Lying in Wait--In anticipation of more EU Yes, I know that Tempest is already out. My friends are coming back from trips and telling me how they read through it in 2 hours flat or how they can't believe the ending. I look forward to being able to join in their ranks. After all, my good friend

Stop the Skywalker Stupidity Cycle Okay, so first off, I didn't come up with that cute little title. I have to credit my friend Spiritofeowyn who has that in her signature at boards.theforce.net. To be precise, she has the following: "Boycott Sithly Jacen: Stop the Skywalker Stupidity

The Importance of Being Armed--my first experience with being a full-frontal Halloween fan My experience with spending the day as a valley girl Jedi!

Happy Anakin Solo Day I have had many friends who have given up on the EU ever since they dared to kill Anakin Solo. After 5 years, however, I still think that it was a good idea to do so. Here is my reason why (and blame any incoherence on the stomach flu and me having to

Leia the Aristotlean Hero In my civ class today, we were studying Prometheus Bound and talking about Aristotle's idea of a hero. The overriding theme was that an Aristotlean hero was one who came out of the trial with his or her integrity intact.

It finally makes sense--Thoughts on Dark _______________ in the LOTF series *SPOILERS FOR BLOODLINE*

Small-talking the Dark Lord--What would you say to Darth Vader in a moment of boredom? So, I'm working on a fic and trying to come up with ideas. I won't go into details until the fic is up, but it involves two people in an elevator for a few minutes...and one of them is Darth Vader.

And the Award Goes to...part 2 Revenge of the Sith

Current events--a fan's lament So, I started full-time fall semester of college again on the 5th. In the last 2 weeks, I have finally finished off my 180-page "short story" (To Cast Away Stones), finally read Bloodlines, watched Empire Strikes Back once and gotten too many plot

Stormtrooper slapstick I was watching Return of the Jedi on Saturday while writing and it struck me that there's a kind of comical element to the Empire. There's the austere kind, where Tarkin's overly confident just before going boom or Vader gets caught off-guard by our