The Completely Unofficial Star Wars Encyclopedia is striking out on its own. A favorite resource of many Wookieepedians and fanfic writers, the Encyclopedia seems to have outgrown the capabilities of TheForce.net. Enjoy freedom!
And the Joker got away, hey!
Paul Dini, best known as one of the writers of Batman: The Animated Series and its various spin-offs, interviews Mark Hamill on his new IGN show Monkey Talk. Apparently there’s a sock monkey involved, but I’ll just take TV Squad’s word for it.
Offered without comment
TrekPassions.com, “a free personals site for science fiction lovers, including but not limited to Star Trek. Find others who share your passion for sci-fi. Meet people who read Asimov, Bova, Heinlein, Adams, Clarke and more.”
Runway fans
Starwars.com talks to several contestants of the reality show Project Runway about Star Wars, fashion, and costuming.
Andrae’s mother is obviously a woman after our own hearts:
“Another funny Star Wars memory for me happened when my mother used to get complimented on the fake fur coat that she used to wear around the same time that Return of the Jedi was released. When people asked her what kind of fur it was, she’d always say, ‘Ewok.'”
They followed the will of the Force
Yup, it’s another Brokeback Mountain parody, this time with fandom’s favorite slashy couple Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan. Or, see it with action figures.
From the Blogside
Ratcreature considers the ‘Chosen One’ prophecy.
Over on Blogwarz, Sabrina Fried on reaction to her Revenge of the Sith Oscar column, while T’bone considers Order 66.
I’m not alone! Master Ki-Aaron-Mundi misses Star Wars Tales. In the comments, Pabawan (Pablo) makes an interesting point: the audience for the comics is small and not very receptive to experimentation. Pity.
Pirate_lass and the folks at Hug_clones discuss Triple Zero. Spoilerifically.
Gabri-Jade rants on the Jedi Council fanfic awards. Personally I’ve always found them worse than useless, since I’m rarely reading more than one or two fics there at a time. Plus with my fic apathy issues (2 weeks to read Outbound Flight! Two weeks!) reading even five nominees is not going to happen.
Ryan Kaufman and his son Max have major continuty issues.
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Idolspize!
From the Blogside
Imadra_blue ponders fan fiction and fandom thinking and the two great loves of Obi-Wan Kenobi’s life. She also considers Anakin/Obi-Wan, canon, and believability, an issue Shoiryu has some thoughts on as well.
Pablo mocks the masses with 1977 Blog Titles. If you actually read blogs.starwars.com, this is hilarious. On a more serious note, annotations to week 3 of the Rookies webstrip. Paul joins in on the webstrip action with a update on Evasive Action #3.
Another interesting VIP blog: Dan Wallace on the never-published Clone Wars Sourcebook.
Rabidfangurl rants on fanfic and fandom. To which I say, hell yeah. Fangirl beatdown posse meets on Tuesday.
The Dark Moose considers Star Wars… with lawyers. Been there, done that.
Rive Caedo on returning to the roots of Star Wars. On a similar note, 101 Reasons Firefly is better than Star Wars! Funny because it’s true. Or not. Your choice.
Lazypadawan has a ‘fair and balanced’ review of Outbound Flight. It looks like she subscribes to the theory that every second Zahn character is a Mary Sue, but I found most of her points pretty on target. (I myself have harbored Suerific thoughts re: Thrawn and VOTF Mara, so to each their own.) EU fans may also be interested in Suzanne’s overview of the Dark Nest trilogy.
Annoy like the wind!
The contest for the next Star Wars Fan Club President has begun. There are rules and a leaderboard and everything!