Strike and dip

Be tempted to join the Dark Side or fight them off with this LEGO Star Wars Imperial Shuttle. LEGO Brickset #7166 from the LEGO Group offers the chance to construct one of the most exciting and easily recognizable vehicles from the Star Wars universe. The Imperial Shuttle, used to carry the emperor and the evil Sith lord Darth Vader to their nefarious tasks, is recreated here in LEGO form and is just as menacing as its on screen counterpart. Conquering the galaxy is a big job and these two bad…

The Galactic civil war portrayed in the original Star Wars trilogy is one of the most well known, if not the most well known fictional conflict in science fiction. You can ask anyone who the good guys and bad guys are, and what each side was fighting for, and most everyone will be able to give the canonically correct answer: The Rebel Alliance fights to destroy the evil Galactic Empire, and to reinstate the republic. The Star Wars story has become so popular that even football and baseball fans…

In the novel The Odyssey, Homer tells the story about Odysseus and his journey to return home. In the story we see that Odysseus can be characterized as the hero who is intelligent and curious. The movie Star Wars - A New Hope shows us Luke Skywalker’s journey to rescue Princess Leia and discover “the force.” In the movie Luke can be characterized as brave, courageous and quick thinking. In Homer’s The Odyssey, Odysseus is the archetypal “hero” going on a journey, full of adventure, similarly in…

I will be carefully studying a fifteen second teaser for the third trailer developed for the movie Star Wars: The Force Awakens. This film is set “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away”. It has been thirty years in the Star Wars Universe since the conclusion of Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi and the galaxy has changed much in this thirty year time skip. The evil Galactic Empire has collapsed and its remnants have reformed to establish a successor organization called The First Order…

Many books and movies have the same basic storyline. Star Wars: A New Hope and Arthurian Legend both have a very similar storyline; however, there are a few differences. The Force and the Holy Grail are both something that people are trying to find. Han Solo and Lancelot are both main characters but they have very different endings. Star Wars: A New Hope and Arthurian Legend are similar because they both have something that the main characters are trying to find, but they are different because…

Welcome to the Dark Side (Still deciding on an opening sentence) In the first episode of Star Wars the Phantom a Menace Qui-Gon Jinn, a Jedi master and his young padawan Obi Wan kenobi are sent to Naboo as ambassadors to negotiate a deal with the trade federation in hopes to end the blockade. Negotiations ended badly causing them to flee and they met a Gungan named Jar Jar Binks while running through the jungles of Naboo. Jar Jar took them to the hidden underwater city called Otoh Gunga to keep…

Enslaved or Empowered Star Wars: The Return of the Jedi (1983) is part of an iconic franchise and includes the infamous slave Leia. When Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher) is captured by Jabba the Hutt she is forced to wear a metal bikini while chained to Jabba himself. Earlier this year Disney was rumored to be taking the slave Leia merchandise off store shelves. This could be due to the sexually revealing nature of the outfit which contradicts Disney’s more family friendly orientation. However, many…

It’s 1997, the new movie ‘The Titanic’ came out into theaters. This movie was known as the first billion dollar film. The movie, based on a survivor of this tragedy who somehow found love in all of the disaster and sadness, changed the view of the movies’ audience to not just the sad aspect of the historical devastation, but as well as a view into the smaller aspects like the ballroom dancing, the lower class area, and the lives of the rich. It brought happiness, as well as anger and sadness. In…

Set prior to the events of the third installment of the Star Wars series, A New Hope, Rogue One tells the story of the behind-the-scenes heroes that acquired the infamous Death Star’s blueprints essential to its destruction. Set in a variety of locales, the most notable being Jedha, an Imperial-held desert moon, Eadu, housng an Imperial research facility, and Scarif, home to the Imperial data bank. With atmosphere as varied as location, there is always an underlying tone of hopefulness laced in…

“May the Force be with you.” – General Dodonna. “Never tell me the odds.” – Han Solo. “If you strike me down I will become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.” – Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi. “Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.” – Jedi Master Yoda. “I find your lack of faith disturbing.” – Darth Vader Lord of the Sith Apprentice of the Emperor Darth Sidous. These famous quotes come from the epic Star Wars Saga that has thrilled millions of viewers for thirty eight years.…