tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13120578175920638332024-02-02T16:21:24.445-08:00Club Bwua'tu<b>Just a couple of guys in the Galactic Alliance trying to uncover the conspiracies aimed at total galactic anarchy.</b>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15536029501364227830noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1312057817592063833.post-16812677226238132002016-06-28T21:01:00.000-07:002016-06-28T21:01:50.269-07:00The Unknown Regions #1 - Denver Comic-Con!<iframe data-link="https://www.podbean.com/media/player/78878-608fa7?from=yiiadmin" data-name="pb-iframe-player" frameborder="0" height="100" scrolling="no" src="https://www.podbean.com/media/player/78878-608fa7?from=yiiadmin" width="100%"></iframe>
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Finally, below are some highlights from the main stage events that we went to, courtesy of the Twitter profile of the moderater, Clare Kramer.</div>
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It's <a href="https://twitter.com/clarkgregg">@clarkgregg</a> at his <a href="https://twitter.com/DenverComicCon">@DenverComicCon</a> panel! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Marvel?src=hash">#Marvel</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Avengers?src=hash">#Avengers</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AgentsofSHIELD?src=hash">#AgentsofSHIELD</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DCC2016?src=hash">#DCC2016</a> <a href="https://t.co/fTSBMUuKnU">pic.twitter.com/fTSBMUuKnU</a></div>
— Clare Kramer (@ClareKramer) <a href="https://twitter.com/ClareKramer/status/744621682468524032">June 19, 2016</a></blockquote>
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It's <a href="https://twitter.com/Jenna_Coleman_">@Jenna_Coleman_</a> at the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DoctorWho?src=hash">#DoctorWho</a> panel <a href="https://twitter.com/DenverComicCon">@DenverComicCon</a>! <a href="https://t.co/VFqevdYDyX">pic.twitter.com/VFqevdYDyX</a></div>
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"Well I've never been a companion … I've only ever been a wife." Alex Kingston<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DCC2016?src=hash">#DCC2016</a> <a href="https://t.co/ljVsV5gqJo">pic.twitter.com/ljVsV5gqJo</a></div>
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It's Clare and the ladies of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DoctorWho?src=hash">#DoctorWho</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Jenna_Coleman_">@Jenna_Coleman_</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AlexKingston?src=hash">#AlexKingston</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/DenverComicCon">@DenverComicCon</a> <a href="https://t.co/eBSGnXFutC">pic.twitter.com/eBSGnXFutC</a></div>
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"I think the Doctor should remain male. He's a Time Lord. If it ain't broke don't fix it."<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AlexKingston?src=hash">#AlexKingston</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DoctorWho?src=hash">#DoctorWho</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/DenverComicCon">@DenverComicCon</a></div>
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What job could I have where I could play dress up all the time? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AlexKingston?src=hash">#AlexKingston</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DoctorWho?src=hash">#DoctorWho</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/DenverComicCon">@DenverComicCon</a></div>
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So nice working with Peter who's so much more age-appropriate…when you're having a snog with someone who could be your child! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AlexKingston?src=hash">#AlexKingston</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.ew.com/article/2016/04/15/star-wars-force-awakens-jj-abrams-rey-parents" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">http://www.ew.com/article/2016/04/15/star-wars-force-awakens-jj-abrams-rey-parents</span></span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Or perhaps she is not the daughter of anybody we know, making her truly a new character. A hero’s journey for someone completely new.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Han didn’t want his son to commit such a dark sin that he killed himself.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Han’s not dead</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This one seems to be highly unlikely, especially after watching the Documentary. The emotional weight needed by the death of Han is too important to the story. (even if Darth Maul actually survived his split in two by a lightsaber and thrown down the shaft in Episode 1 and he comes back in The Clone Wars and Rebels). Plus Starkiller Base explodes after Han falls down an endless abyss.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15.3333px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Also, perhaps he’s really small.</span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Inside Out Emotions react to Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FLTNUYAgGg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FLTNUYAgGg</a></span></li>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Each of our favorite Disney movies</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Deacon Andrew</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lion King</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Aladdin</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Robin Hood</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Incredibles</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sky High</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wreck-it Ralph</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Frozen</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">inside out</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Star Wars</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sean</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mary</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Timon and Puumba</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chip ‘n’ Dale Rescue Rangers</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Families</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mary's knowledge</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What makes disney so special.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Its ability to make us feel young, happy and be able to reach our inner kid</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Disney has been around for a long time! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The dream of one man</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The simple brilliance of the parks, </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Layout</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How has Disney helped Star Wars</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pre Ownership</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Star Tours</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lightsaber </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Small gift store</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Han and Leia were married. The Force Awakens novel and the Visual Guide to the Force Awakens confirm this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Not So) Brief History of Legends (Thanks to the <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/sci-fi-fantasy/building-a-galaxy-far-far-away-the-story-of-the-star-wars-expanded-universe-part-1/">Barnes & Noble Blog by Andrew Liptak</a> for researching this topic!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker (1976 - before the movie debuted in theaters) was ghost written by Alan Dean Foster (who also authored The Force Awakens)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The first official novel of the Legends universe, however, was Splinter of the Mind’s Eye (Also Alan Dean Foster) in 1978 and NOT Timothy Zahn’s </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Heir to the Empire </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(which wouldn’t be written until May 1, 1991).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lando Calrissian books by L. Neil Smith (1983).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1989 Lucasfilm approved the idea to begin writing novels again, with the stipulation, the books had to be well-written, they had to be written post-ROTJ, and none of the main characters could be killed or resurrected if already dead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Timothy Zahn (who originally was studying Physics when Star Wars came out in Theaters and only started writing as a hobby) was approached in November of 1989.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Timothy Zahn is, of course, noted for his inspired creation of the master tactician, Grand Admiral Thrawn, Mara Jade, a former imperial agent, and the smuggler, Talon Karrde, in his debut Star Wars novel:</span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Heir to the Empire </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(published 1991).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Needless to say, Timothy Zahn’s trilogy of books were a hit. </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Heir to the Empire </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">hit the New York Times bestseller list.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Side Note:</span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The idea behind these novels was that these stories moved the main characters forward in time, as opposed to other Science Fiction novels, such as Star Trek, which were episodic in nature where each novel left the characters in the exact same place as they started. Star Wars novels were pushing the characters forward to unexplored places.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kathy Tyers wrote </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Truce at Bakura </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">telling the story of the immediate post-ROTJ events.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kevin J. Anderson wrote the Jedi Academy Trilogy in 1994 moving the characters farther forward. Han and Leia’s kids, Jacen and Jaina, were older and Luke Skywalker was rebuilding the Jedi Order.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">David Wolverton wrote </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Courtship of Princess Leia </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in 1994 (Deacon Andrew’s first read novel in the Star Wars EU!) telling the story of how Han and Leia finally got married.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Deacon Andrew was on the road with Fr. Brian Hess to a diaconate ordination at St. Meinrad Archabbey in Indiana when this news broke.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">130 years after Return of the Jedi</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Timothy Zahn’s novels, Jedi Academy Trilogy, Courtship of Princess Leia, New Jedi Order series, Legacy of the Force series, and Fate of the Jedi series.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers (not Star Wars, but the whole Space Quest series is Star Wars related)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sean Heller</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rogue Squadron </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Knights of the Old Republic(still play on PC today) 1&2</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The old republic</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Never really played battlefront but getting into it</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dark Forces</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Andrew got me interested in them</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Revan, The ultimate companion book </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bane, Rule of two,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tales Of Bounty Hunter </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15536029501364227830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1312057817592063833.post-41503241248196288442016-01-26T20:10:00.000-08:002016-01-27T10:06:02.476-08:00Why I Love Star Wars So Much<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>"Why do you love Star Wars so much?"</b></div>
