Star Wars: The Force Awakens Releases The New Character's Names

Well, this is pretty cool.  Disney and JJ Abrams have released the names of the new Star Wars characters a la old-school Topps trading cards!  You remember Topps trading cards, right?  They came with a group of cards featuring pictures from the movie, as well as a concrete stick of what they tried to pawn off as "gum."  Here's a picture of what was released online.  By the way, the water mark that show Entertainment Weekly isn't really on the cards, they were just the ones who released the photo!

These things are AWESOME!!!  My only complaint so far is that I haven't read anyplace that these tings are actually going to be made available!  I realize that if they were going to be sold, it more than likely wouldn't be until after the film's release, so they don't give too much away before hand, but at least throw us a bone and tell us these are going to be for sale!  JJ Abrams did say that there is some significance to the numbers on each of the cards, but what they mean is still a mystery.  If anyone reading this can figure it out, let me know!

One of the people not featured on the cards is Andy Serkis' character (or 'characters',) but some news as to who he will be playing seemed to have leaked online.  Star Wars Underworld reports that Serkis' character is old..so old that he "looks like a zombie almost risen from the dead."  The 'zombie' reference seems to imply that he has some "unnatural" powers, according to Making Star Wars.

International Business Times reported that his character is is extremely old, and is someone who has existed for a very long time. They also say that he is "some kind of alien Sith exempt from the Rule of Two."  He apparently is a very powerful Sith who either trained Palpatine, or was using him for his own purposes.  As I've mentioned before, Serkis' character will also play a large part in Rey's backstory.  Rey is Daisy Ridley's character who was previously thought to be named Kira.

I was going to discuss the season finales of both Flash and Arrow today, but wanted to make sure that I gave enough time for people who may have missed them when they aired to watch them.  I don't want to spoil anything for anyone...yet!  So be warned!  Monday I'll be talking about these two shows, and giving my opinions on what we might expect come January!