I'm watching Revenge of the Sith and thinking and writing about Never Trump and it feels... apt.

The technological degradation from the last days of the republic to the Empire is dramatic. Self-piloting fighters that hang out like bats on a spacecraft v. TIEs is no comparison.

George Lucas famously says, "Faster. More intense." as acting direction. Yet Christensen is listless in this life-or-death space battle.

I've been skeptical about an Obi-Wan standalone film, but Ewen McGregor is superb, watchable and funny. I once saw him in Oxford and we followed him and his dog for a block. My closest brush with celebrity.