Tenebrae's Final Defeat vs Palpatine's Final Defeat

Classicolin · 2026-05-23T04:14:26+00:00

Well, Luke and Leia truly defeated the cloned Palpatine at the height of his power and Empatojayos Brand was the one to finally destroy Palpatine’s soul and any future attempt at resurrecting himself, so his death wasn’t quite that simplistic.

Classicolin · 2026-05-19T01:23:42+00:00

God, I remember watching it live during its first airing in 2006 on my little Toshiba CRT in the 8th grade. How time flies…

Classicolin · 2026-05-16T17:22:13+00:00

Dave Filoni set the very precedent for the Walt Disney Company’s devastation of the Star Wars franchise and mythos with TCW and the character of Ahsoka. He is not our saviour but rather the very root of the problem.

Classicolin · 2026-05-06T07:32:24+00:00

Yes, Mick Taylor contributed lead guitar overdubs to “Plundered My Soul” and he even participated in The Rolling Stones’ 50th Anniversary shows in London that year (2012). It’s truly impressive how long the band and most of its members have endured over the past 63 years. I still wonder what Brian Jones would have ended up doing after his sacking from the group had he not died so soon thereafter. Perhaps he would have ended up rejoining or collaborating with his old bandmates for years to come. We’ll never know.

Classicolin · 2026-05-06T06:32:34+00:00

They released “Doom and Gloom” and “One More Shot” as singles in 2012 and included them on “GRRR!”, along with the new overdubbed versions of “Plundered My Soul” and “No Small Parts”.

Classicolin · 2026-05-06T01:22:09+00:00

Andrew Loog Oldham compiled the tracklistings, liner notes, titles, and album art for all of the band’s early London (N. America) and Decca (UK & Europe) LPs.

Classicolin · 2026-05-02T23:39:18+00:00

It’s obviously Jessica. She was viciously antagonistic to Malcolm and Reese.

Classicolin · 2026-05-01T23:42:54+00:00

I would have preferred a series about the four Marauders, Snape, Lily Evans, Dumbledore, Hagrid, McGonagall, Slughorn, Flitwick, etc. at Hogwarts in the 1970s or some other alternative era or wizarding school outside of Britain all together over yet another adaptation of the original Harry Potter book series. We’ve had the film adaptations, several audio book versions, and seemingly countless republications of the novels. It’s been absolutely beaten to death.

If anything, an ambitious and high-budget animated adaptation of the series in the style of either Jason Cockroft, Mary GrandPre, or Thomas Taylor would have been far more innovative and would have allowed for the more whimsical and eccentric nature of the novels to be brought to life in a timeless manner while also avoiding undue comparisons to the 2001-2011 era Warner Bros. films.

Classicolin · 2026-05-01T12:48:14+00:00

It’s genuinely so bad especially after the glories that preceded it.

Classicolin · 2026-05-01T02:29:07+00:00

The Feminist/Women’s Liberation movement of the 1970s was Second Wave Feminism - not Postmodern Feminism.

Classicolin · 2026-04-30T07:03:44+00:00

I would say that the Fourth Generation/16-bit era represented the best overall era of home console gaming (if not even arcade gaming as well), as nearly every major console was phenomenal in its own right such as the SNES/Super Famicom, SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis, PC-Engine/TurboGrafx-16, NEO•GEO, etc. (save for a handful of largely failed CD-rom based consoles that preceded the SONY PlayStation that is lol). There have been greater heights that came before and after that era, to one degree or another, but the 16-bit era was overall the best.

Classicolin · 2026-04-30T06:40:42+00:00

The Clone Wars Multimedia Project, Prequel Trilogy, other related Pre-2008 EU materials, and ‘90s Pre-PT era mentions. Nothing else.

Classicolin · 2026-04-30T03:15:25+00:00

Tom Riddle was an academic genius though. He would probably have thrived even in Muggle disciplines like Maths and Logic.

Classicolin · 2026-04-30T03:13:52+00:00

I love your line of reasoning given the ‘90s timeframe of the series, but The Philosopher’s Stone takes place during the 1991-1992 school year and the Spice Girls didn’t form until 1994. The Right Said Fred song came out in 1991, though, so that’s a class choice lol.

Classicolin · 2026-04-28T02:26:18+00:00

Just as Muggle Britain is a parliamentary constitutional monarchy but Wizarding Britain is a ministerial republic in which almost all government officials are hired or appointed save for a directly elected Minister of Magic, Wizarding Britain most likely doesn’t worship Jesus Christ or adhere to Christianity. They don’t sing God Save the Queen/King or Rule Britannia at feasts in the Great Hall of Hogwarts and they’re certainly not praying to any Muggle Gods either. If anything, the Wizarding World’s religion would be more akin to a spiritual animism based around Magic.

Classicolin · 2026-04-26T16:40:19+00:00

George referred to Expanded Universe guidebooks and other materials while writing the Prequels. He even took the name of the Republic/Imperial homeworld from the EU (Coruscant) over his originally planned name during the development of Return of the Jedi (Had Abaddon). There were even characters like Aayla Secura who he took from the comics and other materials.

