*rolls* At first I thought you had to be referring to contraception somehow, then...
No. Nah. No discussion here. 
Not going there, sorry.
Sometimes a death star is just a death star.
Between you and Amy's thread about verbal gaffes...Oi. I need to go watch...I don't know...Maltese Falcon. Something depressing.
Let me guess... the both of you are in Phase 2 time now, is it?
Albertus:
Almost frightening. And while true, not quite it--I really think it's fatigue more than anything.
Come on, folks--don't shoot the messenger.
It starts with the rebel fighters involved. X-Wings. Y-Wings.
X.Y.....
How clear does Lucas have to say it, man?!?!
Dale,
That counts as "sleep-depraved", dude.
If I ever, I mean ever, find ... that moment ... ruined by the voice of Alec Guiness in my head solemnly intoning "Use the Force, Luke" ...
... I shall know whom to hold fully responsible. To mix movie metaphors, "Revenge is a dish best served cold."
peace,
Doesn't the explosion come about 4 months later, when you forget to bring a mango or something home with you after work?
Man! Nobody gave me a friggin' medal!
Great. Threepio simpers and frets, Leia (oh, don't start!) just looks worried but determined and definitely goal-oriented ("Stay on target!"), R2 gets his skull fried, the Grand Moff Tarkin actually uses the phrase "Evacuate? In our moment of triumph?", and I keep hearing Alec Guinnes say, "Just think about baseball."
And just what the heck are we to make of Han Solo flying in from out of nowhere with that walking carpet and saying Great, kid! Now let's blow this thing and go home! What am I supposed to DO with that, huh? Roll over and go to sleep, I suppose.
Degenerate boomers - bunch of freaks if you ask me.
Degenerate boomers - bunch of freaks if you ask me.
But Doug, that's what you always say ...
peace,
OK, someone want to elucidate on how the thing plays out, so to speak. I'm not being deliberately obtuse here---I'm just tired.
Scary . . . 
Here's one I had in Old Testament class a while back.
Denethor = Saul
Aragorn = David
Gandalf = Samuel
Boromir = Jonathan
Not a perfect match, but interestingly similar dynamics.
"Great shot, kid - that was one in a million!"
Wow. Just...wow. Umm...I think I have a budget to go build. But at this point, I'm sleep deprived enough to completely understand.
The assault on the Death Star in the first Star Wars film is actually a fully-developed parable about conception.
Huh? The death star then would have to be the egg and the x-wing the sperm? And the laser cannon guns on turrets are misfiring birth control? It's still crazy.
Christine:
Yes--exactly! Except for the "misfiring birth control."
Actually, the defenses of the DS represent the natural conditions of the feminine reproductive system, which are quite lethal to the sperm even during the fertile phase.
Add in the--er--attack run and the fact that only one X- or Y-Wing can hit the target, and while it still may be (is) crazy, it works far better than it should.
It's a bit of a stretch, but it occurs to me that Obi Wan, who emphasizes the inner self, is nicknamed Ben. Benjamin, in Hebrew, means "son of my right hand." Ben's role in the film includes teaching Luke how to handle his own "light saber," which is a solitary weapon and unable to penetrate the DS itself. No wonder the young and more outward-focused Luke is able to destroy the DS when all Ben can do is create a diversion. (I could make a comment about Ben's age combined with the imagery of his cloak falling limply to the floor at his death, but that would be unkind.)
Dale, why do you get these trains of thought started? Curse you, Red Baron!
As for me, I don't want Obi-Wan (or anyone else) urging me to "use the Force" at such a time.
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