Birth, Death and Rebirth in ROTS Check out my new essay on Birth, Death, and Rebirth at the fabulous Saga Journal site:
http://www.sagajournal.com/lpbirthdeathrebirth.html
While you're there, read Reihla's piece on the allure of Darth Vader.

Thirteen Times And I Still Couldn't Find The Kitchen Sink I've decided to link directly to my other blog since I don't have to worry about space limitations there, and I can warn people who don't like long entries to just move along . This is similar to my posts about all of the times I've seen TPM and AOTC:

Star Wars: There Is No Substitute There are few things that stick in my craw more than when Darth Media or Darth Fanboy or an ad campaign proclaims something "the new Star Wars." Or, it's country cousin, "this is what Star Wars should have been."

Obi-Wan's Popularity, or Everyone Loves Ewan If you've been keeping tabs on Hyperspace's ongoing polls on favorite characters and favorite quotes you'd have noticed--as the folks at the fan club have--that Obi-Wan Kenobi's popularity among fans has gone up exponentially. Going by the rather

If you have nothing nice to say.... I welcome constructive comments on anything I post here, even from people who may not agree with my views.

Twelve Times And I Still Couldn't Find The Burning Shaak AOTC Memories and The Summer of 2002.

TPM Memories: Jar Jar and Junior Mints Read all about how I spent the summer of 1999 and beyond.

Summer Of Sith t's hard to believe that the sixth and last Star Wars summer has come to an end. Fans in larger cities will still catch the film playing at a multiplex somewhere or in second-run discount theaters for a little while, but by and large, it's the sunset of

Insider article irresponsible It's rare that I have any complaints about Star Wars Insider, but the article on "street art" (otherwise known as "vandalism") in the current issue (#83) bothered me.

Head meet Desk...the poly-ticks of ROTS...again To quote Jack, "Shut up, Michael Medved!"