Past Entries: -Star Wars -The Holiday Special -The Empire Strikes Back -Return of the Jedi -The Phantom Menace -Attack of the Clones -Revenge of the Sith There are two cardinal rules for making a sequel. The first is that you cannot undo or cancel out the previous film. The second is that you cannot simply … Continue reading Thoughts on ‘The Force Awakens’
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Thoughts on ‘Revenge of the Sith’
Past Entries: -Star Wars -The Holiday Special -The Empire Strikes Back -Return of the Jedi -The Phantom Menace -Attack of the Clones The original Star Wars trilogy was simply a self-contained fantasy-adventure story. The prequel trilogy, on the other hand, was structured around a particular event that would lead into that future story. The whole … Continue reading Thoughts on ‘Revenge of the Sith’
Thoughts on ‘Attack of the Clones’
Past Entries: -Star Wars -The Holiday Special -The Empire Strikes Back -Return of the Jedi -The Phantom Menace The general view among fans seems to be that Attack of the Clones is the worst of the prequels. Upon rewatching it, I’m going to have to dissent from the majority opinion. It is in no way … Continue reading Thoughts on ‘Attack of the Clones’
A Thought on Evolution
Something that occurred to me the other day: if natural selection and chance variables in genes from generation to generation is the main engine of change, then shouldn't animals that reproduce most rapidly show the most accelerated evolution? That is, shouldn't, say, the rabbits of today be markedly different from the rabbits of a thousand … Continue reading A Thought on Evolution
Thoughts on ‘The Phantom Menace’
Past Entries: -Star Wars -The Holiday Special -The Empire Strikes Back -Return of the Jedi I called the original Star Wars a textbook example of storytelling. Well, if Star Wars was a textbook, The Phantom Menace is more of a case study: what happens when you give a vividly imaginative, but uneven writer unchecked control … Continue reading Thoughts on ‘The Phantom Menace’
Thoughts on ‘Return of the Jedi’
Past Entries: -Star Wars -The Holiday Special -The Empire Strikes Back What started out as a simple fantasy adventure in space with Star Wars was turned into an epic by The Empire Strikes Back. Return of the Jedi faced the daunting task of bringing the whole thing to a satisfying conclusion. For my money, they … Continue reading Thoughts on ‘Return of the Jedi’
Thoughts on ‘The Empire Strikes Back’
Past Entries: -Star Wars -The Holiday Special Empire Strikes Back is generally regarded as the best of the ‘Star Wars’ films, and for good reason. This is where the fun space adventure of the original film becomes something grander: something epic, yet without losing the adventure and excitement of the original. The film, as the … Continue reading Thoughts on ‘The Empire Strikes Back’
Thoughts on ‘The Star Wars Holiday Special’
Past Entries: -Star Wars I wasn’t sure whether I’d including the Holiday Special in my Star Wars rewatch, for the obvious reason that it’s not really part of the series proper. But, in the end, I decided that, since I had it (in the Rifftrax version), I might as well take another look in context … Continue reading Thoughts on ‘The Star Wars Holiday Special’
Second Meditation: On Beauty
Note: This is just a series of loose thoughts written out more or less as they come, presented in the hopes that someone will find something worthwhile within them. Our society despises beauty. This may sound surprising, given how much we hear about overvaluing of physical appearance, impossible beauty standards in media, and the rest … Continue reading Second Meditation: On Beauty
Thought
To say you are Pro-This or Pro-That, or Anti-The other is to say precisely nothing about the actual content of your position: it is merely your opinion about your own opinion.
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