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Pablo Hidalgo

@infinata.bsky.social

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Twitter survivor (arguable). Director, Franchise/Story, Lucasfilm. Author of things, advisor of lore, sketcher of robots, subject of flimsy rumors. Not really here to argue.

Pablo Hidalgo's avatar Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social
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I don't recall there being any Huttese in it. I did look at some of the visuals and offered some notes.

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(My biggest consistent contribution to the show is translating Huttese; I'll leave it to you to conclude the likelihood of my role in all this)

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(in case anyone is deeply curious, I have nothing to do with casting)

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As long as I’m forgotten it’s all good

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I guess rent is overdue.

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Meanwhile, further down the aisle, Hasbro has swivel arm battle grip, robots turning into trucks, and Mattel has Man-E-Faces. Poor Lumat and Romba never stood a chance.

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I like the "kids are losing interest in our action figures; let's include coins. kids love coins" thinking of 1985 in Star Wars. "... what if we included stamps?"

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No shortage of confusion in the 80s. I enjoy the chaos.

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Started my 1984 Star Wars re-read with the "Showdown" newspaper strip that ran from Dec. 26 '83 to Feb. 5 '84. It has the distinction of repeatedly calling Dengar "Zuckass," which is very funny.

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Weekly drops vs all at once? I’ll go one further. I think TV shows should have dropped their episodes 20 years earlier.

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"journalism isn't profitable" until you remove the fail upward brunchlords consistently soaking up outsized compensation despite making endless, terrible choices

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Enough of Ep II and Ep III was done that they were completed and the only venue to show them was Celebration. So the assets exist but as to where they may surface for the public again, I do not know.

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Oh the 3D re-release market pretty much collapsed in 2012, so timing worked against this plan. I think people had hoped Titanic and The Phantom Menace would have performed better than they did. And I don’t think the home video 3D market fared any better.

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I really love how crowded with planets his space stuff is.

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My most batshit paranoiac thing is refusing to do video because I’m convinced it would give weirdos content to feed AI.

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My secret dream is animation that looks like Al Williamson illustration.

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Anyway, if you auto-replace ‘you’re not a true fan’ barbs to ‘haha, you have a greater sense of balance and priorities in your life‘ it makes an already silly situation even funnier.

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Go back another 5-10 years and it gets even more constrained. Imagine lobbing an accusation that someone who bothered to dial up to rec.arts.sf.starwars.misc wasn’t sincere. Heh.

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Whatever acrimony these message board combatants may have had 25 years ago, there was a tacit acknowledgment that they shared the same interest and maybe the same damage that kept them on message boards. The idea of being a ‘tourist’ was alien because there were no tourists in message boards.

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The modern terms have the suggestion of recompense built into them. That’s kind of interesting. That built in skepticism that sincerity has anything to do with it.

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History lesson: back before people made a living digesting media, ‘bashers / gushers’ was the forum equivalent terms for ‘grifters / shills’.

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Newsletter: The Shareholder Supremacy has eaten the world, turning the tech industry into the playground of do-nothing management dictators that see human beings as assets and the customer as subordinate to growth - all inspired by GE’s Jack Welch. www.wheresyoured.at/tss/

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Oh, if you don’t like something I work on or are even tangentially involved in that’s totally cool, but you don’t have to tell me. This isn’t Twitter. 🙏 gonna be more generous with the blocks here and I blocked everyone who followed me once over there.

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I only just saw that video this year. Very cool.

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SF and Chicago both passed. So dumb. But that's LA's win.

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Cortosis has been around since 1998. Beskar since 1994.

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I do not know; more than I do, I'm sure. :) I think the museum is keeping him busy these days, though where he does that work I do not know.

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Inside Out 2 crossed a billion dollars in 19 days. No one knows anything (still).

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I keep thinking about Nixon supposedly saying “it’s a great wall,” in China.

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The Rutger Hour would be a good name for a podcast.

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There’s a line read that Avery Brooks has of “In the meantime…” that is seared in my brain.

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Videogames are none of my business.

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Wow. Between this and Alex Jones, the country’s is suddenly taking a bold “anti-shooting kids” stance. Remarkable.

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Not interested in the Zemeckis griping (on the Other Site). Also, the source material is good and pairs well with him: “here’s a specific confine you need to work with.” I think that’s a good thing.

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This happened to my buddy Miles O’Brien.

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Excellent choice. But I do love that he kept the clock and it stayed in the background for as long as it did.

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“Um, hello, yes. I was wondering if you had any advice to a young person looking to become a presidential candidate?”

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Dramatis Personae. S1E18

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Was not expecting an answer that made so much sense. Thank you.

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When / why did “by accident” become “on accident” and can we go back?

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The most I ever related to a character on screen was that DS9 when the crew was possessed by the psychic imprint of a culture bent on backstabbing intrigue and all Sisko wanted to do was be left alone to quietly build a clock.

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