tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16360669449231435232024-02-10T13:49:30.388-08:00The Star Wars HeresiesBECAUSE YOUR FOCUS DETERMINES YOUR REALITYPaul F. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05597806846560640157noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1636066944923143523.post-65632112798529980962019-03-30T19:05:00.002-07:002019-03-30T21:30:48.209-07:00The Last Heresy<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">Here we all stand, but a few weeks away from the twentieth
anniversary of that little movie called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Episode
One: The Phantom Menace</i>. Those mythic days are mythic because, let’s be
honest, they were the last days that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star
Wars</i> fandom would ever stand strong and united. Back in the late nineties, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> was poised to completely take
over the world. From a certain point of view, it did (The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo--sWDK_nU">trailers</a> alone were some of the most exciting cinematic experiences of my life).</span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">But it also launched a
media backlash unlike anything popular culture had seen until that time. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">And the rest, as they say, is history. Although it is a
history that I still have a hard time believing. So much so that when I wrote a
book in praise of that very prequel trilogy the entire culture had once been waiting
for, it had to be playfully deemed “heretical.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">That <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Heresies-Interpreting-Philosophies/dp/0786471816/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3G9H575ZMNZ9J&keywords=the+star+wars+heresies&qid=1553996251&s=gateway&sprefix=the+star+wars+heresei%2Caps%2C214&sr=8-1">book</a> is amazingly still selling, so thank you. But my
own relationship with it has been a bit problematic. I have a new laptop and
all, and after checking this blog for the first time in over a year, I feel the
need to kind of elaborate. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">I’m over forty, and thus able to make certain observations
about my life. For one, I have bad timing. For instance, on the very day after
I had fired off my final draft of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The</i>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars Heresies</i> to be published,
one praising not only George Lucas but also his unique creative role in
bringing about the franchise as a whole, my phone started buzzing. And it
buzzed for hours that afternoon. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">In short, I was notified that Lucasfilm was soon going to be
without Lucas, because it had been sold. The private, independently owned film
studio that had gone a considerable distance in shaping my life was now going
to be run by <a href="https://www.thewaltdisneycompany.com/the-walt-disney-company-completes-lucasfilm-acquisition/"><i>Disney</i></a>. And no one knew entirely what that meant, apparently even
George <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jWtbJxzGpQ">himself</a>. This was the eve that would completely rewrite our relationship
with the entire franchise, and do so in a way I never expected. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">That was one of the main reasons why I kind of had to
distance myself from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i>. The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> I had known and loved
throughout my whole life was inevitably going to be changed, and changed far
more than any special edition ever could. And that included the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> I had just written a book
about. It was a bit of a weird situation, considering the completely tumultuous
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_People_vs._George_Lucas">relationship</a> fans had developed with Lucas since 1999. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">The second was personal. By the time my book was published -
as many of you who have been dutifully following along on Facebook and such
know - my life was going through the same amount of <a href="https://thestarwarsheresies.blogspot.com/2013/01/one-with-force.html">upheaval</a> as Lucasfilm. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">I have long since adopted a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Doctor Who</i> metaphor to describe it. During 2012-2013, I was
basically regenerating. It’s necessary in this life from time to time. I’d gone
as far as I could living as I was and thinking as I did. So there was a great
deal of reinvention for me, both personally and professionally.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">Among other things, actually charting out a career was
paramount. In particular, a career in library science. I just passed my seven
year mark with my current library system. I was a volunteer coordinator for
most of that time, and have moved on to be a teen (and sometimes tween)
librarian. It’s been reasonably demanding but I had to get everything on more
secure footing. Finances included, because one can only make so much writing
books of academic criticism about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star
Wars</i> (Crazy, right?).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">So venturing out into my new life, I embraced the new <i>Disney</i>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> as much as possible. For
the first few years, it was very enjoyable. I have no desire to attend <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Celebration</i> in Chicago this time,
especially if it’s being run by <i>Reed Pop</i>. I had a great time at the last one in
Orlando, but by god, it wouldn’t be too much to say that they’re so
disorganized they make the current political administration look competent. Or
maybe it would be too much to say, but those lines in Florida … wow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">Still, I met Mark Hamill and Ian McDiarmid, not to mention
Ashley Eckstein again as well as Freddie Prinze Jr and the indelible Sarah
Michelle Gellar (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Buffy</i> still remains
my favorite show of all time and I don’t know what will eventually unseat it).
And I can’t resist posting some photos though it’s probably best to ignore the
third person in the picture but these aren’t the droids you’re looking for. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">Moving along, I also unofficially retired from writing. I have
managed to complete a genre novel in the YA vein (being a teen rep and all),
but it’s been sitting around for four or five months and I’m not sure what I
want to do with it. I’ll self-publish if nothing else, but did I mention I will
have to write a synopsis and oh yeah that I’ve been incredibly busy? </span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">It took me
three years to write and complete that one book. There have been various and
sundry ideas in my head for other nonfiction, genre-related <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Heresies</i>-style books, but that would
mean I would have to do another index, which is the most fun you can have
without actually having any fun (It’s about as bad as writing a synopsis for
fiction).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">As I expressed in an earlier blog, I essentially just wanted
to sit back and be a semi-mindless consumer for a change. But <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Disney’s Star Wars</i> has not made that
easy in the long run. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">I mean, I tried to be a good sport and roll with the new
team. I went to the movies, I bought stuff, I attended conventions, I got
autographs, I played the video games, I had fun. But the fact of the matter is,
George Lucas really got mistreated when <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Disney</i>
took over, and four movies in and the franchise and fandom is again collapsing
in on itself. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">If you had told me when the sequel trilogy was announced
that the second one would be more divisive than <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Phantom Menace</i>, I would have laughed in your face.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I’ve been wrong before, and would have
been again. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">Sure, we had lost the Maker, and that was perhaps more of an
incalculable loss then even I had wanted to admit, but I had at least thought
the new movies would be fun and non-controversial, if somewhat bland and
inoffensive and not nearly so imaginative and poetic as the originals were. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">What we want from sequels, impossibly or no, is that they be
totally the same while being totally different simultaneously. (I say
impossible, but the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cobra Kai</i> series
has gotten very close with pulling off almost exactly that, which is why it is
so <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKnttI0wIgU">loved</a> on YouTube and the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Last Jedi</i>
is so<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ECwhB21Pnk"> hated</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">In retrospect, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Force Awakens</i> just now strikes me as being totally the same as the
originals, while <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Last Jedi</i> was
just totally different. I would have to start another blog outlining all the
problems of these movies, but it’s been talked about <a href="https://www.headstuff.org/entertainment/film/solo-and-the-last-jedi-star-wars-directionless/">ad nauseum</a>. Even Mark Hamill has publicly voiced his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-bENZW7Jyw">problems</a> with the sequels.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">In short, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=din23ky_0LM">Episode VII</a></i>
was problematic, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Episode VIII</i> was
such a train wreck in retrospect it derailed much of the good will the former
had built up. In point of fact, for all the nonsense about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Last Jedi</i> defying expectations, it did nothing of the kind.
Rian Johnson didn’t want to tell the story … he wanted to outsmart the story.
And yet, in the end, what are we left with?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">Aside from old, sad, or dead legacy characters, we have another
Empire, another Rebellion, and on the eve of the saga being completely
rebooted, it starts to eat its own tail and becomes the exact same story that
has already been told. Why?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">Whatever fans may have thought of the prequels, they at
least had a very strong and powerful reason for existing. If nothing else, the
simple fact that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A New Hope</i> was
technically billed <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Episode IV</i>, thus
implying the existence of a prequel trilogy for all this time. </span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">The sequel
trilogy comes burdened with the fact that it needs an extremely strong reason
for existing at all – namely strong characters and strong stories and strong
themes – which it clearly does not have. It comes at us with a blast of
hackneyed nostalgia and John Williams, but very little in the way of a plan or
a point. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">Or so it seems to me and now a lot of other <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOtjsW17tdQ">people</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">For a moment though, right about the time Han swaggered onto
the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Falcon</i> with a grumbled “Chewie,
we’re home,” most <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYHdQUyOunA">fans</a> were on board. We were all really, really hoping for the
<i>Marvel</i> template. But if that was the attempted template, it failed pretty
miserably.</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Marvel</i> is twenty-odd
movies in and it just keeps building and building and I am so ready to pounce
on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT2q-6Ezgm4"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Avengers Endgame</i> </a>tickets Black
Panther<i>-</i>style the moment they become available. As for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Episode IX</i>, well … at this point I really couldn’t care less. I
mean, there really isn’t much of a story left. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">The only mystery really hanging over things is whether or
not the Resistance/Rebellion/Whatever the Hell it is will triumph over the Empire/First Order/Whatever the Hell it is, and of course they will. So I just saved you
fifteen dollars (Sorry for the snark, but the world-building genius of George
Lucas is so absent here it truly boggles the mind). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">This issue is compounded a hundred times over by the fact
that this episode is being billed as the definitive End of the Skywalker saga.
Guys, we already had a definitive End of the Skywalker saga. It’s called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Return of the Jedi</i>, and for my credits,
you can’t just unravel that borderline perfection of an ending for the
sprawling, disjointed mess that is the sequel trilogy. Especially now that we
charge headfirst into the End of the Skywalker saga with, well, let’s be honest
- No Skywalkers At All. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">But that honestly doesn’t concern me. For me, the end of the
Skywalker saga will always, always, always involve dancing Ewoks, a balanced
Force, and smiling blue ghosts. Perhaps that’s why I’ve never been keen on the
post-<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ROTJ </i>Expanded Universe stuff.
This is a fairy tale, and our heroes all <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDqgJye7hyc">lived happily ever after</a>, and that’s
all anyone needs to know. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">Okay, I am curious to see what <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/tv/a23614426/star-wars-the-mandalorian/">The Mandalorian</a></i> is like on that streaming service, but I assume it
doesn’t carelessly rewrite the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ROTJ </i>ending
and, most importantly, it lets our heroes live out there happily ever afters.
Plus, you know, Dave Filoni has his hand in the work, the heir apparent who
should have been in charge of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i>
from the beginning after Lucas. <span class="MsoSubtleEmphasis"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Seriously <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Disney</i>. If you wanted a reboot, set it a
hundred years in the future and leave the legacy characters alone. Especially
if you’re just going to kill them all anyway. Guarantee you would not be
getting the amount of hate you’re generating now)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">I also bring all of this up because so many things have come
to light about the <i>Disney</i> merger. From what I understand, it was contingent on
Iger and company using Lucas’ treatments for the sequel trilogy. I know
elements were used and other elements were unfinished, but this was George’s
party, and its public knowledge that his invitation was intentionally lost in
the mail and he was cut out of the deal. I tried to forgive, but that was
really unforgivable, not to mention just tacky and unprofessional. </span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">After he’d
wrapped up this trilogy, then <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Disney</i>
could have done whatever they wanted, but they royally messed up and are now
paying the price with shrinking box office <a href="https://screenrant.com/solo-movie-star-wars-box-office-failure/">receipts</a>. Not to mention a seemingly endless revolving door of writers and directors and so on. All because no one had a plan and refused to use George Lucas'.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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wasn’t the unexpected most Lucasian movie to come out of the new Lucasfilm-without-Lucas.
Unfortunately, so much ill will had been built up over <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Last Jedi</i> we had a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star
Wars</i> movie failing at the box office with no more new ones continuing the
most promising storyline they had.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">As for the rest of it, I can only take it for what it really
is – just incredibly well-funded fanfiction. Which is okay, I suppose.
Fanfiction can be enjoyable, in small doses (in this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey68aMOV9gc">case</a>, it's arguably better than the theatrical releases). For me, it’s basically what the
books and comics and things always were. Just a big - sometimes enjoyable,
sometimes not - What If? </span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">So if you enjoy it, good for you. It apparently just
isn’t for me unless things completely turn around. But Force knows, I’m not on
the internet trolling fans about it every day. It’s been almost a year since I’ve
even posted about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> anywhere.
I just felt a rippling in the Force that compelled me to say <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">something</i> after all this time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">If you’re looking for the definitive word of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Star Wars Heresies</i> about canon, that
will always include <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Episodes I-VI</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Clone Wars</i>, and if you squint and
stare hard enough, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rebels</i>. Later projects
by Dave Filoni will also possibly be up for canon consideration. That’s the
place where my <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> lives and
breathes and, for the first time in a while, where I’m majorly exploring and
enjoying again, and being enthused and inspired by how brilliant it all was. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">While walking around my local park this beautiful Saturday
afternoon, trying to figure out what this post was actually going to address,
it occurred to me that all the press that “toxic fandom” is earning today has
been alive and well for twenty years. We’ve all heard the stories of
<a href="http://www.ladbible.com/entertainment/celebrity-what-happened-to-the-kid-who-played-anakin-in-the-phantom-menace-20180522">Jake Lloyd</a> and <a href="https://mashable.com/video/ahmed-best-jar-jar-binks-suicide-tweet/#8w7o3Xta4Eqb">Ahmed Best</a>, years before any of the new stars had to leave
Twitter. For some of us, it’s a very old talking point. It started some twenty
years ago on a talkback, where it was belligerently claimed that George Lucas
Raped Someone’s Childhood. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">Two decades ago, I never would have believed that would have
set the tone for the fandom conversation about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> for so long. How could someone be so vitriolic about this
special, amazing thing that had been with us and even helped guide us our
entire lives? It still seems slightly surreal to me, even as I listened to a
<a href="https://mugglecast.com/episode-410-what-happened-to-this-fandom/">podcast</a> about the same thing now happening in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Harry Potter</i> fandom. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">But as a wise man once said, “You can’t be a fan of
something you hate.” Before the internet, that would have been an irrelevant,
even incoherent, statement. But think about all the buzz words circling our
culture today like angry bees. “Fake news.” “Victim culture.” “Outrage
addiction.” All that didn’t start on social media. It started with George
Lucas and the prequel trilogy. While there were obviously other factors, the
bullying and toxicity inside the fandom undeniably played a role in retiring
the very creative artist who had started the whole thing, and that’s always
going to be a mark against us. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">But the Last Heresy part of this post involves me
personally. As noted earlier, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Star
Wars Heresies</i> were published at an odd point not only in my life, but the
life of fandom as well. If Lucasfilm had remained under Lucas, I feel I
probably would have derived more pleasure and pride from them at the time,
despite personal circumstances. But again, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> I had been writing so passionately about had just … well,
kind of seemed over. From a certain point of view, anyway. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">As a result, I honestly kind of distanced myself from the
whole thing. I dis-identified from it. At times, it felt like someone else had
written that book. In truth, they kinda had. After I’ve been given a compliment
or two, though, about how my book has gotten a couple of people to interpret
life as poetry as opposed to prose and things like that, well, it does make me
feel really great. That’s just awesome, and I find it easier now to accept
compliments about it than perhaps I originally did.</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">Yes, that sort of thing makes even writing that damn index worthwhile.</span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">In short, I am proud and grateful I got to make the smallest
of marks on the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> phenomenon.
It has always played a part in my life, and probably always will, no matter
what metamorphosis’ take place. I didn’t always handle fandom well, but we were
all learning our footing in this brave new world. And I guess we still are. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">Still, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Star Wars
Heresies</i> may be a footnote of a footnote of a footnote of a footnote in the
cultural legacy of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Wars</i>, but all
in all, they said exactly what I wanted them to say, and I’m thankful for
anyone who takes the time to read them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">We’ll just end on the heresy that I hope my little book is one of the better and more
worthwhile things to come out of fandom in the past twenty years. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Paul F. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05597806846560640157noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1636066944923143523.post-19265397279982341252016-09-20T10:28:00.002-07:002016-09-20T10:38:03.970-07:00The Heresies Strike Back <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: cyan;">In case anyone has enjoyed the content of this blog, or the content of my book, and is looking for the next step in the journey, I cannot hesitate to suggest Bradley Weatherholt's<i> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LhiWb6T0G4">The Prequels Strike Back</a></i>.</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;">This is a brilliantly crafted film about "a certain point of view" on all things <i>Star Wars</i>. It takes a very in depth look at many subjects which usually only score a casual glance at best. This isn't just about the prequels. As I have tried to do so often in my work, this is an analysis of <i>Star Wars</i>, fandom, George Lucas, cinema, and just a lot of philosophy and psychology and myth and metaphor in general. It's about art and perception and the various narratives we use to guide our lives. </span><br />
<span style="color: cyan;"><br /></span><span style="color: cyan;">The documentary </span><span style="color: cyan;">never fails to be honest, insightful, and as objective as anyone can claim to be when evaluating a subject as passionately experienced as <i>Star Wars</i>. It boasts a wonderful gallery of spokesman, probably Mike Kilmo of <a href="http://www.starwarsringtheory.com/"><i>The Ring Composition</i></a> fame being the most prominent. Which is wonderful, because he is so knowledgeable about so many things. </span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;">All in all, the film begs the simple question of how much more interesting all of this would be if we looked at things from "a certain point of view." Another point of view. I've heard the director on numerous podcasts, including one of my new favorites, <a href="http://www.thecantinacast.net/"><i>The Cantina Cast</i></a>. One of his primary mission statements seems to be just positing how much more <i>interesting</i> the saga gets when one rises about the online fanboy chatter and is willing to take their first step into a larger world of possibility. </span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;">While we're at it, that is just a great stepping off point for just about everything in life. </span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;">As for me, I was graciously offered an interview in <i>The Prequels Strike Back</i>. However, the filmmakers couldn't make it to Atlanta, and I just couldn't make it work at the time either, so I am not physically in the documentary. However, my book is certainly featured, as well as a lot of ideas that I have been shuffling around for over a dozen years now. Maybe it is egocentric and un-Jedi like, but I will say I feel <i>The Star Wars Heresies</i> casts a long shadow over all of this. </span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;">Personally, I'm still enjoying retirement from official fandom, and just kicking back and letting it all be what it is. The transition to <i>Disney</i> has been better than I had anticipated, with a new season of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmXp802sFgQ"><i>Rebels</i></a> about to launch, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frdj1zb9sMY"><i>Rogue One</i></a> on the horizon. I am absolutely loving those trailers! And yes, my friend and I already have tickets for <a href="http://www.starwarscelebration.com/Orlando/Home/"><i>Star Wars Celebration</i></a> in Orlando next year. Maybe I will see some of you there, which is always a pleasure.</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;">Perhaps I'll be writing about <i>Star Wars</i> some more before it's all over. I'm working on another YA fiction project, which I didn't think I'd ever do again, but here we all are. My next big <i>Star Wars</i> event will be <i>Star Wars Reads Day</i> at the library I work at. We have registered to win a day with Pablo Hidalgo, and if <i>that</i> happens, I will certainly post about it!</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;">Anyway, <i>The Prequels Strike Back</i> are available on YouTube and Amazon to rent and buy, with the DVD and a big screen release coming next month. If you enjoyed all my stuff, this is clearly the next step, so please go support this film. </span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;">MTFBWY</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">So
I was at Target this week, back from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">DragonCon</i>
and attempting to soak up some <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Force
Friday</i> fun, albeit a few days late. The decorations are pretty neat, particularly
the beeping BB-8 and the roaring Chewbacca who greets you at the entrance. And
who doesn’t love the First Order stormtroopers plastered to the front doors
that you have to “Force Push” out of the way to enter? </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">(Although
I will note, one Target boasted them on the doors you have to “pull” open as
opposed to the ones that operate automatically, thus redefining the phrase “epic
fail”)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Anyway,
one little boy and his mother were having a fine time posing for pictures with
the life-sized Chewbacca stand-up, all smiles and geeked out. It was just a
very pure expression of fun and fandom, something often not to be found in our
troubled, slightly mad, Internet era. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Likewise,
there was none of the drama and politics my last rant and diatribe outlined in
the toy aisle or in the Halloween section with all the new kids’ costumes. I
doubt a single boy or girl in the toy department excitedly chatting away about
the new displays were inwardly wringing their hands and existentially worrying
that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Force Awakens </i>is some kind
of backhanded attack on the legacy of George Lucas because of the constant
emphasis on practical effects in the PR campaign. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Perhaps
a belabored point, dear readers, but one I’ve often pondered over the years.