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I was asked this question recently and have been pondering whether my answer adequately spoke the to the depth of how much Star Wars truly does mean to me. Many people would respond to this question in a generic, superficial, pop-culture sort of way. Star Wars is popular now more than ever (if the Box Office records The Force Awakens broke are any indication). It is definitely a fun and engaging galaxy to like and enjoy and to love, where the characters are rich and real, the story is deep and emotional, and the nature of human life and love it explores is just as good as many of the great sagas of our day (Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, and dare I say Star Trek ;), etc.) Now I could also answer in that same sort of generic way, namely that Star Wars is a fun (lightsaber battles and The Force!), deep (Anakin's fall to the dark side and subsequent redemption by his son, Luke), and an emotional (Han and Leia's son Ben's fall to the dark side as Kylo Ren, who kills his dad) story that I find appealing, and indeed it is, but that is not why I love it so much. Let me explain... and I know this may seem a bit strange, but bear with me.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Darth Vader and TK-421 made an appearance at Wal-Mart.</td></tr>
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My first introduction to Star Wars was back when I was in junior high school. Star Wars: Attack of the Clones had just hit theaters and I was enthralled. I loved it, perhaps not because it was an exciting movie (which it was, and I still love that movie, especially Jango Fett), but because it opened to me the world beyond the movie. It introduced me to characters that I cared about and wanted to "hang out" with and get to know. I began to watch the other movies and began reading the Legends novels as quickly as I could, particularly focusing on the events post Return of the Jedi. I loved it all so much and particularly I loved the characters. I saw in them traits that I wished I had myself, courage, strength of character, moral uprightness, and friends. I even viewed the novels as my friends and would take every opportunity I had to read a chapter or two. Star Wars was a great gift to me at that time and I loved every minute of it.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I couldn't resist a photo opportunity with them.</td></tr>
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At this point in my personal life, I was in junior high and high school with relatively few friends. Not that I was unlikeable, but I was a good student (thank you Mom and Dad) and many of my classmates resented me for it and rather than be my friend, I was bullied quite a lot. Not physically, but definitely verbally. I was called the "goodie-two-shoes" and the "teacher's pet" among other less than desirable names. They made fun of me for various things (I was consistently picked last for teams in P.E.) and my love of Star Wars was also attacked. They even wrote a horribly offensive note attacking me and said explicitly, "I can't write wookie so i hope you can understand what im writing." Everything about me was stomped on. The few friends that I had were never quite supportive outright when I was verbally attacked (except on a rare occasion). I was alone and miserable. Needless to say my time in junior high and high school was a tough and bitter time for me. I felt worthless. I felt like I was somehow corrupt at my very core because obviously my classmates could see the corruption and I couldn't. Consequently, my love for Star Wars was something to be ashamed of and hidden because it only caused ridicule and shame. I turned to academics as a way of trying to prove my goodness to the world (and to myself). I thrived on academics and ended up becoming the valedictorian of my high school class, in a sense trying to show to myself that they were wrong about me. Even so I never felt like I had human dignity, I never felt worthy of love. My academic "success" left me feeling happy, yet empty. (I do need to point out that I have wonderful and loving parents and siblings who helped me through this part of my life. I would not be the man I am today without them!).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I dressed up as a Sith Lord for Halloween my senior year in high school. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Star Wars books even made an appearance in my senior pictures.</td></tr>
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I became a closet Star Wars fan, always afraid if people knew how much I did like it, they would despise me, ridicule me, and tell me how stupid I was, even though I knew that must not be right. As I went off to college this was true. I continued to read the Legends novels as they were published and loved them, but again I didn't share that love with anyone. New friends that I gained were often surprised when they saw my Star Wars book collection if they came over to my house. I kept it to myself primarily. <br />
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Then something happened in my life that has changed me forever. I entered the seminary and began my studies to eventually be ordained a Catholic priest (coming soon in May of 2016!). Seminary formation has been the biggest grace and challenge in my entire life. It has helped form me into the man I am today by helping me to pray and move closer to God, but also to grow on a human level as a man. I was carrying so much garbage with me into seminary (low self-esteem, self-hatred, timidity, shame, lies regarding my own worth and dignity as a human person). Slowly, after years in seminary, I began to understand that I wasn't corrupt like I had believed for years (ever since my time in junior high and high school). I began to understand that I was a Beloved Son of God the Father and that very fact made me incredible precious in His sight. No matter how anybody treated me, ever, could change that. God helped me to look back on my life and see that my classmates, in bullying me, were not speaking to the truth of who I was, but who they were. And rather than telling me that I was a corrupt and horrible person, they were telling me that they, themselves, were broken and lacking in love. But I, in my adolescence, did not understand this truth and took on all the shame that wasn't mine to gain. I let go of my resentment towards them and began to live out of the truth that I am loved by God and that is all that matters.<br />
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So, "how does Star Wars fit into all of this?" you may ask. As I have embraced my identity as a Beloved Son of God the Father, I have come to realize that everything about me is precious and good (as long as I'm not sinning), including Star Wars. The past year or so I have become vocal in my fandom for Star Wars. I have realized that liking Star Wars is not a shameful thing, but it is actually a part of what makes me, me! It is a hobby that I have and I am no longer ashamed of it. Embracing my love for Star Wars is, in a real sense, a reclamation of my childlike innocence that I lost in junior high and high school. After being bullied, I pushed that childlike wonder and awe in the galactic story of Star Wars aside because I thought it somehow made me detestable, and have only, in recent years, re-embraced that childlike wonder and awe in my fandom of Star Wars because I understand the truth about who I am. This is why I created this website and podcast with my friend, Sean Heller. It allows me to have a lot of fun with that pure, childlike attitude in a story that connects people all across the world.<br />
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The above pictures were taken at the Colorado Symphony where they performed Star Wars music (May 2015).</div>
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So why do I love Star Wars so much? Because it is a reminder to me of the purity and goodness within me as a beloved child of God. </div>
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<a href="http://clubbwuatu.podbean.com/e/club-bwuatu-1-the-podcast-awakens/">Direct Link</a><br />
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Show Notes for Episode 1:</div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Topic of this show, The Force Awakens. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Reveal?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Millennium Falcon? (“The garbage will do.”)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Han and Chewie boarding the Falcon?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kylo as Han and Leia’s Son?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kylo Ren’s face?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ben Solo as birthname?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Luke Skywalker at the end?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Parallels/callbacks to A New Hope</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Desert Planet</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Planet/moon super weapon with a small but possible chance to be destroyed, which is exploited</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Maz’s pirate base = Mos Eisely Cantina</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lightsaber training ball</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What made this movie work?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Practical Effects (BB-8, Aliens in costume/puppets)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Not giving us the whole story (lot’s of unexplained references like in A New Hope)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No substantial explanation to the rise of the First Order/Resistance and what happened</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gives viewers the impression that this story is only one part of an already established universe</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Legendary (get it?) Inspirations</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">New Republic forces against the remnants of the Empire</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Han and Leia’s Son turning dark (Legacy of the Force)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jacen Solo > Darth Caedus sacrificing Mara Jade Skywalker to assume the mantle of Sith Lord</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ben Solo > Kylo Ren sacrificing Han Solo to complete his descent to the darkness.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Planet Weapon that destroys a Sun (Suncrusher - Jedi Academy Trilogy)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Luke’s first lightsaber found and passed on - to Mara Jade (</span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Anakin_Skywalker%27s_second_lightsaber">http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Anakin_Skywalker%27s_second_lightsaber</a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Han and Leia separate.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the New Jedi Order when Chewbacca dies, Han temporary leaves Leia in order to grieve and returns to some of his smuggling ways (</span><a href="http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/The_New_Jedi_Order:_Agents_of_Chaos_I:_Hero%27s_Trial" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/The_New_Jedi_Order:_Agents_of_Chaos_I:_Hero's_Trial</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">).</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In The Force Awakens, when Ben Solo betrays Luke, Han and Leia split to deal with it in their own way.