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How Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Killing of Tasha Yar Became an Awkward Mistake

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“[I] died a senseless death in the other timeline. I didn’t like the sound of that, Captain. I’ve always known the risks that come with a Starfleet uniform. If I am to die in one, I’d like my death to count for something.” Denise Crosby’s Lt. Tasha Yar, Star Trek: The Next Generation’s inaugural chief of security, managed—due to some alternate timeline trickery—to take that legendary meta-minded dig at her own death from two years earlier in the Season 1 episode, “Skin of Evil.” With that episode having originally aired on April 25, 1988, the anniversary is a good occasion…

Link Tank: How a Movie Theater’s Mistake Changed Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner

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Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982) would’ve gone down in history as a mediocre cult classic had one movie theater not made the best mistake in 1992. “Upon its initial theatrical release in 1982, director Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner met with only middling success. The movie—the story of Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), who is dispatched to eliminate androids dubbed replicants that have gone rogue in the year 2019—was reportedly caught between the wishes of Scott and executives at Warner Bros., who wanted less of the filmmaker’s ambiguous narrative and more clear exposition.” Read more at Mental Floss. Want to work while…

Rian Johnson Avoided the Biggest Mistake of the Star Wars Alterations

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Star Wars Sequel Trilogy 2017 middle act The Last Jedi may have a share of detractors for numerous reasons, but the 2019 release of J.J. Abrams’s closing follow-up, The Rise of Skywalker, and three whole years of hindsight have put it into perspective, generating a unique appreciation for director Rian Johnson’s renegade franchise offering. However, Johnson has revealed that a key scene almost revisited one of the most maligned retroactive alterations to the sacred Original Trilogy: Hayden Christensen’s Force Ghost Anakin Skywalker. Johnson recently provided a potent answer to a fan’s question on Twitter about an unrealized concept for The…

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How Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Killing of Tasha Yar Became an Awkward Mistake

Link Tank: How a Movie Theater’s Mistake Changed Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner

Rian Johnson Avoided the Biggest Mistake of the Star Wars Alterations

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