May the Fourth Be With You

I'd never heard of this May the Fourth thing until three years ago when my (now former) co-workers, knowing of my SW geekiness, surrounded my desk and said, "May the Fourth be with you!" I was utterly confused.

Didn't buy any SW stuff today but I did buy the Boushh Leia/Han Galactic Heroes set yesterday. I just love how they've put out shippy Galactic Heroes sets like these.

I see they will have two fan club breakfasts at CIV...I'll have to talk my friends into going. If you're thinking about it, having been to the breakfast at Comic Con last year, despite the seemingly-steep price tag of $70, IT'S WORTH IT FOR THE FREEBIES. You would probably spend at least 70 bucks on the stuff they give you if you had to buy it.

I suppose I shall have to celebrate May the Fourth by watching AOTC, since the last SW flick I watched was TPM.

Entertainment Weakly strikes again

Tragic Love (*waves*) posted on her starwars.com blog about yet another dig at Papa George and the saga by EWwwww.com in its list of top 25 sci-fi t.v./movies from the past 25 years. The only SW to make the list was the Clone Wars animated series.

Now you know I love CW. But this is just nauseating:

The most painful thing about confining this list to the last 25 years was that we couldn't include either Star Wars or The Empire Strikes Back, both of which were too old. And that left Return of the Jedi and the prequel trilogy — which no one in our Brain Trust could work up any enthusiasm for.

Who was in that "brain trust?" Mark Altman and Chris Gore?

There's an abundance of style and storytelling economy here that was, sadly, absent from the George Lucas-directed prequels. Sometimes, if you let the talented kids into the sandbox without telling them exactly how to play, the results can be surprising.

Storytelling economy? Weren't critics accusing the PT of being too rushed? How can you compare the spare storytelling necessitated by 5 minute segments with two-hour or so movies? Didn't they know Lucas still was involved with the series and these guys had to adhere to guidelines? *Headdesk.*

It's bad enough they included the CRAP film "Starship Troopers" and the HUGELY overrated total cheat of a film "Children of Men." But not only did they crown "The Matrix" in the top spot, this is what they had to say:

Heading into 1999, there was one movie that was supposed to be the second coming. The culmination of an extended sci-fi moment that had helped hardwire the culture for mythic, stargazing escapism. By all rights, it should be sitting atop this list. But Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace turned out to be a case study in empty pop idolatry. Fortunately, there was a movie released the same year that was able to play that part, a film as unexpected, groundbreaking, and capture-the-imagination entertaining as the first Star Wars: The Matrix.

*Barfing.*

It also spawned two sequels that sucked. Nonetheless, The Matrix's accomplishment remains undiminished.

Unlike with SW, whereas they didn't think the SpEds would be successful and that spawned a campaign of hatred lasting to this day.

If I see anyone from EWwww hanging around Celebration, I'm personally tossing him/her out.