Seeing us frantically and angrily typing at each other, and just acting the way
we fans do, would it be so hard to imagine that our younger fan selves would
label their older incarnations as categorically insane? Have we just lost our
way, as surely as the Jedi and the Republic? Is this really what it’s all
about? </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">So
I’ve written a book which, according to my publishers at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">DragonCon</i>, has become a standard fixture at their displays at cons.
I’ve shepherded this blog to well over a hundred thousand views (so sincere
thanks for all the reading). But still, time for something new. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As
Yoda said, twilight is upon us, and soon, light must fall. That is the way of
things. The way of the Force.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">If
you’re wondering why I’m writing this at all, it’s just because there was so
much frustration and negativity built into that last post, just as surely as
Kylo Ren built a lot of anger and madness into that volatile crossguard
lightsaber of his. And despite everything, it seems bad form to go out on such
a dark side note. The basics are still intact, the online fandom is still
unsalvageable, but hey, the good news is the drama and problems get smaller and
smaller the less time one wastes on the Internet. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Still,
as usual, I’m going to beat a dead bantha and deconstruct my feelings on this
some more. I suppose I do owe at least that. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Star Wars
Heresies</span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">
were born out of a very specific time and place in the history of George Lucas
and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lucasfilm</i>. It originated from the
era framed by the special editions and prequels, that so often merrily maligned
chapter in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> saga. Yet
how ironic is it that this period – far, far more than the pristine, untouched
original original trilogy – created and sustained the world we know today, the
world where people began to definitively claim the title of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> Fan? As in, “I am a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars fan</i>, this is my life, hear me
roar”? </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">#Chewbacca-approved.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Maybe
I’m still spouting heresy and nonsense, but face it. Before this era, the
original trilogy was buried and largely forgotten. Honestly, even for me. This
relaunch was largely the origin of it all.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Star Wars
Heresies</span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">
also sprang largely formed from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Phantom Heresies</i>, all the way back to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Episode
One</i>. This was my first bit of professional (meaning paid) writing about our
favorite galaxy, this long-running series of articles published on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Space.com</i>, which offered a fresh,
indepth look at the prequel era. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">That</i>
seems like a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">But
what an era it was! The special editions broke all box office records. The
prequel trilogy did much the same, as well as, yes, win another generation of
fans. Then there was the amazing run of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Clone Wars</i> series. It was extraordinary. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> redefined fandom as we know it. The toys. The games. The
merchandise. The cosplay. And on my end, the academic criticism. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And
it all came down to one man, George Lucas. The Flannelled One. Uncle George.
The creator who exclusively owned it, lock, stock, and Tauntaun. It was Lucas
Unplugged, an artist with no limit but his imagination and the work of ILM. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Pay
attention, kids. It was utterly unique. And in today’s corporate-fueled
atmosphere, it may not happen again for a very long time. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">But
even Lucas couldn’t stop the suns from setting. He sold <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lucasfilm</i> to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Disney</i>, gave
all the money to charity, got remarried, and retired. No, I wasn’t consulted.
And no, I can’t call him up and lure him out of said retirement. So the fact
remains, there simply is no longer a Lucas to champion, nor his singular vision
for the franchise. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">For
a long time, I felt tempted to retire too. I mean, exclusively, just completely
withdraw from that one fixed star in my life. Or rather, that fixed <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i>. Those were the real dark
times, that black hole of secrecy and uncertainty and nothingness in a post-<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Clone Wars </i>world.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
timing of all this was truly interesting. Keep in mind, not three days after
I’d polished and edited and submitted the final copy of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Star Wars Heresies</i> to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">MacFarland
& Co.</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Disney</i> bought <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lucasfilm</i>. Lucas was on his way out. The
sequel trilogy was being made without him. The era my book was inspired by was
inexorably ending, and with it, a lot of my personal understanding and
interpretation of things. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It
was big stuff, and most of you know it was a genuinely hard on me as a fan.
Okay, it was hard in a lot of other, more important real life ways too, but
still. There was a lot of change all the way around. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Yet,
as Anakin so tragically failed to understand, as surely as the suns set, they
do rise again too. After a year of fanboy soul-searching, I got with the
franchise again. That second trailer sealed the deal. Of course, my fandom still
occasionally got water-boarded by online arguments and anything concerning the
King of Haters, that walking, talking bag of hypocrisy and idiocy, Simon Pegg. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
short, my fandom is still intact, but <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Star Wars Heresies</i> really are over, too tied to a time and place that have
gone the way of the Old Republic. The problem I’ve struggled with on this blog is
that it doesn’t make much sense for me to continue down this path. Plus, there
are other things I want to do. And, you know, general busyness.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As
Lucas sagely realized, it is sometimes necessary to let go. A lot of my writing
of late honestly had very little to do with the original mission statement
here. I may chronicle adventures to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star
Wars Weekends</i> or the events of the upcoming <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars Reads Day</i> I’m orchestrating at my library, but I’m not
sure how relevant it all is here, much less how “heretical.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">There
is more writing I want to do, though in the teen fiction vein again, something
with a sci-fi bent to it. And libraries. Working on it has actually been <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">fun</i>, something that became almost
totally divorced from writing for me over the years. And even if I go off and
write on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rebels</i>, or even the original and sequel
trilogies, alas, this obviously isn’t the home for it anymore. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
will say the criticism I’ve produced still holds up. People still respond to
it. While it isn’t going to happen due to lots of logistical difficulties on
both sides, I was asked to participate in the promising <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Prequels Strike Back</i> documentary. At <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">DragonCon</i>, Vanessa Marshall, the voice of Hera Syndulla, was very
enthusiastic upon hearing of my book, and even mentioned doing a feature on me
in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars Insider</i>. That
probably won’t happen either, but I’m grateful for and honored by the
attention. There are still shining points out there. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">If
I personally can claim any legacy from all this, I will assert the whole
current movement recognizing “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i>
as Poetry” is rooted mainly in my work, being both the impetus for my book, as
well as me simply being the first I know of to put it out there. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As
for now, I personally will follow Lucas’ lead. Again, he sold the franchise. He
had a hand in appointing his successors. While I may not agree with it all, I
am going to do my best to enjoy it. And with three months to go before <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Force Awakens</i>, I am happy to report,
I’m succeeding. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">(And
for those of you who have a problem with me having fun with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Force Awakens</i>, might I suggest you
have far, far deeper issues to deal with than Mickey Mouse and the Force)</span></span></div>
<span style="color: cyan;">
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<br /></div>
<span style="color: cyan;">
</span><div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">True,
my <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">DragonCon </i>companion and I came at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Force Friday</i> a week late, but we had a
blast the following weekend. Very few things make me happier than new <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> toys and merchandise. It all
started with the action figures for me. I had Luke, Vader, Chewie, and C-3PO in
my hand before I’d seen a single frame of any film. And at this point, it’s
astonishing <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hasbro</i> can get products
in the stores at all, but they have!</span></span></div>
<span style="color: cyan;">
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<br /></div>
<span style="color: cyan;">
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It
remains borderline magical holding brand new action figures in hand after a
long bounty hunt in the stores. I’m loving the Black Series Rey and Kylo Ren,
even as anything Captain Phasma remains elusive. And that app-controlled BB-8
is frankly off the hook from what I’ve seen of it. God forbid, it’s going to be
nice to be a mindless consumer and just geek out awhile. </span></span></div>
<span style="color: cyan;">
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<br /></div>
<span style="color: cyan;">
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">(On
the other hand, I’ve often considered <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star
Wars</i> action figures the closest we contemporaries can score to the mythic
totems and ancient statuettes of gods and saints and heroes. That hasn’t
changed. It tugs at that very transrational core of us, much like the inspired
rhythms of John Williams) </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;">
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
closing, it seems to me we have a choice. We can all try to embrace this new
era of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Wars</i>, or let it go and
leave. Just don’t twist into dark side haters haunting the shadowy corners of
the Internet. Life is too short. Those of us who have been with it since the
beginning sincerely deserve our enjoyment. Remember that. </span></span></div>
<span style="color: cyan;">
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">So
take heart. It you don’t like the current creative regime, that too will pass.
Just rest in the knowledge that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i>
is always going to be bigger than the Abrams’ and the Kennedys, maybe even the
Lucas’. As Thomas Carlyle noted, no poet is equal his poem. And <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars </i>is a poem, if not <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the </i>poem.</span></span></div>
<span style="color: cyan;">
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<br /></div>
<span style="color: cyan;">
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">For
some reason, the iconic words of Obi-Wan Kenobi recorded in the holocron in the
premiere of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rebels</i> seem very
appropriate to launch into hyperspace on one last time …</span></span></div>
<span style="color: cyan;">
</span><div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<span style="color: cyan;">
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<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This is Master
Obi-Wan Kenobi. I regret to report that both our Jedi Order and the Republic
have fallen – with the dark shadow of the Empire to take their place. </span></i></span></div>
<span style="color: cyan;">
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<br /></div>
<span style="color: cyan;">
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<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This message is a
warning and a reminder for any surviving Jedi: Trust in the Force. Do not
return to the temple. That time has passed, and our future is uncertain. Avoid
Coruscant, avoid detection, be secret … </span></i></span></div>
<span style="color: cyan;">
</span><div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<span style="color: cyan;">
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<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">But be strong. We
will be challenged. Our trust. Our faith. Our friendships. But we must
persevere, and in time, I believe a new hope will emerge. </span></i></span></div>
<span style="color: cyan;">
</span><div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<span style="color: cyan;">
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<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">May the Force be with
you … always. </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">So here's me in the latest issue of <i>Star Wars Insider. </i>Talking all about midichlorians. It was nice. </span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">And so, here's me also just stepping down from the batshit insanity that <i>Star Wars </i>fandom has devolved into since the <i>Disney</i> sale. It seems impossible to post anything - no matter how bland and non-confrontational - about the <i>Wars</i> these days without getting into endless drama and debate. Enough is enough. Never, even in the summer of 1999, have I seen the online incarnation of this fandom in such a state, where one is attacked for everything they do say, or don't say, or insinuate, or whatever. </span><br />
<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><br />The mantra continues. Life is too short. I have neither the time nor energy nor interest in arguing about <i>The Force Awakens</i> or practical effects or canon until the ghastly hours of the morning. But that is precisely what it now requires. Even if one goes out of their desire to simply state their stance and move on, the conflict that ensues is just absurd. Arguments that chase each other around in circles for hours and hours. People keep wanting me too, but I don't even care at this point. </span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">I also pretty much refuse to take part in a fandom that even partially insinuates that people like Simon Pegg aren't the problem, but people like myself are. </span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">My relationship with <i>Star Wars</i>, whatever it will be, will have to be personal. I am going to make a sincere effort to divorce it from social media. But again, I've never seen it this bad, with one incomprehensible argument fired against one with no context whatsoever, and really, who needs it? There is no evidence that it is going to improve. It's merely the slow circling of the drain of a once promising fandom. </span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">#Ridiculous</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">Edited: Okay, one more, that's happily coming from a much better place - <a href="http://thestarwarsheresies.blogspot.com/2015/09/early-retirement-special-edition.html">Early Retirement - The Special Edition</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"> </span>Paul F. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05597806846560640157noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1636066944923143523.post-77184226807730769732015-07-15T12:40:00.002-07:002015-07-15T12:54:18.831-07:00Square Peggs in Round Holes <div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">So this post isn't going to be anywhere near as long as it originally was going to be. Like a considerable part of the Internet, I feel like I've already written several volumes on the <i>San Diego Comic Con</i> panel. And as always with <i>Star Wars</i>, passions have run pretty high. Enough to make me have to stop and evaluate and remember what I'm actually in all this for to begin with. Or rather why I'm back. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And it isn't just to spend all day, every day arguing about "CGI" vs. "practical effects." </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">But I am sympathetic to anyone who feels differently. When someone gets out there praising the production team for - of all things! - actually filming in an actual desert for the new movie, that's a bit much. I mean, sure, we all know the prequels weren't filmed in a real desert, but rather a fake, CGI, air-conditioned one, but come on. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In short, I agree with the commentators.I hope there's not another online fan war on the horizon. If so, I may just be a conscience objector this time around. #1999</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Oh, I had a lot to say about the <i>Comic Con</i> stuff. The puns and the zingers were going to be off the hook. But enough of that. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">For the record, <i>The Star Wars Heresies</i> does think <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b22lBYAL2uM">Kennedy</a> is way too in awe of the fanbase and gives them way too much credit, particularly given their online behavior for the past fifteen years. And <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fMx670jOnw">J.J. Abrams'</a> relentless advocacy of "practical effects" is way too overstated, whatever his actual feelings on the subject. One of the high points was definitely Lawrence Kasdan's shout-out to George Lucas and his "genius," but overall it was a pretty lackluster panel, nothing compared to the stuff at <i>Star Wars Celebration</i>. Which perhaps is somewhat inevitable when everyone is on a panel to talk about a movie no one is actually allowed to talk about. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And may I just say, if you really want a good time, just put Adam Driver alone on stage, and he can stare at seven thousand fans, and they can stare back, thus surely resulting in the most awkward, uncomfortable sixty minutes of anyone's life. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">But come on, I'm sure he's going to be awesome as Kylo Ren. It's a delicate balance, my readers. My own <a href="http://www.thestarwarsheresies.blogspot.com/2015_04_01_archive.html">journey</a> to <i>The Force Awakens</i> has been complicated. I have criticisms but I have no urge to let my fandom fall to the dark side of negativity. Plus, it would be so nice just to let go and let the Disney era take care of itself, Jedi-style. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The one thing I feel that is absolutely inexcusable is the inclusion of Simon Pegg in <i>The Force Awakens </i>footage. His <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/simon-pegg-adults-obsession-with-science-fiction-causing-society-to-become-infantilised-10259337.html">crimes</a> against fandom are too numerous to mention, but the main issue is, as Jason Swank of <a href="http://www.shotglassdigital.com/artist/rebelforceradio/"><i>Rebel Force Radio</i></a> put it, that he keeps being rewarded for bad behavior. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">So I will offer a very serious challenge to fandom. We all know about the infamous <i>Phantom Edit</i>, where the very fanboys raging about the joys of film preservation deleted footage from <i>Episode I</i> and edited it to their liking. So this is what I want. <i>The Pegg Edit</i>. I basically want Simon Pegg edited out of this otherwise pretty nifty footage. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> That's about all I have to say on the subject. I could go on and on and on about this, that, and the other, but life is too short. And again, I just don't have time to spend on this stuff day in and day out. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I love <i>Star Wars</i>. I love George Lucas. I still think <i>The Force Awakens</i> will be a fun, entertaining addition to the saga. The new books, comics, and television series have provided some great content thus far. I just wish being a fan wasn't so exhausting sometimes. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“There has been an
awakening. Have you felt it? The dark side … and the light.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Those
were the haunting, mysterious words that launched the very first teaser trailer
for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars: The Force Awakens</i>. It
has since been confirmed that they were spoken by motion capture aficionado
Andy Serkis. <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/05/star-wars-force-awakens-photos"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vanity Fair</i> </a>has also
revealed the name of his character is Supreme Leader Snoke, a title that is
evocative of military status, yet he also clearly knows something of the
ways of the Force ... </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Before we proceed, a word on the inexorable inevitabilities of the great
spoiler controversy must be addressed. With each new photo leaked and each new
character name announced, flames of debate rage across the Internet. Some
emphatically want spoilers. Some emphatically do not. Adding to the argument is
confusion over what even constitutes a spoiler. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Star Wars
Heresies</span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">
certainly suffered a major loss in energy and enthusiasm, in part due to the
black hole of secrecy J.J. Abrams and <i>Disney</i> imposed on the new film, a vortex of
blackness from which not even the tiniest of spoilers could escape. This state
of affairs for an entire year was a mistake in my opinion, as it opened up a
void following endless cancellations and silence. I for one find it difficult
to grow excited about a film no one knows anything about, which is why I think
it was a bit of a forced hand (pardon the pun) to finally release a ninety-second <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMOVFvcNfvE">teaser trailer</a> mere months after production wrapped. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">So
while I have tried to avoid spoilers such as storyline reveals and plot twists,
any new image or character tidbit from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Force Awakens</i> has been welcome. For the record, I’m only offering up
speculation here for the sake of entertainment. Even with two trailers, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vanity Fair</i> interviews, and the
occasional image leaked online, I feel like I know almost nothing about this
new episode. Nor do I really want to. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">On
the other hand, the veil of secrecy <i>has</i> to be parted a little eventually.
