Tag: the blogside

Cherie Priest is a wicked goblin apologist.

Pablo Hidalgo and The Mysterious Animated Shadows of Return of the Jedi. He’s like Indiana Jones, in a way.

Darth Dan X explores the riddle of the Jedi prophecy.

RJ Peters on Obi-Wan and family.

DJ Maul profanes A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back with pop songs

Newsarama’s Grumpy Old Fan discovers Harry Potter ‘shippers.

Peter David considers public perception of sports fans vs. sci-fi and comic geeks.

The Dark Moose eulogizes a soldier and Star Wars fan killed in Iraq.

Sabrina Fried reads between the lines of Lucasfilm Licensing.

Lord_Noctifer considers architectural symbolism in the GFFA.

Sunnyskywalker has proof that Obi-Wan is Dumbledore.

Averii has some brief thoughts on characterization in the NJO.

Mikkeneko boils the Msscribe story to one simple concept: She Mary Sued herself.

Ash Grey Sky has done some hilarious recaps of Eragon,making me once again grateful for my knee-jerk ‘hells no’ response to generic sword and sorcery and books written by 16-year-olds.

This is from last year, but it made me laugh: Charles Miller’s Things I Learned Watching Revenge of the Sith.

Shati and readers imagine Buffy’s Oz in a variety of fictional situations, including Titanic, Lord of the Rings, and Apocalypse Now.

Lord_Noctifer takes a look at Anakin Skywalker as chaos archetype.

There’s something in the pixels at blogs.starwars.com lately… How else can I explain this Darth Morbus guy? He’s doing Blogside-worthy posts on a daily basis! I can’t keep up!

Lord Noctifer ponders the Jedi and the Grail Quest. Of course Luke is Percival… I’m more familiar with the Galahad version, but that parallel works too: Lancelot fails in the grail quest because of the whole Guinevere mess, but his son Galahad succeeds because his heart is pure. For more Arthurian exploration, we turn to Darth Morbus.

Meanwhile, The Toastman goes back even further into storytelling history to bring us this look at Oedipus and Star Wars. (Although – the inspiration for the entire trilogy? I’m not so sure.)

The Dark Moose on Talifans. Did you know the Karen Traviss hating versions are based out of a Star Wars vs. Star Trek site? That explains everything!

For the economists in the house: Sunnyskywalker considers the changing face of commerce in Star Wars.

Pablo busts through the myth of the Empire surprise. All I have to say is this: The grass is green, the sky is blue, and Darth Vader is Luke’s father. Those are the facts of life for those of us too young to actually remember 1980.

Sompeetalay explores the differences between the A New Hope movie and novel. At length.

Darth Morbus plays the refreshes the old Star Wars vs. Star Trek game by looking at the storytelling, not the firepower.

You Are Dumb comes down on Talifans. Twice.

Darth Dan X implores fandom to embrace the softer side of Star Wars. Personally I have no problems embracing Ewoks. They’re great in stew.

OOT DVD post of the Week: Jedi Learner asks what is Lucasfilm thinking?

Betrayal reviews, week one: RJ Peters, Aush, and Borma Feng.

Today is George Lucas’ birthday!

David Louis Edelman follows up the ESB post I linked last week with his tale of going to see Return of the Jedi.

Pandarus writes in defence of fan fiction. Meanwhile, Hal Duncan has some thoughts on how creators and fanfic writers see the phenomenon.

Stella Belli asks who (or what) is Mary Sue?

The Dark Moose considers the curious workings of the Lucas Edit Machine and the OOT release.

Meanwhile, in the realm of VIPs…

Abel G. Pena on the art of naming Darths.

Don Bies meets Tom Cruise.