Tim Carmody

Writer/editor, most recently for The Message. Alumnus of Wired and The Verge. Reporter, redhead, recovering academic. Everything changes. Don't be afraid.

Editor of The Backlight, Counterfictionals II, and The Publication Formerly Named Backlight

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Tim Carmody

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Alan Rickman, 1946–2016

Die Hard and Galaxy Quest are my favorite Alan Rickman movies, and Snape in Harry Potter is iconic, but my favorite…

The Star Wars Prequels, Pt. 3: Costumes and Cities

Jedi knights don’t dress like this:

Star Wars Prequels, Pt. 2: The Droids

One point I mentioned in my last post on the prequels deserves a little expansion. I argued that it’s implausible for Anakin to have built Threepio as “a protocol droid to help Mom.” Unless Mom is working with binary load lifters or doing serious intergalactic…