Especially in this day and age of social media, where every new photo
eventually winds up as background on someone’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Facebook</i> page. And the more information released officially, the
more the audience is eased into this new era of the galaxy, not to mention the
more control the powers-that-be have over said information. So no need for
everyone, Abrams included, to grow sideburns, don bell bottoms, and pretend it’s
1979 all over again, because it can’t work. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">So as I ramble and speculate and theorize a bit here, the official <i>The Star Wars Heresies</i> spoiler policy is going to be framed as succinctly as possible. In short, a leaked photo of Han Solo piloting the <i>Millennium Falcon</i> with new characters Rey and Finn in the cockpit does not constitute a spoiler. A leaked photo of Han Solo slumped over the controls of the <i>Falcon</i> with Rey and Finn standing behind him in the cockpit holding bloody vibroblades does.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Simple enough? </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">So on to this "awakening" motif, as well as two of the more intriguing elements at play in the galaxy decades after the destruction of the second Death Star, the Jedi and the Sith. Or whatever the next evolution of Force talented beings may be. That potential incarnation is the most intriguing element of the sequel trilogy to me. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The release of the episode title for any new <i>Star Wars</i> film is a big moment, perhaps right up there with the first trailer. <i>Episode VII</i> adds to the mythos. <i>The Force Awakens</i> may take a moment to settle into the cultural zeitgeist, but it honestly brings with it not only multiple possible meanings but ties the new addition to the saga into a rich tradition of symbolism. Provided the new generation of filmmakers fish the metaphoric depths of storytelling and folklore as thoroughly as their bearded predecessor would <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/03/17/george-lucas-meaning-of-life/">have</a>, the mysterious title can evoke more than its share of mythological underpinnings. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The concept of awakening is a powerful one in Western mythology. For example, more than one reference is made in Norse stories. There is of course the tale of Brunhilde, who Odin imprisoned on a remote mountain, cursing her with sleep in a ring of flames until she could be awakened again. There is also the story of Heimdall, the watchmen of Norse myth, who was destined to blow on the horn <i>Gjallar </i>to awaken all the gods for Ragnarok and the end of the world. This theme is active in fairy tales to0, ranging from Rumpelstiltskin to Sleeping Beauty.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The same follows through in Eastern mythology. One of the most famous images of Hinduism is Brahma growing out of the navel of the sleeping Vishnu to create the universe again. And of course, the very name "Buddha" means the "awakened one," the one who awoke to the enlightenment inherently sleeping in everything. Not to mention the Taoist musings of Chuang Tzu wondering whether he was a man dreaming about being a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming about being a man. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In theory, all of this could be forming a viable mythic backbone for the sequel trilogy. After one pushes past the hater tone of the first couple of parts, the <i>Vanity Fair</i> article does an adequate job of filling in a bit of behind-the-scenes coverage regarding the film. If nothing else, it is reassuring Abrams is aware that the prequels have a fanbase, and we can infer he and writer Lawrence Kasdan are hopefully taking to heart the prophecy of the Chosen One, and his eventual bringing balance to the Force at the end of the original trilogy. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Now that the slate has been intriguingly wiped clean in most respects, it will be interesting to learn what state the Force has been existing in for over thirty years. As noted, it has been brought back into balance and, presumably, the dark side that had so clouded and infested the galaxy during the Clone Wars and the civil war has largely dissipated. In my <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Star-Wars-Heresies-Interpreting/dp/0786471816">book</a>, I likened the galaxy-wide mystical energy field to an enormous sea, with countless beings floating around in it, as oblivious to it as fish are to water. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Still, hopefully things have improved and stabilized enough for a few decades for everyone to notice. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It would feel like something of a waste if the galaxy has been in nothing but a state of strife and conflict during the thirty year gap. Crashed Star Destroyers aside, the Force awakening at the very least implies a bit of rest, a well-earned cosmic sabbatical for the conflict of the light and the dark. The Force partially slumbering in a peaceful, balanced equilibrium for awhile seems only fair. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">But as the galactic pendulum swings in one direction, it must swing in another. And as simple drama dictates, conflict has to start to creep its way center stage again. That certainly seems to be the way of things in the trailers, with stormtroopers running around and the possibility of some kind of Imperial civil war erupting. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Along the political spectrum, George Lucas once commented that the end of the Empire would see the uprooting of corruption and fascism, and the real Republic would return in fine form. This strikes me as a potentially slippery slope, with lots of possibility for history and the mistakes of the past to repeat themselves. With the Sith gone and the Force balanced, my own vision of the future galaxy would be a bit freer, maybe even a touch anarchic, with any kind of centralized authority being shied away from for the time being. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">But understandably, the galaxy is complicated, and civil war has left it's mark. A lot of this isn't going to be remotely understood until the post <i>Return of the Jedi </i>novel <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Aftermath-Star-Journey-Force-Awakens/dp/034551162X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1435357257&sr=8-1&keywords=star+wars+aftermath">Star Wars Aftermath</a> </i>debuts in September. Granted, the Empire isn't finished, and the political situation in the Inner Rim is largely a complete mystery.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I may have to agree with Han here. Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side. Having a toy one again made me far happier than perhaps it should have. Not to mention it made a really cool noise. Pew pew!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So merchandising may be more on the "dark side" of the Force, but there was no way in Mustafar we weren't going to snag those <i>The Force Awakens</i> t-shirts faster than an angry wampa swatting at a tauntaun. And we hadn't even made it to the aptly named Darth Mall yet!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Suffice to say, we did eventually. So one of the best things about Disney? All the shops will ship your loot back to the hotel so you don't have to carry it around with you all day. One of the worst things about Disney? Same thing. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So we blasted into hyperspace and scored a trip to Hoth and Naboo, but on the last <i>Star Tours</i> trip, I'm fairly certain I visited three planets, not just two. Every now and again, my faith in Disney does bounce too close to a supernova. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fortunately the rest of the year is not exactly going to be skimpy when it comes to all things Force-related. New <i>Rebels</i>, new tie-in books, and no doubt a final movie trailer at some point. I for one am counting down the days until <i>The Force Awakens</i> midnight madness sales in September. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All I can say is, if they're going to be marketing a Kylo Ren and First Order stormtrooper bedspread, a <i>Force Awakens</i> alarm clock seems obvious. As a co-worker noted, it already has a built-in tag line. "Let the Force awaken YOU." </span></span></span></div>
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<![endif]--><span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">(But
You Kind of Do Anyway)</span></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">So
this has been a long time coming. </span></span></div>
<span style="color: cyan;">
</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">For
the first time ever, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> kind
of fell out of my life after the Disney acquisition. Some of you know my own
personal drama over the past few years. There were some profound shifts in my
life, so much so that I even lost the one constant that had been with me since
I was born. </span></span></div>
<span style="color: cyan;">
</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Star Wars </span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">had been a perpetual
source of comfort and inspiration to me, that galaxy far, far away at once as
alien and familiar as anything I’d ever known. John Williams’ Force theme just
hummed away as the background music for much of my life. The saga itself was
always there to wrap up in, a warm little security blanket if ever there was
one. </span></span></div>
<span style="color: cyan;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">But
things changed. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br />
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</div>
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<br />
<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As
for my forays into <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> writing,
the main thrust of this blog seemed in danger of atrophying. George Lucas
finally walked away from it all, retiring to a new life and a new marriage. The
saga was now in the hands of many who seemed quite eager to return to form, the
original trilogy that we all admittedly loved and idolized, with all its
“practical effects” but not a Gungan in sight. Lucasfilm was no longer the
maverick little independent studio calling all the shots, with an unprecedented
amount of creative control in the hands of one often often misunderstood
artist. </span></span></div>
</div>
<span style="color: cyan;">
</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">So
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Star Wars Heresies </i>were slowly
but surely fading into irrelevance (though the book of the same title is still
quite good and you should all buy a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Star-Wars-Heresies-Interpreting/dp/0786471816">copy</a> immediately). My disconnect from
everything that was going on was a very real and tangible thing. Plus, there
was honestly lots of real life stuff happening that made going online and
arguing over a saga that was about to be reborn into heaven only knows what
seem chronically unappealing. </span></span></div>
<span style="color: cyan;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">To
put it frankly, I had lost a home, albeit a fictitious one existing a long time
ago, in a galaxy far, far away. One populated by Jedi Knights and Sith Lords,
accented by the snap-hiss of lightsabers being activated, and forever living
and breathing by a mystical energy field known only as the Force. But it truly
had been as much home to me as anything, as sure and as true as that familiar
feeling forming in the pit of your stomach whenever Tatooine was onscreen. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
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<br />
<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And
home is a big thing. Maybe the biggest thing. But more on that later.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Without
a doubt, the biggest explosion of unparalleled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> goodness for me personally was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Celebration VI</i>. In a year that was unbelievably miserable for me
personally, those were four or five of the best days of my life. Whether posing
in a fake bacta tank or playing chess aboard a mock Millennium Falcon set,
watching new <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Clone Wars</i> episodes or
getting a tilt of the hat from none other than Dave Filoni himself, there was
no bad there. And getting shot around in hyperspace on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Tours</i> only added to the utterly immersive experience. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGp_zDTZFIMIO1Ri-UObtowBxo-qDH8lXCcEihGZLK6OCF-OzSwr7I2W3qJKNAKmNgjvrZANWzMVxMdP6wu-ceE5pK4G7J5XUwhI73-pzEmYPkC-T0ebDgpJaYeOkdZ1CPJyR8O1QHltzf/s1600/Me+in+Falcon.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGp_zDTZFIMIO1Ri-UObtowBxo-qDH8lXCcEihGZLK6OCF-OzSwr7I2W3qJKNAKmNgjvrZANWzMVxMdP6wu-ceE5pK4G7J5XUwhI73-pzEmYPkC-T0ebDgpJaYeOkdZ1CPJyR8O1QHltzf/s1600/Me+in+Falcon.JPG" height="240" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br />
<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">But
honestly, by the time <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Celebration VII</i>
was set to roll around, I wasn’t really even interested. My connection to the
Force had been seriously severed. Anytime new content entered my field of
vision, I couldn’t really see it. It was kind of like being lost in a snowstorm
on Hoth, without a Tauntaun to guide you, or any visions of Jedi to offer up
any hope. Perhaps that’s a bit bleak, but you get the point. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Even
hosting a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars Reads Day</i> event
at the library I work at didn’t do much to boost my energy, though <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> bingo was admittedly a lot of
fun.</span></span></div>
<span style="color: cyan;">
</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">However,
things finally did begin to resonate with me more. For one thing, Dave Filoni
was still around, protégé and padawan of George Lucas himself, a man who knew
the saga inside and out, and could wax philosophical about the Force as eloquently
as any Jedi Master. While more or less unimpressed with the debut of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rebels</i> and the utterly indecipherable
schedule the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Disney</i> channel had it
on, I began to hear encouraging rumblings. I downloaded most of the episodes on
the Play Store and, by the time the first season was up, I was hooked. </span></span></div>
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<br />
<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">While
the animation had obviously suffered from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Clone
Wars</i>, the crew of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ghost</i>
slowly became more than the sum of their parts over the course of the season.
This wasn’t simply <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Firefly</i> with
cowboy Jedi. Darth Vader showing up at the end was thrilling as always, and the
Rebel Alliance blasting out of hyperspace with Bail Organa in the finale was a
moment impossible not to cheer. The amount of gravitas the series built up was
surprising, as well as the rare sense of genuine peril that happened when five
characters and a droid banded together to thumb their nose at a galactic
empire. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span>
</div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Not
to mention the last minute return of a certain beloved female character. The
fire of the Rebellion might have been spreading across the galaxy in the story, but the news of a
long lost padawan returning spread across the Internet just as fast. “Ashoka Lives” is
certainly two of the most reassuring words to come out of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Wars</i> in a while, and they also started
healing a lot of old wounds. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
season two <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWJmS5R-U3U">trailer</a> looks even more amazing, and from what I’ve heard, the
premiere was well worth the four hour wait at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Celebration</i>. If only Hasbro could actually get some toys on the
shelf, all would be well on the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lucasfilm</i>
animation front. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It
also didn’t hurt that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Star Wars
Heresies</i> book got a shout-out in two consecutive issues of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars Insider</i> magazine. Not only that,
but the content in general seemed to have vastly improved. The connecting
symbiosis of the Force appears to be flowing much more smoothly between the
official channels and fandom. To see friends and fans and fellow writers
contributing and posting content in the official magazine, as well as on the blog,
never fails to bring a smile to my face. That is new and fresh and extremely
gratifying. </span></span>
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course, the biggest news is undeniably the launch of a new sequel trilogy, as
well as stand alone films debuting once a year. This has been the focus of
endless debate and discussion, with the most optimistic in fandom citing the
template that has proven so successful for Marvel Studios. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As
for me, I’ve been hesitant. My interest level took a long time to be peaked,
which is good, especially given the stranglehold of secrecy that has existed
around <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Episode VII</i>. I suppose my
biggest concerns have been that all of the mythic weight and depth imbued in
the film saga up until now would be largely lost, as well as just the general
oversaturation of the market. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Those
concerns still linger, but then we finally scored a title. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Force Awakens</i>. For the record, I do like it, as it does carry a
bit of mythic mystery about it. Then we snagged an actual teaser trailer, with John
Boyega popping into frame, resembling one really disoriented stormtrooper.
For the record, the teaser did capture my attention pretty exclusively,
especially the closing shot of the Falcon skimming the desert surface with TIE
fighters buzzing by. And yes, I also like the look of the hotly debated
crossguard-lightsaber, apparently an ancient Sith relic that looks primitive
and dangerous and not entirely stable. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Happily,
the new droid BB-8 also seems to imply that a bit of that Lucasfilm whimsy and
silly will be left intact, the little robot zooming about like an electronic
beach ball. #DareToBeCute</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
suppose I should and perhaps will provide actual commentary on all this stuff,
but that will have to be at a later date. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">But
guys, it was the second trailer that launched in front of thousands of
screaming fans at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Celebration VII</i>
that finally got me, that whittled away all my defenses. It blew away my
skepticism like the Death Star blowing away Alderaan. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">While I was at work Thursday, I knew the JJ
Abrams/Kathleen Kennedy panel was taking place in California. Rumblings in the
Force indicated that a new trailer might debut, and I am, and probably always
will be, a sucker for trailers. Sure enough, I found it online. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">With
no ability to wait till I got home, I basically sequestered myself in the
middle office at work as soon as I could, closed the door, killed the lights,
broke out my earbuds, and proceeded to watch almost two minutes of footage from
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Force Awakens</i>. There is so much
to be said about the content. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">For now though, I’ll just admit it was one of the
most magical viewings of anything ever. Hearing Luke’s voice echo his lines
from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Return of the Jedi</i> was a
borderline religious experience. I watched it two or three times and finally
just had to leave the computer. I had to honestly just walk around a bit in an
effort to process the images I’d just seen, and the sounds I’d just heard. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">For
the rest of that afternoon, screening after screening after screening was held
in that middle office, with me making the setting as cinematic as possible.
Sadly, no popcorn was on hand.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Let’s
be honest, though. We were all essentially reacting like Matthew McConaughey in
that viral <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYHdQUyOunA">video</a> from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Interstellar. </i>Just
as thousands of fans were doing at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Celebration</i>
Anaheim, so was the rest of the world doing on the internet. There was laughing,
cheering, crying, and maybe just a touch of hyperventilation. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
main thoughts that I personally wanted to express on this post go a little
something like this. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Yes, Lucasfilm as we know it is over. As is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i>. Some people are extremely
happy about this. Some people are less so. For the past year, I have wrestled
with my own feelings or lack thereof. I have tended to fall into the latter
category. Part of me would have been okay had Lucas decided to wrap up the saga
with a nice, tidy bow, finish the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Clone
Wars</i>, release all the films in 3D in the cinema, and simply make a graceful
exit. No one could have said the run hadn’t been extraordinary. </span></span>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">But
you know what? He didn’t. Whatever direction things go in now, that’s the way
things are going to go. The Maker could have locked up all those lightsabers and
droids and wookiees and troopers and emphatically proclaimed “no more.” But he
didn’t. He sold the franchise to Disney, and gave the continuing saga a thumbs
up. Even if it didn’t include his creative input. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As
Lucas himself has said more than once, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star
Wars </i>is about “letting go.” As Shmi Skywalker told Anakin before he left
Tatooine to begin his new life as a Jedi, you can’t stop change, any more than
you can stop the suns from setting. That really is a profound image, and Lucas
demonstrated the reality of it by opening up his galaxy to another set of
filmmakers. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And
for better or worse, that’s what’s happening. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Yes,
I would strongly prefer the sequel trilogy to be based on Lucas’ story
treatments. Yes, I would want all six films to be treated with the same level
of deference and respect. And yes, I would like it if the new stories to be
told dictated the new course at hand, rather than what fans think they may or
may not want. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">But
you know what? If the Maker can let go of all this, maybe it’s time for all of the fans to do the same. Part of what burned me out on the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Wars</i> is all the drama and stress and second guessing that goes
hand-in-hand with this fandom, like a mynock glued to a power cable. I have no
desire to stare down the barrel of fifteen years of “whole saga” fans shouting
about how JJ Abrams “raped their middle adulthood” because he thinks of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> as a western or doesn’t like
as many digital effects or probably isn’t going to offer any screen time to
Jedi discussing midichlorians. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sometimes,
I think our younger fan selves would look at us and declare us legally insane. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Life
is far too short not to simply take a minute or two to just enjoy stuff. And
that’s what I loved about the new trailer. For the briefest of moments, all our
adult posing and posturing was out the window, and we were just united in the
joy and wonder and magic of the whole thing all over again. And that’s what
it’s all about. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">So
if the current trajectory of the saga is to break out the new X-Wings and TIE
fighters - as opposed to Naboo starfighters and droid control ships - and have
them blast away at each other for a few movies, I can live with that. And if I
found myself unable to do so, then it really is time to do what I was kind of
planning on doing, and walk away from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star
Wars </i>altogether. </span></span>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">But
after that trailer, I got my Jedi groove back. No, it may never be what it once
was. But that’s just the way of things. The way of the Force. The suns are
always going to set.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">What
interests me most about the trailer is the last line. This was the crowd
pleaser. Han Solo and Chewbacca showing up in an older reflection of an iconic
pose from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A New Hope</i> was the moment that
put a tear in many an eye, including my own. This is our childhood, alive and
well, and in the Millennium Falcon no less. While I have absolutely no urge to
go back to my childhood, this is tugging on some very real, deep, primordial
stuff in all of us. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">To
those who are arguing Abrams is doing some major emotional manipulation here, I
can only smile and nod. Of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">course</i> he
is. And I don’t even blame him. Like most of us, maybe he’s just trying to get
back to that place where it all started. Whatever his take on the things that
came after the original trilogy, I have little doubt the chord he was trying to
strike in all of us with that moment honestly exists in him as well. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Quite
frankly, he just wanted to go home again. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">That
place that is as much a promise as a memory, that is as familiar yet as
ethereal as the strains of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i>
theme itself. For me, it worked. It resonated. Amazingly so. And that he got
there in just a two minute trailer is no small feat. It’s at least enough for
me to want to follow him wherever he goes, to see how close he can get us to
that fabled, holy galaxy that Lucas dreamed up in his imagination in the
seventies. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Chewie,
we’re home.” </span></span><br />
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hope so. It’s a place we’ve all spent a long time looking for. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Along
with the interwebs, this whole podcasting thing seems to be catching on.
