What's up.

Yeah, I know, it's been like forever since a real post.

Happy new year, everybody!

Let's see, where to start.

( Kinda longish )

And in other news...

Some time ago, Lucasfilm came up with the great idea of creating all the marketing surrounding a film: The novelization, the video game, the trading cards, action figures, comic books, even the soundtrack album. The only thing missing was the film itself.

This brilliant bit of marketing (of which I was a happy consumer myself, I should add) was called Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire. The story took place between The Empire Strikes Back and The Return of the Jedi. And the story was broken up into various media - so that scenes that were only hinted at in, for example, the novel, were fully fleshed out in the video game, and it might show one person's perspective in the game and the same scene from another perspective in the comics. Apparently, there were some parts of the story you could only get from the screen saver, which I never saw.

Anyway, fans being fans, (especially Star Wars fans who tend to be major film geeks) someone has finally made the movie. And, fans being fans, it's made from a combination of scenes from the video game, the comics, what looks like original CGI and, of course, stop motion pictures of the action figures.

It's also in Portuguese, but there are English subtitles. So, if you're brave, and can sit through an hour and a half of action figures posing at you, check out Sombras do Imperio