senatorsfan-ink's post on liking the Star Wars Prequels better than the Originals got me thinking, especially this quote:

- You say you stood up and cheered when Leia grabbed a blaster from Luke and shot down the Death Star hallway before ordering Han & Co. into the garbage disposal? Well, I stood up and cheered when Padmé Amidala planned the successful ( Read more... )

So, I've been feeling nauseated all week and thought I was getting sick, but I finally figured out that it's just allergies or something and it's the post-nasal drainage that's the problem. I took an antihistamine and have been completely spaced out all day. Seriously, I took it at about eight AM and only within about the last hour or two have I ( Read more... )

I watched the 1965 David Lean film Dr. Zhivago recently. There's a lot to say about that movie, but for now, I'll stick to the fannish point of interest: Varykino.

Wait, that sounds familiar, I thought when I first heard it. Didn't Padme and Anakin go to Varykino?

Sure enough, they didIn both movies, a couple flees from a war (or soon-to-be war) ( Read more... )

Adapted from my starwars.com blog, since this is a slightly more relaxed setting and I feel better about making digressions ( Read more... )

How does a Sith Lord pick a name for his new apprentice, anyway? ( Baby Sith name books? )

If only they hadn't ignored the early warning signs, they might have been able to work things out...( Read more... )

Assuming Anakin was created by one of the Sith, how did he come to be abandoned on Tatooine instead of raised by the Sith since birth? I offer one hypothesis. ( Read more... )

Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the cozy portrayal of slavery in The Phantom Menace. ( Mostly. )

Why does Obiwan let Anakin take Padme back to Naboo? He should know better! ( Is he just a big ol' softie or what? )

Why does Palpatine tell Anakin that Anakin killed Padme? ( Huh? )