The Fifth Liners

Welcome to the Fifth Liners book club, the first in a hopefully regular series of book reviews. The book: Catalyst (Star Wars): A Rogue One Novel Written by: James Luceno Format: Audiobook (read by Jonathan Davis) Aside from the (non-canon) comics in the Lego magazine, I've never delved into the written world of Star Wars before. There have been Star Wars books for as at least as long as the films (the first was released in 1976 as far as I can tell), and these books ranged from novelisations of the movies through to completely original stories. These stories, published under the Expanded Universe banner, covered pretty much every time period possible, including subjects covered in Catalyst. In 2014, the Expanded Universe was rebranded as Legends, and now only content produced after 2014 is considered canon. The movies and Clone Wars cartoon/film are also canon, for obvious reasons. By wiping the historical slate, it opened the door for new stories and movies to be ma

This article was first published on the4thlinepodcast.com on 19/02/2018. The men’s round robin part of the hockey tournament has just finished, and the women’s competition is well into the knockout stages. It’s time to step back and reflect on some of the lessons learned in the first rounds at Pyongchang 2018 Winter Olympics. It’s OAR’s World, We Just Live In It It’s no hot take to say the Olympic Athletes of Russia team are good. Despite restrictions on NHL players, the OAR coaches had the pick of the KHL’s finest, a lot of whom have considerable NHL experience, including two-time Stanley Cup winners  Slava Voynov  and  Pavel Datsyuk , also zero-time cup winner  Ilya Kovalchuk . Datsyuk has worn the C in each game and is proving a capable leader, while the rest of the old guard are doing a solid job supporting the younger players. Kirill Kaprizov scored a hat trick in game 2, and Kovalchuk already has five points. The bookie’s favourites, OAR dominated Group B losing to S