The Green Bag

"Reconsidering Star Wars IV in the light of I-III"

Oh, man. This is good.

If we accept all the Star Wars films as the same canon, then a lot that happens in the original films has to be reinterpreted in the light of the prequels. As we now know, the rebel Alliance was founded by Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Bail Organa. What can readily be deduced is that their first recruit, who soon became their top field agent, was R2-D2.

I had it, like, I'm sure so many of us did at the end of RotS. Threepio was wiped, but R2! R2 knew. No wonder why he was such a smug little knowitall. So I thought about it, but Keith Martin has worked it all out. And not only R2's involvement with the rebellion all these years, but Chewbacca's as well. This one's a definite must-read for even the most half-hearted Star Wars fan.

This has got to be the coolest stop motion animation piece I've seen since Mike Jittlov's short, The Wizard of Speed and Time (not to be confused with the feature-length film by the same creator and name.) 'Nuff said...

Claire: Just give me the tape, Lyle.
Lyle: No way. I'm gonna post this on YouTube and make millions!
Zach: YouTube is free, you idiot!

Some clever folks on Wikipedia have taken the time to explain, in great detail, how the Stormtrooper Effect and Character Shields protect our heroes, never letting the bad guys get the upper hand. Meanwhile, back in the real world (or at least in Maine) evil villains have resorted to Craigslist to seek henchmen and beautiful female accomplices.

Courtesy of that morning dose of reddit.

On Friday afternoon, we went to see Cars. This excellent movie gets its own entry as I've now added the Movie Review module to the web site. After the movie, and a trip to the grocery store, we went home for some outside play time, including our first round of wild rasberry picking for the season. We ended up the evening with an encore viewing of High School Musical on DVD. So this morning brings a short entr

Jean Luc Picard and the crew of the USS Enterprise battle Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine...

I thought it was entertaining, and the effects were decent, but I know from experience that the cuts - especially the audio - can be done cleaner in Premiere than what you'll find here. Still, this is a pretty good cross-genre parody.

The promotional videos over at firefoxflicks.com just keep getting better:

Via: reddit