The New Clone Wars Trailer Is Admittedly Pretty Sweet
…until you remember that the story’s about rescuing Jabba the Hutt’s kidnapped kid and we have to go back to Tatooine again and that everyone looks like a gelfling from The Dark Crystal and that we’re being asked to care about some girl named Ahsoka as Anakin’s padawan although she clearly bites it before Revenge of the Sith. Then the excitement kind of tapers off.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.