Birthdayness (again)

Happy Birthday, moscow_watcher! Have a great day!


And also, Happy Belated Birthday to shapinglight!
(The problem with not listing it is that, by the time everyone else starts wishing you happy birthday, I'm already up to tomorrow...)

Darth Vader, the great, the wonderful, the benevolent...

This Darth & Droids post made me think.



Specifically, the commentary at the bottom, which I have thoughtfully copied for anyone who is too lazy to find it themselves:

There obviously is a substantial underclass of shady characters populating the levels of society in the Republic below... well, Senators and Jedi knights. What with all the death stick sellers, and smugglers, and bounty hunters, and people who other people must presumably be taking out bounties on, and gamblers, and slave traders, and so on and so forth. It makes you wonder if the days of the Republic were really that great for anyone other than the ruling classes...

And really, why do we like the rebels in the original movies?

I mean, we know the Empire is evil (because they flat-out call it the "Evil Galactic Empire" in the scrolly text), but do they actually... um... do anything bad? Anything that isn't specifically aimed at hurting the rebels, that is?

(For the record: I'm talking specifically the movies, here. IV, V, and VI.)

"We're pimps and killers - but in a philanthropic way..."

Okay. Adelle DeWitt is officially the most awesome character I've seen on tv for a long, long time.
And I still want her clothes.


I also want to see Echo turned into a cheerleader who shoots people. That'd just be cool.


(And she fences! She actually fences!)