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jere😷my

14 Jan, 9 tweets, 3 min read

Soon may the sweaterman come
To fix our ship and think we’re dumb
He’ll fuel it up and he’ll make it plumb
If it still holds fuel

Our ship was named the Razor Crest
A lady frog was our honored guest
No hyperdrive at her behest
That was just the rule

Soon may the sweaterman come
To fix our ship and think we’re dumb
He’ll fuel it up and he’ll make it plumb
If it still holds fuel

My little lad woke some nasty spiders
The Crest stood strong we hid inside her
But a big one came and stood astride her
Her cabin, it was skewered

Soon may the sweaterman come
To fix our ship and think we’re dumb
He’ll fuel it up and he’ll make it plumb
If it still holds fuel

The Crest she somehow limped to Trask
Leaking like a punctured cask
My eyes were bright beneath my mask
We landed in a pool

Soon may the sweaterman come
To fix our ship and think we’re dumb
He’ll fuel it up and he’ll make it plumb
If it still holds fuel

Somehow the sweaterman made her fly
With wire and twine and a pinch of pride
But on Tython, that’s where she died
Moff Gideon is cruel

SOON MAY THE SWEATERMAN COME
TO FIX OUR SHIP AND THINK WE’RE DUMB
HE’LL FUEL HER UP AND HE’LL MAKE HER PLUMB
IF SHE STILL HOLDS FUEL

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@jere7my

1 Mar 19

Hats off to the folks who think Rey is a Mary Sue power fantasy and somehow don’t think the EU was.

(And this has been bugging me since I posted that screenshot: EXPANDED Universe. It’s the EXPANDED Universe. Yeesh.)

https://twitter.com/jere7my/status/959639420109578240?s=21

If you haven’t been following me for a while, you might be interested in this thread, which goes a little deeper into my thoughts about the EU and TLJ:

https://twitter.com/jere7my/status/959639420109578240?s=21

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@jere7my

17 Feb 19

A long Twitter chat with someone who didn’t like TLJ helped to crystallize one complaint I’ve heard a lot, which is that Rey didn’t receive “training.” I don’t think that’s really the complaint, because Luke’s training was scanty at best; I think Rey breaks the Hero’s Journey.

Probably this has been said elsewhere by others, but it was the first time it occurred to me. The typical hero’s journey has the hero receiving a call to adventure (and temporarily rejecting it) before meeting their mentor and receiving the talisman they’ll need on their quest.

For Luke, that’s obviously Obi-Wan, who gives him his magic sword, and more generally awakens him to his superpowers. Luke rejects the call until his family is killed, then goes off on his quest. By the book.

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21 Aug 18

Posting this again because people keep bringing it up: “that line” is older than Empire.

This has kicked off a little, and as a result I've gotten some responses along the line of "Okay great, but Rose's line was still stupid." I can tell you: not only was it not stupid, it's been a significant theme for all of Star Wars, and I've got the receipts. A THREAD.

The idea that your actions can be corrupted by your motivation isn't a new concept in Star Wars. Hate corrupts. Anger corrupts. That's Jedi 101. If you are acting from a place of anger and hate, you're being reckless, with your own life and with others'. It colors every decision.

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3 Feb 18

It's long been my contention that the old Star Wars Expanded Universe was seen by many fans as a way to "fix" the perceived problems of the movies as they aged out of impressionable childhood and into nitpicky adolescence. Reactions to #TheLastJedi have cemented that impression.

The original trilogy was "cool" a lot of the time, but it was also goofy, cutesy, jokey, silly, kiddie—a lot of things that it's hard for a 14-year-old to admit to liking. The EU leaned heavily on the cool—bounty hunters, dark side Force users, brooding—and dropped the goofy.

The EU, and to some degree the prequels, affected the way hardcore Star Wars fans received the movies, allowing them to continue liking Star Wars while growing beyond the pulpy, goofy, fairy-tale parts of the movies. The EU either retconned them outright or let fans elide them.

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