Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Starwars Madness!

Watched Starwars Episode III at the cinema. I still can never understand why Lucas would use "Revenge of the Sith" as the title. It sounds just like a sequel to "Attack of the Clones" just as "Attack of the killer tomatoes" is somehow related to "Revenge of the killer tomatoes". I digress.
I wouldn't say that RotS was downright bad, though it didn't make sense at times and didn't seem to conform to the central story as laid down in the Starwars fan tradition. I'll not go into details, but here's the gist of my opinions: Gen. Grevious needs filters for his respirator, and he really should refrain from handling four lightsabers if he's unable to coordinate them. Anakin/Vader has a strong tendency to lose limbs. Obiwan is a dumbass fighter but has sufficient luck to defeat a great number of Sith lords. Anakin was a dumbass to bother trying to save Padme by not being by her side. (Note to Fenrir: I don't think Anakin was supposed to catch fire next to the lava. I recall him being dumped in.) And, once again, the story is too heavily weighted in favour of special effects. Final note: Yoda steals the show once again with spiffy sabering.

I was at burger king and figured that I'd wanted a snack. Couldn't think of what to get, so I got the chicken tenders thingy with a kid's meal since I'd needed a drink as well. The counter girl offered the Chewbacca plush, then looked up at me, said sorry and handed a little Millennium Falcon over. Ok...what gives. The Millennium Falcon was nicely painted, though, and had a somewhat battered look to it. It was nice enough that I'd decided to keep it in its wrapper. Stuff that comes out of wrappers in my place have a tendency to turn rather ragged and worn.

Later in the evening, I'd managed to have this really weird craving for something hot and salty or something plain chocolatey. Couldn't find anything at home and was lazy to pop over to the 7-11. Went to sleep early. Managed to get them Dark Chocolate dark side M&M candies and a Crunch bar on my trip to the mart later on. MMMmm. Chocolate. Heh. Can't figure out anything for decent instant soup so I'd skipped that subroutine.

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