More Star Wars Thoughts

Cinemax has been running six-movie Star Wars marathons all month. We just watched Empire while waiting for raininva's WoW raid to start... I'm amused by the fact that Vader contributes to his own failures in this story. He's so determined to be eeeeevil, and show everyone how eeeevil he is, that he pushes Lando too far and loses Luke, Leia, and Chewie in the process. If he'd just backed off a tiny bit, he'd have made a clean sweep.

His lightsaber technique's a bit shabby near the end, too. Maybe the fact that Luke's involved is clouding his judgement. To quote Sarek: "My logic falters where my son is concerned."

I have to keep reminding myself that the Falcon's a freighter. This isn't nit-picking, I'm completely willing to believe that Lando, Han, and Chewie have done things to it that its designers would be horrified by... but watching it fly through those asteroids is like watching a Peterbilt 18-wheeler compete in FormulaOne racing. That's one heavily-modded cargo hauler!

I mentioned to Rain that the Falcon and the TARDIS have a lot in common... heavily-modified antiques capable of impossible things, but rarely completely functional. This movie also reminds me that the Star Wars universe is a lousy place to be a sentient droid. Clearly, they have pain-analogue circuitry, and feelings to boot, but nevertheless they're really physically abused and treated like crap by both heroes and villians. Do you suppose Bail Organa ordered memory wipes on any of his other troops that knew of Luke and Leia's birth?

And sell the rest at the Auction House

Quote of the night from World of Warcraft general chat:

Player 1: How do I do [thing that's clearly impossible in game]?
Player 2: Huh?
Player 3: You can't do that.
Player 1: Yes you can, I'm sure of it.
Player 4: First, learn the Herbalism skill. Then, pick us all some of what you're smoking, and we can all go do [thing] together.