Indeed, my own Star Wars fandom has largely been guided and inspired by it,
starting with the old <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Forcecast</i>
shows. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Things have since progressed with
the splintering of that source of the Force into <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rebel Force Radio</i>, as well as increasingly popular shows like <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Full of Sith</i>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">But
if there is indeed one podcast that is remarkably in tune with my own approach
to that long ago, far away galaxy, it has to be <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Coffee with Kenobi</i>. It offers a friendly yet analytical approach to
all the happenings when it comes to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star
Wars</i>, and is hosted by two of the nicest, most intelligent gentlemen in
fandom – Dan Zehr and Corey Clubb.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">They
were kind enough to express interest in having me on as a guest to talk about
my book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Star Wars Heresies</i>.
Fortunately, they are far more knowledgeable than I concerning podcasting, and
were able to edit together a fine show out of it. As for me, I’m just amazed I
got Skype working at all. And I still haven’t listened to the whole thing,
basically because I think I sound like an over-caffeinated Ewok or something.
At any rate, it does offer a nice look at my work by two generous and
enthusiastic professionals. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
entire episode can be found right about <a href="http://www.coffeewithkenobi.com/coffee-with-kenobi-show-17-the-star-wars-heresies/">here</a>. </span></span></div>
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<![endif]--><span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
second big bit of news I feel necessitates commentary is the decision by Disney
and Lucasfilm to finally breathe fresh breath into the modern Expanded
Universe, a topic of some controversy online. While it was something of a given
that the new owners of the franchise would bring it into the fold of their own
publishing empire, it has caused a considerable amount of angst because pretty
much everything post-<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Return of the Jedi</i>
is going to be scrapped. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>
</span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Since
you are reading a blog with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Heresies</i>
in the title, I’ll be honest. This is the first move Disney has made that has
endeared me to them since the cancellation of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Clone Wars</i>. As more than a few fair have pointed out, it’s not
that the EU <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">stopped</i> being canon this
week, it’s simply that it was never canon to begin with. Personally, all I had
to do was read about fifty pages of Timothy Zahn’s beloved <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Thrawn</i> trilogy to figure that out. It never resonated with my own
well-honed fanboy barometer. It wasn’t canon; it wasn’t even <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i>, and had nothing to do with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i>. </span></span></div>
<span style="color: cyan;">
</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It’s
like I said at the beginning of my interview, much like Emily Dickinson’s take
on separating the wheat from the chaff when it came to distinguishing what’s
true poetry and what isn’t, I know it’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star
Wars</i> when I feel as though the top of my head has been taken off. Needless
to say, most of the modern EU has barely ruffled my hair. And if I’ve wanted to
be particularly snarky, I simply offer my own book as a balm to all the
controversy. It’s somewhat sad that I can state without a hint of arrogance
that it has far more relevance to the galaxy that George Lucas actually created
than half of what has gone on in the ever-expanding Expanded Universe over the
past decade or so. </span></span></div>
<span style="color: cyan;">
</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As
noted in earlier posts, my main source of contention with the EU is the
teeth-clenched dogmatism so many approached it with. It would be easier to pry
open the jaws of a rancor than get them to relax their hold on the belief that
what was simply started as a series of media tie-in books to be read for fun on
rainy afternoons when no new films were on the horizon had become the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gospel According to Star Wars</i>. No and
no. The tail does not wag the Tauntaun. </span></span></div>
<span style="color: cyan;">
</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As
is my modus operandi, I simply always wheel this whole enterprise back to what
it was originally intended to be. It is a mythology, not a religion. As such,
whatever version of the story you’re listening to depends largely on whatever
village you’re standing in at the time. So frantic arguments about canon and
continuity are always somewhat out of place. As Joseph Campbell said, myth
changes and evolves and that’s what Lucas has always done with the franchise.
Canon debates are only necessary if this is about to evolve into a religion, as
some fundamentalist fanboys would no doubt like it to do.</span></span></div>
<span style="color: cyan;">
</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Not
to mention it gets really boring and futile trying to fight over what “really”
happened in fictitious stories set in a fictitious galaxy. </span></span></div>
<span style="color: cyan;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: cyan;">So
maybe this Disney business has some potential after all. If they are really interested
in something resembling quality control over this material, then more power
them. For me the films were always be paramount over everything else, but I
remain cautiously optimistic and willing to let the future reveal itself ... </span></span></div>
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Paul F. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05597806846560640157noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1636066944923143523.post-56171179362480062012014-02-25T18:40:00.002-08:002014-02-25T18:40:28.592-08:00Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Star Wars Heresies <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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an aging pop star, I suppose it’s time to drag out some of my greatest
blogging hits, or at least ones that I like the most. There are a couple of
reasons for this. </span></span></div>
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I have done a lot of work on this thing which the various fans surfing in and
out of this site might not be familiar with. Some of this has been published on other sites, but still ...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Two,
I also do not really keep producing materials for this blog on a regular basis.
My book drained an enormous amount of fuel from my tank when it comes to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i>. Not to mention all the
reasons I outlined in my previous post on Christmas Eve. </span></span></div>
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not long after I posted I began to hear the Midichlorians whispering in my ear
that there was still a considerable amount to say about this franchise, and
chances were no one was going to if I didn’t. Those galactic muses are guiding
me again, and some big projects may be in the works when it comes to my <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> scholasticism. Even now, it doesn't seem possible that I won't - at some point - be writing something interpreting the themes, symbols, and philosophies of<i> Episodes</i> <i>IV</i>, <i>V</i>, and <i>VI</i>. Just flipping
through the <i>Star Wars Frames</i> book that I got for Christmas really started
inspiring me again, letting me find what was left of my old voice or perhaps
invent a new one. </span></span></div>
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time, I used a<i> Doctor Who</i> metaphor to talk about my transition, but it was not
unlike Ashoka Tano at the end of <i>The Clone Wars</i>. She walked away from a
dogmatic and bureaucratic Jedi Order, leaving behind the named and the known,
with nothing left to do but carve out a new life for herself. That was very
much me, abandoning my comfort zone until not really even being sure I had one
anymore. But that’s what life requires of us, and that’s why the Jedi stance on
non-attachment in an ever-changing, ever-transforming galaxy makes a fair
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<span style="color: cyan;">P.P.S. Also check out the brilliantly entertaining <a href="http://www.coffeewithkenobi.com/coffee-with-kenobi-show-12-obi-wan-kenobi-featuring-james-arnold-taylor-2/">Coffee with Kenobi</a>. This episode features not only Kenobi himself, but also a kind listener email concerning my book. </span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
updated this blog ….</span></span></div>
<span style="color: cyan;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">So
life is weird. As anyone who is still reading this knows, my book was submitted
to the publishers literally (as opposed to metaphorically) two or three days
before the sale of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lucasfilm</i> to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Disney</i>. Right or wrong, I did feel as if
I had my finger on the pulse of Lucas and his company up until that point.
That’s what this blog is about, that’s what my book is about, that’s what every
bit of my writing about that galaxy far, far away for the past decade or so has
been about. </span></span></div>
<span style="color: cyan;">
</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Then
everything changed. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lucasfilm</i> was
sold, the sequel trilogy was announced, and a new era was upon us. The
excitement was hard not to get caught up in originally, but then the casualties
starting rolling in. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lucasarts</i>, the
3-D releases, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Detours</i>, and most
unforgivably, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Clone Wars</i>. By my
assessment, fandom was thrown into near chaos, with certain things happening
and then endless arguments that they weren’t really happening and so on and so
forth. Enter the now-delayed <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Episode VII</i>
and it is hard to know where one stands. Or at least, where I personally do.</span></span></div>
<span style="color: cyan;">
</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And
as goes <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lucasfilm</i>, pretty much so
went for me. Everything in my life pretty much changed. As it were, I went in a
new direction (ha!), as that botched <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Disney</i>
memo noted. I hope there is some <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star
Wars</i>/<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Doctor Who</i> fans crossover
here, because regeneration is the best mythic metaphor I know to use to
describe the situation. I’m simply not the Time Lord I once was. The way I have
it figured, I’m two regenerations in. My mother’s illness and subsequent death
was the final punctuation mark behind the whole thing, and that was at the
beginning of the year that’s now over. </span></span></div>
<span style="color: cyan;">
</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">With
something of a brand new life being carved out, it has left me somewhat
confused on my feelings toward that one constant across two incarnations now,
namely the Force. To be entirely honest, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Star Wars Heresies</i> was so the work of Second Paul, with such a Second Paul
style and attitude. When Third Paul flips through that book now, all I can say
is he’s not the same Jedi who wrote it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And that’s caused a fair amount of cognitive dissonance, and has been
enough to tilt my fandom off-balance. </span></span></div>
<span style="color: cyan;">
</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">So
it’s been difficult knowing what to say on this blog. I went almost a year
without even writing anything period. Second Paul was the Writer and the
Philosopher. Sure, there’s going to be some cross-over, and I don’t want to say
my life is compartmentalized quite so strongly, but on the other hand, I don’t
know where that part of me is going. I have some ideas for other stuff, be it <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Pop Culture Heresies</i> where I can
just blog about pretty much anything that strikes my fancy, or another bit of
fiction for young readers, or maybe even eventually something new on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i>. </span></span></div>
<span style="color: cyan;">
</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">But
it’s going to be awhile. Maybe. A lot of new priorities. I will say I launched
into a sublime, meditative fanboy state when I perused <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sd0BAxcEBQ"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars Frames</i></a>, which I received as a Christmas gift. It is an
amazing work, and if you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up.
Turn on a little John Williams, and the magic is back. </span></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And
after poring over the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Episode I</i> part,
if you need a little more heresy in your life, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Phantom Menace</i> is simply one of the most beautiful movies ever
shot. And I don’t dismiss that as “just a bunch of special effects.” It’s art,
pure and simple.</span></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
still love the saga, but <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Disney</i> has a
lot to prove at this point. Sorry. I am most looking forward to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bdfFos3PYQ"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rebels</i></a>, which I’m sure I will have stuff
to say about this coming year. Honestly, if Dave Filoni was in charge of the
franchise now, and directing <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Episode VII</i>
and co-writing it with Lawrence Kasdan, I wouldn’t have a worry in the world. </span></span></div>
<span style="color: cyan;">
</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Unlike
a lot of people, Filoni just so clearly understands Lucas’ vision. And that’s
what it has always been about. I will say the one thing that is getting really
tiresome about all of this again is the constant stream of complaining about
everything that isn’t <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Empire Strikes
Back</i>. This little cult is so loud and seemingly omnipresent it gets really
old. There is more to this saga than a movie or two. </span></span></div>
<span style="color: cyan;">
</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Guys,
again, we have real life to worry about. I can’t worry about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> too. That is the place that we
blast off to to be entertained, inspired, and enlightened, not to be more
stressed out than we were eventually. If you’re a fan and not been geeking out
and having a blast, you’re doing something wrong. George Lucas’ <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> is the most easily enjoyable
thing ever invented, and if I’m dissatisfied with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Disney</i>’s version of it, I have no intention of spending the next
fourteen years on the Internet whining and complaining about it. I have the
part of it that I will always love, and that will have to be enough.</span></span></div>
<span style="color: cyan;">
</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And
another thing, all these peeps who try to paint themselves as rebels and
dissidents because they “question” Lucas’ vision of the saga, fret over how
much CGI is used in a scene, or wring their hands about things like “EU canon” are
one day going to find themselves on their deathbed weeping because they wasted
so many precious moments of life. This has been beaten to death on here, and
much more eloquently, but the point still stands. </span></span></div>
<span style="color: cyan;">
</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As
Bryan Young so eloquently put it, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star
Wars</i> is whatever George Lucas says it is. Period. There is no argument, and
I see no point in exhausting myself fighting against a fictitious caricature of
a man that exists nowhere except those dark corners of the Internet infested
with hunchbacked trolls. That he had to retire under anything but
congratulatory, celebratory circumstances is a sad, sorry reflection of this
fandom. </span></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
world would be infinitely better if there were more George Lucas’ in it and,
deep down in places they don’t talk about at parties, even the most hateful
geek knows it. </span></span></div>
<span style="color: cyan;">
</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">So
yeah, Third Paul still feels that way. But he also knows, like everything, like the
message of the films themselves, everything has to change and adapt or it dies.
Including <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars </i>itself. And it
may require letting go like Luke Skywalker did in the trench run, and like
Anakin was unable to do. Otherwise, we’re not embracing this thing with love,
we’re Force choking with it. </span></span></div>
<span style="color: cyan;">
</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">So
like a good Jedi, all we can really do now is sit in cross-legged meditation,
and wait. </span></span></div>
<span style="color: cyan;">
</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">P.S.
And thank all of you guys for reading and reviewing my <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Star-Wars-Heresies-Interpreting/dp/0786471816">book</a>. That has been
pretty awesome.So many out there are still representing the fandom with style and grace. I really need to be adding more to online fandom, but my head just isn't back in the game yet.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">P.P.S.
I think next up I’ll have to do some “Greatest Hits” blogging about all those top
posts from the past few years. </span></span></div>
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neither a pedantically-footnoted academic exercise, or a dumbed-down piece of
disposable pop philosophy—it’s a warm, passionate book that thinks highly
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Paul F. McDonald has
clearly done his homework when sadly few would deign to regarding these
particular movies, and the result is worthwhile indeed.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><a href="http://www.jedinews.co.uk/news/news.aspx?newsID=13713"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">- JediNews</span></a></span><br />
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just plain immensely entertaining to read, <i>The Star Wars Heresies</i> might
be the greatest defense the prequels have ever received as works of art, as
well as George Lucas as an artist. I have seen no anti-prequels argument
composed with anything approaching the same level of intelligence, wit,
generosity, knowledge of the entire <i>Star Wars</i> film series as it
actually is and not as it’s often perceived to be, patience in handling
the opposing viewpoint, and awareness that at the end of the day, <i>Star
Wars </i>is meant to be enjoyed. McDonald’s enthusiasm for the series
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: cyan;">SEE <i>STAR WARS </i>THE WAY YOU'VE NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">So
the second round of review copies are now making their way to a select group of
bloggers, podcasters, and websites. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Star
Wars Heresies</i> has been charmingly referred to as “heretically dazzling” and
“a new beginning for serious <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i>
scholarship” thus far. People are buying and reading and enjoying and that
means a great deal to me. More will be posted on reviews in the upcoming
months. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">For
the time being, my modest little promotional campaign continues. As noted, The
book itself is divided into three parts, with each section dedicated to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Episodes I</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">II </i>and I<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">II</i> respectively.
