Catch up post, let's not lie.

So it's been a rough month-ish for  me blogging-wise. I'll start by apologizing profusely and begging your forgiveness, gentle reader. I started a new job out in the real world which is a huge opportunity that I'm really excited about but it's been a big adjustment schedule-wise. I spend a lot of time in the car now and I have less break time during the day, so keeping up with internet awesome-ness is a bit harder.

I have been hitting up the movies and hopefully tomorrow I'll have a summer movie post covering Jurassic World, Minions and Inside Out. It's been an interesting movie season this summer. I was surprised as how much I liked Jurassic World, in spite of its glaring problem, but I think it had a lot to with nostalgia. I found out I still have my raptor toy from the first one! Inside Out was deep and I cried a lot but not overall as enjoyable as I'd hoped. Minions was a bit of a disappointment and the amount of merchandising and advertising that's gone into its campaign is beyond ridiculous.

In gaming news, I'm deep into my second play though of Dragon Age Inquisition working on leveling up to play Jaws of Haakon and trying to 100% the shards. Also trying to get into Witcher 3 and Lego Jurassic World on 3DS. It's been a while since I played a game on the DS and it's kind of a refreshing change, plus the portability is nice in the summer. Lego games are always so cleverly done and adorable. I thoroughly enjoyed their Star Wars, Marvel Heroes and Indiana Jones games. They are fun to play alone, with somebody else and are family-appropriate, which is nice. An all ages game is great to have in case of family gatherings, ask me how I know.

Other latest obsessions include being ridiculously jealous of friends who attended SDCC last weekend and trying to live vicariously through their Twitter and Instagram posts. In the meantime my cosplay is coming along for Rose City Comic-Con in September. I'm contemplating a few work in progress posts along the way but we'll see. Its been a great reading summer. I finally got around to reading Ready Player One and loved and followed it up with Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell. I can heartily recommend both. Also, totally obsessed with Poldark on PBS. The title character Ross Poldark, played by the swoon-worthy Aiden Turner of The Hobbit (I describe him as the sexy dwarf) and BBC's Being Human, is the broody, swashbuckling hero period drama geeks like me adore. He's like Mr. Darcy meets Will Turner *sigh.* I threw myself down the rabbit hole on this one guys and I'm not even a little bit sorry.

Hopefully there will be more regular posts to follow. I've got lots of thoughts and we've got ground to make up. There's also a Lootcrate due next week so look out for that review. Note to the crate fans, I did not manage to get a Comic Con box so there will be no review on that one. *muffled sobbing*

Star War Episode VII Teaser trailer thoughts/flails

You guys. The three little words that set the heart alight...*new Star Wars* If you haven't feasted your eyes on 88 seconds of nerd crack you can find it here. Ok now lets talk about it. The trailer opens with John Boyega's character out in the desert, is it Tatooine? Is he really a stormtrooper? If so, where's his helmet?

Personally I think that Boyega's stormtrooper establishes a new order of trooper, a not so subtle reminder that Imperial stormtroopers are not the Jango clones that we grew so fond of during the Clone Wars era. The new Stormtroopers look sleek and deadly. I'm really hoping to see them come into their own as the galaxy's best military force. They look like they're about to execute a dangerous drop. I'd like to see them more like Halo's ODSTs than the three stooges. Next the soccer ball droid. I love it, a fitting side kick for a new generation of Jedi. Next Daisy Ridley's character rides away in the same desert setting on a beat up speeder bike. I like her look, it's kind of farm-kid bad ass a little bit reminiscent of Abrams' reboot Kirk.

Coincidence? I think not.

X-wings skim over a lake. Could this be Naboo? How much is this movie going to tie into the prequel trilogy: many young fans' most personal link to the Star Wars universe. X-wings to me speak so strongly of a post Original Trilogy era which I identify with the now "legends" EU. Speaking of which I'd love for the young pilot to be an Antilles. Just saying.
A lonely figure in a dark wood powers up a rudimentary red Sith lightsaber. It starts up in fits and spurts like somethings not quite right. It is not the smooth power up we're used to seeing but the hand guard part looks super cool and when you think about it, wouldn't that be more useful when locked in a battle of life and death? Maybe somebody wants to be the first Force user in two generations not be missing a hand?
And then the Millennium Falcon happened and the Williams' theme music swelled and it really felt like a Star Wars movie. The Falcon looks awesome. The effects are top notch and it looks as Kessell Run ready as ever.
All in all, it all looks cool. There's a lot left to the imagination which I think is a great way to go with the movie still a year away. I'm not looking to be spoiled for the whole plot this far out and this teaser is a refreshing change.