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DANA-kin Skywalker

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  1. Context matters. Context affect the meaning of words, and words affect context. Obviously in the context of that discussion at a prestigious academic institution, uttering the word in such a way is not designed to be offensive. However, people go out of their way to be offended. She must've known the risk of the example she was trying to set, and effectively made herself the example. She martyred herself as a free speech advocate.

     

    As far as white-washing books is concerned, like I said context matters. If you change even a few words you change the context in which it was written, changing it's meaning. Even controversial subjects...especially controversial subjects. White-washing is a miscarriage of literature and academic study.

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    Luke had a crisis of confidence in ESB during his training on Dagobah, then regained it for ROTJ. Still a hero. It's just the ups and downs of his story arc and it was the best part of the trilogy. His character was truly tested. This is what I want from him again, except from a different angle, the role of mentor. If you think I'm saying I want him to be a loser and quit the force for thirty years, then you're missing the point. I want the struggle and I want it on camera along with the turnaround.

     

    "it was hard, he gave up?" No...how about he took on an apprentice once who turned to the dark side. When he Luke had to put him down he made a choice to wait for the right person, or wait for he himself to improve, or he figured no force in the galaxy is better than risking the dark side or whatever. There's plenty of ways to fill in the blanks there, it's not going to be on camera. Then the film starts, the new threat (whatever it is) in the film forces Luke to finally dig deep and successfully pass the torch...maybe even with a little help from force Yoda. That is hardly half-hearted, it's heroic.

  3. I'm not that staunch about it either way. As long as it doesn't start with a fully functional Jedi academy with teachers and students practicing saber techniques and force push all over machu picchu. I just never thought that would be plausible. luke had very little training himself, and he's going to start an academy? He'd be terrible at it. If this were the premise of the movie, the rest of it would probably be about one of the students falling to the dark side because the academy failed, and someone would have to go take him out. This is all very meh to me.

  4. He was definitely aloof at the end of ROTJ. He was staring at dead people in the corner until his sister dragged him back to the celebration.

     

    Sure a lot can change in 30 years, but why go that way? What would be the point--just to be edgy or whatever? That's not what the OT was aiming at. If they wanted Luke to go off and become a hermit/crazy/whatever, he wouldn't have returned to the celebration on Endor. He would've gone off on his own.

     

    The OT established old Jedi as EXACTLY that, quirky loners that keep a low profile. The point would to show how much Luke has taken to Ben and Yoda's example, and his lack of ability to deal with the fact he's the last Jedi...a powerful one at that, with no other living Jedi to work with or keep him in check. This makes him dubious of himself and his ability to train others; which is why he hasn't. The struggle in the film would force his hand and make him find his confidence and train a new savior.

     

    I personally prefer something like the Jedi described above to Luke running a Jedi college like in the EU. That is fine for the books, but I find the character I described above more interesting for a two hour movie. It shows character evolution after the last movie, given the time gap, and evolution throughout the film that echoes some themes from the OT.

  5. I would like to see Luke be a reluctant hero. He tries to stay aloof, he's cranky and shows an attitude like he's too old, or it's hopeless, the force is too dangerous; but he tags along helping the young heroes, training them while at the same time annoying them a bit with pessimism...but by doing so becomes the perfect mentor training great Jedi in record time and steering them clear of the dark side. His character evolves and recaptures his heroism by the end of the movie, commanding his newly trained Jedi, barking orders, kicking ass and taking names, and making the ultimate sacrifice saving their skins at the very end, becoming one with the force like Obi-Wan did. Because that's what Luke knows and he learned from the best.

     

    Wow, I just made myself cry just then.

  6. Yes. If he had a pair, he would have stood up to some of Lucas's bad ideas in the prequels. But nobody did. Oh well, that doesn't matter anymore I guess.

     

    I simply choose to deny the very existence of the prequels. There are only three star wars movies and the last one came out thirty years ago.

  7. You're slightly left of center or slightly socialist in terms of economics. (left leaning)

    You're dead center in terms of how much power or control the government should exert over it's people. (no label given)

    You're dead center in terms of how much involvement the government should have in foreign affairs. (no label given)

    You somewhat believe your nation is not more important or superior to other nations (cosmopolitan)

    You're right of center or conservative in terms of social issues. (traditionalist)

  8. The force awakens. Is that to mean that it was sleeping for thirty years? If so, that makes the whole "Luke hiding from himself" theory all the more plausible. Or it could be JJ's way off announcing to the fans that star wars is back.

     

    Either way I'm starting to like the title; it's better than two out of the last three, and probably better than what Lucas could have hatched. he would have come up with a title like "The Midichloreans Attack" or some shit.

  9. "Dragon" was the name given to a hyper-advanced reptillian race that lived in another dimension thousands of years ago. They developed space travel technology and flew their spacecraft into a rift in space-time, visiting our primitive species. This is where the word "wyrmhole" came from.

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