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David Bowie - Moonage Daydream

David Bowie - New Killer Star

David Bowie - Magic Dance

David Bowie - Rebel Rebel

Ran across a Twitter thread which quoted from Tales Of The Bounty Hunters. Since we know Filoni's a deep nerd who likes his deep cuts... yeah, he's gonna use it. (It also has an early tale about IG assassin droids that Boba's tangled with...)

Finally got round to seeing Ep2, and not seeing the reasoning for all the Twitter hate. It's definitely a slower story than Mando (which was langorous to start with), but I'm liking it. On @DougGraves ' point from the other day: one of the things about D+ shows, since they're not beholden to execs or advertisers, is that they seem to burn not just one, but two or even three eps on setups before things kick off (hint: start Wandavision at Ep4 and then go back to 1, 2 and 3 as curiosities. This much improves the show. Hawkeye is a rare exception, which starts with some fun and uses ep5 to take a breather). One neat touch I already liked in that episode - but am only now kicking myself for realising.

The Final Boss Fight did feel a little shoehorned in at the end. It might have been neater if said legendary spirit of evil decided to fight using his dad's bod and the Ten Rings, which would then have allowed it to speak through and taunt/tempt our hero (in a similar way to how it used their mother's voice to twist the dad's will.) Then the big dragon could have finished it off. Also, I would like to complain about a factual error here. It is well known that all Chinese luckdragons have big fuzzy bellies that they love being rubbed and big fluffy ears to scratch and are Very Good Boys indeed. YES THEY ARE. OH YES THEY ARE

Interesting thought by Techwright...

At a guess, Rule Of Cool applies. Even with Lucas's obsessively intricate backstories, I doubt there was any specific reason at the time why Boba never unmasked, other than it looked good and intimidating, and Lucas wouldn't have to pay image rights for the toys. About the other thing...

Dee Gees - You Should Be Dancin'

Bee Gees vs Eminem - Stayin' Alive Without Me

Replying to @biostem:

Jennifer Batten - Flight Of The Bumblebee

Lita Ford - Larger Than Life

Nita Strass ft. David Draiman - Dead Inside

Rob Zombie - We're An American Band (Grand Funk Railroad cover)

Officially cancelled Netflix, just picking up a couple of things before I go (my hometown girl Liv Colman's creepy new Oscar-baiting joint Lost Daughter, and James Nesbitt being a grumpy, shouty 'tec in Stay Close - the kind of stuff that normally goes on Monday on BBC before the news, but pretty good writing). On a meeja darlink note, IMDB tells me it's by Red Productions - one of the big UK indie outfits that supplies the BBC and Channel 4 with their quality dramas (Years & Years, It's A Sin, Casanova, Happy Valley). So Netflix must have gone straight to source, negotiating and spending harder to get first-run/"Original" rights. Seen a few where they or Amazon had it straight after the main broadcast run and shared the creds, but clearly times they are a-changin'.

Céline Dion - A New Day Has Come

Taylor Swift - 22 G'night everybody. Happy New Year. Keep being heroic.

I regret to say it ladies and germs, but the beast that is 2021 had one last, cruel trick to play on us all. The wonderful, epically talented, multi-decade-spanning artist, rights activist, standup genius, animal lover and all around general badass Betty White has left us. Incidentally, she was also a Trek fan. So she says.

Tag yourself: Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven Lady Gaga - Bad Romance RHCP - Californication Foo Fighters - The Pretender

I like the D+ stuff: because while they do deliver on a lot of the expected stuff, being on a streaming platform with a guaranteed audience, the writers can do unexpected, un-movie-like things without having them focus-grouped to death. Like... well, pretty much all of WandaVision, but particularly the Ship Of Theseus and the deliberate messing with the fandom's minds (ctrl-alt-Quicksilver). Or introducing multiversal variants with Sylvie, and then Richard E Grant's Kermit Golden Age Loki. Or the wildly downbeat endings of the Killmonger and Ultimate Strange What Ifs. Or the quiet, character building moments in Hawkeye, especially the ones revolving around pizza, mac cheese and hot sauce. Guess the writers were hungry. Sounds about right.

Brass Construction - Movin'

All Twi'lek scenes were guest directed by Michael Bay. (probably)