Relative Dimension

DEATH STAR FOOD COURT! DEATH STAR FOOD COURT!

"Fans of the show LOST got an earful of Star Wars references last Wednesday, courtesy of the character Hurley, whose trek back in time to 1977 has inspired him to write The Empire Strikes Back for George Lucas."

THIS is why I don't watch Lost any more.

While I'm not a monogamous kind of fan where I obsessively focus all my attention on a single fandom, I do tend to do one at a time. Normally. At the moment, however, I have three fandoms competing for my attentions; one recent, one not-so-recent, and one decidedly fucking un-recent. Respectively, Atlantis, X-Files, and original Star Wars. It's getting a bit confusing.

(Better late than never reaction to the) Atlantis finale! Carson, you've come a long way. Sure, John already flew the city, and that was freakishly awesome, but Carson got to fly it BACK TO EARTH. I am SO proud of him. Ronon, thanks for not staying dead. Teyla, thanks for... whatever it was you did. Major Paul Davis, thanks for being there. SERIOUSLY. I didn't see his name and freaked out when he appeared on screen. We hadn't seen him much in, like, forever.

John, Rodney, thanks for being beyond awesomely awesome characters. And to John for getting whumped on a regular basis (but points deducted for not wearing enough leather).

I will seriously miss this show.
Can't wait for the movie. :D

Notes to myself regarding a Star Wars fic idea I've had rattling around in my brain for about seven years or so:

"get rid of OCs, at least most of them. Re-invent the bad guy. Less rising from the grave."

Let that one trip your wtf circuits for a bit.

It's been ten years (or more) and I still can't get over it. How freaking cool is Wedge Antilles?

He's the coolest thing in the universe.

(Except maybe for the Doctor.)

Why does everybody think that the Star Wars universe has 'healers'? And what's up especially with the Jedi always having them? Did we ever see a flesh-and-blood doctor in any of the movies? No. They were all droids. Every one of them. Just like the Jedi were all peacekeepers. Anybody who thinks otherwise is making shit up.

I've also noticed, in the case of the books, at any rate, a tendency to make the Jedi able to do just about anything. Here's what I've seen from official movie canon: telekinesis (like WOAH), some empathic ability, suggestion, sometimes visions, sort of a 'spidey' sense, some other random shit, and a HELL of a lot of physical and mental training, including a mess of conflict resolution. They don't do healing. They certainly can't fly (this means you, Kevin J. Anderson). They aren't. Freaking. Superman.

Call me a canon nazi. I feel like people mess these things up.

FYI, my Firefly/Serenity video kicks some gorram ass. I've watched the series and the movie again, because I missed them a lot. I wish like hell there was more. My favorite character changed - not like I really had a definitely favorite, but Wash was pretty close, but then he and Simon duked it out and Simon won. But hell, he's still alive, so he's already got a leg up. And I always did like Simon.

I saw a preview online for the next Pirates movie, and I nearly died. I want May to come so bad it hurts. Then, of course, is July, with the Order of the Phoenix movie and THE LAST FREAKING HARRY POTTER BOOK. Summer is going to rock so hard.

I've started where I left off in the New Jedi Order, I think. It just sort of happened. Fine time too, when I won't have time to read for the next eleven weeks.

I, by the way, have pants that fit and new blue shoes that are bouncy so I can do swordfighting class and not get blisters or trip over my feet.

Two and a half gorram weeks until Stargate and you have no idea how excited I am.

I just sneezed four times in a row. I am so allergic to something right now and it's pissing me off.

I actually seem to be reading Vector Prime all the way through this time. Go me! It helps a bit that I've turned the Mary Sue into a guy, and a cute one at that. He/She's sort of being played by Sean Patrick Flanery, but I can't remember what he sounds like except when he's using an Irish accent. I totally futzed up the Star Wars universe when I began rereading it a few months ago and changed around a bunch of people. Han Solo went from looking a little like Harrison Ford to looking a lot like Nathan Fillion because really, wouldn't he just make a dandy Han Solo? He IS Captain Tightpants, after all. Luke and Leia just kind of got bastardized. I tried to make the whole thing in my head sort of a mix between the styles of Firefly and the new BSG (which I don't watch). Basically, becaue the whole thing needed updating for dramatic effect. And because I can.

I'd like to set the Yuuzhan Vong against the Ori and see if they're so tough then.