Aside from an overarching theme for each film, chapters are based on a single
character, delving into whatever themes, symbols, and philosophies may best be
dissected using them as a template. This except is coming to you courtesy of
chapter 3, with a singular focus on Queen Amidala in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Phantom Menace</i> -</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Long before Princess Leia ever wove her hair
into buns and challenged an Empire, her mother sat on the throne of Naboo. The
galaxy was “a more civilized age” then, not yet ravaged by civil war nor
brutalized by a tyrannical government. Like Amidala herself, the planet she
ruled appeared young and beautiful, as though always fresh with morning dew. </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dressed in elaborate gowns and ornate
headdresses, the geisha-faced queen cut one of the most instantly iconic images
from the prequels. Slipping from one regal outfit to the next, her entire
wardrobe was a celebration of beauty and color. But, as with most things in the
saga, the look also carries with it whispers and echoes of a mythic past only
subconsciously remembered. </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When </span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Phantom Menace<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> begins, Naboo is a world rich and green and bursting with potential, a
dream landscape of sweeping grasslands, bright open fields, and vast blue
lakes. It boasts a wisdom and an aesthetic, one of the few places in the galaxy
where the organic and the mechanical have struck a harmony rather than a
tension. All of this speaks of a people in tune with nature and themselves, not
to mention in touch with the timeless cycles of life and fertility.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ruled over by a young queen, the Naboo
people reflect back to the matriarchal societies of our own culture, when the
female was the primary image of the divine. In </span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">World Mythology<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">, Donna Rosenburg writes of this time in our
prehistory: "The queen personified the Great Goddess, and she wielded
great political, economic, social, and religious power. Other women were
considered daughters of the Great Goddess. Thus, all women in the matriarchal
society were highly valued, and many of them held important positions." As
we shall see by the time of Darth Vader and the patriarchal Empire, the
situation will have completely reversed itself. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But at the start of the saga, Naboo shines
bright, as does her queen. Her planet itself named after Nabu, the Babylonian
god of wisdom, Amidala brings with her shades of the female deities who were
once imagined to rule that part of the world. Inanna, the great goddess of
Sumeria, was sometimes known as "The Green One," a title also fitting
for a ruler of a planet that looks ripe and emerald-green, even from space. </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ornate costumes the shape-shifting
Amidala wears likewise evoke the divine feminine, particularly the headdresses
and hairstyles worn in her palace as well as in the Senate. </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Some figures of Astarte have two
horns emerging from her head," Anne Baring and Jules Cashford wrote,
citing another Babylonian deity in their definitive </span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Myth of the
Goddess<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">, "Linking her to Ishtar and
to Isis-Hathor in Egypt, for both wore the horned headdress." Indeed,
Queen Amidala's image would have looked in no way out of place had it been
discovered carved on a bronze seal, or chiseled in a burial chamber, or cast as
a marble statue thousands of years ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a fertility goddess incarnate, Amidala
would have close ties not only to the people of the land, but to the land
itself. As Baring and Cashford explained, "The many different kinds of
trees sacred to the goddess ... invoke the courtyards of her temples, where the
tree and pillar belonged to her as long ago as Neolithic times." This
trend continues in the city of Theed, with courtyards and fountains and pillars
and sprawling vines an integral part of Naboo architecture, as well as
inexorably tied to the goddess symbolism of the ancient world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Outside the steps leading up to the Theed
palace, twin statues of figures from Naboo mythology tellingly stand. Obviously
female, they are sporting long robes as well as spears of some kind. From a
distance, they look startlingly like avatars of Athena, maybe the patron
goddesses of this capital city. Two similar statues of female deities stand
outside the massive hangar complex, perhaps to ensure safe space travel.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While peaceful, Naboo is nonetheless
blockaded by the Trade Federation, cutting it off from the larger life of the
galaxy. This is the first attack on the values of the queen and the Naboo, an
affront to what they truly stand for. In </span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Dance of the Dissident Daughter<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">, Sue Monk Kidd corroborates this,
explaining "Goddess is that which unites, connects, and affirms the
interrelatedness of all life, all people." As previously noted, the
actions of the hidden Sith and the greedy Neimodians immediately sever this
fundamental unity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Though poised and strong against the
Federation aggressors, Amidala nonetheless fails to anticipate a full scale
invasion of her planet. The moment the enormous ships land and deploy troop
transports and armored assault tanks, the entire ecosystem is disrupted.
Animals scurry for cover, foliage is bulldozed out of the way, and ancient
trees are felled. The links of connection are broken piece-by-piece until Theed
falls to the invading droid armies, and the queen is usurped from her own
planet, fleeing to Coruscant to plead with the Republic for help.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
would also like to add that, while it is so cool the quality paperback version
on Amazon seems to be selling reasonably well, a much more affordable version
is now available thanks to the Kindle –</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The first round of review copies of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Star Wars Heresies</i> book should be
making their way toward various bloggers and podcasters and the like. My own
blog seems a good place to offer even more of a taste for what the text actually
reads like, so I plan on doing a little promotional campaign with excerpts from
part one over the coming months. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The book itself is divided into three parts, with
each section dedicated to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Episodes I</i>
and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">II</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">III</i> respectively. Aside from an overarching theme for each film,
chapters are based on a single character, delving into whatever themes,
symbols, and philosophies may best be dissected using them as a template. Needless
to say, Qui-Gon Jinn has proven to be a rich character all the way around, so
here is a healthy except from Chapter Two – The Master:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Playing as ambassadors to the
Chancellor of the Republic, Qui-Gon is one of ten thousand Jedi Knights
operating in the galaxy when <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The
Phantom Menace</span> begins. Sent to negotiate with the Trade Federation
blockading Naboo, he and his padawan learner, one Obi-Wan Kenobi, find
themselves embroiled in the middle of a full-scale invasion. Yet before
lightsabers are ignited against the Federation's battle droids, the two Jedi
engage in a bit of philosophy on the enormous control ship, opening up a
pivotal window into their relationship.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Acknowledging his padawan's
existential unease about the situation, Qui-Gon calmly advises, "Don't
center on your anxiety, Obi-Wan. Keep your concentration here and now, where it
belongs." This not only begins to highlight the sense of discord between
Qui-Gon and a Jedi Order either mired in the past or gazing towards an
uncertain future, it also firmly establishes a certain view of the galaxy. </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Qui-Gon's mind is not one that
anxiously gnaws at the hours, grasping at time in a futile attempt to control
its flow. His enormous sense of presence throughout the film is symptomatic of
one able to settle into the moment and be content. In “<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The</span> <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Lost Dimension of
Religion</span>,” Paul Tillich outlines the importance of this approach. </span></i></span></div>
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depth without stopping and becoming aware of himself," the Protestant
theologian writes, reflecting, "Only if he has moments in which he does
not care about what comes next can he experience the meaning of this moment
here and now and ask himself about the meaning of his life."</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet Obi-Wan takes the Jedi
Council's tagline, arguing for Yoda's insistence on looking to the future.
"But not at the expense of the moment," Qui-Gon evenly replies.
"Be mindful of the Living Force, my young padawan." After all,
contemplation of the future is itself an event in the present, this moment really
containing all the others. Hence William Blake’s phrase, “Eternity opens from
the centre of an atom.” </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mindfulness of the Living
Force is another phrase of deep significance, as it conjures up insights with
Buddhist-flavored associations. While "mindfulness" is slowly
becoming something of a catchphrase, its original meaning encompassed far more
than simply paying attention. </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The twelfth century founder of
Soto Zen, Dogen wrote an enormous book known as <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Shobogenzo</span>. In it, he defined mindfulness as an attribute of
everything. From this point of view, Qui-Gon isn't simply talking
person-to-person. Like the Force itself, mindfulness flows through everything,
binding it together, including Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, the droids on the ship, the
ship itself, and even the surrounding stars and space.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, aside from
intuition and the present moment, the Living Force also involves empathy with
all living creatures. After evading the battle droids, Qui-Gon and his
apprentice stow aboard Federation landing ships and wind up on the beautiful
green world of Naboo, where many such creatures live. Unfortunately for some
fans, this includes a duck-billed creature that bumbles a lot and speaks in a
high-pitched form of galactic pig-latin. </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After inadvertently saving his
life, Qui-Gon finds himself entangled with a Gungan named Jar Jar Binks. While
initially wondering whether the babbling alien amphibian is
"brainless," he soon feels out a current of possibility winding
through the Force. Convinced he needs to make contact with the Republic
Chancellor, Qui-Gon convinces Jar Jar to take them to his hidden underwater
city. This begins a trend where the master sees potential in a moment where
others only see "pathetic lifeforms." </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the wondrous bubble-city of Otoh Gunga,
Qui-Gon gains council with Boss Nass, the big, boisterous Gungan leader. After
appealing for help to warn the Naboo, he meets resistance and, only after a
Force-inspired wave of the hand does he win a transport, not to mention a
dubious navigator through the planet's core. The luckless, banished Jar Jar is
set to be executed, but Qui-Gon gets a mischievous twinkle in his eye and saves
his life a second time. </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The passage through Naboo's
watery core not only showcases some stunning CGI sea creatures, it also speaks
volumes about the Jedi master.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Constantly exuding a Zen-like
calm, Qui-Gon sits in the back of the bongo transport which his apprentice
deftly maneuvers. No matter whether it's an opee sea killer or a giant colo
claw fish anxious to devour them, he keeps his cool, which is humorously
juxtaposed against Jar Jar's growing hysteria. Even lost or in a sinking ship
with no power, Qui-Gon's simple answer is, "Just relax. The Force will
guide us." This establishes another trend. </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As mentioned in the chapter on
the Force, in one of Alan Watts' countless lectures on Zen, he remarked how the
"universe is like water." Letting go of his own fears and desires,
Qui-Gon floats through the galaxy with ease, open and alert to whatever and
wherever the Force wills. This continues when, even on the backwater planet of
Tatooine with no money and no power supply for their ship, he meets the
situation with measured calm, always assured that "another solution will
present itself." </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it always does.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Moving without effort in the
invisible currents of the Force, Qui-Gon always seems to arrive where he needs
to be when he needs to be there. Sometimes even the galaxy around him gives the
appropriate nudge to the journey, as when the sando aqua monster rises from the
depths of Naboo and twice devours the sea creatures attacking them. This also
yields one of the most prophetic lines in the film.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gazing out the back of the
transport, Qui-Gon knowingly, and wryly, observes, "There's always a
bigger fish."</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">As I note early in the chapter, “The unbound patterns
of the Force are what he sees and follows, navigating them as skillfully as a
mariner does the tides.” And if you want to read more, it just so happens there’s
a link –</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><a href="http://www.mcfarlandbooks.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-7181-2">
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<span style="color: cyan;"><a href="http://www.mcfarlandbooks.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-7181-2"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Star Wars Heresies: Exploring the Themes,Symbols, and Philosophies of Episode I, II, and III</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">An
epic two years in the making, <a href="http://www.mcfarlandbooks.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-7181-2"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Star Wars Heresies: Interpreting the Themes, Symbols, and Philosophies of EpisodesI, II, and III</i></a> is available for your reading enjoyment. My copies arrived
in the mail a day or so ago, and they are very, very handsome books. They even
have my name on them and everything, which is pretty nifty. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Not
only are they aesthetically pleasing, but the content is pretty terrific as
well. It’s full of chapters and paragraphs, not to mention words and sentences.
Plus I feel fairly confident it will be changing the way you view the prequels,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i>, and perhaps even some of
life in general. After perusing the first part, it seems to me the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Heresies</i> will be setting the gold
standard for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> criticism for
some time to come. As it says right there on the back cover, “In the classic
style of Joseph Campbell,” and honestly, I don’t think it disappoints. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">My
only reason for writing this was that I felt I could truly provide a fresh,
unique perspective on what has been a substantial part of popular culture over
the past decade or so. As maligned as they are, the prequels simply aren’t
going away. So for anyone ready to step past the bored, tired, exhausting, and
exhausted “Lucas ruined my childhood” victimization of that lowest of all
common denominators criticism, namely the Internet, this is something new and
dynamic and substantial. This is the thinking fan’s kind of criticism, one that
offers a first bold step into an infinitely larger world. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">But
perhaps it’s best to let the book finally speak for itself, so here’s an
offering from my draft of the preface – <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No matter how often or enthusiastically a
global audience embraces </span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Star Wars<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">, there is
a substantial contingent of people who believe there is very little profundity
to be found beyond all the special effects and computer-generated imagery. Some
of them even count themselves among fandom. The classic films may have
contained a mythic footnote here and a tidbit from Eastern philosophy there,
but certainly nothing worthy of scholarly study. And absolutely, positively nothing
when it comes to the prequels and beyond, where many have argued Lucas has lost
his filmmaking abilities and is only trying to cash in on his long ago glory
days.</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Indeed, for all the critics, bashers, and
second-guessers who have spent a decade or more congratulating each other on
their complete and utter inability to ferret anything of substance or depth out
of the prequel trilogy, a book revealing all the themes, motifs, symbols, and
philosophies contained within it is probably one of the blackest heresies
imaginable … </span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While understandably reticent regarding
his own press, George Lucas made a telling statement during an interview
recorded by the </span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Star
Wars Insider<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> magazine regarding the
release of </i>Episode I: The Phantom Menace<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.
“If criticism were the kind of analysis it was meant to be in the first place –
as it is in other arts, where you have literate, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>sophisticated
people, who are knowledgeable – then it would be worthwhile to listen to it,”
he remarked, adding to the critics, “To have them rant and rave about their
personal feelings is a waste of my time.” I find this really intriguing for a
couple of reasons.</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To begin with, Lucas himself very clearly
delineates between two types of criticism. The first is scholarly, studied, and
refined; the latter is mostly personal opinion and knee jerk reaction. More
often than not, </span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Star
Wars<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> has been subjected to the latter –
especially the prequels – while Lucas tellingly identifies the former as the
most important. As we will see, this is where </i>Star Wars<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> really lives and breathes.</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For another, the format of the films
practically demands scholarly interpretation. As much as </span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Star Wars<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> was influenced by the matinee serials and
space opera comic strips that Lucas devoured as a child, it is also heavily
based on mythology, owing a particular debt to the works of one scholar.</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This connection has been documented to the
point of cliché, so much so that it is difficult to read an article or
editorial about that galaxy far, far away without said connection being pointed
out. If the journalist or reporter <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">in
question has done any homework whatsoever, he may toss the name “Joseph
Campbell” around. If he is even more well-versed on the subject, he might even
mention the “Hero’s Journey,” Campbell’s oft-quoted phrase that refers to the
sequence of events the archetypal characters of myth eternally enact.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While all these connections
are accurate, it’s rare that they are ever pushed any further, or that their
implications are deeply explored. Everyone has heard a thousand times how
George Lucas created </span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Star Wars<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> to
fill the void left by the absence of modern myth. Everyone likewise knows he
consulted the classic book by famed mythologist Joseph Campbell, </i>The Hero
With a Thousand Faces<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">. Those paying
closer attention realize that Campbell and Lucas enjoyed their own master and
padawan relationship, with Bill Moyers’ hit PBS series </i>The Power of Myth<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> even being filmed at Skywalker Ranch.</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still, Joseph Campbell’s work
in comparative mythology encompassed far more than tracing the similar threads
that mythic heroes followed. Its implications for how we view Star Wars are
likewise far more reaching than simply drawing comparisons between the
Skywalkers and various characters out of Greek or Arthurian legend. Perhaps
Campbell’s finest contribution to the understanding of myth and religion was
his insight that such things were poetry, not prose, and should be read
accordingly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Campbell felt that to
interpret the epic stories of East and West alike as ancient newspaper reports
chronicling long ago events was to miss the point entirely. Throughout </span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Power of Myth<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> series, he led
the conversation back again and again to the idea that the fantastic language
of myth is the language of poetry, a language evoking inner dramas and
mysteries rather than outlining outer realities and history. For Campbell, myth
was almost synonymous with metaphor, a vocabulary of symbols and images
pointing to a living experience perpetually playing out in the collective
unconscious of every human mind.</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When </span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Star Wars<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> is read as poetry rather
than prose, the saga has a remarkable tendency to open up into something far
richer and more profound than usual. One of the classic examples I like to use
is the scene from </i>Episode II: Attack of the Clones<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> when Anakin Skywalker is searching for his mother who has been
captured by Tusken Raiders on Tatooine, and he is framed on the side of a cliff
overlooking their encampment. Crouching against the backdrop of a night sky
filled with stars, he suddenly dives down to the desert below, his black cloak
billowing in the wind. Moments later he will be consumed by the dark side, as
his mother dies in his arms and he slaughters the Tusken Raiders in a blind
rage.</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The poetic imagery is ripe for
anyone familiar with the Western tradition. In one brief scene, Lucas shows us
Anakin – potentially the Jedi Knight who will shine the brightest –<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>literally and figuratively falling out of
heaven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Entire dimensions of new
meaning can be teased out of </span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Star Wars<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> by reading it like this, by taking this “first
step into a larger world,” as Obi-Wan Kenobi said in </i>Episode IV:<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> A New Hope. This isn’t as revolutionary as
it might seem. As Campbell pointed out, poetry is a language that has to be
“penetrated,” because it offers “implications and suggestions that go past the
words themselves.” A competent poet uses his verse to echo beyond itself, doing
in words what a painter does when he uses a vanishing point to give the
illusion of three dimensions on what is really a flat surface.</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Too many critics dismiss </span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Star Wars<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> without taking this step,
and so never come to terms with everything the saga has to offer. This is
equally true of a lot of things in the Western cultural canon, particularly
poetry. Despite modern resistance to verse, however, it really is the language
humanity has been speaking since the dawn of civilization.</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Myth has almost always been
expressed in poetry, dating back to </span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Gilgamesh<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">, the Mesopotamian epic credited as the
world’s first story. When Homer told the story of the Trojan War and its
aftermath, poetry was his vehicle of choice, and that’s true of his imitator
Virgil as well when he spun his tale of Rome’s founding. Our own English tongue
produced its original </i>Beowulf<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> in the
verse of an unknown bard. This is to say nothing of Dante and Milton who, like
Lucas, told their own myths of love and war, fall and redemption.</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Regardless of criticisms of
Lucas’ writing, it seems only logical that if </span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Star Wars<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> is going to be regarded
as modern myth, which everyone seems eager to do, it’s only half a step away
from being regarded as poetry. This isn’t therefore a book arguing about the
prequels’ execution, as much as their intent and style.</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It seems relevant to point out
that Lucas himself identified with this kind of analysis on a great DVD
documentary. While in preproduction for </span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Phantom Menace<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> at Skywalker Ranch, he informed his film
crew that young Anakin’s destruction of the Trade Federation ship is
purposefully juxtaposed with his son Luke’s direct hit on the Death Star. “It’s
like poetry, they rhyme,” Lucas explains, saying of the films that “every
stanza kind of rhymes with the last one.” This nicely demonstrates that the
archetypal beats and mythic rhythms of Star Wars are intentional, particularly
the parallel images that mirror what has or will happen between one trilogy and
the next.</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In </span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Two Hands of God<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">, philosopher
Alan Watts offers one of the best interpretations of myth that I’ve ever heard:
“The point is, I think, that myth is to be distinguished from religion,
science, and philosophy because it consists always of concrete images,
appealing to imagination, and serving in one way or another to reveal or
explain the mysteries of life. Yet there is a sense in which both the poetic
and the mythic image at once reveal and conceal. The meaning is divined rather
than defined, implicit rather than explicit, suggested rather than stated.”</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To again put this into a </span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Star Wars<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> context, its like when
Obi-Wan tells Luke about his father’s fate in </i>A New Hope<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">. When he remarks that Vader “betrayed and
murdered” his father, he was of course speaking poetically. During the
conversation on Dagobah in </i>Episode VI: Return of the Jedi<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">, he makes the metaphor explicit by
admitting that when Anakin adopted the mantle of Darth Vader, the good man who
was Anakin was “destroyed.” The literal-minded Luke clearly didn’t get the memo
that he was in an epic poem, hence the shock of the “I am your father”
proclamation.</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other words, </span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Star Wars<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> really calls for a
certain creative interaction, an imaginative interpretation, with and from its
audience. This book is meant to establish that foundation as something both
relevant and fascinating. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In short, this is hopefully going to change the way we
view a lot of things, polishing off that familiar lens through which we see the
world and making it feel new and vibrant again. Yes, I know what you’re
thinking. Being published by an academic press, my tome is rather expensive.
