A Sudden "The Star Wars" Comment
It wasn't until I had the fourth issue of "The Star Wars" that I really started to get the feeling I'd manage to get every issue of this comic adapting the rough draft screenplay and felt ready to read what I had. With that done, I decided to comment on the experience as it was at that point, but in saying a bit about four issues at once there might have been the expectation I wouldn't get enough from a single issue to make a post about.
After one month's hiatus, occupied by a "zeroth issue" that just had assorted design work in it, I got past the halfway point by getting the fifth issue, and noticed the cover implied we'd be getting a bit of "romance." The first "love confession" seemed to catch me by surprise, though, with a sort of "that was kind of sudden" feeling, and the reciprocal one following left me in much the same state as before. The problem, of course, was remembering all the pointing and snickering tossed at the romance in the new Star Wars movies.
Then, I rallied, reminding myself once again that just because some people are incapable of forming positive interpretations that shouldn't stop me. With a certain number of settings in the new movies that might be thought "romantic" (most of the action in the fifth issue of the comic was running and escaping on board starships in contrast) potential feelings of things "appearing from nowhere" seem far from mind. The problem, though, might be the whole "everything else is better than anything in the new movies" outlook pushed by many; there, though, that may be the sort of thing I can't help people with.
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After one month's hiatus, occupied by a "zeroth issue" that just had assorted design work in it, I got past the halfway point by getting the fifth issue, and noticed the cover implied we'd be getting a bit of "romance." The first "love confession" seemed to catch me by surprise, though, with a sort of "that was kind of sudden" feeling, and the reciprocal one following left me in much the same state as before. The problem, of course, was remembering all the pointing and snickering tossed at the romance in the new Star Wars movies.
Then, I rallied, reminding myself once again that just because some people are incapable of forming positive interpretations that shouldn't stop me. With a certain number of settings in the new movies that might be thought "romantic" (most of the action in the fifth issue of the comic was running and escaping on board starships in contrast) potential feelings of things "appearing from nowhere" seem far from mind. The problem, though, might be the whole "everything else is better than anything in the new movies" outlook pushed by many; there, though, that may be the sort of thing I can't help people with.
This entry was originally posted at http://krpalmer.dreamwidth.org/207648.html. Comment here or there (using OpenID) as you please.