So there’s a new alien critter designed for the upcoming Star Wars movie. I’m just Googling some images now, and I haven’t made up my mind if they’re cute or weird. Sorry that the only article I found was on USA Today. It was also on the New York Times, but that’s behind a firewall.
Take a look - what do you think of them?
It’s creepy. And trying too hard to be cute.
You better pray you’ll think it’s cute because they’re going to be fucking everywhere, like the minions. I hate them already.
I don’t hate them yet. But they are already far too ubiquitous for a movie that hasn’t come out yet. I liked BB-8 despite its deliberate cute factor, so I hope I won’t lose it over the porgs.
They were intended to explain the preponderance of puffins that were flying around the real location in the movie where Luke Skywalker has been living, but they risk becoming the movie’s downfall at this stage.
I think they’re cute! But I don’t like the name. At all. It sounds like a portmaneau of “pork” and “borg”, as in the Borg from Star Trek. It also reminds me of the words “porn” and “orgy”. Whether some subliminal sexual undertone was intended or not, it’s still an unlovely combination of letters to me.
So far you all are falling into Disney’s trap. This is the character that will get it’s own spinoff animated show on tv. I’m tellin ya Disney is the worst thing that could have ever happened to Star Wars after George got divorced.
The Porgs Saturday morning cartoon series coming up.
If the name for a group of puffins isn’t a preponderance of puffins, it needs to be.
Star Wars is a space opera for kids. It’s always been a space opera for kids.
This is part and parcel of it and it’s something you’re going to have to accept if you want to keep on enjoying Star Wars as an adult.
I like them. I’m happy with a cute comic relief animal that isn’t an actual plot element, just there for the slapstick.
The first Star Wars film (episode 4) showed several people getting shot and killed by laser fire, two smoking skeletons of people we’ve seen alive earlier, a guy getting his hand cut off with a sword and a close-up of the severed arm, a guy shooting another guy under the table in cold blood, implied torture, and planetary genocide. I don’t think they’re really for kids, originally anyway.
Those eyes are c r e e p y.
I think we should kill it with fire and throw it in, um…
Bo, where do we throw stuff again?
Maybe us 70s kids were made of sterner stuff.
And it was rated PG at the time.
Late 90’s kids had to sit through the prequels, which included:
You know, for kids.
This was the first thing I thought of when I heard the name: Milk caps (game) - Wikipedia
The cast jokes about the porgs a bit in this nice NYT interview: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/08/movies/last-jedi-star-wars.html
Meh. At least they’re not Ewoks.
Remember pogs? They’re back. In porg form[URL=“https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_UR201plc8”]!](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/08/movies/last-jedi-star-wars.html)
George Lucas would never agree to Star Wars merchandising!
I’ve decided that they’re creepy. They’re an uneasy cross between a cat and a puffin, or one of the the botched outcomes of the Brindle transmutator.