January 21st, 20183379Star Wars means a great many things to all of us. To the late (and dearly missed) Carrie Fisher, "It's about family, and that's what's so powerful about it." And I, for one, couldn't agree more with her sentiment. Indeed it is about family and very powerfully relatable too. To be quite blunt, a dysfunctional one, but a family...
October 23rd, 20171555In last month’s blog, I began my examination of whether Luke, Leia, and friends actually had a plan to rescue Han from Jabba’s palace in Return of the Jedi or whether they made things up as they went along. That post ended after most of the major players arrived at the palace, Leia unfroze Han, and Leia became Jabba’s prisoner....
September 23rd, 20172988The first act of Return of the Jedi featured Han Solo’s rescue by his friends from the clutches of the vile gangster Jabba the Hutt. Luke, Leia, Lando, Chewbacca, and the droids each arrived at Jabba’s palace either individually or in pairs. Not that Star Wars fans need a reminder, but eventually Leia freed Han from the carbonite....
June 27th, 20151148 One thing that Star Wars does exceedingly well is it is able to pull aspects of everyday life into the galaxy far, far away and make them fit right at home. One of the most well-known is the idea and feeling of friendship and camaraderie. Whether it is between human to droid, human to human, human to alien, or even droid to droid,...
