X Men Fic

Dec 29, 2003 21:07

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Title: The Last of the Jedi ( Read more... )

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Wonderful! c_elisa December 30 2003, 06:47:32 UTC
I love Jean seeing right through them ("You don't know how to run a school"), and the way she influences the development of the school and the X-Men. Young Hank was great, too -- of *course* he's seen Star Wars 39 times.

So do you think Charles will ever see it? Oddly enough I had to make a decision on that for "Nameless."

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Re: Wonderful! artaxastra December 30 2003, 07:18:16 UTC
Young Hank was great, too -- of *course* he's seen Star Wars 39 times.

Hank is dear. It's fun to get a chance to write him. And I promised I'd get back to Ilene after Smoking on the Bus!

So do you think Charles will ever see it? Oddly enough I had to make a decision on that for "Nameless."

I think Charles will eventually, probably on video. I had to stop and remind myself that nobody has a VCR in 1978. I also had to go back and remove the PC from the desktop! It's a TR 80, the kind my dad got for his complicated drawdown plotting for work in 1979. I was the only kid I'd ever heard of with a computer at home, and it was just for heavy scientific number crunching. The next model played Space Invaders. (Ok, my age is totally showing!)

What do you think about Charles and Star Wars?

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Re: Wonderful! katuah December 30 2003, 12:47:41 UTC
Charles would undoubtedly see all sorts of mythic allegory in the original Star Wars. It's such a "hero's journey."

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Re: Wonderful! artaxastra December 31 2003, 04:41:14 UTC
He would. If Jean can get him to go. I think she may pursuade Charles and Erik to go to Empire with her.

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Re: Wonderful! c_elisa December 30 2003, 15:52:09 UTC
I came to more or less the same conclusion -- that if he didn't happen to see it while chaperoning students to a showing, he'd probably see it on video later. Now that I've read this, I'll always think that he makes a Star Wars reference in "Nameless" because it's something Jean would have understood.

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Re: Wonderful! artaxastra December 31 2003, 04:42:45 UTC
That makes sense!

It's such a common frame of reference for people our age -- we understand the Star Wars analogies and how they describe fairly complicated things.

So is Scott her Luke?

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Re: Wonderful! c_elisa January 2 2004, 19:33:25 UTC
Luke to her Leia, or Luke to her Obi-Wan?

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Re: Wonderful! artaxastra January 5 2004, 03:54:52 UTC
How about Leia to her Luke? You could make a nice parallel between Jean at the end of X2 with the plane, and Luke at the end of Empire on the gantry.

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