19th July 2006, 1:14 PM
Well fine, there's also "cannon" pirates books.
But really, the Star Wars movies just aren't all that deep. The people who think they are have read books that expand all the characters INTO deep people, but taken as just movies, everyone is 2D except Anakin, and he wasn't all that impressive as a character (Lucas says he DID unite the force, WITH HIS VIOLENCE, yay?).
And yes, I'm including "Empire Strikes Back". So it ends with "da revelation" that the bad guy is his dad. Why is he all that horrified by that? It's mere genetic lineage. This is coming from someone who has never really learned the idea of "pride of lineage", nor was it ever really taught. I just never cared and really it doesn't matter. So what if someone a long time ago who did something great, or bad, just so happens to have squirted some DNA fragments that eventually led to my existance? What bearing does that have on my persona? Eh, I guess that's why that particular scene always wrang hollow with me. I guess I can see him screaming because his hand was just cut off, that had to hurt.
At any rate, Pirates has all the depth the Star Wars movies could have hoped to achieve, but of course the dedicated fans of either are going to massively disagree, if for no other reason than seeing it as an insult. Star Wars just isn't "grand epic that spans ages" material. It's fun, enjoyable, and it has some good plot moments and characters that, every now and then, you might actually be able to feel for. So does Pirates.
But really, the Star Wars movies just aren't all that deep. The people who think they are have read books that expand all the characters INTO deep people, but taken as just movies, everyone is 2D except Anakin, and he wasn't all that impressive as a character (Lucas says he DID unite the force, WITH HIS VIOLENCE, yay?).
And yes, I'm including "Empire Strikes Back". So it ends with "da revelation" that the bad guy is his dad. Why is he all that horrified by that? It's mere genetic lineage. This is coming from someone who has never really learned the idea of "pride of lineage", nor was it ever really taught. I just never cared and really it doesn't matter. So what if someone a long time ago who did something great, or bad, just so happens to have squirted some DNA fragments that eventually led to my existance? What bearing does that have on my persona? Eh, I guess that's why that particular scene always wrang hollow with me. I guess I can see him screaming because his hand was just cut off, that had to hurt.
At any rate, Pirates has all the depth the Star Wars movies could have hoped to achieve, but of course the dedicated fans of either are going to massively disagree, if for no other reason than seeing it as an insult. Star Wars just isn't "grand epic that spans ages" material. It's fun, enjoyable, and it has some good plot moments and characters that, every now and then, you might actually be able to feel for. So does Pirates.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)