But the more I mull it over, the more I realize it’s not really that bad. $40
will get two people as far as dinner and a movie in the real world, and this is
a lot more to digest. Unless of course you go to a value cinema, in which case
you may get off a bit cheaper, but then you’re going to wind up with lousy
concession stand food and probably exceptionally sticky floors. My point is,
just check out my book anyway. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I can personally vouch for McFarland. Not only do
they produce first rate looking books, I also had the pleasure of meeting with
them at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dragoncon</i> last weekend. While
a simple man working in a library, Jocasta Nu-style, I still managed to drop
almost $200 at their booth. Their work is, quite simply, fantastic. This is
everything pop culture should be and more. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It would please me to think the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Heresies</i> continues this tradition. </span></span></div>
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<![endif]--><span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Just a quick update on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Star Wars Heresies</i>, that little book of revolutionary academic
criticism that has a bit to say on the themes, symbols, and philosophies of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Episodes I</i>-<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">III</i>. Contrary to Amazon, it will not be out this month, but before
anyone goes all dark side or starts ripping people’s arms out of their sockets,
things are very much underway. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The book is almost finished. The publishers have sent me
the proofs and I am getting very acquainted with adobe reader. After having
been away from it for so long, it is quite a little thrill to see how much of
the text is perfectly intact. I’m still proofing part one, but the editing thus
far looks to be brilliant. The tone and style and pretentious verbiage are all
very much intact, not to mention even some of my wittier asides in the
endnotes. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If only I didn’t have to do the bloody index, the Force
would be flowing quite nicely. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Not to mention it’s far too late to update bits
of the preface, which is a little out of date thanks to that whole Disney
takeover. Part of the afterword will seem a little incongruous now also, but oh
well. The content, I have to say, is gonna be great. I just can’t believe I
mailed in the book at Kinkos on Saturday back in October, and then Lucasfilm
was bought and the world turned upside down three days later. The Force does
work in mysterious ways. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">While there is not an official release date - Amazon be
damned - the final proofs should be going to print about halfway through
August. I have a lot of stuff to work through, but as long as my eyes don’t
melt from staring at this computer too long, it should be okay. The sad part is
I was really and truly going to do a post for this blog today, but then the
publishing sandstorm hit, Tatooine-style.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It also seems relevant to note that McFarland and Co. are
compiling a list of relevant reviewers and such to fire off copies to, with
some input from me. I’m not sure how many copies we’re dealing with here, but
if anyone has a blog or website or podcast of note to promote this thing on,
feel free to let me know. I will need mailing info shortly. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">P.S. For those interested in such things, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Heresies</i> now has an ISBN! 978-0-7864-7181-2,
to be exact. While I don’t feel like I could take on the whole Empire myself, I
am a little proud. </span></span></div>
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first off, apologies to all my readers in the Ukraine. Once my fifth most
popular country, they’ve currently dropped out of my top ten altogether. And
yes, sorry to the rest of the Internet too. That was a long draught of content
for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Star Wars Heresies</i>.</span></span></div>
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were reasons, however. For one, I’ve spent a couple of weeks working on an
essay focused on the last arc of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Clone Wars</i>. And honestly, not really getting much of anywhere with it. I took
ten pages of notes on the episodes, which was apparently way too much. </span></span></div>
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another, I realize there really is a where-do-we-go-from-here vibe that is
permeating the saga we all know and love. Literally two or three days after I
submitted my book, Disney purchased Lucasfilm, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Episodes VII</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">VIII</i>, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">IX </i>were announced, and the world
promptly turned upside down and inside out. Since then one project after
another has been shelved or cancelled, the most visible and painful one being <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Clone Wars </i>series.</span></span></div>
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I’ve noted before, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> that
I’ve known and loved for thirty-plus years really is over. It’s under new
management with constant change and upheaval and it’s really difficult to get
one’s bearings (if you read me on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Facebook</i>
you know the exact same has been true for my life in general). And while I’m
not even remotely spouting doom and gloom about the always-in-motion future,
this simply isn’t the franchise and fandom that I’ve been writing about and
participating in for over a decade. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">That,
dear readers, really is something of an issue. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">While
incredibly familiar with George Lucas’ <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star
Wars</i> and comfortable with discussing it at great length and detail, I’m not
as sure-footed about the new world we’re all in the process of transitioning
into. Once the beating heart of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Wars</i>
was always beating under the flannel shirt of Lucas, and that’s not true
anymore. J.J. Abrams’ <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> may
be inspired, and Disney’s may be great too, but I don’t know what they’re about
yet. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Abrams
is an obvious choice, though I do have to agree with some that he may have been
a little too obvious. After all, it’s not like <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">anything</i> about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A New Hope</i>
was obvious those many, many years ago. I did enjoy both of his versions of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Trek</i>, but honestly I got the most
out of him from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Super 8</i>. Not only did
he do solid work with an ensemble, but that film really had a heart and soul.
Much like Lucas has always done with his movies, clearly Abrams wasn’t shy
about investing a lot of his own self into that one. </span></span></div>
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a directorial point of view, it will be interesting to see what he does with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Episode VII</i>. Obviously he will have to curb
some of his more kinetic and favored camera work, and everyone has heard the
lens flare jokes since he was announced as the director. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> already has such a well-established pictorial style that
directors are going to have to be very careful to remain faithful and true to
that tested template. </span></span></div>
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perhaps even more than that – and this definitely goes for the writers also –
there is that ever-elusive “soul” of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star
Wars</i> that is somehow going to have to be maintained. This kind of thing is
indescribable, it just comes over you when John William strikes a chord or two
or someone activates a lightsaber for the first time or a narrative text in
yellow font floats upon into the vast reaches of space. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Abrams’
esteem for the original trilogy is well noted. I seem to remember him even
saying he was more comfortable working in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Trek </i>franchise than in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Wars</i>
because he didn’t feel inundated with the “sacredness” of everything that had
come before. Of course, it has been argued that while it is the role of the
artist to reveal the sacred with one hand, it’s also their job to slap it away
with the other. </span></span></div>
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is something that Lucas himself has never been afraid of doing. I mean
honestly, look no farther than <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Phantom Menace</i>. If one hates the execution, one simply hates the execution,
but that film took the franchise in some bold directions, not only with epic
lightsaber duels and podraces, but also with subversive villains and galactic
politics. In short, it just wasn’t a rehash of the original. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Of
course, much the same could be said for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Empire Strikes Back</i>. Turning one of the most hated villains in movie
history into the hero’s father may be cliché now, but in 1980 it was very
daring and unprecedented. The unfolding history of the saga has always been
about broadening, reframing, and redefining everything that came before. It’s
not just about retelling the same story in the same way. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">While
Abrams’ esteem for the original trilogy is admirable, not only has tons of
content been generated since, but for me it would be a mistake to try and
recapture that lightning-in-a-bottle feel of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A New Hope</i>. For one, it’s never going to happen, at least not for
the two or three generations now raised on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star
Wars</i>. And two, everything has significantly progressed since then.
Countless episodes of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Clone Wars</i>
demonstrate that, and that was an animated series. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Almost
everything about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A New Hope</i> was revolutionary.
The universe itself was the game changer. The moment the Star Destroyer
thundered overhead chasing the Rebel Blockade Runner, it was unlike anything
anyone had ever seen. On the other hand, as some of the more persnickety
critics have noted, its beautiful simplicity really bordered on the simplistic
at times. The princess was in all white, the bad guy was in all black, and with
tons of whiz bang and gun fights, it revolved around a
we-have-to-blow-them-up-before-they-blow-us-up plotline. </span></span></div>
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was its genius, but <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Empire Strikes
Back</i> was a huge step up from that, a trend which - for my money - continued
with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Return of the Jedi</i>. The arc went
from not only blowing evil up from the outside, but journeying into that heart
of darkness and redeeming it from within. And okay, the second Death Star had
to be blown up too, but the point still stands. Not unlike Luke Skywalker in
that deleted scene building his lightsaber on Tatooine and bringing
illumination into the darkness, so did he with the dark side itself. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">This
can also be viewed through the character of Yoda. For the first generation,
that diminutive Jedi Master hobbling around Dagobah spouting aphorisms at the
snap-hiss of a lightsaber will never, ever be surpassed. True, the execution was
brilliant and undeniably magical, but he was also something of a caricature.
Honestly, all of what he said could just as easily have been gleaned from any
of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Complete Idiot’s Guides</i> to
Eastern philosophy on the bookshelves at your local <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Barnes and Noble</i>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">While
the depiction of institutionalized religion like in the prequels may not be as
inherently satisfying as the individual hero’s vision quest in the originals
(gotta do a blog post on that one), it also provided very nice texture to a
borderline one-dimensional character. To see the same little green sage who
tells Luke “A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack”
in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Empire Strikes Back</i> leading
legions of proto-stormtroopers into war in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Attack
of the Clones</i> should have made us rethink everything. Knowing that Yoda
started off in an ivory tower on Coruscant only to fall all the way to a mud
hole on Dagobah by the time Luke arrived there gives him an infinitely richer character
arc. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">If
there had been such a feeling of “sacredness” with the prequels this sort of
thing would have been impossible. What came after was not above completely
subverting what came before, which of course was the point. If the next trilogy
is simply an attempt to recapture some mystical, mythical magic from
thirty-something years ago, there’s not much of a point, because we already
have said magic. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">My
take on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> is different from a
lot of people’s. Hence the “heresy” part of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Star Wars Heresies</i>. There is a philosophical trajectory to be mapped out in
the sequel trilogy, and it would be really disappointing if it wasn’t followed
through to its logical conclusion. If a
shoot-Greedo-first-ask-big-mythic-questions-later mentality pervades just to
satisfy groups of thirty and forty-something fanboys, the potential of this new
trilogy could be derailed pretty effectively. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">This
trajectory, as noted before, is quite simply the progression of the Jedi Order
from a religion of law, Old Testament-style, to a religion of love, New
Testament-style. The former we saw in the prequel trilogy with its emphasis on
non-attachment and dogma, the later flowering in the original one with Luke’s
love and compassion for his father Anakin. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">On
a side note, to me a brilliant philosophical discussion with Luke and Qui-Gon
Jinn’s shade from the other side is absolutely essential, those two being the
bookends of the saga who had a deeper understanding into the mysteries of the
Force than anyone. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">And
oh yeah, I’m also concerned about what the new villains are going to be.
Following in the footsteps of Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader is problematic
at best. The Sith as antagonists are apparently out of the running, and those
are big shoes to fill.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">While
some have endlessly bemoaned the fact, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star
Wars</i> as a creative entity has always been so unique in that it is largely
the artistic expression of one person, namely George Lucas. This certainly
isn’t to deny the endless contributions of everyone else, but the paradigm has
definitely shifted as of last year. Unlike with Gene Roddenberry and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Trek, </i>Lucas was unparalleled in his
near complete control of his creation, and I for one will miss his unique
understanding and input into that galaxy far, far away. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Yes,
the Maker is thankfully still alive, having just enjoyed a birthday and a wedding.
And true, he is providing story treatments and is onboard as a creative
consultant. But it’s not going to be the same. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">And
thanks to an interview on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rebel Force
Radio </i>months ago, the long debated argument over how many films were
originally planned reached something of a conclusion. Apparently there were
going to be nine episodes, but that was before <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Return of the Jedi</i>. One of the marketing people on the first two
films revealed <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Episode VI</i> was
originally going to center around Boba Fett, and presumably saving Han Solo
from Jabba the Hutt. The last half of it was actually going to constitute <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Episodes VII-IX</i>, with a protracted
confrontation between Luke and Vader, with the Emperor egging them on.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">So
this does cause me some confusion over what these films are finally going to
be. The Expanded Universe material will apparently have little, if any,
influence on what is to come. Lucas’ true role in all this probably won’t be
known for some time and, as for Kathleen Kennedy, she could be hiding in a cave
in Afghanistan at this point. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Still,
the thought of Mark Hamill sporting Jedi robes and perhaps a beard, Harrison
Ford strapping on his blaster and sitting down in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Millennium Falcon</i>’s cockpit, and Carrie Fisher doing, well,
whatever it is she’s going to do, does push a lot of fanboy buttons. And in all
the right ways. It’s hard not to get excited about the promise of just seeing
the Big Three back on screen – although some have argued for the Big Four, not
to slight Chewbacca. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">For
me personally, the subtext of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i>
has become almost as important as the text, so I’ll be anxiously waiting to see
where this new era takes us. It’s funny, but part of the litmus test for me
concerning whether a movie is really good or not is based on if I can write an
essay about it afterwards. Thus far with the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Wars</i>, I’ve been able to type up entire books. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">So
the big question for me is, provided I eventually do a follow-up one on the
original trilogy, will the sequel trilogy provide enough mythic and
philosophical fodder for the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars
Heresies </i>to continue?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">P.S.
And yeah, I will finish that Ahsoka essay eventually. My book index is also
looming over me, so just bear with your humble Jedi blog master.</span></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Attack of the Clones</i> in 2002, we all
heard Yoda utter the fateful words, “Begun, the Clone Wars have.” And now in
2013, with a press release so incoherent it makes Yoda’s grammar twisting habits
sound clear, endeth, the Cone Wars have. Not with the Battle of Coruscant or even
Order 66, but rather as part of the hallowed “new direction” that Disney is
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a lot of the show’s fans, it is very difficult not to be heartbroken. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Clone Wars</i> series has not only
offered up five years of groundbreaking animation, complex storylines, soulful
characters, and opened up an amazing window into some of the most epic and
mythic events in that long ago, far away galaxy, it has become the beating
heart of the franchise. After seeing the theatrically released film in 2008, my
own interest and passion for the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Wars</i>
was once again rekindled after <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Revenge of
the Sith</i>.</span></span></div>
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think about where the saga would be without <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Clone Wars</i>. For one thing, the blog you’re reading right now probably
wouldn’t exist. After <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Episode III</i>, it
really did seem that the bright fire reignited by the special editions and the
prequels was going to be extinguished, with nothing left to fill the void but
the occasional novel, game, or comic book. More dark times were building on the
horizon.</span></span></div>
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then came Dave Filoni, who won the position of supervising director of the
show. Arguably, he took the entire saga to previously unseen heights. Without a
doubt, the man bled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i>. He was
not only bristling with energy and supremely talented, he was one of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">us</i>, even cosplaying as Plo Koon at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars Celebration II</i>. Whatever
doubts the fanbase may have harbored, he soon won almost everyone over with his
enthusiasm, knowledge, and sheer love for all things Jedi. </span></span></div>
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ushered in a new era for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i>.
To anyone listening to podcasts or reading blogs over the past few years, the
talent of the cast and crew of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Clone
Wars</i> has<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>only been surpassed by
their accessibility and openness to the fans. Ashley Eckstein, James Arnold
Taylor, Catherine Tabor, Matt Lanter, Tom Kane, Corey Burton, Dee Bradley
Baker, Sam Witwer, and all the rest, have been as wonderful and inclusive to us
as anyone could have ever expected them to be. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Whether
it be James Arnold Taylor co-hosting the Christmas episode of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Forcecast</i>, or Ashley Eckstein launching
another branch of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Her Universe</i>, or
Stephen Stanton interacting with fans on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Facebook</i>,
or Sam Witwer waxing philosophical about the dark side, or any of them at
conventions or celebrations, they have so given of themselves that it’s been
incredible. Their passion and commitment to the show was evident and audible in
every interview given and every event attended. </span></span></div>
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in the original trilogy era nor in the prequel era have fans ever been so
fortunate when it comes to scoring time with the cast and crew of a current <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> project. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It’s
meant the world to this fan, going a long way toward making our fandom a proud
and positive place to be again. They’ve given us more hours of content than
anyone thus far and, had it been this way when I was a little kid, I don’t know
that my heart could have taken all the excitement. </span></span></div>
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as we know, all things come to an end. Otherwise the Jedi ideal of
non-attachment wouldn’t make much sense. While fear of loss may be the path to
the dark side, it is difficult not to feel some anger and resentment at the
sudden news that the show will not be on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cartoon
Network</i> this fall, nor even on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Disney
XD</i>. It is really sad and disheartening that the team who has given <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> not only a voice but a heart
and soul for years will now be going off to do other projects. </span></span></div>
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become part of the family.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">On
a side note, I don’t get the sudden about-face of many of the fans. Quite a few
of them gave Jimmy Mac of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rebel Force
Radio</i> a lot of crap for even suggesting that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Clone Wars</i> might be coming to an end. Then when it did, some
seem to be operating in a state of cognitive dissonance that it actually didn’t
happened. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Bizarre,
to say the least. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Also,
this whole the-show-was-going-to-end-eventually-anyhow shrug of the shoulders
doesn’t work for me. Yes, the show wasn’t going to run indefinitely. No denying
that. And newsflash, none of your lives are going to run indefinitely, either.
But that doesn’t mean Disney execs should march over to your house and shoot
you this afternoon! Come on, guys.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Frankly,
this tragedy reaches almost Darth Plageuis levels when one takes into account
the fact that season six is basically complete, with episodes from seasons
seven and eight also under production. No one knows when or where or really
even if this content will be shown or made available. There was an excellent
clip shown of an early Order 66 episode that is extremely tantalizing on the
infamous Filoni Hostage Video. Disney’s labeling of the rest of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Clone Wars</i> as “bonus content” is
baffling, to say the least. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Not
even taking into account the more emotional reality of countless sad little
girls in Ahsoka hoodies, this is a very, very inauspicious start to Disney’s
ownership of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> franchise.
