Only a Sith thinks in absolutes...
teratologist offered a heads-up to this link showing that, as she puts it, Orson Scott Card is acting a damn fool again. This link reminded me of something I've been thinking about lately, mostly due to a random discussion about Revenge of the Sith. It has, I guess, to do with that impulse to ( think in absolutes. Spoilers for RotS within. )
Hee! Yay! *preens*
And it's so nice to hear positive things about Star Wars as a whole, without the sort of (often fond) mockery that's been dominant ever since the prequels came out.
Yeah, I hope after a while people can stop doing that. I mean, I didn't like the first two prequels either but it's more interesting talking about the core stuff in the story that works.
And actually, I've always had a lingering dislike of Anakin since the first movie, but now I guess I can just feel bad for him 'cause he's got all these regressive issues, almost similarly to Draco, actually, ahahahah.
LOL! It's true! And he's just not that bright (also like Draco, maybe, but Draco might actually be smarter). He wants everything set to the way it's supposed to be but really he can't stand the way things are supposed to be. What do you mean I can't be a Jedi Master at 19? Why should my mother have to die, ever? That can't be right! It's like wanting or needing anything that bad is a problem, the way he wants everything on his terms, even about things that he has no control over. All the tantrums in the world isn't going to change the fact that people die, you know?
Oh yeah, so I'm reading `The Naming' and am curious what you'd think of it *nudgenudge*
*makes note*
Man, following that link made me pretty pissed at both OSC and the various stupids who're all about seeing Star Wars as some political parable.
Oh god, yes. Although I'm not bothered by somebody making an analogy that's actually in the story, like if you're trying to explain how you feel about something you can say, "It's sort of like the way Yoda says..." But this is inside out where you feel it makes sense to twist the story to pretend it's really talking about your pet issue. Because, you know, even if the creator *was* thinking of your pet issue a bit, so even if George Lucas really does think that the Bush Administration reminds him of the Galactic Empire, that doesn't mean his characters really are those guys. He's just talking about what he feels about his fictional situation. So maybe he has set out why he thinks certain ideas are wrong--that doesn't make it a transparent attack on real people.
This absolutes thing also makes me think it's a question of comfort, meaning that the Sith want the comfortable solution where there are guarrantees, because they're always afraid of being lost & adrift,
Right, and even when they have what they want it's not enough because they'll worry they'll lose it. So they need to know that things are inherently the way they want them forever so not only are things okay now, or are they the good guys now, they need to know they always will be.
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