Star Wars: FAIL
Do you know the way in which Western bloggers might have something (brilliant but) insulting about hardline Muslims, but then don’t post out fear for personal safety? I feel the same way as a nerd blogger w.r.t. Star Wars and LotR. So, I’m not going to say it, OK? I’m just going to link to [Shitty] designs in Star Wars, something I’ve thought for a long time. Please keep the carbonite away, OK? If you do come at me, come at me with a blaster: fire your beam of light, I’ll be able to finish my snack, take a short nap, and then dodge.
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August 21st, 2009 at 08h38
Points well taken, but:
1.) Whether or not nerds will admit it, Star Wars is a kids’ movie. Whatever else its flaws might be, design isn’t all that big of one, unless you’re also that guy who complains about the faulty robotics in WALL-E (another kids’ movie that I, a grown man, have been known to enjoy).
2.) George Lucas, hack though he may be, would like to point out that you’re a fan of a show where our robotic enemies came up with a brilliant plan to conquer humanity by making super-hot robot women have sex with craggy old men, but their plan was thwarted when God sent humanity a drunken, emotionally imbalanced angel armed with intricate knowledge of Bob Dylan songs. Don’t you lecture him about design flaws, fanboy.
3.) Yeah, LotR is shit.
August 21st, 2009 at 14h19
drunken, emotionally imbalanced angel armed with intricate knowledge of Bob Dylan songs
God, I miss that character so much. It’s like having a dear friend (a dear friend who hated me) die.
August 24th, 2009 at 07h42
I just noticed that the list was written by John Scalzi, a sci-fi writer that I’ve never read, but whose work is considered fairly top-notch. My current roommate (Dan) just finished Old Man’s War, and he thinks highly of it. It did lead to the following funny conversation, though.
Dan: I’m really enjoying this book. It reminds me a lot of Heinlein, when Heinlein is good.
Me: [joking] Really? Does it feature an old dude getting it on with a series of increasingly improbable younger women?
Dan: [quiet for a moment] Kinda.
August 24th, 2009 at 12h01
God, I miss that character so much.
My television best friend comes from Rome. My roleplaying group has come to recognize my saying “I don’t know what to do. Any advice, Titus Pullo?” as shorthand for “prepare yourself for an act of unspeakable violence”.
August 24th, 2009 at 13h19
as shorthand for
Yeah, good call. You replaced a fourteen-syllable phrase with … um … a fourteen-syllable phrase (?).