Interesting Links for 01-03-2012

[andrewducker]

• Want to remain friends after a break-up? Here are some things that help/hinder the process
  (tags: relationships friendship psychology )
• Gender and comics. a report from the Glasgow Film Festival
  (tags: comics gender feminism women )
• The new trailer for Brave gets the archery right - even when it's wrong
  (tags: brave movies archery

Comments

[momentsmusicaux]

> No virgin birth. We simply don’t know or care who Anakin’s father is, and the subtle implication that it’s Palpatine is gone.

Whoa...! So subtle I missed it! Where's that?

> Hell, that’s why George Lucas made A New Hope first, he knew if he started with Episode I he’d never be able to complete the series.

I always assumed one reason was that in the 70s doing the droid armies would have been impossible. But I guess they could have been done, they'd have just looked like people in suits...

[andrewducker]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R09jFWQVrE0

Darth Plagueis is Darth Sidious/The Emperor's master, and we know that Anakin was born without a father. Putting two and two together...

[bart_calendar]

The implication there is that Palpatine used Sith Voodoo to create Anakin without sperm - not that he's his father.

[andrewducker]

Oh yes, creator rather than father.

[danieldwilliam]

I'm liking the Machette order for watching Star Wars.

[philmophlegm]

I like the 'Alternative Suggestion' better, but then I sometimes think I'm the only person in the universe who likes Episode I.

The creator of the Machete order is arguing that the main plot arc of the series is centred on Luke. If you agree with that, then missing I makes perfect sense. However, if you think that the main plot arc of the series is centred on Anakin, then it makes more sense to include I.

[danieldwilliam]

I tend to find Luke a more interesting character than Anakin…

… but that may because I wanted to drop kick Anakin as portrayed as a small boy and I find anyone who has both access to Jar Jar Binks and light sabre and doesn’t combine the two in some creative, painful and de-earing ways to be morally bankrupt.

I think I to III were badly handled and it detracts from where I focus my attention.

[spacelem]

Me too, it makes a heck of a lot of sense. I was part of a Star Wars marathon (4-6) a few months ago, but now I'm tempted to watch it again soon in machette order.

[philmophlegm]

While I appreciate the arguments put forward in the Star Wars post, I worry that someone who spends so much time debating what order to watch six films (that have an established viewing order to start off with) in is going to have his / her life ruined if he / she ever discovers the books of Michael Moorcock.

http://www.multiverse.org/fora/showthread.php?t=3562

[andrewducker]

Very true!

[danieldwilliam]

Less mad than the Moorcock are conversations about the Vorkosigan saga.

So many ways to enjoy those books.

[ckd]

Ha ha ha! Those are straightforward compared to Steven Brust's Dragaera books. Just try reading those in internal chronological order!

(You have to read Taltos twice, first reading the chapters and then reading the chapter openings; you have to read Yendi in between passes through Dragon....)

[philmophlegm]

The Lego ISS looks awfully flimsy - it probaby benefitted greatly from being assembled in zero-G!

[luckylove]

So with Russian elections looming we have more DDOS attacks on LJ to look forward to. Joy.