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This Is Why We Watch Where We Are Going
September 24, 2004
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So lately there's been a big to-do in the webcomic world about the changes Lucas HAS in fact implemented to the original Star Wars trilogy (none of which - contrary to the facetious material comics found here in the past - involve his testicles), and I believe the discussion touches on a greater point here that warrants discussion. Dissidents say they're Lucas's movies and he should be able to do what he wants to them, and claim that those opposed want their childhoods back, not so much the films. I say sure, you can't get your childhood back, but that's not really what the argument is about. The claim is that the films are Lucas's to begin with: they are not. Tim Buckley (of the awesomely funny Ctrl-Alt-Del) likened himself to Lucas, and said wisely that "If I had the time, I would love to go back and redraw the first two hundred CAD strips." I respectfully state that the situation here is different, because while Ctrl-Alt-Del is all Buckley's doing, Star Wars BEGAN with Lucas but sure as shit didn't end there - there were gobs more people involved in making it a reality. Lucas might own the rights to the films, but the thing of it is, he didn't handle everything with them. Shit, for Empire and Jedi he didn't even DIRECT them - and the change that I take issue with is removing Sebastian Shaw (the man behind Vader's mask) from the ending... it is not he who stands next to Yoda and Obi-Wan now, but Hayden Christensen. It doesn't just violate the actor's role in the series, but brings up queries and holes in the plot. Why aren't Obi-Wan and Yoda young, if Anakin is? Or does the youth of Anakin's ghost - being pre-fall-to-Dark-Side - imply he's not totally free of its grip? Or something?
Anyhow. This is all tied-in to me because for a moment - when reading Wednesday's succulent Penny Arcade - that although the topic of the new Star Wars DVD set was a hot one and not an original idea for parody in any way, somehow I got to it FIRST. But then again, that's what happens when you start a story idea over a month before the event in question. But eh, whaddyagonnado. Let me have my tiny triumph, damn you! ::hisses::
Must go now. Enjoy weekendness, and see you all again on Tuesday. Toodles.
She Gives the Orders Here,
Annie "Blue" C
I went to the store
To get more
FIRE
To start the war
- Electric Six
"Dance Commander"
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