Back to the Clone Wars: Destroy Malevolence
I've got around to watching the next episode in the Clone Wars DVD set and completing the "Malevolence arc." I suppose that by now, I have fixed opinions about what the little documentaries accompanying each episode are going to say, and the creators met my expectations by continuing to lay it on thick how they were following in the tradition of the old movies. In this case, the plan to destroy the Malevolence was declared to have been inspired by Han's comment in the original Star Wars about how "without precise calculations we could fly right through a star or bounce too close to a supernova," and so far as Padme meeting up with Anakin, the most they said about it was that it set up a final shot just like in the movies.
Still, something about the first comment did remind me of the old days when I was as happy to look at sites offering "technical commentaries" on Star Wars as anything else. I can wonder myself if Han's comment was meant to imply the danger would all be at the start of a trip through hyperspace and can see rigging a computer to do something its usual operators aren't expecting as "universal," but also remember my surprise when, in the commentary for the DVD of Star Wars, George Lucas was able to say at last that he saw the Millennium Falcon's speed as coming from its computer, thus making "parsecs" something other than a "stupid attempt to impress them with obvious misinformation." Again, though, I suppose I was able to adapt and blend thoughts together.
Still, something about the first comment did remind me of the old days when I was as happy to look at sites offering "technical commentaries" on Star Wars as anything else. I can wonder myself if Han's comment was meant to imply the danger would all be at the start of a trip through hyperspace and can see rigging a computer to do something its usual operators aren't expecting as "universal," but also remember my surprise when, in the commentary for the DVD of Star Wars, George Lucas was able to say at last that he saw the Millennium Falcon's speed as coming from its computer, thus making "parsecs" something other than a "stupid attempt to impress them with obvious misinformation." Again, though, I suppose I was able to adapt and blend thoughts together.