tags: Star Wars
2007
July
- 2007 Jul 25
- returning to earthsea/of wizards and warlocks
I’m still ruminating about the end of the Harry Potter saga. The mainstream media’s reaction has always interested me. They continue to be bemused by the idea of a novel taking the world by storm, and infiltrating popular culture. Never mind the fact that people were writing “Frodo Lives!” on subway walls 40 years ago, or the fact that The Lord of the Rings trilogy was extraordinarily successful, and, as far as wizards go, Gandalf the Grey is as well-known as Merlin, and is arguably the favorite and most-beloved of wizards amongst nerds and geeks world-wide.
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2008
September
- 2008 Sep 7
- a frank assessment
Now his failure is complete
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—Darth Vader
2015
August
- 2015 Aug 24
- Fleetwookie Mac
I can't explain this, but autocorrect keeps wanting to change "Fleetwood" to "Fleetwookie".
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December
- 2015 Dec 1
- Enterprise vs. The Millenium Falcon
NdGT's reasoning for why he prefers the Enterprise over the Millenium Falcon is different than I expected, but I would've said it's because the warp drive (AKA the Alcubierre Drive) is actually being worked on, whereas we really have no idea whether hyperspace actually exists (although String Theory necessitates its existence) and opening controllable wormholes permanently linked to places in the Universe that we can specify seems even more unlikely than generating a warp field.
· Read more… - 2015 Dec 17
- Star Wars and Dune
I never noticed until people started posting about "Star Wars" non-stop that Owen Lars claimed that Anakin Skywalker was a "spice freighter navigator".
· Read more… - 2015 Dec 21
- The Jedi and Tchaikovsky
I was certain that I had blogged about this before or at least posted on Friendfeed but given all the "Star Wars" hoopla, I have the Jedi leitmotif/Force theme stuck in my head.
· Read more… - 2015 Dec 29
- Negative Reviews for Star Wars
There are spoilers ahead. You have been warned.
· Read more… - 2015 Dec 30
- Space Taoism
Given the fact that the Dark Side of the Force (as the Sith, the Empire, or the First Order) always build a planet-destroying weapon that has a single point of failure and the Light Side of the Force (as the Jedi Council, the Rebel Alliance, or the Resistance) always manages to destroy it, I've started to see "Star Wars" as a version of the myth of Sisyphus.
· Read more… - 2015 Dec 30
- Jodorowsky's Star Wars
The Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics implies that in some alternate timeline, Jodorowsky managed to release "Dune" before "Star Wars", making subsequent science fiction movies look nothing at all like the ones we have in our own timeline.
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- LotR's Expanded Universe
(Inspired by a post comparing the mythology of Middle Earth with the Star Wars Expanded Universe)
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2016
January
- 2016 Jan 15
- Sansa Stark as a Sith Lord
Always two there are, a master and an apprentice.
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- Star Wars vs. Star Trek
In Star Wars, the State is the enemy and the Rebellion is a libertarian/anarchocapitalist-religious fundamentalist utopia that glorifies asymmetric warfare/terrorism while in Star Trek, the State is a (mostly) benevolent democratic socialist utopia that emphasizes diplomacy and peacemaking.
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