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[Cheyenne]

I love Pooh. He's so adorable. For some reason when I was little I always imagined the honey tasting like cheese... Don't ask.

[Stephanie]

Edward wrote: "Just remember, Ewoks destroyed the Empire.

"Though we cannot, in good faith, blame the Emperor for not foreseeing this.""

LOL

[Stephanie]

How can you think those Ewoks are cute?

Is just me, or does it seem like the fact that Yoda let himself become crazy and all of that seem a little out of character? I mean, he did nothing all those years. That just doesn't match up to the Yoda we saw in episodes one, two, and three.

And I'm sorry but Sidious should've had some inkling that Luke would destroy him. I mean, Yoda had and idea that something terrible was going to happen in episode three. Why not Sidioua in Episode four, five, and/or six.

[Kymela]

Because he was blinded by his power and arrogance. Happens all the time.

As for Yoda, I don't know. It didn't seem out of character to me...

I love Ewoks! XD

[Kymela]

This must have some up because of Cracked...

[Edward]

The whole mentality of the Sith is to control the fate of the Force. Undoubtedly, Sidious knew something climatic would happen, which is partly why he made such a big gambit; his entire power (he thought) revolved around forcing these situations to work for him.

And Yoda seeing the end of the Clone Wars had nothing to do with the Force. In the waning months, the Jedi stopped trusting their senses on a large because it made them vulnerable to the dark energy Sidious has spun across the galaxy. Obi-Wan stopped telling Anakin to be mindful of things to start simply being careful. The end of the Clone Wars was going to be something bad, though Yoda expected to trechery to come from the Senate and Chancellor; the clones he only noticed after they started killing everyone.

And Luke didn't destroy the Emperor. He didn't even come close. Anakin, the one man Palpatine trusted and Sidious thought he could utterly control, did.

Yoda was punishing himself for allowing the Jedi to die, as well as holding himself "in reserve" where the Emperor could not find him. But he didn't go crazy; he was just messing with Luke.

Victory by trying to defeat the Sith in a straight fight didn't work before. They needed something else, some unique leverage over Vadar and Sidious - like the son of Anakin Skywalker, son of the most powerful man in the galaxy. The power, which Sidious has always been obsessed with, is bait for the master and the blood relationship is bait for the apprentice. And also the trap that sprung shut on the Sith.

Luke's potential for Sith power was the bait, his connection to Anakin Skywalker (not Darth Vadar) was the hook, and the Force is the string that pulls it all together to bring Darth Vadar back to the light side.

Meanwhile, the Empire is destoryed by Ewoks.

[Stephanie]

But why didn't Yoda ever seek out other students? I mean, he was "holding himself in reserve" for years. You can't tell me he couldn't have trained at least one other person.

I still think Sidious should've been way more careful than he was. I mean, he certainly wasn't stupid in episode three so where did all his brains go in the last three episodes?

[Edward]

Sidious wasn't being stupid; Luke on deck of his ship should've been less reckless than taking over the Senate, but it was Luke that proved to be the bigger danger. The reason why arrogance leads to ruin is that we have to rely on our own perception. From Sidious's perception taking over the Senate was risky move; bringing Luke on the deck of his ship, routine subversion play. There was literally no other way he could look at it.

I actually agree with the Yoda thing; he is not an old, wise Jedi. Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-wan are the only wise Jedi you really see on screen, and that's because neither of them ever claimed to be great Jedi; Qui-Gon constantly picked up strays and defied the Council when he felt the Force telling him to do something different, consistantly ruining his Jedi career, while Obi-Wan never understood why he was appointed to the Council, why everyone thought he could beat Grevious, or why he was given such a central role to everything. Humilty and faith sums up those two characters; neither really describe Yoda.

... No, wait, it might not hold up. On Degobah he was training with Qui-Gon Jinn, so he was busy at the time.

[Kymela]

My two favourite characters. :D

[Cheyenne]

Don't mind me... The most I know about Star Wars is from xbox and playstation 2 video games. LOL

[Edward]

I was about to comment on how that weird that was, but then I remembered that I don't know all the rules to any sport. Still, though, Star Wars is a piece of cultural history. It's only be around for thirty-five years, but it still an important landmark in science fiction history, especially as an answer to the unrealistically optimistic Star Trek.

Now we're moving out of Star Wars and into geek culture itself. Stop me any time by changing the subject.

Oh, by the way, video games are semi-canon in the Star Wars universe, so the general plotlines are considered true, but not all the specifics.

[Cheyenne]

I like the Star Wars games. But maybe that's just because they're fun and easy...

[Edward]

The games are awesome. I like Battlefront II, Battlegrounds, Rebel Strike, Knights of the Old Republic ...

Hm, post one thousand, noted.

[Cheyenne]

I don't know most of the names. Just that I liked them.

[Cheyenne]

Albert: I'm with her.
Me:......If you bring anything larger than a dog into my house I'll kick your ass.
Albert: Who said he would come in the house?
Me: *face palm*

[Edward]

Actually, an average Ewok is no bigger than a Saint Bernard, so ...

[Cheyenne]

Albert: Why thank you Edward! *runs outside*

Oh look what you've done. Now he's going to drag one in on a leash. -_-

[Edward]

You might want to check the New Republic laws on that. I think Ewoks are considered (barely) sentient. Unless you want a visit from Han Solo, which I could understand entirely.

