Posts Tagged ‘han solo’
It’s better to love because it makes you better than other people, which is extremely satisfying.
I have friends who didn’t like the new Star Wars film. Despite admitting that there were moments of enjoyment while watching the movie, they nitpicked it to death after the fact and declared the whole thing a failure. I think they’re crazy. I embraced my inner child (which is admittedly a sizable part of my…
Read MoreThe trouble with Star Wars is that it was historical fiction
I know. It’s blasphemy to even suggest that there is a flaw in the first Star Wars film. Still, there was. And it takes place in the first ten words: In these ten words, George Lucas renders everything we are about to see less immediate and less pressing by the fact that the people and…
Read MoreWas the destruction of the Death Star an inside job? Also, how did Luke Skywalker dodge the stigma of incest so easily?
If you haven’t seen the recent conspiracy video suggesting that the destruction of the first Death Star was an inside job perpetrated by the Empire, you should. The video also got me thinking: Luke Skywalker is one unlucky son-of-a-bitch. In the span of just a couple years, his father tried to kill him multiple…
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