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
constant line we’ve been fed to explain all this is that the company is taking
things in a New Direction. Well, okay. New directions can be fresh and exciting
and invigorating, and can yield dynamic and unexpected results. But that
doesn’t mean in the middle of a full-on race you suddenly veer off track and
head over to start another one across town. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Since
Disney’s initial purchase of Lucasfilm, the simple fact of the matter is that
every project lined up for this year and the years to come has been either
cancelled or indefinitely postponed. Every tantalizing teaser we saw at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars Celebration VI</i> has been
mothballed or shut down. First it was the 3D re-releases. Then it was the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">1313</i> game. Then it was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Detours</i>. But the real slap to the face
was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Clone Wars</i>, a show blossoming
into some of the best mythic storytelling ever seen on television.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Unless
I’ve misunderstood, the deal was we were getting <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">more</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars </i>now that
Disney is in control, not less. After the initial round of announcements back
in October, however, it’s pretty much been all downhill. </span></span></div>
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like Anakin and the Jedi Order, my confidence in Disney has been severely
shaken. At the very least this shows our new corporate overlords do not
understand the fanbase, nor could they care less about it. </span></span></div>
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much venom has been spewed at George Lucas during his thirty plus year reign of
Lucasfilm. This goes to show what good hands the company has actually been in
all this time. It seems to me that art and innovation were always prized at
Lucasfilm, far and above profit and politics. Lucas loved this show, being
personally invested in the story and the characters. It never would have been
cancelled or treated so shoddily when he was in charge.</span></span></div>
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difficult to know what to think about his role in all this. It’s amazing to me
that Lucas didn’t have some kind of contingency plan for the show. Speculation
now leads me to think maybe he doesn’t have as much input as we assumed he
would. Maybe the Lucas really is gone from Lucasfilm (Is he feeling a little
like Lando “This deal is getting worse all the time” Calrissian right about now?).</span></span></div>
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heaven only knows where Kathleen Kennedy is during all this. A reassuring message
to the fans would not be amiss here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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was hoped, or at least assumed, when the acquisition came that Disney would be
creatively hands off with the property. They absorbed Lucasfilm because it <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">was</i> Lucasfilm, not simply to turn it
into a vestigial appendage of their own company. Thus far, that hasn’t been the
case. </span></span></div>
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Considering <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Clone Wars</i> was
successfully both critically and in the ratings, Disney’s stubborn refusal to
find a real home for it speaks loud and clear. The board is being cleared for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">their Star Wars</i>, for better or for
worse. Anything that came before is being given the boot, with perhaps the
exception of cameos of the original trilogy cast, but that’s probably more an
attempt to cash in on the nostalgia factor than any fan service.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Even
at the cost of alienating a generation of young fans, they simply don’t care
about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Clone Wars</i> or the talent
that helped create it week in and week out. This is all about their <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i>, their way. Maybe great things
are to come, but make no mistake, this is not the fandom and the franchise that
we’ve enjoyed since 1977. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">While
I am still hoping for the best with the sequel trilogy, a certain segment of
fandom is understandably getting really tired of hearing about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Episode VII</i> already. If they’re shutting
down production of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Clone Wars</i> to
focus on the new movie, that still doesn’t mean they can’t release what they
have, polished up or no. And where does it end? </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As
a friend of mine noted on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Facebook</i>,
is Disney going to shut down production on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Avengers</i> sequel to work on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Episode
VII</i> too? Or how about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Disney XD</i>?
Why not the theme parks while we’re at it? Just allocate <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">all </i>resources to work on the new trilogy. </span></span></div>
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Seriously Disney, we are excited about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Episode
VII</i>, but just don’t turn it into a hose to beat us with while you’re taking
away everything we love. It’s not very endearing. Telling us how wonderful the
sequel trilogy is going to be while simultaneously holding our faces in the
toilet is disingenuous, to say the least. Some of us are going to notice.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As
many of you have no doubt heard, the <a href="http://starwarsprequelappreciationsociety.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/homework-assignment-time-to-act/">future </a>of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Clone Wars</i> isn’t looking that bright - either for the Jedi, or
the fans camping out in front of their televisions every Saturday morning. </span></span>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">With
the Disney acquisition, many logically assumed the long running animated series
would move from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cartoon Network</i> to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Disney XD</i>. Sources say that is far from
a done deal, with many speculating that Disney is trying to slowly maneuver the
franchise from the prequel era into something much closer to the original
trilogy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">With
the coming of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Episode VII</i>, this does
make a certain amount of sense. Still, it doesn’t excuse the indefinite
postponement of the 3D releases, and certainly not the failure to renew <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Clone Wars</i>. After all, this show has
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">been Star Wars</i> for five years running.
I am a huge supporter of the series, and have been greatly honored to meet much
of the talent behind it. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">One
of the highlights of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Celebration</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">VI</i> last year was my friend and I passing
Dave Filoni and Joel Aaron on the sidewalk outside our hotel. While I did have
to actually be a fanboy and shake his hand later, at the time I just coolly
remarked, “Mr. Filoni, Mr. Aaron.” And Filoni didn’t say a word, just slyly
smiled and tilted his trademark hat in my direction. It was beyond epic. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
also had a great chat with James Arnold Taylor after the Closing Ceremonies. He
was exhausted from being the main host, but as polite as Obi-Wan and Plo Koon
mixed together. He actually stopped with his entourage to talk to me a few
minutes after I thanked him for a job well done, and even handed me an autographed
cereal box that he voiced the commercial for. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
same is true for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dragoncon</i>. I’ve met
the beautiful and talented Ashley Eckstein a number of times, as well as the
incomparable Tom Kane. One of the best things about all of them is the kind of amazing
ambassadors they’ve been to fandom, granting us an access to the world of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Wars</i> in a way we’ve never had. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
also couldn’t resist handing them a couple of essays, one about <a href="http://thestarwarsheresies.blogspot.com/2010/12/slower-and-less-intense.html">Ashoka</a>, and one
about <a href="http://thestarwarsheresies.blogspot.com/2011/12/how-jedi-master-makes-war.html">Yoda</a>. I’m ashamed to say Ashley asked me two <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dragoncon</i>s ago to write up an essay on the epic <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mortis</i> arc from season three, but I have
yet to do so. Shameful, I know. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">But
alas, business is at hand. While I do want to whip up a post on the season five
finale, for now, I’m going to chime in on the campaign to save the show. I
don’t want my fandom card revoked, and very reliable sources such as Jimmy Mac
of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/RebelForceRadio"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rebel Force Radio</i></a> and Bryan Young
of <a href="http://fullofsith.com/"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Full of Sith</i></a> are saying now is the
time to make our voices heard. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sigh.
Personally, I’ve never had much luck with letter writing campaigns. To this
day, I am absolutely convinced that if those clueless executives at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">FOX</i> had actually bothered to read my
five page essay to save the late great <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Terminator:
The Sarah Connor Chronicles</i>, the show would have finished its run. Still,
I’m doing what I can, and so should you. Be nice, be polite, and voice your
support for Filoni and the show. Now is the time, as Disney is cobbling
together their fall schedule as I type. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">(And
the morons have already Order 66’d <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tron
Uprising, </i>but don’t say I said that)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Personally,
I would love to have <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Clone Wars</i>
on Blu-Ray, but there are a lot of episodes finished and polished and ready to
roll, and we don’t want the kids to miss out on their Saturday morning
cartoons. And plus it might just disappear for a long time, which would be
tragic after that sublime finale. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Actually,
if I had my way, we would have a three or four part <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Clone Wars</i> arc released in the theaters every month or so, but that
isn’t going to happen.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This
isn’t that great, but this is my letter to Bob Iger, address and all –</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mr.
Bob Iger</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Disney
Studios</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">500
S. Buena Vista St.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Burbank,
CA 91521</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dear
Mr. Iger,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
would very much to congratulate you on the acquisition of Lucasfilm. After over
thirty years of enjoying <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i>,
it is very reassuring to know that the saga will live on under the Disney
banner. I know we all look forward to the stories that are yet to come,
particularly the sequel trilogy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
would also like to take this opportunity to express my support for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Clone Wars</i> animated series. For the
last five years, it has become an integral part of that galaxy far, far away.
Not only has it brought in an entirely new generation of fans, it has also
rejuvenated my own fandom. Particularly at a time when there was no new <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> on the horizon. I know
countless fans online who feel the same way.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
show has become a landmark television event. Through the superb marriage of
storytelling and brilliant visuals, it has truly found its place alongside the
very best of the saga. The characters have taken on new dimensions through the
medium of the show, as have the Clone Wars themselves. These are the stories
fans have been hungering for since we first heard those mysterious words about
being a Jedi Knight in the Clone Wars from Ben Kenobi in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A New Hope </i>all those decades ago. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
show has also become unique because of the talent that it has amassed under its
banner. Supervising Director Dave Filoni has been a brilliant spokesman for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> for years, sharing the passion
and energy that we as fans do. As a longtime member of our ranks, he has been
tremendously open and gracious to the community, as I found out when I got to
meet him at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Celebration VI</i> last year.
Actually, the entire cast and crew of the show have been tremendous, all
serving as sublime ambassadors to the fans, a tradition that I hope to see
continue. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
short, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Clone Wars</i> has been a
tremendous source of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i>,
brilliantly executed week in and week out. To fail to renew the show would be a
grave disappointment to the fans, and I want to give my support to everything
they’ve done and everything they’ve promised to do. Please allow us to see the
seasons already planned and filmed, not to mention allow the show-runners to
end things on their own terms. Otherwise it would be a terrible disservice to
not only those who have worked so hard on the show, but also to the fanbase. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Wishing
you the best of luck with all those future <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star
Wars</i> endeavors,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Paul
F. McDonald</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">P.S.
The 3D releases of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Episode II</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">III</i> would also be greatly appreciated.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“I went forth. I hid
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“They forged the
sword, the chariot of war, the battle ax,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The trumpet fitted to
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Love seeketh not
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Nor for itself hath
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And builds a Heaven
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“One command, one
joy, one desire,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">One curse, one weight,
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">One King, one God,
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Thy friendship oft
has made my heart to ake:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Do be my Enemy for
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“A Machine is not a
Man nor a Work of Art</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Is Destructive of
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">the word
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“My Spectre around me
night & day</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Like a Wild beast
guards my way</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">My emanation far
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Without contraries
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Reason and Energy,
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Pitying I wept to
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">that Love &
Beauty undergo,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">To be consumed in
burning Fires</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And in ungratified
desires,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And in tears cloth’d
Night and Day</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Melted all my soul
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Can I see a falling
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Weep, nor be with
sorrow fill’d?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Every Man is in his
Spectres Power</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Until the arrival of
that Hour</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">When his humanity
awake</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And cast his spectre
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“He who binds himself
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">He who kisses the joy
as it flies</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lives in eternity’s
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note – This one has been in my mind a long time. William Blake was the poet who
initiated English Romanticism, but he was also the first to create his own
personal, independent myths. Joseph Campbell used to call this the age of
Creative Mythology, where the stories were being crafted by the individual,
from the bottom up rather than from the top down. It all started with this visionary poet. The last post about <a href="http://thestarwarsheresies.blogspot.com/2013/02/heretic-of-year.html">Camille Paglia</a> mentioned Blake, and if you enjoyed this, you might also enjoy the <a href="http://thestarwarsheresies.blogspot.com/2011/10/saga-in-paragraph.html">Saga in a Paragraph</a>.</span></span>
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<![endif]--><span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This past year has seen the coming of many things that
have impacted the landscape which surrounds the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> saga. It has been a year ripe with heresy, one of the
biggest being Lucasfilm’s merger with Disney and, even more importantly, the
announcement of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Episodes VII, VIII, </i>and
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">However, there was one bit of news that found itself
largely buried in all the promise, pitfalls, and potentials of the
perpetually-in-motion future. It was a proclamation big and bold, one sure to
make veins pop and nostrils flare. As such, it ushered in the creation of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Star Wars Heresies</i>’ first ever
Heretic of the Year Award.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The first thing I ever read by Camille Paglia, a
University Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at the University of the
Arts in Philadelphia, was select entries from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Break, Blow, Burn</i>. This was a lucid, soulful, and spirited trek
through poetry, with fascinating insights into the relationship between words and
reality, and how one often shapes the other. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Most important to me, Paglia understood in a deep and
meaningful way the mythopoetic works of William Blake, having trained under the
watchful literary eye of Harold Bloom and others. And while that somewhat
cantankerous critic has no stomach for popular culture, she sings its praises
well when praise is called for. And as noted earlier on this blog, if one
understands the mythopoetic works of Blake, one understands that mythopoetic
long ago, far away galaxy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Released as a stunning hardcover last year, her <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Glittering Images: A Journey through Art
from Egypt to Star Wars</i> is now available in bookstores everywhere. With
aphorisms worthy of Yoda, Paglia describes in the introduction how “we must
relearn to see,” because “Looking at art requires stillness and receptivity,
which realign our senses and produce a magical tranquility.” It seems
worthwhile to point out that in R.A. Salvatore’s novelization of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Attack of the Clones</i>, he interestingly
speculates that the Force itself is a well-spring of creative inspiration, and
that art plays a central role in the meditative exercises of the Jedi. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This would no doubt please Paglia, who insists that “Art
unites the spiritual and material worlds,” not unlike the binding energy of the
Force through those wonderful little midichlorian buggers everyone loves so
much. With words that could have been spoken by a Jedi Master, she sagely
remarks how “A delicate balance must be struck between the visible and
invisible worlds” when it comes to the arts. Also like the Force, she sees art
as our way of investigating man’s relationship with nature and the universe. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Such sentiments alone are not nearly enough for Camille
Paglia to receive the coveted Heretic of the Year Award. No, it is the
culmination of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Glittering Images</i>
which merits that. In a work which honors the art of Donatello, Titian, Monet,
Picasso, Pollock, and many others, she states without hesitation or apology
that “film director and digital pioneer George Lucas is the world’s greatest
living artist.” She also argues his artistic masterpiece is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Episode III</i>, admitting “Nothing I saw in
the visual arts of the past thirty years was as daring, beautiful, and
emotionally compelling as the spectacular volcano-planet climax of Lucas’ <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Revenge of the Sith</i>.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So the greatest artist and work of art, not only in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> but in living memory, is none
other than George Lucas and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Revenge of
the Sith</i>. It’s as if a million prequel haters across the internet cried out
in terror, and were suddenly silenced. I should like to point out there is no
mention of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Empire Strikes Back</i>
anywhere in the last chapter of her book, and certainly no reference whatsoever
to Gary Kurtz, whom countless original trilogy fundamentalists no doubt believe
should have received the nod (and about whom everyone else not currently
wearing Boba Fett underoos neither knows or cares).</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Only one cultural figure had the pioneering boldness and
world impact that we associate with the early masters of avant-garde modernism,”
Paglia daringly writes, declaring, “George Lucas, an epic filmmaker who turned
dazzling new technology into an expressive personal genre.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Genuine enthusiasm of Lucas bleeds through the pages, as
she outlines the details of his life, from his birth in the small town of
Modesto, California, to the office supply store his father wanted him to take
over, to his days of drag-racing throughout high school, to the siren song of
art that stirred something within him, to his time at USC, and then to his
filmmaking career and early works such as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">THX-1138</i>
and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">American Graffiti</i>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The parallels between a first-rate academic like Paglia
and a filmmaking visionary such as Lucas are interesting and apparent
throughout much of the book. They both have very similar views on the arts and
humanities, seeing them as essential to the heartbeat of any given society at
any given time. The two also seem to share something of a cyclical view of
culture, as is often apparent among those gifted with identifying the
patterns weaving throughout life. Paglia tellingly feels that “in an age of
alluring, magical machines, a society that forgets art risks losing its soul.”
This is a sentiment that has been readily apparent in all of Lucas’ work,
dating back to his student films. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Despite the stubborn and often puzzling refusal to see <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> as anything but shallow fodder
for popcorn enthusiasts at the local multiplex, Paglia poetically argues that
something like even the space battles in the saga “must be regarded as
significant works of modern kinetic art whose ancestry is in Marcel Duchamp’s
readymades and Alexander Calder’s mobiles.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My favorite comparison comes in her analysis of the eight
minute space battle over Coruscant at the beginning of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Revenge of the Sith</i>. Paglia notes that the exhilarating space duel,
“with its dense cloud of stately destroyers, swooping starfighters, and
fiendish buzz droids, cuts optical pathways that are as graceful and abstract
as the weightless skeins in a drip painting by Jackson Pollock.” Beautiful, and
one wonders why current film critics weren’t able to draw such parallels. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s also just impressive that Paglia knows what buzz
droids are. After reading her chapter on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sith</i>,
it is very obvious that she not only understands the artistic merits of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i>, but genuinely enjoys them.
She even draws a charming parallel between the Incredible Cross-Sections
books and da Vinci’s notebooks with their common obsessive technological
detail.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Much as I’ve tried to do, Paglia <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">reads</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> as one
would an intelligent work of literature, and her experience of it is so much richer
as a result. Just as the works of Joseph Campbell endlessly explain, myth is poetry, not
prose, and only truly lives and breathes when interpreted as such. She marvels
at the “symbolic color scheme” embedded throughout the films, not to mention
the “poetically changing weather” so evident in the prequels. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Highlighting the saga’s remarkable blend of metaphysics,
environmentalism, multicultural religion, cyclic view of history, and ties to
old biblical movie spectacles, Paglia focuses her final analysis on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Revenge of the Sith</i>, particularly the
epic duel of Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker on the fiery world of
Mustafar. “Fire provides a sublime elemental poetry here, as water did on the
storm-swept planet of Kamino in the prior film, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Attack of the Clones</i>,” Paglia explains, adding, “Hell, as in
Marlowe, Milton, and Blake, is a psychological state – Anakin’s
self-destructive surrender to possessive love and jealous hate.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Blake once wrote that all of experience revolves around
opposites and contraries, which Paglia sees on full display on Mustafar, particularly
in the balletic duel of clashing lightsabers. “It is virtuosic dance theater, a
taut pas de deux between battling brothers, convulsed by attraction and
repulsion,” she artistically notes, elaborating “Their thrusts, parries, and
slashes are like passages of aggressive speech.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">She also offers full credit for the masterful bits of
editing here, particularly the juxtaposition of certain scenes in the last act
of the film, such as the birth of the Skywalker twins with the rebirth of their
twisted, dark lord father. And far from loathing computer graphics, she is able
to embrace digital technology as something like a new color, as Lucas himself
has always described it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A work like Camille Paglia’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Glittering Images</i> should certainly be owned and respected by every <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> fan, given a place of honor
among all the other books about the saga. As she remarks of George Lucas, “In
his epochal six-film <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> saga,
he fused ancient hero legends from East and West with futuristic science
fiction and created characters who have entered the dreams of millions.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This
line reminds me of one quip from Carrie Fisher at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dragoncon</i> – “Hemmingway never did that.” Too true, but so often
forgotten.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Why this should be heresy for so many is unfortunate,
particularly those who should be Lucas’ biggest fans. While not bemoaning the
merchandising of the films, Paglia does feel that “his phenomenal success as a
shrewd businessman has certainly slowed his recognition as a major artist.”
