Did That Kid Keep His Promise?

You probably all know the “urban legend” as it were of Sir Alec Guinness (the man who played Obi-Wan in old Star Wars) ran into a kid who told him that he saw Star Wars over 100 times and wanted an autograph… to which Guinness replied that he would give him one if the kid promised him that he would never watch Star Wars ever again.

According to his autobiography, A Positively Final Appearance, the kid would end up crying and the mother would scold Sir Alec for saying something so mean to a young child. However, this Buzzfeed thing, written by that same kid, told a different story in that he was happy to make that promise and for the most part, kept his word.

Your take as to which story is accurate, but remember one thing; sometimes, people embellish things to make them seem more than what they are. Also, how many kids saw Star Wars over a hundred times back in the day? He probably made a bunch of them promise him never to watch Star Wars again to varying degrees of success.

Bloodstained: The Scarlet Engagement Announced

Well, they’re working on another one. Due out in 2026 for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series Whatever. No Switch version of either or, though.

Too early to tell where we’re going here. I’m happy to see that they’re doing another one, but whether it turns out to be any good… we’ll just have to wait and see, won’t we?

HOME MOVIES – 2025-06-17 ÎLES-DE-BOUCHERVILLE NATIONAL PARK

Had last Tuesday off and decided to take a trip to the national park on Ile Charon. Filmed some footage and talked some bits – these will be cut up into clips for the review openings – but for those who came from Friday’s review, the thing you’re looking for is at the end of the video… though I do appreciate if you sat through the whole thing.

Iron What Now?

Tout d’abord, je tiens à souhaiter à tous mes voisins francophones un joyeux national du Québec. Profitez de vos festivals pendant que je reste à la maison à regarder des vidéos Youtube en anglais.

Okay, now that we got that out of the way…

I got an e-mail reminder from someone that some show called Ironheart is set to debut today. My first reaction is “What the hell is an Ironheart?” The only thing that I know of with that name is that it’s a title of a Japanese superheroine porn movie that came out years ago. I never saw it myself, but I’ve heard good things. Anyway, I don’t give it another thought.

Then I frequent some comic site somewhere – name withheld to protect the guilty – and they mention something called Ironheart that’s based on a comic that apparently nobody likes… and it’s a Marvel thing. Again, I draw a complete blank.

Then I give it a little bit of thought and it hits me… oh, right, Ironheart. That thing where little black girl makes her own Iron Man suit and… apparently, nobody likes the character, but they still insist on pushing her as the next big thing. And so she gets the MCU treatment because… little black girl makes an Iron Man suit and… I don’t know.

From what I understand, this was in the can and ready to go for a couple years, but they only just put this out now because David Zazlov isn’t running Marvel and so we don’t shelf projects as tax write-offs.

So they’re debuting this series and I’m like… “Why haven’t I heard of this thing?” Granted, I’m not following this MCU stuff as deeply as most people, if at all, but usually whenever there’s a new Marvel thing coming up, it at least gets mentioned or you’d get a few trailers out of it… but all I’ve was able to find was one trailer. And look, I’ve seen the trailer. I didn’t care for it. Therefore, I’m not re-subbing to Disney+ for this one show. (I just got done watching the second season of Andor, which was largely excellent. And then the sub died right after. Fine by me.)

Whoever sent me the reminder about Ironheart… thanks for reminding me of the porn parody film. That’s my biggest takeaway from this whole deal.

P.S. – I may have figured out why I missed the Ironheart trailer… because it came out on the same day that DC Studios put out their new Superman trailer. Needless to say, I was more hyped for Superman and forgot about… what’s her face again?

Besides, Superman has a dog.

That’s a good boy.

Later.

Five Season Mission Doesn’t Quite Have The Same Ring

Source: https://trekmovie.com/2025/06/12/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-renewed-for-fifth-and-final-season/

Some guy on Facebook made the above banner. Sadly, I cut off the watermark to fit the screen. My apologies.

Anyway, it was recently announced that Strange New Worlds has been renewed for a fifth and final season… and will only be six episodes long. How many of those will be dedicated to silly gimmick episodes and making Spock look like a stooge because we don’t know good comedy or storytelling?

I have mixed feelings about this. Obviously, the fact that they’re ending it on five seasons is not much of a surprise; that seems to be the magic number with these things nowadays. I miss the days when Trek shows lasted seven seasons and each season had about 26 episodes a piece. That gave you more than enough room to do both the serious world and character building stuff to go along with the silly stuff.

Six episodes, though? Those had better be some amazing episodes for a final season… maybe give us an episode where Captain Pike’s hair grows so tall and stiff at an exponential rate it shatters the fabric of space-time. Or, hell, do a remake of Spock’s Brain. All the Spock episodes on this show seem like they were written by the same people shouting “Brain and brain! What is Brain?”

Still, Trekkies should be happy that the 23rd century retread is over and we can move on to new ideas and new concepts. Going forward, as they say…

**Paramount dangles upcoming Starfleet Academy show**

NO! WE DON’T WANT THAT TRASH! WHERE’S STAR TREK LEGACY, YOU HACK FRAUDS?!

That sounds about right, yeah?

Strange New World’s third season premieres next month.