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rey</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Scavenger</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Finn</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Finn is naive in a funny and good way, not in an annoying way.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Poe Dameron</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BB-8</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Supreme Leader Snoke</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some crazy fan theory its Vader.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hans Demise</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Married? I hope so.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Planet as a Death Star? </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Journey to find Luke</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Luke’s daughter?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Naturally strong in the Force</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Han and Leia’s daughter?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Natural piloting ability of the Millennium Falcon</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Han is a “fatherly figure” she never had</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A third party?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Notice when Maz asks Han “Who’s the girl?” the scene cuts to Finn and we don’t hear his answer. Perhaps he actually knows who she is and we don’t get to hear it.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15536029501364227830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1312057817592063833.post-74543472101490065602016-01-08T13:27:00.001-08:002016-01-08T13:28:55.662-08:00There has been an awakening...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIRyNOV2wARUBONB1s73GuGThuo2X_jKXySLAy7bUWlqMJ5ZlurKWsx2jRZsFViFQGShcAr1HZOdcSBfp7viRo3o7KywKB0YbpUtZlT1hyphenhyphenoygxUMJ4E26HFN8jXqkWiErfiWCcdf4-aU4/s1600/IMG_5355.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIRyNOV2wARUBONB1s73GuGThuo2X_jKXySLAy7bUWlqMJ5ZlurKWsx2jRZsFViFQGShcAr1HZOdcSBfp7viRo3o7KywKB0YbpUtZlT1hyphenhyphenoygxUMJ4E26HFN8jXqkWiErfiWCcdf4-aU4/s400/IMG_5355.JPG" width="300" /></a>Sean and I have been busy working on starting up a Star Wars themed podcast (a dream hobby we've both had) and finally it has come to fruition! At least initially. We finally sat down last night after months of throwing the idea around and recorded Episode 1 of Club Bwua'Tu! Our topic focused primarily on Star Wars: The Force Awakens as it was our first conversation with each other regarding the movie (intentionally) and we also discussed our first experience with the Star Wars universe in general. Afterwards we realized that we never quite explained the premise of our podcast and didn't really explain who we are...so stay tuned for those in Episode 2!<br />
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Anyways, have a listen and bear with us as we figure out this whole podcasting world and remember that this podcast is first and foremost a way for Sean and I to keep in touch and talk Star Wars and is not meant to be more than that. If you find you like listening to Sean and I talk Star Wars, then feel free to join us!<br />
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Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/clubbwuatu">@clubbwuatu</a><br />
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Star Wars: Smuggler's Run is, by far, my favorite novel released during the Force Friday event on September 4, 2015. As far as the Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens novels go, I have read <a href="http://clubbwuatu.blogspot.com/2015/09/aftermath-thoughts.html">Star Wars: Aftermath</a> and <a href="http://clubbwuatu.blogspot.com/2015/09/lost-stars-review.html">Star Wars: Lost Stars</a> with Star Wars: Weapon of a Jedi and Star Wars: Moving Target still sitting on my list of "to-read" novels.<br />
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Smuggler's Run was a fun, action packed adventure following Han Solo and Chewbacca on a mission for the Rebellion to the planet Cyrkon to rescue Ematt, a rebel who had information on where the rebels would and could relocate their base to and the contingency plans if they ran into trouble. Basically a person, who, if captured by Commander Alecia Beck (the main villain) would spell disaster for the Rebellion.<br />
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First thing I loved about the book was the way that the prologue (and later I found the epilogue too) are set during the time period of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. You meet Han Solo as an "old man" in the prologue and it's pretty obvious that this "old man" is none other than the one Han Solo, about to tell a story regarding the speed of the Millennium Falcon. The prologue is enough to get anybody who is a fan of Han Solo and Chewbacca hooked into the story that follows.<br />
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Greg Rucka does an amazing job at capturing the dialogue with Han. Every time Han spoke I could hear Harrison Ford's voice, especially between him and Chewie. Also, when Han kept referring to Princess Leia by a variety of nicknames including "Your Shining Royalness" it sounded as if it had been taken out of deleted scenes from A New Hope. Han knows how to get Princess Leia worked up and he does so wonderfully, which is totally in his character. Two thumbs up for Rucka on this!<br />
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Han's character also goes through some character development, which is always a great thing to include in a novel. It adds depth to the story and makes the novel more than just a fun adventure; it reveals a deeper meaning to life. A great novel will not only tell a fun story, but comment on and suggest to the reader a deeper meaning to life. In this novel, trust is revealed as containing deeper meaning than Han originally understands. Han learns a bit about how to trust, something he's never been good at. At a certain point in the story, Han and Ematt are discussing how the bounty hunters found them and Ematt points out it might not only be by betrayal (even though unfortunately it was, sort of). The following dialogue is my favorite out of the whole book:<br />
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"Betrayal isn't the only option."<br />
"Yeah, well, it's the one I'm used to."<br />
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Ematt was sounding an awful lot like the old man had.<br />
"Trust isn't given, it's earned," Solo said. "Like friendship."<br />
"You must be very lonely," Ematt said.<br />
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This is part of Han's growth as a character and we see this growth in The Empire Strikes Back when Han is way more trusting (in Luke and in Princess Leia) than he ever was in A New Hope.<br />
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Last thing I want to mention about this book is that my favorite character in the book is someone I was not expecting. I, of course, love Han and Chewie, but they weren't my favorite characters in this book. My favorite character was Torrent. I loved meeting Torrent. Torrent (or TX-828) was a stormtrooper in Commander Alecia Beck's company. He was a clone, probably one of the very few who was based off of the original Kamino-produced template (Jango Fett). I enjoyed the fact that we were introduced to his character and rather than just being a normal stormtrooper, we got to see him take off his helmet, reveal his nickname from his off-time in the barracks, and pretty much rock his job as a stormtrooper; he even was a good shot unlike most of the other stormtroopers. Torrent brought humanity and personality into the stormtroopers and that was fun to read.<br />
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Star Wars: Smuggler's run is a must-read for anyone interested in the new novels as we Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens. I give it my whole-hearted approval.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15536029501364227830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1312057817592063833.post-89557496824632231562015-09-11T15:14:00.001-07:002016-01-12T04:24:19.018-08:00Lost Stars Review<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My first few thoughts as I picked up Star Wars: Lost Stars by Claudia Gray: <i>A young-adult (YA) Star Wars Romeo and Juliet novel? Am I too old for this? Well, I read The Hunger Games </i><i>and they are in the YA genre, </i><i>didn't I? Yes. How is this different? Hmm...well, this story is focused around a romance and I'm a guy. Does that matter? Only if the story isn't good, then it would definitely matter. So...do I want to risk it? YES, it's Star Wars!</i> And then I dove right in.<br />
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Immediately I found I cared deeply for the characters, which is a high mark for the book already. If an author can create believable characters that tug at my heart, then I'm sold. From the first page, I felt like I could relate to Thane and smiled as the events of Thane meeting Ciena for the first time were portrayed. It brought me back to my own time in Elementary School. As I journeyed with Thane, I felt his pain as if I was a friend standing by that couldn't do anything as his father physically abused him and, conversely, cheered for him and Ciena as they grew to be good friends and awesome pilots.<br />
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I was pleased to see them head off to the Academy on Coruscant so we could get a glimpse of life on the famous planet. I found myself relating their time in the academy to my own experience of high school (and I imagine to most peoples' experience in high school). The academic competition, the awkwardness of hormones, the fragility of friendship that isn't rooted deeply, and the broken friendship which would take years to heal were all things that I had also, to some degree, experienced in my own life. Because of this reality, I was hooked even more deeply into this story because I wanted to see how Thane and Ciena dealt with the brokenness of their pasts. Thane had authority issues stemming from his broken relationship with his father. A reality that many have in our world today! To that extent Thane struggled to believe in the goodness of those in authority over him at the academy, almost pushing too hard and risked getting himself and Ciena dismissed from the Academy. Ciena had a more wholesome family life growing up, rooted deeply in the honor of her culture. Honor meant everything to her, which played a role in how she viewed and acted in the novel. This honor prevented her from the seeing the corruption that was in front of her because she believed the Imperial authorities also had the same honor (which most didn't). This honor ultimately led to her never-wavering decision to be an officer in the Empire, even after seeing its corruption. Thane, on the other hand, couldn't bear the atrocities he witnessed and eventually joined the rebelling, putting him and Ciena on opposite sides of the war, unable to be together.<br />
