One of the things I wish Star Wars would do with its storytelling is to resolve that the Dark Side is not evil. Nothing is inherently evil in this world. Only humans (and some well-evolved animals) can be evil. It takes a good brain to be evil, because evil is gaining pleasure from the pain of others. So not spiders or guns or poison or magic or anything is evil. It’s what you do with those powers that determines your fate. It’s why I feel bad for Slytherin house. They all get painted with the same brush. You get sorted into Slytherin, it’s a death sentence for your social life.…
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What is the Point of the Sith?
What is the point of the Sith? They don’t seem to have a goal they’re reaching towards, except for opposing the Jedi. Meaning they seem to be one-dimensional villains that only exist for the purpose of story. They act as a counterpart to the Jedi. In fact, their credo exactly mirrors all their traits. No empathy, just ambition and power and victory. But to what end? What do they want? Keep in mind, Sith is not the Galactic Empire. The empire wants control over all planets in the galaxy so they can have power/unity/order. Or so other planets with a resource can’t just say “mine, you can’t have”. But the…
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Screw Your Misery Over The Last Jedi
That’s it. I’ve had all I can stands, I can’t stands no more. I’m sick of these entitled crybabies whining about “The Last Jedi”. They’re making fan-edits to cater to their own “vision”, they’re making Change.org petitions to remove it from canon. And yet they can’t come up with one good objective reason for this hate. Complaining that’s not how the Force works? Go ahead, make that argument. You do realize that the Force does not exist, right? That it’s a construction of imagination and, therefore, it can do anything the writer wants? You’re all a bunch of fucking entitled, obsessive morons who had every opportunity to succeed in life…
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What if the Death Star Used Lightsabers?
What if the Death Star’s laser cannon is just a bunch of lightsabers or lightsaber crystals fused together. Wouldn’t that be ironic?
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The Books I Read: July – August 2016
Far Far Away by Tom McNeal Fans of Neil Gaiman will love this book. The closest I can call it is a modern fairy tale, but that word gets thrown around so much it’s become meaningless. I’ve never used it until now (I think). It felt like a combination of Stardust and Holes. Jacob Grimm has become a ghost and, after traveling the ethereal plane, attaches to the only boy who can hear him. A lonely boy struggling with a single Dad with a failing business. The thing keeping this good book from being a great book is that nothing happens until about 66% through. The first fifteen percent, the…
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The Lure of the Dark Side
In 1989, Batman came out. The first to show a superhero living in a world that took things seriously. As serious as you can when a man falls in acid and can’t stop laughing. Now what I didn’t get, being a sociopathically lawful good paladin, was why everybody loved the Joker so much. You can’t like a bad guy. That’s just not done. He kills people. Over the years, I’ve learned the appeal of bad guys. It’s because giving into your dark side lets you release the frustrations and feelings that are not so good to do in real life. I think that’s one of the reasons why so many…
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My Daughters and Star Wars
My daughters are 5 and 7. My wife loves Star Wars so they’ve seen the movie before. They kinda know what happens in it, they know who the characters are, but they don’t quite know how they glue together. Now imagine that you’re the Dad, who can’t open one web page without stepping into a full analysis of why Wicket is the best/worst Ewok. The result is the five-year-old can’t stop asking questions and the seven-year-old gets emotionally distraught because Darth Vader (who is her favorite character for reasons I can’t fathom) dies at the end. You get a frustrated daddy. That’s what. I’ve got to read all of Jabba…
