Eric Geller's Blog

When I was six years old, I drew a picture of a house. I wouldn’t call it a particularly magnificent house, but someone at Highlights for Children magazine evidently liked it, because my drawing appeared in a 1997 issue of the magazine. That was a pretty big deal for me. You never forget the first time your work appears in a commercial publication, especially if you didn’t get paid for it. (Curse you and your fine-print voluntary submission policy, Highlights !)

Hollywood.com’s Christian Blauvelt and I hosted our second “Get Thee to the Geek” Google Hangout last night, this time discussing the latest Star Trek movie. Anthony Pascale, editor-in-chief of TrekMovie.com, and Bonnie Burton, all-around geek extraordinaire, joined us to talk about the ups and downs (but mostly the downs).

I’m really excited to be starting a new project this summer along with my friend Christian Blauvelt of Hollywood.com. A few weeks ago, Christian asked me to co-host Hollywood.com’s summer Google Hangout series, “Get Thee to the Geek,” with him. Even if the subject matter -- weekly discussions about geek culture - hadn't appealed to me, I might have said yes for the punny title alone.

I put together a list of original and, dare I say it, clever Star Wars puns for The Official Star Wars Blog, as part of their pre-game festivities for May the Fourth, a.k.a. Star Wars Day. Anyone who knows me can tell you that puns are a specialty of mine, and since Star Wars is a passion of mine, I really enjoy it when I can mix the two.

Lucasfilm announced today that its animated TV series Star Wars: The Clone Wars is not getting a sixth season. It's not completely done and over with, because Lucasfilm Animation still plans to release "bonus content" based on the episodes they produced for Season 6. As a big fan of the series, I wanted to share my thoughts about what this means for me, for fans, and for the franchise in general.

Hello, mainstream media. It’s me, Eric. Since you’ve already started writing a lot of stories about Star Wars , I thought it would be a good idea for us to clarify a few things. Some of your reporters may have never seen a Star Wars movie, but they still ought to employ proper journalistic skills in covering developments pertaining to the franchise. Let’s review a few of the do’s and don’ts so that you don’t have to make embarrassing mistakes and I don’t have to go on Twitter and criticize and/or mock you (usually both).

The biggest news in Star Wars since Disney bought Lucasfilm broke early Saturday morning : J. J. Abrams, who directed the 2009 Star Trek film and this year’s sequel Star Trek Into Darkness , will direct Star Wars : Episode VII, based on a screenplay by Michael Arndt. Predictably, several people have asked me what I think of this development (including USA Today and MTV News ), so I thought I’d write a brief blog post to explain my reaction.