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This was such a great setup to the Romeo and Juliet archetypal story that Claudia Gray was writing. Rather than put them on opposite sides of the conflict to begin with (which happens in Romeo and Juliet), Gray had Thane and Ciena grow up together, become close friends, and then find themselves drawn to opposite ends of the war, while still trying to love each other. Thane and Ciena were friends <i>first</i> and not only friends, but best friends. This is the way a romance should be. Romance should never be divorced from friendship (not that all friendships are romantic because most are not, but a relationship leading to marriage should always be grounded in a friendship). I was very pleased to see this relationship start as best friends. In writing a Romeo and Juliet type of story, it also meant that Gray had to reconcile (or try to reconcile) the fact that these two people love each other and the galactic conflict is keeping them apart. In Romeo and Juliet there were only a few outcomes of their personal situation: running away (getting out of the system that is preventing the relationship), revolution (change the system that is preventing the relationship), or suicide (the removal of oneself entirely from the system). Romeo and Juliet, of course, try to run away, but they both end up committing suicide (the Shakespearean tragedy). For Thane and Ciena, running away isn't an option because Ciena lives a life of honor and running away would be dishonorable. Suicide seems to be an option (Ciena accepts this as her way out near the end of the novel, but Thane prevents her in the nick of time). So, ultimately, suicide is not an option. Revolution, lastly, seems to be the answer for Thane and Ciena. They must change the system, overthrow the Empire (at least Thane believe so). The end of the novel leaves this last piece of the story in limbo and we don't find out what eventually will happen to Thane and Ciena (not yet anyways). Although Ciena is away from the Empire, she is a captive held by the New Republic when the story ends still leaving these two star-crossed lovers on opposing sides of the continuing war.<br />
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I really enjoyed this novel, it was written at a quick pace that kept my attention and the characters were believable. I loved the many cameos and insights into the events in the Original Trilogy! I kept grinning every time one came up (opening scene aboard the Devastator, the imperials sent to Dantooine, Hoth, Wedge Antilles, Dak Ralter, Mon Mothma and Admiral Ackbar to name a few). I also really appreciated the fact that this novel brought humanity to the Imperials. The Imperial officers and pilots had names, backgrounds and their own stories, which made me much more empathetic to the Empire as a whole and recognize there were good people in the Empire. It made the conflict between the Empire and Rebellion not as black and white as I used to view it.<br />
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Another aspect of the novel that was great was the implicit reference to God. Ciena points out one of the ways in which we know that God exists, through the natural world (she is, of course, referring to the existence of the Force, not God, but the same principle is applied to God). Ciena says, "Believing in something greater than ourselves isn't crazy. It's proof we're sane. Look how vast the galaxy is. Don't you have to admit we can't be the greatest power within it?" (pg. 292).<br />
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Lastly I want to briefly address some of the issues I had with this novel because there were some. I did not like the passing reference to Thane perhaps being gay (even though it was in the context of a joke), the passing reference to gender change and the explicit references (not obscene) to the sexual act. These things in the novel added nothing to the story and are not needed whatsoever to tell a compelling story about the relationship between Thane and Ciena; sex is not needed to tell the story. Additionally, it spoiled the characters' purity before marriage, which our culture doesn't care about anymore. The sexual act itself is not something that (to my knowledge) has never been directly referenced in Star Wars novels (it's of course implied, but never directly like it was in this novel). The direct reference to the sexual act is unfortunate, in my opinion, because Star Wars is supposed to be this fun, innocent and magical galaxy, telling the story of good versus evil that is appropriate for all ages. With the sexual act being casually thrown out there as if it were ordinary, it damages the sacredness of the marital act <b>within</b> marriage where it is supposed to be (Thane and Ciena were not married). None of these topics should be referenced this casually in this galaxy far far away (<a href="http://clubbwuatu.blogspot.com/2015/09/aftermath-thoughts.html">I took similar issue with Chuck Wendig's Star Wars: Aftermath novel</a>). Because of this, I am worried about the direction of the new Star Wars novels. If sex and sexuality are going to be a continuing theme (even if it's only in passing) in the novels, I will have to start to think twice about reading them. Star Wars is not the place for this and I am disappointed with the seeming agenda in these new Star Wars novels to promote sex outside of marriage and the LGBT identity as commonplace and normal.<br />
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Overall, though, I really enjoyed this book. If I could cut out the 5-6 sentences that referenced sexuality, it would be a fantastic, wholesome, novel. The characters were great, I related deeply to them and rooted for them. I also loved the revelation we got at the end as to how the Star Destroyer ended up crashed on Jakku. It adds a whole new light to the teaser trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Well done!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15536029501364227830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1312057817592063833.post-64451137515196189552015-09-06T09:38:00.000-07:002015-09-11T21:26:35.032-07:00Aftermath Thoughts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Star Wars: Aftermath, with such incredible hype and expectation among Star Wars fans everywhere, I need not even say I was excited for this book, but I was excited for this book. Excited enough that I pre-ordered it on Amazon and on #ForceFriday I couldn't wait for it to be delivered so I ended up going to Barnes & Noble to buy it before the box was delivered. My intention is to give the Amazon ordered book to my friend and fellow Star Wars blogger of this blog, <a href="https://plus.google.com/112084052473564354467">Sean Heller</a> (ironically the Amazon shipment experienced a transit delay by 1-2 days so it worked out that I went ahead and bought a copy). I finished reading Star Wars: Aftermath last night.</div>
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This post is a review of the Star Wars: Aftermath with mainly just my stream of consciousness regarding the novel. I did not read any reviews before reading Aftermath, the only hint I had in what was to come was the <a href="http://www.starwars.com/news/chaos-throttles-the-capital-in-star-wars-aftermath-special-excerpt">sanctioned preview</a> that StarWars.com gave us in July. This post may contain minor spoilers, so read at your own risk. In this post I do not wish to be harsh and negative but I plan to speak my mind. All opinions are my own and the truth is the truth. </div>
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First thing I noticed about Aftermath is Chuck Wendig's writing style. He writes Star Wars: Aftermath in the third person <i>present</i> tense and uses short pointed sentences with many colons, parenthetical notes, and similes. From what I've gathered from other reviewers, this seems common to Wendig's writing style in general. I have to admit that I found it jarring and didn't appreciate it. I have never seen the present tense used in Star Wars literature before and rather than settling into the tense and feeling the urgency it created (which for many readers it accomplished just that and was successful), I kept stumbling over the tense and did not like it. I also am used to a longer, more fluid and descriptive writing style, so Wendig's short blocky structure also threw me off. I felt like I was reading stage directions and had to reorient myself each chapter (which was very often). That being said, I don't wish to be harsh, I'm sure Wendig's style works amazingly well in his other novels (I have not read them) and it did add a sense of urgency, which I did pick up on as well. I just didn't feel it worked well for this book.</div>
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I was hoping to see more of Luke, Han, and Leia. Han and Chewie show up very briefly and I wanted to follow them, but couldn't. Wendig introduced us to so many new characters that I had trouble keeping up and there was typically only small references to Luke, Han, and Leia. I wanted to follow their stories post-Return of the Jedi, like the Legends novels did. In the end this novel was great in that we got introduced to a variety of new characters and I got to try to guess which characters would play into the stories of the others and was pleased to see them all connect to the greater plot in the novel. I would have liked to have gotten more character development, however, because I still don't feel like I know the main characters very well and I lack an emotional connection to them. In other words, I didn't care about them.</div>
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Now for my biggest issue with Aftermath. I did not appreciate the introduction of the LGBT characters whatsoever. Being a Catholic Deacon heading into priestly ordination in the Catholic Church I have spent many years studying Theology, studying sexuality as seen in God's plan (which is reflected in the natural order of the world; in nature) and interacting with and being really good friends with those who struggle with same sex attraction who are trying to live lives of chastity and in accord with God's plan (celibacy). That being said I understand well the reality of same sex attraction in many in our world today. It is very real thing and must be understood properly in order to bring those persons true joy and happiness. True joy and happiness is found in authentic love, which can never ever be equated to a sexual relationship, which our culture tends to suggest. Authentic love as revealed by Jesus Christ is this: "Greater love has no man this, that a man lays down his life for his friends." (John 15:13, RSV). Those who have same sex attraction are called, just like everyone in this world, to love authentically (which may or may not include a hetero-sexual physical relationship). Authentic love does not mean sex. Marriage as God intended it to be is between one man and one woman and it has, by its very nature, a unitive and a procreative aspect. Marriage unites a couple and produces children. Neither can be separated or else marriage becomes selfish. Gay marriage breaks the essence of marriage; gay marriage is not, and can never be, life-giving (it ceases to produce children). I preached a homily about this reality of marriage, and you can read it <a href="http://roamincatholicwyo.blogspot.com/2015/06/holy-order-gods-plan-for-marriage-and.html">here</a> to understand more.</div>
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Now I am not suggesting that those who have same sex attraction should never be included in novels, because I'm not. That is a reality in our world that can be real in novels too. I am saying that those who have same sex attraction in novels should not be used in a way that promotes an agenda, <b>I do not know Wendig's reason for including them so I am not implying Wendig has an agenda here</b>. But what I do see is that Wendig portrays a gay marriage (two women) as completely normal and natural. He also reveals that one of the major male heroes of the novel is not attracted to women. Both of these aspects of Aftermath seemed to be awkward and not at all necessary to the story. They seemed to be added only as a way of revealing that gay marriage and a gay hero exist in Star Wars. It seems to be a way of "normalizing" gay marriage and the gay identity as something normal, even admirable. <i>I mean, it's in Star Wars and isn't portrayed as wrong or out of the ordinary, so it must be good, right?</i> No. This is not healthy. Same sex attraction is a very real thing, but it is not natural and shouldn't be admired, nor promoted as something healthy and normal (again with the proper understanding that in itself the same-sex inclination is not sinful, but acting out on the inclination is; also recognizing that same-sex attraction is a disordered desire, just as a lustful inclination in any sense, heterosexual or homosexual, is a disordered desire). I was disappointed to see that in a Star Wars novel. Star Wars should be a magical place in a galaxy "far far away" and this just brings it closer to earth and less magical. Even the seemingly obvious referen<span style="font-family: inherit;">ce to a Star Wars Settler's of Catan board game in the novel seemed too close to home. I want to go to a galaxy far far away, not stay here on Earth. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This blog post is not meant to attack Chuck Wendig or hurt his reputation. I think he is a good author and I just had </span>thoughts<span style="font-family: inherit;"> on his novel, Star Wars: Aftermath, that I wanted to share. In no way do I condone or encourage attacks on Chuck Wendig as an author because Aftermath is not the Star Wars EU or for any other reason. That is malicious and unwarranted and I want everyone treated with the dignity and respect they deserve as human persons who are uniquely creative as authors too. </span></div>
