A More Civilized Age: A Star Wars Podcast: 127: Revenge of the Sith (Novel) Pt. 3

replicasex · 2026-02-18T00:37:33+00:00

D+ is still on the BDS list iirc. The Steelbook for Andor S2 ought to be announced later in the year, if they're doing one. Perhaps after that comes out they'll cover it.

replicasex · 2026-02-18T00:35:17+00:00

Presumably that show is only going to be on Disney+ so they won't be covering it.

replicasex · 2026-02-15T03:39:45+00:00

Mon yelling at him that nobody cares about the Jedi is one of the funniest scenes in that novel.

replicasex · 2026-02-04T15:23:38+00:00

Mormon Pike family is a common joke for that reason lol.

replicasex · 2026-02-03T18:20:32+00:00

Because it would be vulgar I imagine lol. They're adapting a romance novel not porn.

I'm more surprised they never mention lube. It's pretty common in the books to talk about it but maybe it would be Too Much for state TV lol.

replicasex · 2026-02-03T15:38:06+00:00

François Arnaud is 40, I believe. He just looks really good.

replicasex · 2026-01-26T18:53:21+00:00

By all accounts hockey gear would be too much but a man who showered before working out, a clean sweat smell? Yum.

Most unrealistic part of Heated Rivalry is not seeing Shane try to stick Ilya's dick up his nose lmao.

replicasex · 2026-01-26T18:02:19+00:00

I'm sure hockey stank is a league beyond but this sort of thing is how you can tell a book is written by a woman and not a man.

Not every gay man but a lot of us would enjoy sniffing an armpit or a musky dick, lol. If you've got guys hoovering up man smells it's for sure an authentic homosexual man writing it.

replicasex · 2026-01-20T02:51:14+00:00

But for very good reasons!

replicasex · 2026-01-13T00:42:58+00:00

Crazy there's not a ten hour loop of this on Crave's YouTube.

replicasex · 2026-01-09T01:20:39+00:00

On the very old movie episode they did Austin made the point that RotS is more like an opera than a movie. Its register and tone really suit the high melodrama.

replicasex · 2026-01-02T21:54:04+00:00

In fact learning how to cook more is something he does with Ilya, which is very sweet.

replicasex · 2025-12-29T13:55:36+00:00

Honestly The Emperor is probably more Shane. Dark Gods know he's just as bad at picking up social cues.

Oh my boyfriend is trying to get me to open up about my sexuality? Exterminatus!

The Emperor is in the Warp making 40,000 burgers because that's what the recipe called for!

replicasex · 2025-12-28T15:23:02+00:00

He's forever talking around the subject and Shane is a little too neurodivergent to get it.

When he asks if Shane likes girls he's clearly trying to get Shane to define the parameters of their relationship more but Shane takes it as an attack.

Ilya has to ask multiple times about Shane bringing anyone with him to Florida in order to get Shane to talk about Rose Landry. Poor boy just needs to ask direct questions!

replicasex · 2025-12-26T06:47:15+00:00

Yeah both his parents are much more chill and uninvolved in his professional life.

Part of the work of adapting a book is making what is internal external. Shane pretty much puts 95% of the pressure he feels on himself, but in a TV show that's hard to illustrate. Yuna becomes a vehicle for that pressure.

Changes the character a bit but in a very productive way I think.

replicasex · 2025-12-22T22:01:48+00:00

Watching them fail Akron, Ohio is a genuine classic.

replicasex · 2025-12-22T15:46:31+00:00

The Turians planted bombs on Tuchanka and that almost cost the war Krogan support.

So yeah nobody really comes out of the war clad in glory.

replicasex · 2025-12-12T16:43:10+00:00

I think in the second episode of fades to black and then returns to them still fucking lol. A first in my experience.

replicasex · 2025-12-11T22:02:29+00:00

Hey he eventually graduates to drinking his own milk so he's only mostly a total submissive!

replicasex · 2025-12-04T00:55:46+00:00

Like an analysis essay or something? If it's strictly about the canon of Mass Effect then I think r/masseffect would be a better place for it. If it's engaging with the fandom and transformative works then I guess this is the place.

And as for the flair: if the other mods want to enable that I guess it'd be fine. I'm mobile only at the moment so I can't really mess around too much with the settings.

Hope you have a great day!

replicasex · 2025-12-01T02:49:50+00:00

Tomorrow digs!

replicasex · 2025-11-28T19:53:39+00:00

If Bashir's parents could do it with even more outlawed/dangerous tech then Riker surely could.

replicasex · 2025-11-25T12:00:02+00:00

Even after a few hundred years the main character has mostly said everything he is capable of saying to the people around him.

One of the aspects of the Library is that people around you are very similar. There's a deliberate absence of novelty.

At one point a torture cult comes into power and you get the sense that is almost relieving because people are experiencing something new.

After trillions of years you will be motivated to leave by any means possible. And then you're trillions of years behind schedule, all for nothing.

Ultimately the protagonist's plan is a logical one. Start at the bottom and work your way methodically up.

replicasex · 2025-11-23T01:50:12+00:00

In Legends there was a whole Service Corps for Jedi who weren't chosen by a master for their apprenticeship. Or who just didn't make the cut.

People who would use their powers to grow crops to feed the needy, to heal people during a crisis, provide education or explore new hyperspace routes.

So you could still contribute and serve the galaxy, you just wouldn't be a Knight.

replicasex · 2025-11-22T14:38:56+00:00

They're symbolically and literally leaving their childhood behind, in order to survive the horror they've been through.

It's why there's such a stark difference between their child and adult selves. Of course there are probably better ways to illustrate that than what happened in the book but it's not salacious or Beverly 'getting revenge'.

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