You've talked about Star Trek a lot, how do you feel about Star Wars?

[susiecarter]

You've talked about Star Trek a lot, how do you feel about Star Wars?

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OH, ANON, I LOVE IT. I LOVE IT SO MUCH. In the cage match for my heart, I stand by my answer that Star Trek wins in the end, but I love Star Wars a whole lot! (Younger hipster me was so proud of having not ever seen it, she would be horrified now. :D)

I should clarify that me loving something has basically no correlation whatsoever with how good or bad the writing is, haha—a truly spectacular plot populated by characters I can't bring myself to care about will always lose out to a ridiculous clichéfest filled with characters I love. And I love the characters in Star Wars a thoroughly silly amount, and did even while I was cringing my way through Episodes II and III. /o\ (I'm answering this question at just the right time, my family went to see Rogue One on Christmas Eve and then we spent the holidays marathoning the rest of the movies in "flashback order": IV, V, II, III, VI.)

The other thing I love about Star Wars is the ridiculous and glorious HUGENESS of its universe, and the total lack of restraint in filling it—like, I know a lot of this stuff is ~Legends~ now or whatever, but the COMICS, anon, the books, the games, the tens of thousands of years of galactic history; the SCOPE of it all, I just. The epic battles against ~darkness, the repeating themes of hope and redemption and forgiveness, the idea that my fannishness about it can encompass Nomi Sunrider in ~4000 BBY and Cade Skywalker in ~130 ABY—that it has space for kings and engineers, nuns and space pirates, the witches of Dathomir and grumpy robots, the sheer sense of ADVENTURE, I mean.

Anon. I fuckin' ADORE Star Wars. :D

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[terresdebrume]

So I read this from the inbox and I came out of it with two questions:

1. Have you ever read any of fialleril's Star Wars fic? Because they do things with Tatooine culture that are absolutely delicious imo (they don't discuss the sequel trilogy ever for triggery reason though, as a heads up).

2. I can't help but notice you didn't mention Episode I in this post, can I ask if there's a particular reason for it? (No pressure to answer of course, just if you feel comfortable with that ^^)

[susiecarter]

Haha, no worries—the somewhat-less-than-exciting answers are:

1. I don't believe I have, so thank you very much for the link! I absolutely love worldbuilding, and Star Wars leaves so much room for it, so I'm very much looking forward to checking out their work. :D

2. There's no Reason reason! "Flashback order" deliberately leaves out Episode I, so that's why it didn't appear in that list. And then in the case of "cringing my way through Episodes II and III", I left it out because ... Episode I doesn't actually make me cringe. /o\ :D I'm super weak for Padmé and her handmaidens, I love Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan, and Shmi is great! So, uh, yeah. Of the prequel movies, I actually like Episode I the best!

[terresdebrume]

Haha, well I'm glad you get to discover fia's work, it's really good and I like it a whole lot!

I'd never heard of a watching order that left out ep I! (Honestly, I think it's the best of the prequel trilogy and that the main reason the next two suck is because they tend to completely forget about ep I and the bit where Anakin used to be a slave :/) I have to admit I'd feel sad at leaving it out, but I guess I'll just have to look at the reasoning if I want to get it xD

Thanks for the answers :D