The Tea Table

Que the fan girl scream. This week we got two trailers for two highly anticipated movies coming out this Fall/Winter. The first one comes with a large push of a marketing campaign beginning to ramp up and the other drop in the middle of a sluggish football game where more people cared about the halftime show than the actual game (again). Let’s start off with…             Justice League: It starts with Lois Lane walking out to the porch at the Kent farmhouse. She sees the backside of a familiar friend in the field. Clark turns to her. “I’ll take that as a yes,” he says, remarking about the ring he intended to give her. Flashback to his burial and… it’s all a dream! Lois wakes up to the sound of a newscast a world in disarray without Superman. “A World Without Hope” reads the front page of the Daily Planet. Then comes in Bruce’s voice. He’s been dreaming about the end of the world. There’s an alien invasion coming but it could be s...

The gap between Star Wars’ Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope is about twenty years. Now granted I’m ball parking it, it’s probably about 17 years but in some sources it about 23, so I’ll go with 20. That’s a lot of time to cover and a lot of time to give the Empire a means to tighten its grip across the universe. The group of story tellers at Lucasfilm has given fans of the franchise plenty of source material, especially since as of 2014 most of the various novels, video games, and other media was declared non-cannon. For a more mainstream audience you have the movie Rouge One , a film that should’ve been a war film but was tone down in reshoots. For the reader there are plenty of novels including Lords of the Sith and A New Dawn , as well as comic books. But perhaps the more family friendly choice (and by family I mean fans who grew up with Star Wars and are now introducing it to their children) is the TV animated show Star Wars: Rebels .       ...