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Star Wars feelings
Jun. 17th, 2015 04:27 pmIt's still months until the next Star Wars movie, but I suddenly have a lot of feelings about Star Wars. Confused feelings. (And I use them to procrastinate. Today is not a good day.)
Star Wars was the first science fiction movie I saw, I'm pretty sure. It had spaceships! Robots! Lightsabers! I loved it.
I think "Revenge of the Sith" was the first Star Wars movie I saw in the theatre, when I was 14. I was not impressed. Anakin was unsympathetic, Padmé was extremely passive, Obi-Wan was incompetent as a mentor, the Jedi Order seemed little more than a military with magic… I already didn't like Attack of the Clones very much. And then I didn't want to rewatch the original trilogy because I was afraid it wouldn't hold up.
So the question of whether or not I actually like the Star Wars movies is kind of complicated. I really like the idea of them, but the movies itself… I don't think I can look at them without bias. For me Star Wars is the perfect example of a canon where the fascination comes from "wow, this has SO MUCH potential." If I ignore some parts of canon and add a lot of headcanon I get something really cool.
There are some aspects I want to clarify for myself, like "how would/should the Jedi order actually work", "are droids sentient and if yes how do you justify keeping them as property", similarly with the clones (who are definitely sentient so programming them to be obedient is highly questionable), and what exactly I think about Luke's actions on the second Death Star. I definitely need to rewatch the movies. I'd like to watch them with LK and AV to discuss questions like these, but it's rare enough that we get time to watch anything together, and we probably first want to finish Bab5. But we'll definitely watch Star Wars again before Episode VII. Maybe even sooner, we'll see.
Star Wars was the first science fiction movie I saw, I'm pretty sure. It had spaceships! Robots! Lightsabers! I loved it.
I think "Revenge of the Sith" was the first Star Wars movie I saw in the theatre, when I was 14. I was not impressed. Anakin was unsympathetic, Padmé was extremely passive, Obi-Wan was incompetent as a mentor, the Jedi Order seemed little more than a military with magic… I already didn't like Attack of the Clones very much. And then I didn't want to rewatch the original trilogy because I was afraid it wouldn't hold up.
So the question of whether or not I actually like the Star Wars movies is kind of complicated. I really like the idea of them, but the movies itself… I don't think I can look at them without bias. For me Star Wars is the perfect example of a canon where the fascination comes from "wow, this has SO MUCH potential." If I ignore some parts of canon and add a lot of headcanon I get something really cool.
There are some aspects I want to clarify for myself, like "how would/should the Jedi order actually work", "are droids sentient and if yes how do you justify keeping them as property", similarly with the clones (who are definitely sentient so programming them to be obedient is highly questionable), and what exactly I think about Luke's actions on the second Death Star. I definitely need to rewatch the movies. I'd like to watch them with LK and AV to discuss questions like these, but it's rare enough that we get time to watch anything together, and we probably first want to finish Bab5. But we'll definitely watch Star Wars again before Episode VII. Maybe even sooner, we'll see.
