I forgot to do a Star Wars meta post last night—and I don’t know if I’ll have time tonight! So, brief hiatus, and I’ll try to catch up later this week.
Do or do not, there is no try. Whoops.
I forgot to do a Star Wars meta post last night—and I don’t know if I’ll have time tonight! So, brief hiatus, and I’ll try to catch up later this week.
Do or do not, there is no try. Whoops.
Day Two in my series of daily Star Wars meta posts deals with what makes Star Wars unusual in terms of speculative fiction, maybe not as interesting a topic as yesterday’s, but still something worth talking about, I think. This is a highly personal, biased set of opinions, by the way. There are days when I’ll try for more objectivity, but this happens to be a highly subjective answer to that question (starting off with the assumption that Star Wars is special in some way—which could certainly be argued, but, I mean, I wouldn’t be spending a month talking about it if I didn’t think it was).
Read moreOh, and I won’t be online much tonight, but if anyone has any requests for Star Wars meta topics for me to talk about in the coming month, they should totally let me know and I’ll see what I can do. (Can be as vague or specific as you want.)
In light of recent events (and also recent thoughts I’ve had and posts I’ve seen, and before everything I think is at risk of getting retconned), I’ve been thinking I’d make November a month to post Star Wars meta. I’ve spent a lot of timing thinking this stuff over, so I figure I might as well write it out and inflict it on the internet at large.
So, expect a post a day through the month of November, if I can manage it, in which I read way too much into the Star Wars universe, discuss philosophy, world-building, facts, opinions, and so on. It’ll probably be most focused on the films and the Knights of the Old Republic games (I and II), but I’m pretty familiar with the Expanded Universe and I’ll be talking a lot about that, too (though I admit freely to extreme bias on what material I like and dislike and thus am likely to use). If you don’t care, I’ll be tagging all of it Star Wars November.
Since I’m studying for a midterm today, my first post is going to be one I made on LJ a while back, but never posted to tumblr, about the Jedi and the Force, and the morality of the same, in the timeframe of the films.
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