Thoughts on Tactics: How History Affects Fiction and Makes It Believable

Not long ago, this author discovered the above picture, which discusses some fans’ thoughts on how the Fellowship of the Ring might have simply flown to Mordor to dispose of the One Ring rather than “take the long way around.” As the commenter explains, this would have been a bad idea narratively because the entire…

Tribute to the Spirit of the X-Wing

This is the best – and only – way to view the sequel trilogy’s X-Wing fighters, in this author’s opinion. I never understood why they had to give the new X-Wings the same black and red color scheme. What was wrong with the white/grey base paint and red racing stripes? It’s not really shown in…