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CC reveiws blogs and nitpicks the Star Wars Movie

by Chalicechick

***Numerous Spoilers throughout. But then, we all know what happens anyway. Oh and I discuss clitorises. But that's Debitage's fault***

Just saw the Star Wars movie late last night. As Star Wars movies go, it was pretty good, but it still left many plot holes and questions unanswered.

You know how sometimes you see a movie and you're still thinking it through for days afterward?

My look at this week's blogs starts out with a charity worth supporting.

So is Yoda a buddhist-ish Jedi, or are all Jedi buddhist-ish and Yoda is just the most vocal on the subject? And if Yoda is the only Buddhist-ish Jedi, and the only Jedi alive at the end of the second trilogy other than Luke, who learned from him, does that mean that all future Jedi will be buddhist-ish Jedi?

Debitage is mentioning that as much as scientists can figure out, the clitoris serves no evolutionary purpose. Not to go all Natalie Angiers on y'all but it seems to me that anything that makes people want to have sex more is an evolutionary bonus. I mean, it encourages reproduction and all. But that explanation is so simple that I'm sure that the scientists who see no purpose to the clitoris have discussed and dismissed it. Still, interesting article.

Does the fact that I think one must understand evil to be really good, and indeed don't believe that knowledge in itself can be evil, only what one does with it, make me a Sith? If so, I'm OK with that I think. I look cuter in black anyway

Ibeth wonders about telephone operators. Can't say I ever did... until I read what she had to say.

So why is it that the Sith have faith that good people can fall, but the Jedis assume that Anakin has fallen forever and Obi Wan leaves him for dead? Are Siths in their own funky way more Universalist? Again, I think I may be a sith.

Just Another UU blog has a neat bit about Isaac Asimov up.

Why is it that none of the Jedis could sense the betrayal? Or sense who the Sith lord is, FWIW? If everybody can sense Anakin's anger, why couldn't they sense the Sith lord?

MyIrony is making a subtle point.

I'm still wondering that why it is that Amidala is pregnant for the whole movie and right at the end Obi Wan is like "Is the kid Anakin's?" Like, she hadn't even bothered to come up with a good lie about it to tell everyone, the identity of the father had just never come up. You show me a female Senator assumed to be single who gets pregnant and nobody even asks who the father is until 8 months and 29 days into the pregnancy, I'll stop thinking that's quirky.

The Socinian has a neat article about Pentecost.

Is it just me, or are the droids slaves? Know any other movie that gets away with the heros having happy slaves? I don't even 100 percent have a problem with that, it's just weird.

Paul Wilczynski quote Sinkford on the filibuster. Sinkford proudly talks about the diversity of political opinion within the denomination as he speaks for us all politically.

Sigh.

CC
who is totally in favor of the filibuster and thinks Frist completely sucks, for the record.

And she totally wonders what the Empire's version of OSHA was doing with its time, because there was not one safety railing in the entire movie. Not on the balconies seemingly miles above the city, not helping you get on the airplane, not even in the factories. They must lose more storm troopers that way.

Oh, and this is a UUism blog, so maybe if you want to comment on Star Wars, you should but your comment on the version of this post at my blog. Thankee.

Posted by Chalicechick, May 21, 2005 04:57 PM