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Vergere is one of the most intriguing characters in the <i><a href="http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars_Legends">Star Wars Legends</a>: </i><a href="http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/The_New_Jedi_Order"><i>The New Jedi Order</i></a> book series. She is Jedi. She is Sith. She is both. Or, perhaps, she is neither. She was a Jedi during the Old Republic during which time she was also a rogue student of the Force, apparently studying Count Dooku and encountering Darth Sidious, eventually becoming a student of his and a candidate to become a Sith under him. After noticing Darth Sidious' greed and utter compulsion to rule, Vergere realized Sidious' plan would devastatingly destroy the galaxy and attempted to stop him by killing him, but failed. Vergere escaped Sidious' retaliation by accepting a Jedi mission to visit the plant Zonama Sekot, where she met the Yuuzhan Vong and left the galaxy to live with them for fifty years (according to Lumiya's account of Vergere in <i>Star Wars Legends: Legacy of the Force: Betrayal</i>). She returned with the Yuuzhan Vong in their invasion of the galaxy and played both sides of the war, betraying both the Yuuzhan Vong and the New Republic, seemingly on her own whims. Eventually she participated in the capture of Jacen Solo by the Yuuzhan Vong and helped torture him in order to teach him the truth about the Force and to help him embrace his destiny. Vergere, with Jacen, escaped the Yuuzhan Vong to return to the fledgeling government of the New Republic where she encountered Luke Skywalker in <i>Star Wars Legends: The New Jedi Order: Destiny's Way. </i>She sacrificed her life for Jacen so that he wouldn't be killed by the Yuuzhan Vong and would be able to follow his destiny (which eventually led to his decent to the dark side as Darth Caedus in the <i>Star Wars Legends:</i> <i><a href="http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Legacy_of_the_Force">Legacy of the Force</a></i> book series).<br />
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Regardless of what she truly is and where her true loyalties lie, Vergere is one of the most philosophical characters that appears (just read <i>Star Wars Legends: The New Jedi Order: Traitor </i>by Matthew Stover). She even offers pointed advice to Luke Skywalker, which challenges him to step out of his pre-conceived notions and look at his beliefs about the Force from a different perspective. In particular she makes some incredibly insightful comments on human emotion that are worth looking at. First however, to gain a bit of context before looking at human emotion, the Jedi and Sith Codes, respectively, must be analyzed.<br />
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The Jedi and Sith Codes are embodiments of ideals on two opposite ends of a spectrum of thought regarding the Force. Both are extreme in their positions. While the Jedi Code advocates for no emotion to attain peace, the Sith Code pushes the opposite: peace is a lie so there is only passion (emotion). Both of these statements are the starting points for both codes and the following statements are built upon these two principles. The Jedi Code promotes peace, knowledge, serenity, harmony and life in the Force, all seemingly good things, at least on the surface. The Sith Code promotes passion, strength, power, victory and freedom in the Force, also seemingly good things on the surface. Both codes spell out a way to live life, but both codes are opposite each other in the extreme, hence why one is the Jedi Code and the other the Sith Code.</div>
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Living life in any extreme is dangerous. Balance is needed in order to have a good and healthy life. One way to look at these two Codes in light of trying to life a balanced life would be to see these as embodiments of two other extremes in our world today: rationalism and sentimentalism. Rationalism is a belief that emotions can be understood completely rationally, which usually leads to a lack of emotional affectivity (being moved by one's emotions) because emotions are something one can understand intellectually, put in a nice clean box, and stored away. This is what the first two statements of the Jedi Code seem to be getting at. "There is no emotion, there is peace. There is no ignorance, there is knowledge." Knowledge is more important than emotions. Or rather, knowledge of emotions is necessary so that one can attain this supposed lack of emotion to achieve peace. When emotion is gone, it seems to claim, so is passion and chaos. This is a faulty understanding of human emotion and affectivity! Human emotion is not nearly as simple as that nor can it ever be truly contained and understood through knowledge. Many people try to do this and end up suppressing their emotions, which leads to consequences later in life, where that suppressed emotion resurfaces since it was never healthily dealt with, only suppressed. </div>
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Sentimentalism, on the other extreme, is an attitude of relishing one's own feelings to excess, which echoes the Sith Code fairly well. One could think that since emotions are not as simple as the Jedi Code asserts, it would be good to engage in them fully. The Sith Code doesn't try to ignore emotions, but it relishes them. Since the peace that the Jedi Code asserts is a lie, unchecked passion leads to strength, power and victory according to the Sith Code. This is also problematic with the true nature of humanity because unchecked passion actually leaves a person a slave to them. A person's emotions and desires, their passions, when unchecked, lead one's mind to submit to whatever the emotions are inclined toward. Emotions do not affect the will of a person directly, but indirectly (since experience shows us that emotions influence our thoughts, but don't ultimately make decisions for us). But since "the judgement of the reason often follows the passion of the sensitive appetite, and consequently the will's movement follows it also" (<a href="http://www.newadvent.org/summa/2077.htm">St. Thomas Aquinas I-II q. 77, a. 1</a>), an unchecked passion can lead to a defect in the will of a person, a person who is inclined to follow the whims of his or her passions, making him or her a slave to them.</div>
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"The term 'passions' belongs to the Christian patrimony. Feelings or passions are emotions or movements of the sensitive appetite that incline us to act or not to act in regard to something felt or imagined to be good or evil." (<a href="http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P5V.HTM">Catechism of the Catholic Church no. 1763</a>) Passions or emotions, then, are movements within a person that prompt one to act for a perceived good or avoid a perceived evil. In themselves they are neither good nor evil, but are part of the natural human psyche. They are part of what makes us human. They are not meant to be suppressed nor engaged without restraint.</div>
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Emotions, then, incline one to a perceived good and to avoid a perceived evil within the day to day events of human life. How that is to be done is what the Jedi and Sith Codes are formulated to answer. But, the answer to this question is found not in either code, but in the middle of the two extremes, the mean, or average, between them. The philosopher, Aristotle himself, is helpful here. He discussed human disposition in <a href="http://web.mnstate.edu/gracyk/courses/web%20publishing/AristotleVirtueAsMean.htm">chapter 8</a> of <i>Nicomachean Ethics </i>and says, "There are three kinds of disposition, then, two of them vices, involving excess and deficiency respectively, and one a virtue, viz. the mean, and all are in a sense opposed to all; for the extreme states are contrary both to the intermediate state and to each other, and the intermediate to the extremes; as the equal is greater relatively to the less, less relatively to the greater, so the middle states are excessive relatively to the deficiencies, deficient relatively to the excesses, both in passions and in actions." Aristotle goes on to clarify by using the virtue of courage to illustrate his point. Courage is the mean between the two extremes of rashness and cowardice. A man who is a coward has an excess of fear in him, preventing him from acting all together. A rash man has a deficiency of fear, encouraging him to act recklessly and dangerously, putting his own life in jeopardy. It is the courageous man who has the balance within himself to act appropriately in regards to the fear within himself.</div>
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So human emotion is not something that should be suppressed (an attempt to understand rationally and locked away) or given into completely making one a slave, but is something that must be acknowledged, felt completely, understood fully, and acted on appropriately with human reason. This is the mean between the extremes found between the Jedi and Sith Codes. Luke Skywalker encounters this truth when he encounters Vergere in the novel <i>Star Wars Legends: The New Jedi Order: Destiny's Way</i>.</div>
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Luke Skywalker, still learning and still growing, lacked mentors in this area of human growth and had to learn mostly on his own (Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda both being gone early in Luke's formation). So in his desire to rebuild the Jedi Order, Luke did his best to embody the ideals of the Jedi Code, which he had known through his study of the Jedi of the Old Republic, thus advocating that emotion is bad and should be lacking in a true Jedi. Vergere attacks this belief, and rightly so, pointing Luke towards a truer understanding of human nature. She immediately asks him, "Do you believe that nature would have given us traits such as anger and aggression if they were not useful?" (p. 182). Vergere rightly points out that Luke's belief that all emotion is bad is incorrect. She also points out the fault in both the Jedi and Sith Code as well, "An unchecked passion produces actions that are hasty, ill considered, and often destructive. Serenity, on the other hand, may well result in no action at all - and when it does, serenity produces actions that proceed from knowledge and liberation, if not from wisdom," (p. 182). Unchecked passion, then, is just as bad as complete serenity (or a complete lack of passion, in this sense). Vergere goes on to explain that anger (a dangerous emotion from Luke's perspective) is actually natural and part of human nature, "Young Master, it is my contention that the anger you experienced was natural and useful. I caused <i>deliberate harm</i> - pain and anguish and suffering, over a period of weeks - to a young man for whom you had accepted responsibility and for whom you felt a measure of love. <i>Naturally </i>you felt anger. <i>Naturally </i>you wanted to break my thin little neck. It is absolutely natural, when you discover that a person has inflicted deliberate pain on a helpless victim, to feel angry with that person. It is equally an emotion as to feel compassion for the victim," (p. 183). Luke had berated himself for feeling angry, but Vergere points out how natural it truly is and not evil in and of itself. She goes on to point out that the emotion that Luke felt was neither good nor evil in itself but what he did with it could have been either, "You are correct when you said that if you had entered my cell and struck out at me with the Force, that such an action would have been dark. But you didn't. Instead your anger prompted you to speak to me and find out the reasons for my actions. To that extent, your anger was not only natural but <i>useful</i>. It led to understanding on both our parts," (p. 183). Vergere points out the immense responsibility to understand our emotions as a way to live a balanced life in the good and shows Luke exactly how he did just that. She asks him, "My rhetorical questions is this:<i> why wasn't your anger dark?