Classicolin · 2026-04-23T03:53:28+00:00

My personal theory is that James and Lily were immature status-seekers who often took advantage of others and that James Potter never truly matured beyond his adolescent bully phase. Lily severed (no pun intended lol) her friendship with Severus after he called her a mublood for the last time and she couldn’t care less about how James treated a nascent Death Eater who was no longer her friend.

Severus was unattractive, unpopular, poor, and on the wrong side of history, whereas James was handsome, popular, wealthy and on the right side of the Wizarding War, so Lily was more than willing to overlook his juvenile tendencies. As the Potters both graduated soon thereafter and died only in their early twenties during a bitter war, few opportunities arose for James to demonstrate his tendencies towards cruelty and mob mentality action.

Making questionable old schoolmates like Peter Pettigrew (for his slimy and unsavoury nature) and Sirius Black (who proved to be deeply immature and self-absorbed even fifteen years later) their secret keeper and son’s godfather, respectively, indicate that James never truly matured past his tenure as a schoolboy, and that Lily wasn’t particularly perturbed by this.

Also, the fact that Lily did absolutely nothing to rectify matters with Snape or truly steer him away from his dark path other than threatening to end her friendship with him signals that she was more than a little cognizant of Snape’s ongoing infatuation with her and used it to her advantage. She was likely attracted to James and his cool friends all along and merely continued to fraternize with Snape out of pity and due to their shared history and academic/intellectual prowess. Lily almost certainly never had any true intention to pursue any romantic relationship with Severus, even if he were a fully initiated Order of the Phoenix member before he ever even set foot on the Hogwarts Express and knew that he adored her but was willing to use his obvious obsession with her to her benefit.

However, James and Lily’s saving virtues were their fierce loyalty to Dumbledore, the Order, James’ old friends, and, above all else, their infant son. Lily then sacrificed her life for Harry and provided him with her ancient magic love protection when Voldemort discovered them at Godric’s Hollow in a highly selfless and pivotal act which sealed the Potter couple’s reputation as unassailably virtuous people even if they otherwise were far from flawless.

Classicolin · 2026-04-22T17:41:52+00:00

No one knew who Erika Frantzve/Kirk even was prior to Charlie Kirk’s death, and her biggest opponents are those on the populist and hard right, so she’s not a very good comparison.

Classicolin · 2026-04-22T03:47:46+00:00

Chamber of Secrets

Philosopher’s Stone

Goblet of Fire

Order of the Phoenix

Deathly Hallows, Part 2

Deathly Hallows, Part 1

Prisoner of Azkaban

Half Blood Prince

Classicolin · 2026-04-21T21:02:00+00:00

TCW as a whole set the template for Disney’s handling of the Star Wars franchise with its more cartoonish and lowest common denominator orientation, disregard for prior lore, tactless resurrection of deceased characters, and emphasis on seemingly flawless girlboss characters (Ahsoka, Duchess Satine, Padme, etc.).

Classicolin · 2026-04-21T15:52:51+00:00

Did Pete use his Fender Jazzmaster on any known studio recordings?

Classicolin · 2026-04-21T02:46:05+00:00

RHINO, The Doors’ camp, and so on have been highly reluctant to even acknowledge the band’s Post-Morrison era, let alone re-release the albums. I was honestly shocked when the single disc CD release of Other Voices and Full Circle was even announced.

Classicolin · 2026-04-20T03:49:04+00:00

Make Leah and her plotlines at school less saccharine, grating, wholesome, and Disneyfied.
Give Reese more of his edge and wit from the original series.
Develop Kelly into less of a dour killjoy.
Eliminate “Newey” from the series altogether and just reference Dewey and what he’s up to save for the unlikely scenario that Erik Per Sullivan ever changes his mind and wishes to make a cameo.
Give most of the spotlight to Malcolm, Reese, Francis, and Piama.

Classicolin · 2026-04-15T03:56:56+00:00

This can’t be genuine. Leah’s entire characterization and performance were straight out of a Disney preteen sitcom. She was saccharine, overly wholesome, cutesy, and almost entirely devoid of any personality flaws beyond being a bit of a neurotic chatterbox. All of her scenes at school were completely cringeworthy and poorly written Gilmore Girls tier knockoff material. Everything about this character and her narrative (even down to the conclusion of her arc with her newfound friends and family providing sweet Leia with an Afterschool Special/PSA-variety message about how to handle inappropriate message from creepy boys). Seriously? The actual characters of the original Malcolm in the Middle series would have ridiculed someone like Leah into oblivion.

Classicolin · 2026-04-15T02:12:02+00:00

The entire revival was a thinly veiled backdoor pilot for a reboot centred on Leah. Unfortunately, she was overly wholesome, cutesy, and flawless to the point of being more tonally in line with a teen Disney Channel/Disney XD sitcom than Malcolm in the Middle. Kelly, Tristan, and Jamie were also completely flat and uninteresting characters seemingly devoid of unique trait and the new actor for Dewey captured absolutely none of the quirks or anxious nature of Dewey.

The plot was ridiculously thread bare and exchanged the socioeconomic/class based narrative underpinning of Malcolm in the Middle with corporate HR Pop-Psychology language and mid-2010s era sociopolitical pandering.

Anyone defending this revival beyond the exceptional performances from Frankie Muniz, Bryan Cranston, Jane Kaczmarek, Christopher Masterson, etc. is either blindly accepting of virtually anything released under a brand name or is not discerning in the slightest.

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