Sith

Went and saw Revenge of the Sith Last night. Got there 40 minutes early and still was in the back of the line. Had to sit in the front row. There should be some sort of treaty signed among sci-fi nerds everywhere: No camping out allowed...30 minutes before the show is plenty of time.

I read an article yesterday, (it's on RedNova if you want to look for it) it pointed out that science fiction geeks are going to have to live in a world with out Star Trek and Star Wars, both franchises ending this month. A nerd dark age.

There is another. Narnia is coming out. It looks amazing. (Doesn't really qualify as sci-fi nerdiness, but it will give me a reason for living none the less; especially if they continue on with the series and do Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and Horse and His Boy.)

Ok, Sith. I liked it. Light saber fighting has gotten out of control. This movie was basically one big light saber fight. We've seen enough of that before. But the parts where there was actually dialogue, especially between Anikan and Palpatine, were great. The dark music and the magical computer graphics almost turned me to the darkside during balcony scene.

It kind of made me sad though, the way it ended. Social commentary for our times. Confusion, who is right, who is wrong. Political deception, misplaced patriotism, relativism, absolutism. In the eighties we had Ewoks dancing on the Berlin wall, a new hope that America would lead the world into peace and prosperity. Today we have Vadar crawling up the side of a crumbly gravel pit, limbless and burning alive, one mechanical arm trying to pull himself out.

Yikes.

One more thing, during the nail biting Dookoo light saber battle at the very begining, when that heavy steel banister fell on Obiwans torso and he lay there unconscious only to be waken a minute later with no ruptured organs or crushed vertibrate, was that a joke?