</i> And my answer is: <i>because you understood it.</i> You understood the cause of the emotion, and therefore it did not seize power over you" (p. 184). Vergere is showing Luke that he didn't let his emotion make him a slave, nor did he rationalize it away in suppression, which he had been tempted to do. She profoundly tells him, "<b>Unreasoning passion is the province of darkness,</b>" (p. 184). And she continues to explain, "But an understood emotion is not unreasoning. That is why the route to mastery is through self-knowledge." She is saying that knowledge is good, but not knowledge that pushes emotions aside, knowledge that aids the interpretation and healthy response to emotions. "It is not possible to suppress all emotion, nor is it desirable. An emotionless person is no more than a machine. But to understand the origin and nature of one's feelings, that <i>is</i> possible," (p. 184). Vergere recognizes how easy it is to become a slave to emotion and warns Luke, "When you are in the grip of an irresistible compulsion, it is then that you feel most like yourself. But in reality it was <i>you </i>who were passive then. You let the feeling control you," (p. 184). </div>
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Luke walked away from that encounter with Vergere lightyears wiser than he was before, and this marked a turning point, not only in the war against the Yuuzhan Vong, but in Luke's own growth as a character. He comes to realize how natural human emotion is and how dangerous it is to suppress it or give it unbridled reign. The wisdom gained here is the reason Luke goes on to become the Grand Master of the Jedi in the later book series. As Luke learns and grows in wisdom, so are we able to if we are willing to let the little Fosh Jedi/Sith Vergere teach us about our own human nature through the words of Walter Jon Williams who wrote <i>Star Wars Legends: The New Jedi Order: Destiny's Way</i>. </div>
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The character growth of Luke is a reason why he is such a great character even now and why these book series are still just as relevant, even if they are not officially part of the "canon" of Star Wars. The Legends books are still being published so if you're tempted to ignore them, I urge you not to. They have some great stories to tell in them, just as we have some great stories coming up with the new movie, <i>Star Wars: The Force Awakens</i><i> </i>this December, and the other movies and upcoming novels (<i>Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens</i> hits bookstores on September 4!). I am so excited to see and read what stories the Disney Story Group and Del Rey have in store for us in the Star Wars universe. Get ready, because here they come!</div>
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I have been an Apple guy when it comes to computers since 2008 when my older brother convinced me to buy my first iMac. Since then I have also gotten an iPhone and have definitely been involved in the Apple ecosystem. This summer I had been looking around trying to find the best tablet device for taking handwritten notes with superior palm rejection technology along with the ability to run some of the older games I was feeling nostalgic for (basically, older Windows based games including my personal favorite: the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Quest">Space Quest</a> series & of course the various Star Wars PC games). This led me to look at Windows based PCs once again (I grew up on them, but hadn't used one in years). Unfortunately Apple's iPad does not do so well in the palm rejection field of handwritten notes on a tablet, but Microsoft's Surface Pro does phenomenal. So, long story short, I purchased my first Surface Pro 3 about a month ago. I'm still learning how to work with it and only just discovered the built-in app called Fresh Paint. This app allows a person to draw using various art utensils and styles (acrylic, water-color, crayon, etc.). I started playing around with it and decided to put my art skills to the test (I don't brag them up by any means, in fact I don't consider myself an artist at all). I drew up what I think is a pretty neat little logo, one that I have decided to adapt for the blog.<br />
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The idea that I tried to capture in this drawing was a feeling of old and new when it came to Star Wars. The lightsaber is obvious for what it is, I just drew it without any reference point (I did not intentionally make it look like any single person's lightsaber, just a generic one). Green because green is my favorite lightsaber color. The background symbol is that of the <a href="http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Legacy_era">Legacy Era</a> of the Star Wars Legends (EU) universe. This era contains my favorite stories including the <a href="http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Legacy_of_the_Force">Legacy of the Force</a> series, the <a href="http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Fate_of_the_Jedi">Fate of the Jedi</a> series, and the <a href="http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars:_Legacy">Legacy comic</a> series. That symbol represents the old that I love so much and will carry with me into the future. BB-8 represents the new. He is one of the new characters coming in The Force Awakens and will keep the ball rolling (so to speak) into the future of Star Wars.<br />
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I hope that I am able to convey those sentiments with that drawing (a drawing I'm pretty impressed with considering my lack of talent). I'll leave it up to you, the reader, to find any other meanings beyond what I intentionally placed in the logo.<br />
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I also got our Twitter account up and running so be sure to follow Sean and I there: <a href="https://twitter.com/clubbwuatu">@clubbwuatu</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15536029501364227830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1312057817592063833.post-84369739564900378072015-07-30T15:36:00.000-07:002015-09-11T21:39:45.381-07:00It's Like Endor Out There.<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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So, apparently if you've ever wanted to know how the Forest Moon of Endor feels like, just go to the Big Horn Mountains in Wyoming.<br />
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Yesterday, a Catholic priest friend, <a href="http://wyohess.blogspot.com/">Fr. Brian Hess</a>, and I headed up into the Big Horn Mountains to go camping. Rather than just tent camping we had something else in mind for this trip. We reserved and camped in the <a href="http://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/bighorn/recreation/recarea/?recid=30588&actid=64">Sheep Mountain Lookout Tower</a>, located in the Big Horn Mountains near Buffalo, WY. This is a historic fire lookout tower constructed in 1950 which sits atop Sheep Mountain. It served as a fire lookout tower until the early 1970's and has since been cleaned up and now anybody can go online and reserve it overnight to go camp up there. It sits right at about 9,600 feet above sea level and the view is absolutely phenomenal. The building itself is square with windows on all four sides so one can see out in every direction. <br />
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Being up in the mountains with the beautiful forest surrounding me I couldn't help but stand in admiration of God's handiwork in all of creation. It is incredible what beauty nature holds.<br />
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That evening we saw three mule deer bucks as they scrounged around for food up near the tower. The night sky was clear and since the full moon is close, we got a good view of the moon itself, but less so of a star-filled sky, which would have been awesome as well. The morning brought a couple more deer to the area as we drank coffee and watched the sun rise higher into the sky. I also took that opportunity to look up a geocache that was on the same mountain and find it.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPHFu8TNOETS5QkuZjpYxO3S9KeFA1bNdh-9NJMCx1ME84xJ9Ar97Z5RuQEL8ksAi-f9kASRFG8X1CxaMdv9rtphyknr-uPRRtiJLShdNdpgPCihH6qJQRqgEBzPYYz-Jf1RJbucYa8mU/s1600/couverture-jango-fett-open-seasons-tpb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPHFu8TNOETS5QkuZjpYxO3S9KeFA1bNdh-9NJMCx1ME84xJ9Ar97Z5RuQEL8ksAi-f9kASRFG8X1CxaMdv9rtphyknr-uPRRtiJLShdNdpgPCihH6qJQRqgEBzPYYz-Jf1RJbucYa8mU/s320/couverture-jango-fett-open-seasons-tpb.jpg" width="210" /></a>Since I had a little quiet time, I decided to catch up on some reading that I've been trying to do. I finished my second read through of C.S. Lewis' Perelandra (2nd of his Space Trilogy), I am reading it with a friend. When that was finished, I picked up and read Dark Horse Comics' <a href="http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Jango_Fett:_Open_Seasons">Star Wars: Jango Fett - Open Seasons</a>. This comic has been on my shelf all summer to read and I'm pleased I finally got to it. This is the second new Star Wars literature (new to me, not new in publish date) I've read this summer, the first being <a href="http://twitter.com/christiegolden">Christie Golden</a>'s new novel, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Disciple-Christie-Golden/dp/0345511530">Star Wars: Dark Disciple</a> (which, by the way, was fantastic! I hope to write a post on that too). Anyways, I am a big fan of Jango Fett and I'm probably in the minority when I say this but I like him more than Boba Fett. I think for me this is true because after seeing Star Wars: Attack of the Clones in theaters was when I really got into Star Wars and Jango Fett was a big part of the plot. That being said anything in the Star Wars EU that explores Jango Fett is great by me. The comic itself was good, giving his backstory and how he became the template for the clone army in Attack of the Clones. This is of course one version of that story, with the video game, "Star Wars: Bounty Hunter" giving a different version. Personally, I prefer the story in the video game since I owned and loved playing the PlayStation 2 version of "Bounty Hunter" when I was younger. At any rate, the comic was enjoyable, although definitely too brief for my liking. Maybe in the new canon Jango's character will be explored a bit more, but I won't get my hopes up.<br />
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All-in-all a fantastic little overnight trip into the Big Horn Mountains. I love to get out and go camping and so this was a slightly different experience for me. Ultimately I would say that my preference would be to camp near a mountain stream, but this kind of camping, perched atop a mountain, definitely had its own awesomeness too. The beauty in creation and some great literature proved to be a good combination for me.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">JJ Abrams is starting to
impress me a bit, I am a little skeptical mostly because of how much he changed
the world of Star Trek with his movies. But hearing him have so much respect
for the fans, and the story itself is very redeeming for me. Also back at Star
Wars Celebration hearing him say he has taken some steps back from CGI and
going more the original route is great, it allows a more natural filing style.
