Hollywood has managed to necromance countless properties. And while it's easy to complain about this trend, you might hold your tongue when you find out some of the crazy ways those reboots almost went down.
'The Last Jedi' is almost in theaters, so let's pause for a moment and reflect on all the mind-boggling crapola that didn't make its way into our favorite robes-and-laser-swords epic.
At its best, TV writing is an exceptional art form -- from the existential malaise of 'Mad Men' to the quippy horror of 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer' to the sadly cancelled 'Zoo,' which once devoted an entire episode to fighting a giant octopus inside of an airplane.
Because Hollywood is a pinball machine with bumpers of randomness and insanity, sometimes famous parts go to actors (even great ones) for all the wrong reasons.
Sequels have the potential to take their characters to new and exciting places, but an unfortunate trend has found them Groundhog Day-ing their way through familiar adventures.
In the same way there's no shortage of horrifying moments in your actual childhood, there are a lot of creeptacular moments in the family friendly shows we used to watch.
How awesome is John Williams? So awesome that he used musical notation to tell us that Anakin and Padme boning will eventually lead to galactic genocide.
