Blog or do not, there is no try
I wasn't sure about exactly how to start this blog. In fact I was going to wait until 11 after watching "Star Wars: Legacy Revealed" was over before I started this great blog review'; which would've included TheSopranos, Pirates 3 and the new Linkin Park CD, and I will still go on with that in later blogs (tonight or tomorrow), but bare with me.
Some guy just said, "Jar Jar binks is a great comic character that kids can relate to."
Whu?! Huh?! On no he didn't.
I'm sorry there was nothing funny about Jar Jar. Besides the thinly veiled attempt at a muse-like comedian, it was more (in my estimation) that of a 1920's Al Jolson blackface gag.
And to say that kids can look up to him and can become a senator because Jar Jar did, is just a slap in the face to any senator, and that includes racist-extradoinaire Strom Thurmond.
I'll be honest, I love this type of stuff. When journalists, theologians, historians, writers, and directors talk about Star Wars. It is really a dork/nerd's paradise. To anaylze the movie that can never over anaylzed.
And the best part about it is to see all these folks who probrably get blown off at parties when someone asks them about what they thought about the last Star Wars movie, and they go on this know-it-all rant about how Anakin's descent mirrors Luciefer, and that the Emperor is the Serpent from Eden. They all have this smile on their face, telling the world, "See someone cares."
But then again, all these historians are saying things like, "There are references to galaditorial battles." and "The pod race resembles the great chariot races."
No. No they aren't like those things. They are those things. It's only a metaphor if people need to be reminded by a single image or the guy sitting next to them. It's not "like" anything if it's blatantly showing it to you.
"He's whiny. He's supposed to be whiny. This is how the greatest villian in the universe starts out, as a whiny, emo kid." -- Kevin Smith
Kevin Smith is right. He's whiny. He wears black. He does things his father doesn't like. However, for 30 or 40 somethings watching this, they probrably aren't getting the reference. But I do. So really, that's all that matters.
And as much as Chapters 1-3 annoyed me at times, it did do a wonderful job at setting up just how great the 3-6 are. There are defly times during the second trilogy that I wished it wasn't as high tech. Yeah I appreciated some of the special effects, but so many times it looked like a cartoon, and it didn't have the same magic and pizazz of the first set of movies.