The real question is: why does anyone care about having a consistent canon?
I’m inclined to blame the modernist understanding of truth.
Okay, so I’m over here looking outside thinking “Why does it look so dark out? The sun is shining brightly and there’s not a cloud in the sky. Have I been looking at screens for too long today or am I going crazy? It just looks… darker somehow.”
Then I learned the solar eclipse was happening today.
So my eyes are fine. I still might be a little crazy, but that’s irrelevant right now.
The cosmic ballet goes on.
“The Ploughshare Without Fear”: Remembering Martin Buber (1878-1965)
Aside from the colour scheme, I don’t see much similarity between Ben’s and Yoda’s robes. Yoda’s inner robe looks closer in style to Luke’s black outfit than Ben’s tunics (take notice of the collar); his outer robe looks like undyed homespun.
“Set your lightsabers to ‘baseball bat’.”
I know you’re just making a joke here, but that would be really cool if you could put a lightsaber on different settings like a phaser; which would explain why it has different levels of power in different scenes. I love this concept probably more than I should.
This is canon in the EU, BTW.
But presumably Mrs. Skywalker wouldn’t stick around once Anakin became a supervillain, so the only way to pull this off story-wise is to claim Anakin was “secretly” evil for some unspecified time period before the twins were born.
Alternatively, she was a baddie herself. Or worse, she was Anakin’s sex slave.
“Set your lightsabers to ‘baseball bat’.”
Boba Fett should’ve just never showed up post-TESB.
When TLJ came out I told some old guy “idk I thought it was fine” and then his face turned red and he started crying and screaming “no! No! I’ve been a Star Wars fan since 1977! I KNOW Star Wars!! You’re wrong for liking Last Jedi. You’re WRONG!!”
I didn’t speak to him about Star Wars after that.
Damn. He turned into a real life Wojak.
“Well, if droids could think, there’d be none of us here, would there?”
I’m sure some fanboys out there’ll try to say this is some genius bit of social commentary on bigotry towards robots in the SW Galaxy, but I’m really not inclined to believe Lucas is that deep. It wouldn’t surprise me one bit if Lucas, at least during the production of the PT, genuinely considers droids mechanical zombies.
Batman (1989) is the best live-action superhero film of all time.
Low bar.
(half-joking)
The Giza Necropolis after Al-Aziz Uthman failed to have it demolished:
Now looks to be as good a time as any to share this article:
I’ve begun re-reading The Chronicles of Narnia, this time in publication order. Several years ago, I took out a Narnia omnibus from the library which was arranged in chronological order and read it that way, being too young and ignorant to know any better. I can’t undo that mistake, unfortunately, but hopefully enough time’s passed since then that I can revisit the books from this different perspective and come away with a new appreciation.
Stargate was an underrated Space Odyssey.
I go back-and-forth on this. Sometimes I think it’s underrated, other times I think it’s rated appropriately. The script is weak as hell, but every other aspect of the filmmaking is spot-on. Definitely a mixed bag.
SG-1, on the other hand, is grossly overrated. All it does is pilfer from better shows like Trek and Babylon 5, watering down their concepts to be as mass-consumable as possible, seasoned with plenty of casual racism, eurocentrism, and American imperialism. I can understand liking this show as a kid back in the day – I was one of them – but I don’t know how any grown adult can view this show as anything more than a guilty pleasure.
I still like Star Wars … from a certain point of view.
Midi-chlorian microverse trilogy. How the fuck anyone could think that’d ever have been good, I fail to understand.
Stargate SG-1 fanboys: Ra in the original movie is an Asgard, LOL.
Me: This
isn’t this
any more than this
is this
House of Wax (1953) is overrated and a step down from Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933). Mystery of the Wax Museum was a unique film that had a strong female protagonist and a unique visual look that the remake lacks.
Yeah. Vincent Price is the only good thing about the '53 version.
Judy Davis
“Where’s my honey?!” indeed.
The only lightsaber duel I can say I really have no qualms with is the TESB duel. The SW duel’s fine for what it is — Ben distracting Vader to buy Luke & co. time — but it’s hardly thrilling stuff. My issues with ROTJ as a whole put a damper on my enthusiasm for the duel. The prequel duels got more inane with each entry. And the one sequel duel I’ve watched — the one from TFA — is as mediocre as the rest of the film.
I’m too poor to upgrade to 4k. For the same reason, I still buy DVDs alongside BDs.
Cheetos are the worst cheese-related product ever conceived.
I’d say processed cheese slices are truly the worst, but I refuse to recognize that yellow plastic garbage as cheese.