And to top it all off he invited everyone, all 6,000+ to a concert even more
impressing. </span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The panel itself was
bigger than I expected it to be. after seeing <span style="color: #343434;">Daisy
Ridley, John Boyega, and Oscar Isaac, they are considered the good guys, it was
great to meet some of the Dark Side, Adam Driver, Gwendoline Christie, and
Domhnall Gleeson. Why? well the whole star wars universe is based on the Light
vs Dark side of the force, and seeing more dark side actors for me was
a plus. I just hope these characters are up to the task, there have been
some great dark side characters portrayed in the movies, Darth
Maul, Count Duku, and of course Darth Vader. So i hope these actors are up
to the task of playing a live action dark side character. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; font-family: Arial;">It was great
to see Mark Hamil and Carrie Fisher again, I always enjoying seeing them talk. I
found it great that Mark openly admitted that he flunked a Star Wars quiz.
The cherry on top was Harrison Ford! Seeing him walk out on stage was awesome!
He isn't the biggest fan of these events so to see him come on stage was
jaw dropping. I think he is excited for this as well. Seeing Han,
Luke and Leia all together brought back fond memories
of watching the movies I think i may have to do my annual movie-</span>thon<span style="color: #343434; font-family: Arial;">
of the star wars movies, perhaps when my kid is born I will get them
started on the right foot. Harrison stole the show, fans were
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<span style="color: #343434; font-family: Arial;">Sadly no
new trailer for the movie, we have to wait until the fall
for that, but we did see some behind the scenes footage. This is
going to be a fun few months leading up to the movie. It may be a bit
until I post again, we shall see when this Kid arrives, until then
"It will take a few moments to get the coordinates from the navi
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09506038379982765642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1312057817592063833.post-39255515035695824022015-07-07T20:38:00.001-07:002015-07-07T20:39:30.786-07:00Hello All<div class="MsoNormal">
Hello all, My Name is Sean Heller, and you could say I am relatively
new to the whole universe created around Star Wars. I have always been a Star
Wars fan, but never really have gone beyond the Movies and occasional video
games, until recently. With Disney purchasing the rights of Star Wars I decided
to jump into all of this to see what it was all about. <o:p></o:p></div>
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A bit of a back-story. I got into Star Wars when I was very
young. I saw the digital remakes of A New Hope and The Emperor Strikes Back in
movie theaters with my Dad. But it took a while for me to see Return of the
Jedi. I was able to see the prequels multiple times in the movie theaters. I
then proceeded to get into the video game side of star wars. I spent hours and
hours playing Star Wars Jedi Power Battles for the PlayStation great game I
enjoyed playing through the story arc of The Phantom Menace as a Jedi. I also
spent many hours playing Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic which is where I
became very interested in the Old Republic. The Old Republic era is where I
find myself reading the most books. I find it fascinating to see how much the
story has evolved from the movies, and to see how the many writes have created
a whole universe around these movies.</div>
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I am very excited to see where the Star Wars universe is
headed. After celebration Anaheim I am counting the days to see the new
movie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As far as the new cannon is concerned,
I am a little hesitant mostly due to the fact that I want to make sure it stays
as great as it has always been, but I feel this is the best move to make new
movies and continue the story we all love without having the constraints of a
the EU to follow, and hey now Chewbacca live! Andrew and I look forward to
exploring this universe with you all. Until next time be on the look out for
droids. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09506038379982765642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1312057817592063833.post-16026764134581227342015-07-06T19:22:00.002-07:002015-08-24T20:19:37.172-07:00The Ultimate Fanboy MomentYesterday I experienced the ultimate Star Wars fanboy moment! I had the immense pleasure of meeting this famous girl whom I've seen over and over again on YouTube (and so has more than 22 million other people)! If you haven't seen her adorable video describing Star Wars: A New Hope, check it out below.<br />
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I saw her and her family and ran over to them to introduce myself and, not feeling at all ashamed, I went on to tell her I was one of her "fans" and that I had seen her on YouTube many times, loving it each time. She just looked up at me with a big smile and beamed. I got to spend just a short amount of time talking to her and her mom about Star Wars and her experience and I made a point to ask her if she was going to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens in December, and of course the answer was "yes!" She was one of the coolest young Star Wars fans I've been able to meet, a young girl in a great family. <br />
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I absolutely loved every minute of the experience of talking to her and definitely had a big fanboy moment (still not ashamed). Not that she is some super famous actress (like Carrie Fisher or Natalie Portman), but she is a young fan of Star Wars who is known throughout YouTube because of her video. Even so, that is not what makes her special, what makes her special is that she is a kind young girl, living a normal life with her family. I feel incredibly privileged to have gotten to meet her in person and not just know her by watching her video on YouTube when she was 3 and melting every time I see it (even though I'll still do just that). <br />
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"<a href="https://youtu.be/EBM854BTGL0?t=1m19s">Don't talk back to Darth Vader, he'll getcha!</a>"<br />
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If you want to read more, check out her dad's original <a href="http://www.fistofblog.com/2008/02/22/z-wars/">blog post here</a>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15536029501364227830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1312057817592063833.post-34782331788335877382015-04-19T20:57:00.000-07:002015-08-24T20:14:33.429-07:00Star Wars Celebration Anaheim<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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What a awesome weekend to be a Star Wars fan with Star Wars Celebration Anaheim officially coming to a close this afternoon. We got many teases and treats for all the upcoming films, video games, books, and more. Star Wars: The Force Awakens got even more exciting with the surprise reveal of a new teaser trailer with Han Solo and Chewbacca making an appearance for the first time since Return of the Jedi. Star Wars: Battlefront also had a trailer to show, as did season 2 for Star Wars: Rebels. Many of our favorite people in the Star Wars galaxy were interviewed, sat in on panels, and generally hung out with the fans making this an incredible event (more on that below).<br />
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This was the first time I've ever experienced a Star Wars Celebration event. Unfortunately I couldn't actually be there in Anaheim, CA to attend the event, but I did do as much live-streaming on <a href="http://www.starwars.com/">StarWars.com</a> as possible. So I consider this the first Star Wars Celebration I've been aware of in real time (my first Star Wars Celebration will be when I'm physically able to go one). A good friend of mine, Sean, and I had a stream party Friday evening and even made some Bantha Milk drinks. It was a great time to watch the live stream of SWCA and just totally geek out together about all things Star Wars! <br />
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During J.J. Abrams and Kathleen Kennedy's panel on The Force Awakens, I was in my Theological Anthropology class so I missed the big reveal of the teaser trailer (but watched it immediately after class and was interiorly whooping with excitement!). I was able to go back later and re-watch the whole panel and am even more excited for the movie to come out in December. BB-8 astounded me. I was definitely one of those fans who was skeptical of the new little droid, but seeing the droid actually roll around the stage as a real prop (and not just CGI) I was blown away, and found I'm way more excited to see BB-8 in the movie that I originally was. Kylo Ren also has me super pumped. His whole demeanor reminds of Darth Revan from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and I've always loved that sort of demeanor in a dark character. Can't wait to see more of him. And of course, there's Han Solo and Chewbacca...I was so happy to see them in the teaser.</div>
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As the afternoon progressed I just turned on the live stream on my Mac in my room and watched as much as I was able to. Unfortunately for me, since the live stream pretty much covered only the main stage, I wasn't able to see many of the panels that I would have liked to have seen if I was there in person (such as the panels relating to the Star Wars Novels universe including panels with some of my favorite authors and I also missed the podcast stage and getting to see my favorite Star Wars podcasts up there). Even so, I got to watch Ian McDiarmid's "The Emperor Strikes Back" interview, Carrie Fisher's "A Date With the Princess," some of Ray Park's interview, the Lego Star Was panel with Anthony Daniels, some of the Star Wars: Rebels panel, the beginning part of Smuggler's Bounty, along with many of the random interviews in the Cantina with Anthony Carboni, which was awesome since the more informal setting allows for those interviews to be really cool and and off the cuff. </div>
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What I find absolutely astounding about the whole event is two-fold. First I love the fact that there are so many kids there, asking questions and just loving everything Star Wars. And second, I love the generosity of everyone involved, specially the actors/actresses of Star Wars. I was blown away by all the kids asking questions (from innocent "Who did the voice of Chopper in Star Wars Rebels?" to more probing questions "How did Captain Rex survive the Clone Wars?") and their energy and joy for Star Wars. The actors/actresses on the other side were awesome in response. Anthony Daniels interacted very well with his young fans of C-3PO and Ray Park even borrowed one kid's dual-bladed lightsaber to spar with against James Arnold Taylor and then signed it before giving it back to his young Darth Maul fan. It was incredible to see the awe and wonder that these kids have and are able to experience at such an event.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15536029501364227830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1312057817592063833.post-56294725705555826992015-03-25T18:31:00.001-07:002015-09-08T13:19:15.067-07:00Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The news came a couple weeks ago that Disney Publishing Worldwide and Lucasfilm are implementing what they are calling <a href="http://www.starwars.com/news/journey-to-star-wars-the-force-awakens-publishing-program-coming-fall-2015">Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens</a>. This is a huge publishing program that will include more than 20 books ranging from books for kids, to comics, and to all kinds of novels, all with the goal of filling in some of the gaps between Star Wars: Return of the Jedi and Star Wars: The Force Awakens. This is the first time any sort of narration will explore the unexplored time between "Return of the Jedi" and "The Force Awakens" as part of the Lucasfilm Story Group's official canon (of course the Expanded Universe had this charted out for quite some time). </div>
