Posts Tagged ‘star wars’
Our boy watches Star Wars for the first time
My son Charlie, age 5, watched episodes 4, 5, and 6 of Star Wars with me and Elysha over the past two weeks. It was quite the experience. Though he knew almost nothing about Star Wars, he owns about a dozen action figures and received a Millennium Falcon for Christmas this year. He knew there were…
Read MoreA tribute to Carrie Fisher
I’ve always thought that Bruce Springsteen should be frozen in time. Not permitted to die. Experienced by all future generations. I think Carrie Fisher fits that category as well. Below is a moving, tear jerking tribute to her by the Star Wars team. But anytime I see someone so young and vital who is no…
Read MoreStar Wars will have gay characters. Bigoted heads presumably explode like Alderaan.
Director JJ Abrams has announced that there will be gay characters in future Star Wars films. ““When I talk about inclusivity it’s not excluding gay characters. It’s about inclusivity. So of course there will be gay characters.” “I would love it. To me, the fun of Star Wars is the glory of possibility. So it…
Read MoreMy son is starting to like Star Wars. Also, he calls it Star Whores, which led me to Ken and his dad.
Charlie is starting to come around to Star Wars. His sister is not a fan (only because the boys at school love Star Wars), so he has assumed the same position out of blind loyalty. But he is beginning to crack. He likes R2-D2 a lot. We are constantly battling with our faux lightsabers. He…
Read MoreIt’s better to love because it makes you better than other people, which is extremely satisfying.
I have friends who didn’t like the new Star Wars film. Despite admitting that there were moments of enjoyment while watching the movie, they nitpicked it to death after the fact and declared the whole thing a failure. I think they’re crazy. I embraced my inner child (which is admittedly a sizable part of my…
Read MoreStar Wars is nothing without the music
The trouble with Star Wars is that it was historical fiction
I know. It’s blasphemy to even suggest that there is a flaw in the first Star Wars film. Still, there was. And it takes place in the first ten words: In these ten words, George Lucas renders everything we are about to see less immediate and less pressing by the fact that the people and…
Read MoreWas the destruction of the Death Star an inside job? Also, how did Luke Skywalker dodge the stigma of incest so easily?
If you haven’t seen the recent conspiracy video suggesting that the destruction of the first Death Star was an inside job perpetrated by the Empire, you should. The video also got me thinking: Luke Skywalker is one unlucky son-of-a-bitch. In the span of just a couple years, his father tried to kill him multiple…
Read MoreThe Wizard of Oz versus Star Wars
Late last week I “stirred up a hornet’s nest” by writing a piece arguing that the reason Hasbro markets Easy Bake Ovens solely to girls is because the vast majority of children who want an Easy Bake Oven are girls, and the company has no obligation to the minority of boys who might want one.…
Read MoreMy million dollar deal
When George Lucas visited Steven Spielberg on the set of Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1976, he was so impressed by the movie’s huge sets and Spielberg’s vision that he bet Spielberg that the film would become a bigger hit than his own space movie that he was just completing at the time.…
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