to Star Wars dot com, the “Legend of the Old Republic” event begins October 18 with a series of six events loosely based on the Knights of the Old Republic storyline, plunging players deep into familiar locales like the sewers of Taris and the ancient Sith tomb on Korriban.
Lucasfilm announced its newest ILMxLAB offering, Project Porg. According to Star Wars dot com, it’s a mixed-reality immersive experiment in which you’ll need to gain the trust and affection of your porgs. How? You’ll feed them treats, play with them, and you’ll also teach them how to maneuver real-world environments with care instructions from C-3PO himself. So basically neopets but with porgs? Sounds brilliant! You can find Project Porg in December as a free download for the Magic Leap One.
That’s all for this week’s Holonet Blast. Hopefully next week’s won’t be as dramatic.
This month on the Vorkosicast, Robin and Nanci discuss the first half of A Civil Campaign.
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