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The analogy that came to my mind when reading through these press releases was that of a kid transferring to a new school, and I'm that kid. I had been content and happy to live in the EU, I loved the authors that helped create the EU, and I knew the territory of the EU extremely well, having read through the New Jedi Order, Legacy of the Force, and Fate of the Jedi series multiple times. With the declaration of the EU as "Legends" and a clean slate for the storytelling, I felt like a kid being told he was moving to a new school. I had to leave most of my friends, I had to go to a new place with new people, and the direction that I would head was entirely unknown to me. Most of my friends hadn't come with me (i.e. the authors I have come to love, including, but not limited to, Timothy Zahn, Kevin J. Anderson, the late Aaron Allston, and Troy Denning), but some did (like Christie Golden who is writing "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Disciple-Star-Christie-Golden/dp/0345511530">Star Wars: Dark Disciple</a>" to be released this summer), and hopefully more will follow. New friends are to be made, like Chuck Wendig who is writing the first of a trilogy of novels set after Return of the Jedi (see below). So being the new kid in this new school, I miss what I had to leave behind terribly and want to go back, but I'm also seeing the potential of a new beginning here and am excited to venture into this new unknown territory. </div>
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So in the end this program has got me excited a great deal. These books to be released as part of Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens will lead directly into movie and I'm certain the hype is worth it. I am not particularly interested in the upcoming comics (not for lack of talent or content, I've just never been a fan of graphic novels; however, I do like Sunday comics and in particular <a href="http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/">Calvin and Hobbes</a>, <a href="http://zitscomics.com/">Zits</a>, and <a href="http://www.gocomics.com/frazz">Frazz</a>). On the other hand, I am incredibly interested in the upcoming novel releases and five of them in particular have caught my attention. (<b>UPDATE</b>: I have been reading the Legends comics recently and have really enjoyed them. Especially the Legacy comics and Jango Fett: Open Seasons. I am now interested in Shattered Empire, which is a comic to be released this fall as part of the Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens. I have not read any of the new Marvel Star Wars comics yet and Shattered Empire is first on my list).</div>
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The other Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens books are young adult novels (I'll still shamelessly buy them and read them...I still consider myself to be a young adult after all). "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Journey-Star-Wars-Force-Awakens/dp/1484724984">Lost Stars</a>" is a Romeo and Juliet sort of tale between two people on opposite sides of the galactic conflict (one is a Rebel pilot and the other is an Imperial officer). That ought to be interesting. "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Moving-Target-Adventure/dp/1484724976">Moving Target: A Princess Leia Adventure</a>", "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-The-Weapon-Jedi/dp/1484724968">The Weapon of a Jedi: A Luke Skywalker Adventure</a>", and "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Journey-Star-Wars-Smugglers-Adventure/dp/148472495X">Smuggler's Run: A Han Solo Adventure</a>" are all books set during the time period of the Original Trilogy. The Weapon of a Jedi sounds promising, we get to read about Luke's first fight with a lightsaber.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15536029501364227830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1312057817592063833.post-79330157859685714852015-03-23T19:01:00.000-07:002015-08-24T20:15:01.857-07:00You've Taken Your First Step Into a Larger WorldWell, here goes. I know that it seems like everyone has a blog out there these days talking about, quite literally, <b>everything </b>(confession: I, too, have another blog where I post my homilies that I preach along with other personal related topics: <a href="http://roamincatholicwyo.blogspot.com/">Roamin' Catholic</a>). So, it seems like all one needs is a blog to be some sort of expert on any said topic (if it's on the internet it must be true, right?). So you might think I'm going to end up doing just the same thing as everyone else out there, being an expert on everything and nothing because of this blog...and you'd be absolutely right.<br />
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The idea behind this blog that Sean Heller (a great friend of mine and fellow Star Wars fan) and I are putting together here, "Club Bwua'tu" (a name taken from the Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi series for an organization within the Galactic Alliance trying to uncover the various conspiracies bent on total galactic anarchy - <a href="http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Club_Bwua'tu">see the wookieepedia</a>) is for Sean and I to have an outlet where we can discuss what we think is interesting and fun regarding the exciting world of Star Wars with a Catholic perspective (whether overt or not in our posts). I hope it to be a fairly geeky way for us to share our perspective on the new and exciting things that are currently happening in the world of Star Wars. Additionally, this seems like an opportune time to begin such an online journey in conjunction with Star Wars: The Force Awakens coming this December. So fair warning for you all, you know what we're planning on doing here and if you're wanting to follow along, great! If you're laughing and shaking your head at my geeking out to Star Wars and don't follow us, that's great too, we won't be offended.<br />
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So a bit of my backstory for me...<br />
I have loved Star Wars ever since I saw Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones in theaters back in 2002. Since that awesome introduction I wanted more Star Wars and watched the original trilogy and also began to read the novels, my first one being "The Courtship of Princess Leia" by Dave Wolverton. I remember feeling like those novels were my some of my closest friends in junior high school and high school. We had a mandatory reading period in high school each day for 20 minutes and I would immerse myself in the Star Wars universe, while the rest of my classmates groaned that we were "required" to read. I also remember specifically going on vacation one summer without my older brother (who was working that summer) and I felt alone with him. I asked my parents if we could stop at a bookstore and I picked up "Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Destiny's Way" and that novel was my way of dealing with missing my brother and yet I still had a great time visiting Yellowstone with the rest of my family. It was also my first introduction to the New Jedi Order (I know I jumped into the plot 3/4 of the way through, but I did go back and read through the whole series!). The EU has been a big part of the leisure aspect of my life so the news that the EU would be relabeled as "Legends" hit me a bit hard (<a href="http://www.starwars.com/news/the-legendary-star-wars-expanded-universe-turns-a-new-page">see this article on Starwars.com</a>), I still really wanted to continue the story with the "big 3" of Jaina, Jag, and Ben (plus I was really excited for Christie Golden's Sword of the Jedi trilogy that, alas, is not meant to be). That being said, though, I am super excited for The Force Awakens and will always be a Star Wars fan following where the new canon leads.<br />
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In high school my love for Star Wars was pretty much confined to my family. My dad enjoyed the movies and my older brother also shared a liking for Star Wars (although he is much more of a Trekkie). Other than them, I couldn't share my love for Star Wars with anyone else, so I was content to read the novels and badger my older brother with the plots that he knew little of, lamenting Jacen Solo's descent to the dark side to him. This was all to change as I finally discovered a use for Twitter. I had gotten a Twitter account a couple years ago, but never quite felt I knew what I was doing with it, other than tweeting random things...as such, what a joy it was to discover that Twitter was my ticket to joining the Star Wars fandom at large. Last November with the impending release of the Teaser Trailer to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, I found a Skype Chat via twitter, hosted by Star Wars Podcasters (<a href="http://farfarawayradio.com/">Far Far Away Radio</a> and <a href="http://www.forcecast.net/">The Forecast</a>), where we stayed up all night hoping to watch the release of the teaser trailer at midnight Pacific Time. But, unfortunately it was released early the next morning. Even so, the Skype chat was so cool because I had connected with other Star Wars fans across the country all of whom I did not know. Yet we all got together because of a shared interest and love for Star Wars and I had a blast! And I finally understood what Twitter was for me. It was a way for me to connect to the Star Wars fandom in ways I never could before. Twitter finally had a purpose in my mind.<br />
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Since then I have been a listener to the above mentioned podcasts including <a href="https://twitter.com/swbookworms">Star Wars Bookworms</a> (which is probably my favorite because I am such a Star Wars literature fan!) and my family and friends do think I'm a bit weird in my passion for Star Wars, but in my defense, they have their own passions that I find strange (like investing a lot of energy and emotion into the many different sporting events). Star Wars is my fun hobby that helps keep me just a little bit saner in my busy life as a Catholic deacon and soon to be Catholic priest (May of 2016). It is my chosen form of healthy leisure :)<br />
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With that, I have now taken my first step into a larger world. From Twitter to Blogger...journeying to Star Wars: The Force Awakens and beyond.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15536029501364227830noreply@blogger.com0