I have a soft spot for Stroma (not stoma - that’s something else). We have friends round and… nobody else wanted any. Is it wrong that I made this imprint by myself?
Hope and I are in Glasgow and just had to duck into a Markies on Argyle Street as a mob of masked rangers fans passed by shouting and breaking stuff. M&S security was shouting into his microphone to get someone down to lock the door. Seems to have calmed a bit now but I assume there’s an old firm game today that I’m going to have to try and avoid with Hope.
It’s been a busy week, ending thankfully with an afternoon off enabling a wee wander round the city centre to get a few things. We moved house a month ago to the edge of town so it was nice to be in the centre for the first time since then. In a way I suspect I’ll enjoy the city centre more because I’ll plan ahead and make the most of it: visiting the spice shop, off-licence etc.
Now sitting in the garden listening to music, enjoying a beer (Aldi, sadly) and mulling over the General Election.
@peterbrown I’m in the Inverness, Skye and Wester Ross one. Some absurd boundaries round here, but inevitable and an impossible job for the commission to have done.
A long time ago on a social media platform far, far away (well, October 2020 on Twitter) I began a chronological watch-through of the Star Wars canon. I am barely on Birdville now, so have moved the thread here.
Below is a link to a pdf with a very crude copy & paste job of my entire thread so far, so you can go back to the beginning and read the whole story. I will pick up the thread again below this tweet.
Happy reading, and may the force live long and shiny.
I have been looking forward to watching Solo. I remember seeing it once at the cinema when it came out - six years ago! - and liked it. Here are my tweets from back then.
And what stands out for me is how much it fits the canon, sitting well in the flow of the story: the links to the crime syndicates, the same grittiness of Clone Wars and Bad Batch, and the same sense that the Empire’s grip is strong and brutal. And similarly we almost forget about “proper” Star Wars with the Jedi, the Force etc. This is a film instead about spirit and guile.
And it’s all well put together too. Han is nicely painted - from Lando to Chewie to the Falcon, from his look and quips to the attitude. It’s a loving backstory of perhaps cinema’s archetypal loveable rogue. The twists and turns, the war scenes and the slave rebellion scenes make it fun and unpredictable. The core story is quite the sidestep from the Bad Batch, but as I say in keeping terms of vibe. And it lays foundations for next steps.
And next is fun because it’s a further nod to “proper” (perhaps “core”) Star Wars, with the Obi Wan Kenobi series, bringing us back to… well, Luke, Leia and the business we left behind seemingly ages ago at the end of film Episode 3. I’ll start watching that at some point. And then we’ll no doubt run into Han Solo again soon…