Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
Entertainment Weekly posted 20 villains they missed last time – prompted by reader letters – and this time the Galaxy Far Far Away’s most unapologetic baddie, Palpatine, gets his day in the sun.
Also making a belated showing: Christopher Lee as Saruman, Office Space’s Bill Lumbergh and, of course, Voldemort.
Benedict XVI/Palpatine mashups are kinda played out at this point, but A New Pope made me laugh out loud more than once, due in no small part to the narration. (via)
A rather vampy Chancellor Palpatine by Sally Avernier. Be sure to click through to the full image!
The Fate of a Galaxy by forgottenpurpose. I love the color highlighting on this one.
Summer is over soon, right? Because there simply aren’t enough folks staying inside and writing meta lately. That or I’m still nursing PCD.
Nandamai brings us Everything I Ever Needed to Know I Learned from Badfic. It’s true.
Qui-Tom Servo loves Padme explores Palpatine’s lies.
Kesseljunkie defends Jar-Jar. I suppose someone has to.
In EU corner, more Courtship of Princess Leia analysis from Sunnyskywalker.
All the featured videos this week are… songvids! And not a one of them is Evanescence.
Weird Al’s ‘Jerry Springer’ proves to be a pretty good match for the saga. Who knew?
Palpatine does it his way. I really want to see this done with the punk version, too.
‘La Vie Boheme’ from Rent done up Harry Potter style. A bit slow to start, but it made me laugh out loud a couple times. (Thanks to Ruby for the find!)
– Cute French candy commercial.
– Jonathan Rinzler talks about Art of ROTS.
– Vader is an smartass.
– Classic Clip: Trooper Clerks.
Revenge of the Sith wins Best Villain (Palpatine,) Favorite Action Sequence (Anakin/Obi-Wan duel) and Favourite Special Effects at Canada’s Spacey Awards.
MetroDad’s Modern Jedi’s Guide to Parenting.
The Infinite Force considers Palpatine’s manipulation of information.
Jkthunder explores Buddhist parallels in Star War
And over in Lori Jareo corner, takes on the controversy and what it means for fanfic in general from Imadra-blue and Lazypadawan.
So help me god, if we don’t have a cardboard Palpatine at the next JadeCon I will whine like a Skywalker .
Don’t make me whine, PG.
The official site has updated their databank for ROTS with new information on Anakin, Padme, Obi-Wan, Bail, Palpatine and one completely new character. The entries themselves are fairly vague, but there are several new photos.