Jedi Is Just All Right With Me Friday, May 20, 2005

A rainy day, another crummy house.

Response to Rob L.'s comment below: I think Lucas is aiming at something like Buddhism, but probably striking closer to the central-clearinghouse religion Joseph Campbell is always pushing during PBS pledge weeks. (What with the immaculate conception and all.) I always thought David Brin's critique of the Dark Side was devastating: You're going to condemn a guy because he killed the biggest villain in the universe...and got angry while he was doing it? I'm also coming around to Brin's dislike of the elitism the Jedi represent. The Force is some big universal spirit, but you only get access to it if you've got the right cascading vector harmonics in your bloodstream.

If you dig around online, you can find much more detailed critiques of all this stuff. All I'm going by is feel: Knowing what I know now, Guinness doesn't come off as an aging Shaolin master in a mountain retreat; he's more like a kindly old friar hiding a hoard of relics from the barbarians. And I still think Han Solo is an Irish Catholic. He knows all about Hell, after all...

@ 1:15:00 PM,

1 Comments:

At 11:42 AM, Blogger Rob L. said...

1. Solo is not an Irish-sounding name.

2. Don't blame David Brin for Lucas's stupid rationalization for The Force.

 

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