(Disney/Lucasfilm 2017)JUST IN time for the holidays, the porgs are having their moment in the Ahch-To sun. Volpe Music has re-created John Williams’s triumphal “Star Wars” theme by making it sound as if the porgs are singing. The porgs were also featured prominently in the kickoff to Tuesday’s “Late Show With Stephen Colbert.” In the comedic short, BB-8, the then-new mascot of a droid in 2015’s “The Force Awakens,” now wallows in its diminished resident cute Star Wars creation status, as REM’s “Everybody Hurts” cuts like a lightsaber. Every Star Wars film offers adorable critters and droids, largely as reassuring comedic relief from all the masked baddies roaming the galaxy with menace. Read more:‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ trailer beguilingly teases a young warrior’s path forwardThe ‘Last Jedi’ trailer seems to evoke ‘Empire Strikes Back.’ Or is it tricking us?

Source: Washington Post October 11, 2017 17:04 UTC