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Post by Admin on Sept 11, 2020 9:11:17 GMT -6
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Post by Admin on Sept 11, 2020 9:11:35 GMT -6
Wow. She looks so much like Padme here.
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Post by vitugglan on Sept 11, 2020 12:02:57 GMT -6
So, do all the Star Wars lead females have brown hair and eyes? Maybe Rey should have been a Skywalker, or a Solo. I was plumping for some re-play of the brother/sister trope after TFA, but no. Not twins in that case, because in my head, she would have been left on Jacu (sp?) because Ben was turning and they thought it would be safer to hide her away.
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Post by Admin on Sept 15, 2020 20:12:00 GMT -6
In the Expanded Universe (now called "Legends") Han and Leia had three children: twins (brother and sister names started with J) and a son they named Anikin... who turned to the Dark Side.
Luke married another Force wielder, Mara Jade, and they had a son... Ben Skywalker.
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Post by vitugglan on Sept 16, 2020 4:59:16 GMT -6
I seem to recall, from back in Jr. High School days, something about a trope of Sacred Twins. A perfunctory Google/DuckDuckGo search turned up nothing, and I can only come up with two that fit the bill - Jr. High was a long time ago - Romulus and Remus, and Apollo and Artemis. I shoved Luke and Leia into that category way back when and was sort-of expecting something akin to it in the sequels.
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Post by Admin on Sept 19, 2020 18:58:51 GMT -6
Yeah, the trope of "twins separated at birth and reunited in adulthood" is thousands of years old. So, when that fact was more or less dropped on us in TESB and then confirmed in ROTJ, I don't think I was quite so gobsmacked. It was more of a "OH!...Oh, OK."
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Post by vitugglan on Sept 20, 2020 5:29:16 GMT -6
According to analysis I've read over the years, one reason Star Wars connects with so many people is that Lucas took from mythological tropes, the Golden Bough, all that stuff. Too bad Disney/Lucasfilm didn't bother to do the same.
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Post by Admin on Sept 22, 2020 3:05:04 GMT -6
Campbell wrote something on this back when Episodes IV-VI were the only movies we had. Drawing a blank on the man's first name, but wanting to say he was the editor for Analog: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in the 60s and into the 80s (I think).
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Post by vitugglan on Sept 22, 2020 5:33:26 GMT -6
This guy? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W._Campbell Also, this on a similarly-named magazine which may or may not be the same magazine under a different name, my eyes are acting up: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_Science_Fiction_and_FactIt still rankles me to think of them by the modern names/designations. To me, 'Ep. IV A New Hope' is newspeak for, simply, Star Wars. That was what it was called, no episode number, no subtitle. At the time, Lucas didn't know the movie would do well enough to warrant a sequel. Ugh. But, I know all of this is pretty much necessary these days - say Star Wars and everyone thinks the entire body of work, not the one movie. Meh. |
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Post by Admin on Sept 23, 2020 14:34:03 GMT -6
That's him. And that's what I get for posting when the brain cells are beginning to walk away from each other, screaming at me to get some sleep. It was Analog. I also had a subscription to another pulp magazine called Fantasy & Science Fiction.
Campbell was the Editor when Anne McCaffrey sent him "Weyr Search" back in late 1965 or early 1966. And he's the reason she added the Prolog when she expanded that story into what became the Pern books.
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Post by vitugglan on Sept 23, 2020 15:33:17 GMT -6
I figured it might be. The magazine seems to have changed names as well as hands every so often.
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Post by Admin on Sept 26, 2020 8:02:18 GMT -6
Last time I bothered to look, Analog was published by Davis Publications (I think). But, I don't remember who came into the Editor-in-Chief chair after Campbell. And, my subscriptions to that and the other one I mentioned ran out in the late 80s or very early 90s when hubby could no longer afford to support all of my reading habit. I had those two magazines, three or four Marvel Comics titles (and got two "Letters to the Editor" printed... let's face it, they weren't picky as long as you weren't really rude! LOL), two or three astronomy magazines and a couple of general science magazines. And TV Guide back when it was tailored to your area and a small size.
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Post by vitugglan on Sept 27, 2020 6:54:47 GMT -6
Lol! I haven't gotten TV Guide in ages. I don't really watch TV and when I do, it's as often as not something I had the husband record for me, or it's on an alternative to regular TV.
I never had the money to get all sorts of reading material. When I was a kid, we were lower-rung working class so, no, my desire to read could be assuaged by the local or school library (and usually was); as an adult I had kids - part of the time I was on welfare so the money was really skint and when I got a job, it was just me working at a low-paying job in a high-expense city. I did get sucked into one of those books-of-the-month clubs a couple of times, got some good titles that I will read now and then, so definitely got our money's worth (the hard covers are threatening to fall off the books, that's how good they are) and, now that we've got more money and I have more time, I have the internet.
(BTW, there's a site that allows you to download academic PDFs in your field(s) of interest free, but they bug you about getting a paid subscription.)
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