..... Or we can have one last scene that's unrelated. Dang it, I thought we were going to finish out strong this time. I think I still don't get why we had the stable urchin adventure side quest, and ending like this doesn't help matters. The focus on the "joy buzzer" doesn't help either; what's a kid going to do with that on their own? Even Anakin wasn't going to do anything without Qui-Gon showing up and getting him off Tatooine. However. Any bets that this kid shows up in the next movie somehow and Jim manages to hijack the plot with them anyway?

All in all, I think I enjoyed seeing the Episode VII panels more than I did Episode VIII panels. Perhaps that's because it was a brand new experience, both in writing these perspective blurbs and in seeing Star Wars media that matched the special effects memories I have of the Original and Prequel trilogies (that Star Destroyer wreck zoom out still looks like it'd be amazing). But maybe that's also because the story was obviously a little simpler and I could guess at the shape of the plot and be more confident that I was probably right.

The plot I can read all makes sense for a tabletop game, don't get me wrong. With the way the GM's set things up, the players were bound to take a handful of outside-the-box moves to overcome the challenges. And with Jim's character established as someone who thinks outside of the room the box is in all the way back in Episode III, he very nicely covers a lot of the odd twists of the plot. It's just that Episode VIII looked like it was "Run away, run away to the casino planet (who's name I'd have to look up again), and then run back to run away some more" all while The Resistance is constantly getting blown to smaller pieces. Perfectly sensible for a small player group; not as much for an interplanetary group trying to escape an active attack.