Category: Star Wars

I think Scalzi nails it on all levels here.

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All Right, Fine, Here’s What I Think About JJ Abrams Directing Star Wars Episode VII – Whatever
It’ll be fine. Really. One, JJ Abrams is a perfectly decent director, who does a decent job with human beings, which is more than you can say about the last dude who directed a Star Wars film. Two, as…

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Complete with C3PMaria and crazy Muppet-arm-waving R2D2.

(h/t +Zachary Cook)

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On this day in 1976, Star Wars concept artist Ralph McQuarrie completed the first painting — The Droids in the Desert — to help sell the look of George Lucas' faraway galaxy to studio executives at Twentieth Century Fox.

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I had no idea there were any. Cool. And (in their absence) disturbing.

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GIRL POWER! “JEDI”s FEMALE FIGHTER PILOTS…
Though women fighter pilots were seen amongst the crowd within the Rebel Cruiser briefing room earlier in RETURN OF THE JEDI, it was believed that none were seen in the actual final battle above Endor…

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It's worth noting that the setup for this film — to contemporary audiences — is certainly no more complicated than the oft-derided "Phantom Menace" crawl that blathers on about trade disputes and Senatorial committees:  

"You got your Nazis. But they don't have any control here. But they conquered France. Except that one part of it, that surrenders.  That's call Vichy, and it's run by Petain — you'll see those names later. So people are leaving France to come to North Africa. Oh, France owns that, too. Unoccupied France.  But people don't want to get stuck there, so they're trying to get to America. Well, yeah, maybe some other places, probably a lot to Argentina and S America, but we're only going to mention the United States. So they want to go there, but they can't go straight there, probably because of airline deregulation. So they need to go to Lisbon in Portugal. Yes, that's a really round-about way to get to Lisbon, but I guess Franco doesn't want them trudging through Spain, and they can't get a ship there. Anyhow so it's Unoccupied France, but there are still Germans there. Remember them, they conquered France, except for the Vichy guys. So they don't control stuff, but they kind of do, except for the criminals, except they're working with the police who are kinda in bed with the Nazis except when they want to save face. But the French still hate the Germans, except when they're working with them, but probably even then. So that's why those people are sneering and those people are shouting and those people are singing real loud. And don't even ask about that Italian officer guy, or why Louie's uniform keeps changing."

The geopolitics of the background make the Rick-Ilsa-Victor triangle look like a piker.

Now … wait until Kay learns that the next movie I'm going to inflict on her has three of the same actors …

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Heh.

(Someone in a conversation I was in recently suggested Obi-Wan as the best candidate for president.  I pointed out his horrifying bad track record in personal judgment and dodging personal responsibility. I suggested Chewbacca — sure, his communication skills aren't the greatest, but he's dedicated, loyal, compassionate, a real problem-solver, a believer in both tradition and innovation, and, as we all know, we should just let the Wookiee win.)

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