{"id":11811,"date":"2009-01-16T11:34:53","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T19:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2009\/01\/16\/11811.html"},"modified":"2009-01-16T11:34:53","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T19:34:53","slug":"the-stories-of-star-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2009\/01\/16\/the-stories-of-star-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"The stories of Star Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What do various people think is going on in <cite>Star Wars<\/cite>? Here are some samples. The first couple links are new to me; the rest are mostly things I've posted before but that seem thematically relevant, and the last one is something I'm amazed that I've never linked to before.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Woman who's never seen an entire <cite>SW<\/cite> film gives a <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/2809991?pg=embed&sec=2809991\">plot summary of the original trilogy<\/a>. (Remarkably accurate!)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dears.tumblr.com\/post\/61572509\/star-wars-according-to-a-3-year-old-via\"><cite>A New Hope<\/cite> according to a three-year-old<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.starwars.com\/ghent\/15\">Comments from a seven-year-old<\/a> on seeing <cite>A New Hope<\/cite> for essentially the first time, <em>after<\/em> seeing the prequel trilogy.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.morningstar.nildram.co.uk\/A_New_Sith.html\">A New Sith, or, Revenge of the Hope<\/a>, an excellent Secret History-style exegesis of what's really going on in the original <cite>Star Wars<\/cite>, in light of what we learned in <cite>Revenge of the Sith<\/cite>.  (Note: it contains spoilers for all six movies.) (Somehow the tone and style of this reminds me obliquely of Niven's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.larryniven.org\/stories\/downinflames.shtml\">Down in Flames<\/a>, the outline for the epic novel that would have torn Known Space to shreds. There ought to be a term, besides \"retcon\" and \"secret history,\" for this kind of hypothetical \"everything you know about this fictional world is wrong; here are new underpinnings consistent with the known fictional facts\" scenario description\/outline\/summary.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2006\/01\/05\/3312.html\">Misconceptions about <cite>Star Wars<\/cite><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2004\/03\/03\/1840.html\"><cite>Star Wars<\/cite> vs. <cite>LotR<\/cite> vs. <cite>Matrix<\/cite><\/a>--not entirely on-topic, but vaguely relevant if you follow the link to the original article.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/darthsanddroids.net\/episodes\/0001.html\">Darths &amp; Droids<\/a>--the prequel trilogy re-envisioned as a roleplaying game, in fotonovel webcomic style, a la <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?cat=14\">DM of the Rings<\/a>. I have a bunch more to say about this in a separate posting, to follow at some point. Note that they've just finished the first <cite>SW<\/cite> movie, so I recommend reading the strips in order rather than jumping to the latest one; the most recent strip shows the (fictional) GM's notes, which I suspect are much funnier after seeing the hash that the players make of things than if you read the notes beforehand.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do various people think is going on in Star Wars? Here are some samples. The first couple links are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}