Darth Vader Feels Blue

Ganked from furycom's FriendFeed, I give you this little gem:

(Plus hey, check out the new Obi-Wan userpic! Probably my favorite character from Eps 1-3, especially loved his hair in Ep2) :-)

Clone Wars trailer

And speaking of all things Star Wars, I personally love certain aspects of episodes 1, 2, and 3 -- especially the cool setting -- but like any rational human I recognize that the writing and directing of those movies is simply dreadful. In my own mind, I edit out the bad stuff and simply admire the good stuff, trying to pretend that the craptastic elements never happened.

The saviors of that era in the Star Wars universe seem to be the other writers and directors that Lucas lets play in his galaxy. My eyes were first opened to this possibility by Genndy Tartakovsky's amazing Clone Wars animated series (which, if you're a Star Wars fan and you haven't seen, you simply must).

Another animated era is coming, in the form of a fully computer-animated exploration of the Clone Wars era. The animation and art direction look excellent. You can check out the trailer here.

Popes.... in..... SPAAAAAAAACE!!

And in yet more space-related posting from me today, here's my favorite news article to come out in the last 24 hours:

Vatican admits to possibility of life on other planets

Who even knew there was a papal astronomer?