Battlestar Galactica Death Of Apollo

Battlestar Galactica Death Of Apollo, published by Dynamite Entertainment tells the story of what happened to Captain Apollo between the original Battlestar Galactica TV series and it's spinoff TV series Galactica 1980. After sustaining serious injuries during a battle with the cylons, Apollo's career as a viper pilot has come to and he must re adjust to life as a bridge officer. However, he choses to sacrifice himself to save the rag-tag fleet when the cylons strike again. This is a well written story which I think would have been a great season finale episode had there been a second season of the classic Battlestar Galactica TV series.

Rogue One A Star Wars Story

I put this movie right up there with Empire Strikes Back as far as the story goes. It was great seeing a story which involved the battle between the Empire and the Rebellion which I grew up with back in the late 1970's and into the early 1980's. ILM did a good job with re-creating Peter Cushing's Govanor Tarkin and the A New Hope era Princess Leia Organa. Hearing Carrie Fisher's voice as Leia at the end sort of made me choke up a bit considering Carrie passed away recently. It was fun seeing other minor characters from the original 1977 movie show up periodically, especially Red Leader Garven Dreis, Gold Leader Dutch Vender, and General Dadonna(also via the magic of CGI performance capture). Was pleasantly surprised to see our favorite droids C-3PO and R2-D2 make a cameo at the Yavin IV base. This movie blends in so well with A New Hope that someone could re-edit the two into one four hour long film, even though Rogue One is intended to be a standalone story. It's too bad that everyone in Rogue One(the group responsible for stealing the original Death Star plans) didn't survive the mission, but this is supposed to be a war story. Has a bit of a Dirty Dozen and Inglorious Bastards vibe to it. Anyway, that's my review of 'Rogue One A Star Wars Story'. Until next time, behave yourselves and I'll see ya next time, 'later.