THE PREPOSTEROUS BOLLOX OF THE SITUATION
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Mila Kunis by Ruven Afanador
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He said Star Trek is too “philosophical”? Screw that noise.
I don’t...
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Zoe Saldana
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Rose Leslie photographed by Rebecca Miller
Jawa Birthday Cake (by Fat Tony 1138) (via)
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When I was 9, I first saw an Imperial Star Destroyer thunder over the cinema screen at the opening of Star Wars. That was the single most amazing sequence of film I had ever seen in my young life. That record stood for many, many years.
Then, in 1994, this happened…
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“Vader realizes the opportunity at hand for an end to the Rebellion. Yet his bumbling fleet admiral leaves hyperspace too close to Hoth, losing the element of surprise and allowing the Rebels to activate the shield. Vader rolls with it (after killing Admiral Ozzel): He orders a ground assault on the Rebel base with the sound objective of destroying the generator that powers the shield. Once the shield is down, the Star Destroyers that make up the majority of the Imperial Fleet can launch the bombardment the shields prevent. Vader further orders that no Rebel ship be allowed to leave Hoth alive.
“Sounds simple, right? Alas, Vader’s plans are at odds with each other. Vader jumps into the Hoth system with a handful of Star Destroyers; only six are shown on screen. That’s got to enforce a blockade of an entire planet. His major ally is the Rebel energy shield itself, which bottles up a Rebel escape to the Ion Cannon’s line of sight. But Vader doesn’t seem to realize the shield’s ironic value. Once Vader orders the shields destroyed, he lacks the force to prevent a pell-mell Rebel retreat.”
(via Inside the Battle of Hoth: The Empire Strikes Out | Danger Room | Wired.com)
He’s no good to me dead.
Luke Skywalker was obsessed and broken, but not self-aware of those traits, throughout the STAR WARS saga. His obsession dealt with (first) leaving the farm to join the alliance, (second) becoming a Jedi like his father, and (third) turning his father away from the Dark Side of the Force. He accomplished all of those goals, and he changed a lot from beginning to end in each film. But, he was broken. He grew up without a father and mother, fostered by an aunt and uncle that were not blood related to him. He trained as a Jedi late in life, unlike the traditional method of training as a child first. And, he became the weapon of Jedi revenge. Yes, I call it revenge. Obi Wan and Yoda trained Luke with the intent that he fight and destroy the Sith, Darth Vader and the Emperor, and restore the Jedi. They lied to him in the form of omission about his father. They intended to see him kill his own father.
In my opinion as a writer, Luke Skywalker is the perfect candidate to become the villain in the next trilogy of films. His obsessions will continue to eat away at him. His broken life will prevent him from becoming truly good. Just like his father, he will do evil through good intention, and that evil will consume him. A clue to this rests in Luke’s wardrobe choice of all black, rather than what we saw in 99% of all the other Jedi. Luke’s humanity has already been partially destroyed due to his mechanical right hand, a similar path as his father. What makes my theory feel so right to me is that Luke is not self-aware of these obsessions and brokenness within his life. He saved his father from evil, but he did so against Yoda and Obi Wan’s advice and counsel. They wanted Darth Vader dead, a very un-Jedi trait that established that they too were obsessed, broken, and not self-aware, thus planting the seeds for more and more evil.
I would pay money to see this film.
Didn’t J. J. Abrams already direct a Star Wars movie? The one where they go back in time to save the whales and the planet Vulcan explodes?
I posted my ‘25 Star Wars characters’ a while back — and have now finished my ‘25 Empire Strikes Back characters’.
So….here it is.
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the jundland wastes are not to be traveled lightly
“It’s a block of carbonite… no, it’s a business card case. Looks like a tiny Han Solo frozen in carbonite. Spring-loaded case holds about a dozen business cards.”
