The Daily Late Nightly Show (Star Wars Day)

Yay me, by file count this is the 100th TDLNS on our WordPress Platform. That’s not necessarily an accurate number. (ek)

As I mentioned last night, I’m not here. Now would be a perfect time to throw a party, though if you’re joining tonight the built in (as in I can’t figure out how to turn it off) spam control requires your first comment to be moderated and I’m not here to do it. Quite a catch that Catch-22.

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one’s safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn’t, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn’t have to; but if he didn’t want to he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.

“That’s some catch, that Catch-22,” he observed.

“It’s the best there is,” Doc Daneeka agreed.

Attentive readers know I’m an avid consumer of popular (and not so popular) culture and also willing to bite the heads off chickens for people’s amusement. In the sub category of Science Fiction, TV and Movies, Star Wars is not even close to being my favorite though it does have elements of interest.

Of course the first question is always Star Wars vs. Star Trek and the answer is very clear. Beyond the painfully obvious, “No Shields?! Beam aboard a Photon Torpedo Mr. Worf.”, Trek weapons are fully operational at Faster Than Light speeds and Wars weapons are… not.

George Lucas is a father castrating baby eating monster (put that in your Joe Campbell pipe and smoke it) and thank goodness Disney bought him out before he could screw up some more- Han shot first!

One of the things I most don’t like about him is that he took some perfectly McGuffiny pseudo-Buddhist mumbo jumbo about a life force that pervades the Universe and mucked it up into some bastard Scientology Midochlorian nanobot nonsense. A real artist knows when the picture is finished and gets themselves a fresh sheet of paper.

I hate Jar-Jar as much as the next guy unless that guy buys into the whole “Jar-Jar is a secret Sith Supervillan who uses Anakin and the Emperor to take over the galaxy” which I must admit has a certain paranoid charm. Natalie Portman is wrong if she thinks her listless portrayal of the feckless Amidala ruined her career, that would be her utterly forgettable Jane Foster though she does get bonus point for Evey Hammond. Hayden Christensen on the other hand should find a new hobby.

I was not unhappy with The Force Awakens which despite Disney’s protestations seems to be following the now non-canon Extended Universe pretty closely (hear we might be getting Admiral Thrawn, he’s a badass).

Adam Driver is terrible and should immediately suffer some horrible disfiguring accident (in the movie, I wouldn’t hurt a fly) requiring his replacement by someone who can act!

I think the other new characters are intriguing, Carrie Fisher is still smoking hot, and while I have my disappointments and regrets I’ll not spoil it for you, it hasn’t even been on HBO yet so you may not have seen it.

And I think Star Wars Day is just as stupid as Life Day-

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Trevor’s guests this Week are-

• Wednesday 5/4: Bethany Cosentino
• Thursday 5/5: The Heavy

Mr. Continuity

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Larry’s panelists this Week are-

• Wednesday 5/4: Meghan Markle
• Thursday 5/5: Ken Burns

Mr. Mainstream

Spoilers

Actually not that part, but when Sebastian Stan casts covetous eyes on Stephen’s Captain America shield…

Stephen’s guests this week are-

• Wednesday 5/4: Anthony Mackie, Rob Reiner, Maxwell
• Thursday 5/5: Judge Judy Sheindlin, W. Kamau Bell
• Friday 5/6: Lily Tomlin, Kumail Nanjiani, Ryan Hamilton