Right there with you Tom.

I won't be able to play for the next couple Sundays - someone coming over to stream with me for kicking off St. Jude PLAYLIVE this week, and my birthday the next week so probably my sister in town. Is anyone able to do something during the week?

Crap, Squigs, I think we agree on something. Time for one of us (probably me) to go re-evaluate life.

No session this Sunday due to Easter. I might be back from my aunt's in time but I won't have anything ready.

I disagree. Cassian's arc was indeed the most robust, but it's much more than "kill dad"/"won't kill dad". He starts out doing the Rebellion's dirty work, maybe not happy to do it but realizing that it needs to be done. (Shooting the informant at the start; watching it on Blu-Ray I realized that Cassian knew that this guy was dead the minute he said "Erso", because he couldn't risk the Empire getting their hands on what he knew.)

Over the course of the film, he falters - yes, grows a conscience. But add to that him feeling betrayed - he did so much work for the Rebellion, and when it's time to make it absolutely count, for the Rebellion to mean something, the leaders of the Rebellion turn their back on him and don't go for it. He says something along the lines of, "If this doesn't happen, all of the horrible things we've done in the name of the cause were for nothing."

From someone who'll follow orders to do bad things, to questioning orders to do bad things, to downright going rogue (no pun intended... mostly) to do the thing that his orders don't have the balls for.

Jyn meanwhile goes from not caring about the cause ("How can you stand to see the Imperial flag?" "Can't see it if you don't look up.") to spearheading that cause when others didn't have the courage to. Yes, she does it more out of respect for her father, at least at first, but she realizes the importance of what she's caught up in.

Saw, I agree, was mostly wasted. Knowing there was more of him shot makes me wonder what it was, but since the release was so stingy with special features (no deleted scenes at all for a release that was saved in massive reshoots and reedits after the fact) it's hard to know what that might have been. He was serviceable.

Bodhi had gone through his arc before we see him, Chirrut and Baze generally don't have an arc and are there to round out the team and keep them on track. K2 discovered Friendship or something. I still enjoyed the characters and they all were worthwhile in the story, IMO.

Of course, Squiggly, I'm sure that you'll disagree with me and say that I'm reading too far into it, where I could come back saying that you need to just pay attention. In the end, you didn't enjoy the movie, and no amount of, "Um, actually," will change that. But on this one in particular I felt I had to speak up.

I heard talkt hat SyFy wants to turn that around and actually be, you know, good again. Worth seeing if they actually follow through but an admission on the part of the head of the company that they've lost what they're about was at least refreshing to hear.

Too cynical for hope, but paying attention at least. In the meantime, um,there's always YouTube.

I like it but that's a long way to go for a cheese preference pun.

Kibo, yay open source character kinda idea! I'll have to think for a while and see if I can come up with something to contribute.

Made a lightsaber in Perler beads for my co-worker.

As Nate Caauwe said, "Obi-Juan. Now there's a name I've not heard in a long time. A long time."

I'm going through phases with the hobby, putting out a few pieces then taking a break, then coming back. Our kit is getting bigger though and it's providing the impetus to finally clean up the spare bedroom - since we moved in (three and a half years ago) it's where all of the boxes went when there was no specific place for them and it's not a usable room of the house. Now we're starting to work on turning it into a workshop of sorts.

Huh... gives me some motivation to actually finish my part on my own.

Today is not that day. I just sorta had everything synced and gave it a listen. Kinda like the babble at the start, same dynamic as an orchestra tuning up.

Eventually I'll clean up audio, balance it, and give it some light panning. Anything past that is beyond me.

Is anyone else available this week? I had a conversation with Shadow for while he's on the ship where stuff is happening while the rest of you are on shore leave; I'm down for running a side "shore leave hijinks" session this Sunday if anyone likes since Shadow can't join. (Shadow, if you can point Toby and Alex here to comment or at least relay to me their Sunday availability, I'd be appreciative.)

Good call, thanks man, and thanks for the heads up.