I meant to finish this by/for the fourth, but ... yeah, we know how my scheduling goes. Anyway, back to Obi-Wan's nonexistent corpse.

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I've been searching for essays on SW for my theory class, and I didn't really think I'd have trouble finding them. On the upside, I really haven't had trouble -- but most of them are awful.

A lot of the authors half-heartedly tried to take on sexism - and, I mean, I think there's lots of sexism in SW? Both in-story and in its construction? But ( Read more... )

I thought it'd been awhile since I did one of these, so I glanced back and...over six months. WTF, Elizabeth. In my defense, my DVD was non-functioning for most of that time and only got repaired about two weeks ago. But I'm still side-eyeing myself over my own comment from last time: I'm just hoping I actually finish them -- for ANH anyway -- ( Read more... )

Listening back, this is probably the weakest part - partly because I was fairly frustrated, and partly because I was really unclear and had to add in a ton of editorial remarks just to clarify what I meant. But here is the last part.

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This, even more than the others, is a continuation of the previous section, but narrows the focus on Luke and Leia. Luke-Leia is up there with Anakin-Luke for my favourite relationship in Star Wars, so I took advantage of the opportunity for a quasi-picspam and just stuffed every Luke and Leia-focused picture/set of pictures I have into the video ( Read more... )

This was a weird section for me, and probably one of the more artificial section breaks. Basically, this is the one where -- I felt -- Tricia was arguing that people dislike Padmé because they blame her for certain poor choices and aren't given evidence of her position as a political leader. I disagree on both counts, and dislike her ( Read more... )