So the the short version of the story is this: I love Rogue One. I really, really love it. I dislike trying to rank the Star Wars films, because they have different voices and purposes, but if I had to do so, this one would rank very high indeed.
I'm really looking forward to tackling this in my "The Force of Star Wars: Examining the Epic" course
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Violence disturbs me, and it may have even disturbed me more that this violence was not bloody. My grandson cheered the heroes on .....the heroes whose methods were questionable to me....and I think that was a very conscious choice of the film-makers......an honest choice, to be sure, but I have to be concerned, then, that my naive grandson is not seeing what I'm seeing......Does a righteous cause justify *any* means?
Oh, I know: it is only a movie. And yet.....it is not. It matters.
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In short, I think there's more hope in this film than in any in the franchise to date.
I especially appreciate how there's an extended metaphor across the Lost Stars and Catalyst novels, brought home with emphasis in Rogue One, between the creation of the bomb and the Death Star. The fact that Galen Erso, the Oppenheimer figure, finds a way to strike back at those who militarized his ( ... )
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If it weren't for the two farthings that we all have to share, this would be a very one-way-world. And that should not be.
My news feed just told me about Debbie. Oh, what a heartbreak. this is too much.
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I see what you mean. And I'm afraid I don't have much useful to say here. I wasn't very good with children when I was one (ha, understatement!), and, learning my lesson, I've had limited exposure since. I figure I'll wait 'til people are at least eighteen before I get very much involved. ;) So I'm unqualified to comment. But that said, I always found when I was young that an honest conversation went a long way toward helping me see the gray between the black and the white. Even if I didn't "get" the full picture until later, the conversation stuck with me, and that mattered.
I do remember as a young thing being deeply perplexed and concerned about why Obi-Wan might have lied to Luke Skywalker about his father. It was a loooong few years between Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, and I was shaken by the idea that the mentor might have misled the student. Much angst. Many ( ... )
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