This definitely goes hand in hand with the Lucas-Stole-All-My-Money brigade
that patrols the Internet. Still, not for a moment does this ever diminish his
very real accomplishments, visible for all who have the eyes to see. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Clearly Paglia does, so deepest congratulations are in
order. Our first Heretic of the Year, accept no substitutes. She sums up Lucas
in one of the most telling statements I’ve ever read about him, one as controversial as her reputation sometimes is –</span></span></div>
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persona of genial blandness masking one of the most powerful and tenacious
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">See, there really is a book. Think of this as an early
bird post for a June 30th release. Surely Star Wars fans should be comfortable
with that concept. Having said that, this may be outside a few comfort zones.
This is a book that largely rewrites the book on the Wars, particularly the
prequels. Should be interesting when the haters get on there and saddle it with
a hundred one star reviews simply for existing. But that's why it's delightfully
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Wars in 3D is uncertain, much like Anakin Skywalker's future in The Phantom
Menace. And while that film did see an epic 3D release last year, Episodes II
and III have been indefinitely postponed, with no word on the original trilogy
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">My
mother died on January 3, 2013. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Having
always suffered from asthma, it was eventually pneumonia that settled into her
lungs and killed her. The real culprit was mental illness, which she struggled
with at least throughout my lifetime, if not the entirety of hers. She was
eventually diagnosed with schizophrenia a decade or so ago and finally
institutionalized the last few years of her life. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">There
is a lot to be said concerning schizophrenia and the dark side. The most overt
example in that long ago, far away galaxy is from the season four finale of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Clone Wars</i>, in which the Sith Lord
Darth Maul makes his anticipated return. Not only has he been physically cut in
half, but his mind has been severed as well. Show-runner Dave Filoni even
referred to his condition in one of the Blu-Ray commentaries as “schizophrenia.”
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
1911, the Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler coined the term schizophrenia, from
the Greek words “schizein” meaning “splitting,” and “phren” meaning “mind.” It is
quite literally a split mind, a psyche fragmented and dissociated from the rest
of the world. It manifests as a kind of cognitive schism, with the sufferer on
one side of the abyss, and reality lingering a fair distance away. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Which
pretty much sums up Darth Maul, ranting and raving hysterically at the bottom
of a pit, which is where his brother Savage Opress finds him. Lending voice to
the psychosis, Sam Witwer noted on the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Forcecast</i>
that this was a visible manifestation of what the Sith were all the time,
although usually hidden below the surface. Witwer referred to the dark side as
“fear and greed, and madness and despair,” which describes mental illness
adequately enough. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Maul had fallen down a hole, created a fictional
reality, and then couldn’t get out again. It usually takes on a less literal
form in real life, but the symbolism is on the mark.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As
Alan Watts once said, “the lunatic is the most isolated person in the world.”
Indeed, one of the tragedies of mental illness is the isolation caused when all
the connection and communication with the outside world is severed, with the
sufferer barricading themselves behind a wall no one can reach. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">There really
isn’t anything quite as gut wrenching than someone being alive, yet as shut out
and unreachable as though they were dead. This is what the dark side does too,
as Obi-Wan Kenobi found out on the lava drenched world of Mustafar, when he
lost an unreasoning Anakin Skywalker to the shadows of the dark.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Even
with something like depression, this preoccupation with one’s self is
overwhelming, as though no one else in the universe existed at all. This is not
unlike the obsessive selfishness of the Sith, though of course not in the way
of being morally bad and needing to be punished. This is a selfishness that
makes life a veritable hell. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The holistic way of the Jedi is selflessness, in
the sense of an open and sane communion with the rest of life, of a recognition
of that symbiont circle which binds everything together. There is no hardened
self obstructing one’s view of everyone else. The Jedi are selfless, in some
sense one with the galaxy. The Sith are selfish, in that they feel themselves
so separate and isolated and disconnected from the galaxy that their only
response is to conquer and rule it. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">While
schizophrenia is not multiple personality disorder, it is worth noting the
collective psyche of the Sith is often so shattered more than one personality
is born from it, usually sporting a “darth” in front of it. And all of them are
so selfish they refuse to die, because then they can’t cling to anything
anymore. Their refusal to yield to the natural cycle of one generation dying so
the next can be born is perhaps the most obvious form of their madness. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Joseph
Campbell once said that perhaps death is the seminal theme of mythology. Maybe
it is the most seminal theme in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i>.
Certainly the character’s differing responses to it speaks volumes about them.
Obi-Wan’s sly smile to Darth Vader in the face of it was both sagely and
eloquent, as well as Yoda’s serene acceptance on his deathbed. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As the Dalai
Lama himself likes to point out, much of religion and philosophy is simply
learning how to smile in the face of the Void. This of course lies in stark contrast
to the Sith’s greedy refusal to accept that life and death are part of a
greater whole, twin brothers along the same continuum. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ironically, modern mythologies like <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Harry Potter</i>, and the like are the only
places that death is honestly confronted in this culture. At my mother’s
funeral, this was plainly obvious. It is striking how painfully ill-equipped to
deal with death this society is – much the same can be said for mental illness,
too. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Not only was the funeral home as staged as a television studio, in one
room was my mother’s casket, while in the other people were discussing traffic
and what someone’s hair looked like as well as other banalities. Not to mention none of them were around expressing concern or support when she was alive and
desperately needed it. Just another bit of that cultural schizophrenia we’re
all indoctrinated into accepting as normal, that deep-seated belief that if we all pretend something isn't happening, then it isn't. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">While
Campbell talked of the big themes as birth and death, George Lucas told Bill
Moyers in an interview that he also liked to include our relationship with our
parents. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mine hasn’t been particularly pleasant, with even a substantial part
of the good memories fading into the ether, lost to psychosis and disconnect. I
personally gave up on my emotionally and often physically nowhere father years
ago during my mother’s institutionalization, which was actually a profoundly
positive thing to do. It is worth noting here he never even remotely understood
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">My
mother I of course lost to suffering and madness, try as I did to cope with the
situation. It occurs to me now that I’ve actually been grieving and mourning
her for years, only without hope of resolution or closure. For the longest time
I seemed to be the only member of the family who would even acknowledge what
was going on or that she needed help. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">For her part, she always did seem to
enjoy <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i>. We went to all six
movies together, particularly <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A New Hope</i>,
over and over again. She bought me a lot of action figures, and even secured an
AT-AT Walker for me when it was almost bigger than I was. Most impressive, she even read a
George Lucas biography to forge a bit of connection with me, something rather
amazing for our family.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">At
the end of it all, pretty much every <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star
</i>Wars-loving child raised in traumatic home situations all crave a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Return of the Jedi</i>-style reconciliation
with their parents, at least deep down. Who doesn’t want to crack open that
hard shell separating them from having a deep, meaningful relationship with
their mother or father? Who wouldn’t want to have their parents look at them
with their “own eyes” and finally see clarity and connection and total
understanding reflected there?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Unfortunately,
it doesn’t always happen. Sometimes the best we can do is simply throw our
lightsabers down just as Luke Skywalker did, and refuse to perpetuate the
destructive patterns we were born into. The dramas come in many destructive
forms, be they drugs or alcoholism, abuse or insanity. Some would argue madness
isn’t much of a choice, but I personally remember consciously and deliberately
making one for myself a long time ago not to go there. The highest functioning
person I’m not, but I’m also not crazy. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">So
we always learn from our parents, even if we don’t follow their path. Or perhaps
particularly if we don’t.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
Roman poet Ovid noted in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Metamorphosis</i>
that “Be sure nothing perishes in the whole universe, it does but vary and
change form.” This neatly dovetails into Yoda’s speech in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Revenge of the Sith</i>, when he proclaims there is no need to mourn or
miss those who “transform into the Force.” A little stoic perhaps, but a rather
startling thing happened to me the day after my mother was buried which faintly
echoes it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">While
standing in line at Wendys before a therapist’s appointment about all this, I
was ushered ahead by three nice, kindly-looking little old ladies. “Don’t
worry,” one told me, “We’ll pretend you’re my son.” </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Shocked, I turned around
and looked straight into her eyes. They just smiled back, sane and whole. After
telling her my mother’s funeral had been the following day, she even gave me a
warm hug. Hard to believe the will of the Force wasn’t flowing that afternoon. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">So
goodbye, mom. We both did our best. Thanks for all those viewings of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A New </i>Hope at the dollar show, they were
greatly enjoyed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sorry
you won’t get to see the next trilogy. Or who knows, maybe you will. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: cyan;">Peace.</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">So I was listening to
the <a href="http://www.oneclickaudio.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=scholar.home">ModernScholar</a> series. It's a really good idea, this lecture series where the top
professors in their field pontificate on any number of subjects. I have found,
however, that the execution is somewhat lacking. For instance, one professor,
while outlining the basics of a work of literature, used the verb tense
"hung" when he should have used "hanged." Worse still, he
also attributed a quote to Percy Shelley which actually dripped from the pen of
William Blake.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">But even worse yet, I
made a plunge into the study of<a href="http://www.oneclickaudio.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=scholar.show_course&course_id=81"> sciencefiction</a>. I thought it might have some interesting things to say about <i>Dune</i>,
which was the main topic on one of the discs. Well, quite naturally, the
professor mentioned <i>Star Wars</i> in the introduction. After rightly arguing
that it wasn't hard science fiction, he began to make erroneous comments. The
one that really sticks in my mind is that a lightsaber was simply a tool in
that galaxy far, far away, something as common as a lawnmower. Whatever. There
were also a couple of other observations which fell flat. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Of course, the
professor couldn't stop there. He remarked on the use of science in science
fiction, particularly citing midichlorians as George Lucas' attempt to ruin his
own franchise by turning the Force into some kind of blood disease or some
such. I've blocked the main quote from memory. So yes, this guy is allegedly
one of the top minds in his field, and this is what he has to say about the <i>Wars</i>.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Not that this isn't
common. The confusion that has erupted across fandom from the inclusion of
midichlorians in <i>The Phantom Menace</i> is still being felt today, outraging
everyone from this professor to Simon Pegg. The Force was ruined, they said. No
longer was it a nice, mystical energy field created all things, but pointless,
biological, microscopic organisms in the blood. How in the living hell anyone
came to this conclusion is beyond me. How anyone, even his most vocal, hateful
opponents, could literally believe George Lucas could be so achingly stupid is
hard to believe, though that is the prevailing sentiment. </span></b>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">At <i>Celebration VI</i>,
apparently Seth Green and the other creators of <i>Star Wars Detours</i> were
joking with George Lucas about the hated midis. And that was when Lucas apparently
launched into a brilliant, half hour long philosophical of explanation of them.
Word on the street has it that everyone present came out of it <i>loving</i>
midichlorians. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This only makes
sense. After all, they've been part of Lucas' notes on the saga since the
seventies. And since it's been canon since the original trilogy that Force
ability is in fact passed down through bloodlines, the notion that there is -
horror of horrors - an actual biological connection lines up perfectly. But so
many people wandered out of the theaters utterly dumbfounded in '99. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Tell you what I'm
going to do. I'm going to post a few pages from my upcoming book that center
around, clarify, and explore these little microscopic buggers. And I'll just
hope against hope that this helps quell the haters a bit. This from Chapter
Two: The Symbiosis -</span></b></div>
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symbiosis has been briefly examined on a galactic, planetary, cultural, and
character level, but it goes deeper still. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In <i>Ethics</i>, the
Dalai Lama states that when the lens of symbiosis is taken up, “We begin to see
that the universe we inhabit can be understood in terms of a living organism
where each cell works in balanced cooperation with every other cell to sustain
the whole.” For our purposes here, the Living Force is the
organism uniting the galaxy and, yes, as the Dalai Lama himself said, that
extends to the cellular level.</span></b></div>
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this is only so much common sense, yet one of the most hotly contested elements
in <i>The Phantom Menace</i> was the inclusion of midichlorians, the tiny,
microscopic organisms that allow Jedi to commune with the Force. Of course,
there seems to be an extraordinary amount of confusion regarding what
midichlorians even are. Inexplicably, many walked out of the theater believing
that the Force was no longer a mystical energy field created by all living
things, but some sort of weird blood disease. Never mind that this was never
stated, discussed, or even alluded to in the film or the script.</span></b></span></div>
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from portraying the maverick Jedi master Qui-Gon Jinn, Liam Neeson seemed to
have little trouble with the concept, though he did ask his director about
them. “He said that we all have thousands of bacteria in our systems – suppose
a particular strain had a life force that was connected to the universe? And
what if some people had a stronger strain of these bacteria than others did?”
Neeson recounted, adding, “I thought the idea was both fascinating and
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word here is “connected,” both literally and thematically. As his fictional
counterpart advises young Anakin, “Without midichlorians, life could not exist,
and we would have no knowledge of the Force. They continually speak to you,
telling you the will of the Force.”</span></b></span></div>
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clearly, the film states that without the midichlorians, we would have no
knowledge of the Force. At no point does anyone say without midichlorians, the
Force would not exist, only no one would be connected to it. Likewise, the
midichlorians “speak” to the Jedi, telling them the “will” of the Force. If the
Force and the midichlorians were the same thing, Qui-Gon would have said they
tell us their will, as in the possessive.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">At no
point are the two said to be identical or interchangeable. The midichlorians
are just the antennas that pick up the signal of the Force, as simple as that.
Yet given the amount of incomprehensibility those little guys have produced,
I’ll step aside and let the George Lucas himself explain them, and then round
out our theme.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In the
2005 <i>Vanity Fair</i> interview, he conveniently launched into nothing short
of a soliloquy on them: </span></b></span></div>
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means that between the Force, which is sort of a life force, and reality, the
connectors between these two things are what we call [midichlorians]. They’re
kind of based on mitochondria, which are a completely different species, a
different animal, that live inside every single cell and allow it to live,
allow it to reproduce, allow life to exist. They also, in their own way,
communicate with the Force itself. The more you have, the more your cells are
able to speak intuitively to the Force itself and use the powers of the
Force<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.</span></span></i></b></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1636066944923143523" name="_ednref3"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Of
course, many have vehemently objected to the Force having any connection to the
material, biological world at all. As Yoda waxed poetic in <i>The Empire
Strikes Back</i>, “Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.”
Unfortunately, our little green master seemed to have momentarily forgotten
that the Force is the offspring of the material world. Physical life is the
very root of it, the thing that causes it to grow and expand. No biological
galaxy means no luminous energy, and this has been part of <i>Star Wars</i>
canon since the beginning. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Conveniently,
there is a fabulous article in <i>Star Wars and</i> <i>Philosophy</i> that
delves into this while discussing environmental ethics. Elizabeth F. Cooke of
Creighton University cleverly shoots down the mind-body antagonism some have
seen in the saga. </span></b></span></div>
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Yoda’s oft-quoted line as only part of the picture, Cooke writes how the Living
Force “isn’t so much the ‘mind-over-matter’ picture as one of mind and matter
interacting as two parts of a whole. A Jedi padawan’s task is to become more in
touch with the physical world by being more at one with the Force – a task
achieved through both physical and mental training. A Jedi must learn to ‘feel’
the Force, rather than just think about it.”</span></b></span></div>
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also fundamentally ties in with the fact that every species with close,
harmonious ties to the physical world, like the Gungans, Wookiees, or Ewoks,
are invariably shown in a positive light. In their own way, they are as bound
up in the life force as the Jedi. As Cooke explains, “They work with nature to
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to popular understanding, not every spirituality has to be predicated on an
eternal war between religion and science, much less spirit and matter. This is
a cultural oddity that Lucas is clearly trying to rectify with his inclusion of
midichlorians. Like neural pathways in the brain, the midichlorians are
conduits, the bridge connecting spirit and flesh to create a greater whole.
Clearly there has to be some kind of biological component at work, which is why
the Force is inherited, or at least stronger in certain families than others.
The only reason anyone knows that the Force spirits is because midichlorians
matter.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This
interdependence is something science is discovering as well, with scientists
increasingly realizing, from astronomy to quantum physics, that no single part
is isolated and separate from the whole. In<i> Life of Earth: Portrait of a
Beautiful, Middle-Aged, Stressed-Out World</i>, Stanley R. Rice wonderfully
illustrates how symbiont circles operate:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Much
of the subsequent biography of Earth consists of cells merging together</span></i></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">the
processes that they already had, producing complexity from primordially </span></i></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></b></span></div>
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parts. By joining together, each of them benefitted from the other.</span></i></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></b></span></div>
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formed partnerships that accomplished things that neither could do</span></i></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></b></span></div>
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This is symbiosis: the close cooperation, and perhaps even fusion, </span></i></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">of
more than one species into a cooperative unit. It is symbiosis that</span></i></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">transformed
Earth from a broth of simple cells into everything it is today.</span></i></b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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thing, and it is arguably the central theme of <i>Star Wars</i>. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Again, nothing is
changing on any level whatsoever besides the size scale. Some objected to the
young Obi-Wan Kenobi using a microscope aboard the Queen’s ship to study
midichlorians at all, but they might just as well object to Luke Skywalker
studying Tusken Raiders from afar with his macrobinoculars in <i>A New Hope</i>.
Whether reality is seen from under a microscope or through a telescope, nothing
is changing but the level of magnification. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">To object to
midichlorians is really to object to Force users themselves, since the former
is merely a microscopic view of the latter. Or to put it another way, as the
Jedi contact, communicate, and use the Force in the larger body of the galaxy,
so midichlorians channel and use the Force in the larger body of the Jedi. </span></b></div>
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