I thought that was a quirk of my phone! It drives me bananas that it does that!

That’s not entering into the spirit of things!

(Fair point and I immediately remembered ‘Shaughnessey’ so we’re not even consistent ourselves)

They insist on pronouncing the silent ‘gh’ in ‘Gallagher’ even though ‘gh’ is almost always silent in English and on the rare occasion that it isn’t, it’s pronounced like an F!

We’re a nation of fucking quislings

The RTÉ Archive is a 50 year, publicly owned and controlled repository of video, audio and documentation. Making it freely available online would create a deep well of trusted high quality info about our distant and recent past.

It is a unique public resource to counteract lies or error.

It’s great for a couple of minutes, then there are whacky robot hijinks on Anakin’s fighter, and then all of the action moves into the separatist capital ship.

“Characters”, not “chances” FFS

But what you’d be missing is that The Last Jedi is overall a good movie with some flaws, whereas the PT movies are all deeply flawed movies with some fleeting moments that are good.

“But Dermo”, you might say, “haven’t you declared, many times, that your hottest take is that more people who disliked it initially would come around to The Last Jedi if JJ Abrams hadn’t been so aggressively uninterested in engaging with it that he’d rather make the worst Star Wars film?”

They don’t though. They flesh out the Clone Wars, provide backstory for chances that are introduced in the movies without exposition, and try to walk back some of the inconsistencies with the OT that the PT creates, but you can’t make bad films good by making secondary content.

The problem is, it immediately moves the action indoors to the separatist ship, and instead of cutting between the action in space and the action on the capital ship (eg the climax of Return of the Jedi), RotS cuts between two locations on the same ship, one of which is R2D2 Home Aloning battle bots

The thing about Revenge of the Sith that always struck me as emblematic of how much Lucas misunderstood what people enjoyed about the originals - and misunderstood about blockbuster movies in general - is the massive space battle over Coruscant that it opens with. Great, love a space battle.

Let’s not be hasty here, he could have been an auxiliary. In which case, fuck ‘im.

I still can’t believe that this is a thing that someone tried to do. And did they take a photo, think “needs something else”, and then add the plaster?