What's that, Lassie? The plot is stuck in a well?
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Today we are also one month out from the debut of The Force Awakens, the latest Star Wars movie.
Of course if you're not a fan, this may not be something you care about. But chances are you know someone or may even have someone in your house who does. Yes, the return of Han Solo, Chewbacca, Princess (correction, according to one of the carefully timed releases of plot information that really isn't a release but get back to me on that, General) Leia, Luke (somehow), and the introduction of a slew of new characters set thirty years after the destruction of the second Death Star and the death of Darth Vader -- look, get the fans in your house or neighborhood to explain that! -- is being highly anticipated, to put it mildly, by many people.
But the price of this? And it seems Star Trek fans were more rabid about this, having J.J. Abrams helm the reboot or Kirk, Spock, et. al. on the big screen -- but then, Paramount Pictures that owns the rights to Star Trek hasn't declared all the shows, novels, and films beforehand as Legends rather than Canon, they're simply canon in "another" fictional universe and still part of the franchise. So the adventures of Picard, Riker, et. al. still continue, they're just not related as often ... for the sake of nostalgia, I checked Dave Wolverton's Star Wars novel The Courtship of Princess Leia (ISBN 0553089285) out of the library a few weeks ago and sat down to read it.
I read a person's blog about this -- I guess now it's not called the Expanded Universe, is it? -- 1994 novel set four years after Return of the Jedi (8 ABY, After the Battle of Yavin from the first Star Wars movie) where the Rebels in order to gain materiel resources to beat what's left of the Empire are willing to marry Leia off to the prince of this vast area of space, and Han who's been in love with Leia for years kidnaps her to a distant, primitive planet on which they crash land and have to deal with women to whom the Force is magic. Essentially the story was dismissed by the blogger as hokey but now once The Force Awakens comes out it will effectively not have happened.
Anyway, now anything Star Wars that's not in the movies or on the current television series is considered not "Canon" but "Legend" -- that is, it happened but elsewhere. And Courtship is not really a bad story so much as (now) it feels wooden; Luke seems almost slavishly devoted to finding information about the Jedi to the detriment of all else, and I never understood why Leia was still called "Princess" after Alderaan was destroyed (according to this, because the survivors of Alderaan are still looking for a new world to settle), and Threepio singing a song about Han is so worth it! We'll see once the movie and the "new" history of a long time ago in a galaxy, far far away ...
whether Han and Leia have also (or have stayed) married and have children. Personally, the lack of Finn's and Rey's last names in any promotional material doesn't matter much; it's a big galaxy. And now that I've written all this because my plot is ... not exactly STUCK so much as I know what I want to write but I'm having difficulty finding the words. Both the kids went to school today and I heard virtually no coughing from either one (hallelujah) and Martha and I are getting enough rest, realizing the need to get enough rest, and it's helped a lot; prayer is still and always welcome. At least my courtship of Martha did not -- I think -- involve kidnapping her to another planet!
Now to lower that bucket into the well, David
Today we are also one month out from the debut of The Force Awakens, the latest Star Wars movie.
Of course if you're not a fan, this may not be something you care about. But chances are you know someone or may even have someone in your house who does. Yes, the return of Han Solo, Chewbacca, Princess (correction, according to one of the carefully timed releases of plot information that really isn't a release but get back to me on that, General) Leia, Luke (somehow), and the introduction of a slew of new characters set thirty years after the destruction of the second Death Star and the death of Darth Vader -- look, get the fans in your house or neighborhood to explain that! -- is being highly anticipated, to put it mildly, by many people.
But the price of this? And it seems Star Trek fans were more rabid about this, having J.J. Abrams helm the reboot or Kirk, Spock, et. al. on the big screen -- but then, Paramount Pictures that owns the rights to Star Trek hasn't declared all the shows, novels, and films beforehand as Legends rather than Canon, they're simply canon in "another" fictional universe and still part of the franchise. So the adventures of Picard, Riker, et. al. still continue, they're just not related as often ... for the sake of nostalgia, I checked Dave Wolverton's Star Wars novel The Courtship of Princess Leia (ISBN 0553089285) out of the library a few weeks ago and sat down to read it.
I read a person's blog about this -- I guess now it's not called the Expanded Universe, is it? -- 1994 novel set four years after Return of the Jedi (8 ABY, After the Battle of Yavin from the first Star Wars movie) where the Rebels in order to gain materiel resources to beat what's left of the Empire are willing to marry Leia off to the prince of this vast area of space, and Han who's been in love with Leia for years kidnaps her to a distant, primitive planet on which they crash land and have to deal with women to whom the Force is magic. Essentially the story was dismissed by the blogger as hokey but now once The Force Awakens comes out it will effectively not have happened.
Anyway, now anything Star Wars that's not in the movies or on the current television series is considered not "Canon" but "Legend" -- that is, it happened but elsewhere. And Courtship is not really a bad story so much as (now) it feels wooden; Luke seems almost slavishly devoted to finding information about the Jedi to the detriment of all else, and I never understood why Leia was still called "Princess" after Alderaan was destroyed (according to this, because the survivors of Alderaan are still looking for a new world to settle), and Threepio singing a song about Han is so worth it! We'll see once the movie and the "new" history of a long time ago in a galaxy, far far away ...
whether Han and Leia have also (or have stayed) married and have children. Personally, the lack of Finn's and Rey's last names in any promotional material doesn't matter much; it's a big galaxy. And now that I've written all this because my plot is ... not exactly STUCK so much as I know what I want to write but I'm having difficulty finding the words. Both the kids went to school today and I heard virtually no coughing from either one (hallelujah) and Martha and I are getting enough rest, realizing the need to get enough rest, and it's helped a lot; prayer is still and always welcome. At least my courtship of Martha did not -- I think -- involve kidnapping her to another planet!
Now to lower that bucket into the well, David
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