![]() ![]() I looked at the road ahead and I slowed my steps. Every morning I bring awareness to my whole body lying in bed for a couple of mins (and often failing because I would fall back asleep).Īs I marched my way to the station this morning in my new red stilettos with the extra skinny heels, I remembered the crack in the pavement ahead. A little sticker on my space bar reminds me to be conscious about my breath. And everyday I made effort in minuscule ways to increase presence in my life. So when I stepped into the crack again yesterday and ruin the skinny heel of my favourite black pumps, I became fully aware of how "not present" I was.īeing present and cultivating a deeper level of awareness is something I started when I got pregnant in 2010. The chatter disconnects me to the street, the people even the music blasting from my ear buds. My mind chattering with conversations I had yesterday or last night or years ago or what I want to say and do today. Pumps wrecked (well, sort of).Įvery morning I would march towards the station, lost in my head. It doesn’t make you sound like a purist, it doesn’t make you sound intelligent or refined, it makes you sound foolish and ignorant.Twice this week I stepped into cracks in the road on the way to the subway. ![]() You truly don’t deserve to call yourself a fan for that. ![]() So get off your high horse and stop calling yourself a fan after shitting on half the series and the universe’s creator. I am an honest person and do acknowledge the “yippee"s and “I don’t like sand” quotes, but Vader screaming “no” did not seem out of place to me. ![]() The Return of the Jedi was just plain silly with the teddy bears, yet it’s almost evil to suggest Revenge of the Sith was better than either of them.Īnd what’s with the hate for Darth Vader’s screaming of “no” at the end of Revenge of the Sith? To this day, I see no problem with it. Get over yourself.Ī New Hope was revolutionary, but today it’s boring. Are we really going to forget how poorly the Original Trilogy aged? Granted, Phantom Menace aged poorly too due to the relatively early stages of CGI, but are you going to look me in the eye and say effects don’t matter for a sci-fi film? Look at me and say Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith weren’t the best looking of the six first films–how could you? It doesn’t compare.Īnd yet you go and complain because Anakin said “yippee” as a child and grew up to dislike sand? Really? Really? But oh no, you’re still a fan of Star Wars, right? It’s still amazing, right? You just shit on half of its existence and its CREATOR, but you’re still a great fan. Darth Maul, General Grievous, and Jango Fett were pretty damn sweet villains.Īnd also, folks, let’s not forget this is Star Wars–science fiction. Jar Jar, while annoying, isn’t shoehorned into destroying the entire Confederacy. Jackson blows that of Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, and Harrison Ford out of the water. It’s never enough, there’s always an excuse.īut here’s the truth: the acting of Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, and Samuel L. Then General Grievous–BUT he was under-used. Then Count Dooku–BUT his involvement was forced. You whine about the lack of compelling villains, and then admit Darth Maul was actually great–BUT he wasn’t in it enough. You call Jar Jar Binks the worst thing ever to happen to humanity, yet you sing the praises for an army of goddamn teddy bears taking down the Galactic Empire solely because it was in the coveted Original Trilogy. But is their existence so monstrous that you need to absolutely shit on George Lucas and call him a bad writer–the man who literally created the universe of which you’re allegedly a fan? I mean, really, who do you think you are to say you love this universe which owes its existence to George Lucas and then go bad mouth him as a dumb, uncreative fool? You call yourself a fan of Star Wars, but turn around and whine about a few badly written lines about sand. You criticize Natalie Portman’s acting and make no mention of Leia’s weird British accent thing going on for half of a New Hope. You call Anakin whiny, but forget about how annoyingly whiny Luke was throughout the Original Trilogy, especially the first episode. You say the Phantom Menace was awful, but turn around and say “hurr durr pod racing and Darth Maul were sweet” You also forget about the stiff, corny acting in the Original Trilogy, especially A New Hope. You criticize the acting, but forget about the performances of Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Lee, Samuel L. As I look more and more online at reviews and rankings, I see the utter hatred for the Star Wars prequel trilogy, and much venom is even directed at George Lucas for his writing abilities. ![]()
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