Up until ten years ago today, I, along with my friends Peter, Pelun, and our entire generation, had experienced Star Wars the only way it'd been possible: on the TV screen. But if we'd only seen it that way, we hadn't seen it at all — not until Friday, January 31st, 1997, at 10:20 PM…
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Can't Be Worse Than "Darth Tater"
The current brouhaha in a galaxy far far away is the Darth Who naming contest. Seems that Han Solo and Leia Skywalker's brat is following in his grandfather's footsteps, and readers get to decide what his street name will be. To understand why he's doing this, I looked up little Jacen Solo's Wookiepedia entry. Link…
This Will Be A Novel Long Remembered
I recently watched all three original Star Wars films for the first time since seeing them in theaters in 1997 (I bought the DVD set in the fall of 2004). But before watching episodes IV and V, I read the novelizations, as I also did immediately after episode VI. In any such converstion of media,…
They're Not Dolls, They're Action Figures
It's no TROOPS, but The Phantom Medalists — a winner in Hasbro's 2006 film shorts contest — is an amusing take on what happens after the battle of Star Wars' Yavin IV. Props to old Ben for his performance, and to Han for engaging in a variety of party tricks.