Fact: As part of this heritage and due to my age/demographic (I don't really understand the word demographic) the original Star Wars movies had a large impact on me.
This past weekend, my wife was driving home from visiting her folks and I was busy cleaning and doing some file reorganization for my few (but valuable) clients. I decided I should put on all three Star Wars movies consecutively while I did some menial tasks. I am big into the consecutive trilogy watching. My wife took a business trip once and I watched all three Lord of the Rings extended versions (that's 11.5 hours of running time).
Anyway, it's a weird expierience to hear snippets of Star Wars dialogue now when I have the context of all six movies and some expanded universe knowledge (for more on Expanded Universe, please move into your parents basement or go here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Expanded_Universe)
As I heard more and more snippets, I find myself thinking various thoughts such as "that's not right." or "why does that character say that when this happens 35 minutes later to prove it falsely.
Don't get me wrong, I am not talking bad about Star Wars. Ok, yes I am. I thought it would be a good idea to start a blog dissecting each line of dialogue in the three original movies and cite proof as to why they don't make any sense. I may do this soon.
As an example. In Star Wars (A New Hope, i.e. the 1977 movie), Obi Wan and Luke happen upon the Sandcrawler that sold Luke R2-D2 and C3-P0. Obi Wan makes the following comment: "These blast points - too accurate for Sandpeople. Only Imperial Stormtroopers are so precise." Which is amazing, seeing as how Stromtroopers couldn't hit the ground for the rest of the triology.
Like I said, it makes no sense.
There's also the famous Kessel Run commetn about less than 12 parsecs: "You've never heard of the Millenium Falcon? It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs."
Unfortunately, I know that a parsec is a measurement of distance - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsec
Thus, it is the equivalent of saying "You've never heard of Roger Bannister - He's the miler who ran a marathon in less than 26 miles."
Also, I want to invent power converters in the future. They are everywhere - big, small, they are on planets, in droids, in Starships and Death Stars.
Fun drinking game - watch Star Wars and drink every time you hear or see a Power Convertor. Maybe the dialogue will make sense then.
As for me, I was able to type a blog in less than 6 kilometers.