The climax of all six movies is where these things set up a series of primative traps that draw the Empire away from the bunker that acts as the sheild generator for their incomplete planet destorying space ship. They engage the Imperial troops in some of the most hilarious gurilla warfare while the Rebels set charges in the bunker. (The movie cuts out a scene where a traitor to the Rebels tries to trap Solo in the bunker, but Han leaves his body to be incinerated with everything else.)

"It was rocks versus lasers - and the rocks were winning!"

[Cheyenne]

I had a really whacky dream last night. But it could make a neat book. So I wrote down my dream, and wrote down a little excerpt from the possible book. What do you guys think?

My name is Katie, and yesterday I was captured with a select few other rebels who have caused the Mayor a lot of trouble. We were going to be hanged. Before the Mayor's forces got us through the city gates though, we escaped. Because no one who's gone in has made it back out alive. Yesterday I thought I was going to die. Today I know I'm going to die. Because I'm going back in.

[Edward]

Sounds excellent, though I think you should stretch it out, analyzing each statement seperately. A couple paragraphs on how they were captured, something on the evilness of the Mayor, and how they escaped. Then take a long time explaining why she's going back in.

That's what I would do, anyway.

Ray Bradbury just died.

[Cheyenne]

I don't think I explained that very well. What I wrote above is for all intents and purposes, a summary. An attention getter. But also an excerpt. All of those things would be explained in further detail in the book, but this excerpt (perhaps with revising) would still be in the book. Sort of the narrator going through a checklist. "This is what happened yesterday, this is what's happening today."

[Edward]

Sounds like too much information at once. Sure, you'll get attention, but you'll find the momentum hard to keep and control after that.

[Cheyenne]

That just depends on how much of Katie's story I decide to tell, and where I decide to start it. :p

[Guy]

It has the bones to be a good story, Cheyenne. And sounds like a curious dream.

[Cheyenne]

It was a very curious dream. I woke up right before I died.

[Guy]

The next time, wait until you have died before waking up. I had a dream in which I was shot in the chest and died on the sidewalk. And then I woke up. LoL. Twas funny, in an odd way.

[Cheyenne]

That's interesting. I always wake up right before I die. I thought about going back to sleep to see what happened, but getting shot in the face didn't sound pleasant so I decided not to. LOL

I had a dream once (don't laugh) that I was a ninja and I had to assassinate some political enemy of my employer, but when I got there the guy had a guard. I battled the guard, killed him, but not before he sliced my throat with his sword. The pain felt so real! I woke up with my hands at my throat screaming.

[Edward]

I got poked with a pencil in a kidney in one of my dreams. I had a bruise the next morning.

[Stephanie]

What? Lol. That's really weird, Edward.

[Edward]

Well, I was arguing with someone and it really irriated Jon, who decided poking both of us was a good-

Wait, do you mean the bruise part? Yeah, that was weird too.

[Stephanie]

Yeah. Wait, who's Jon?

[Edward]

Really tall and skinny guy who has a loud mouth even when he has larengitis (and I have witnesses that can attest to that). Just some fellow homeschooler.

[Kymela]

A friend of ours. He always plays a douche shape shifter in D&D.

[Stephanie]

Oh...who were you arguing with?

[Edward]

Well, once he played a gnome prince who sings.

I think I was arguing with ... I don't really remember. It was a weirdly plausible dream, though.

[Stephanie]

Hmmm. Sounds interesting and slightly painful.

[M]

One night when I was in college, I had a dream about a church on the bank of a gray swamp. The pastor was a vampire. At the end of the dream, he said, “We have a word for grayness here. It’s mougins.” I woke and thought, “What a strange dream. What a ridiculous word.” A few hours later, in the dormitory lobby, an old, foreign movie was playing on the television. In the scene, some motorists were passing a roadsign that said something like: “Mougins, 26 Kilometres.”

[Stephanie]

Haha. Nice.

[Kymela]

Was it Anthony or Jacob?

Yeah, that's true. He did a good Prince Rikjen.

[Edward]

Wait, the WiiU is going to have gaming social networking? Like X-Box Live?

No! Don't do it, Nintendo!

[M]

Isn’t it a strange coincidence? A few minutes ago, I looked up Mougins. It’s a medieval town on the French Riviera. I wonder if I’m destined to go there?

[Kymela]

lol maybe M.

NO! DON'T NINTENDO! THAT'S NOT WHY WE BUY FROM YOU!

[Stephanie]

Huh. That's interesting, M.

[Cheyenne]

Look at the conversation about dreams I started!! I always have extremly complicated dreams that take me a good half an hour to explain to someone..

M, that's really interesting

[Christa VG]

When ever my older brother got on the subject of dreams everyone would leave the table. He took a long time to tell his dreams, but they were usually interesting I even got the plot for my book from one of his more reasonable dreams

[Stephanie]

I wish I had more dreams.

[Edward]

Dreams can be interesting, I agree, but usually I'll just funnel them into my stories and leave them at that.

Okay, the rest of the WiiU sounds awesome. Fantasic - switching weapons in real time, different players experiencing the same game differently, and the Arkham and Mass Effect games finally making it there. Whoop!

[Cheyenne]

I got the plot for the book I just finished editing from one of my dreams :)

[Cheyenne]

Is coffee before driving a bad idea? Hmmmmmm, hopefully not. It usually doesn't make me jittery.

If I'm not back by tomorrow it probably means I got in a car crash and died. You'll put up a funeral thread for me, right?

[Kyra]

Of course!!! Hope it doesn't come to that though!!!!!
Sara: I'd miss Albert's witty comments...
Me: SARA!!!!!!! APOLOGIZE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sara: ...In addition to Cheyenne.
Me: Sheesh. I hafta learn how to restrain characters.