Wednesday, a serious bug must have gone around the office. Cause yesterday, an inordinate number of people didn’t show and a number of employees that did looked tired, warn out, and delirious, as though they were sick, too.

Go figure.

I actually still haven’t seen Part II yet. The original two came out when I was too young to watch and/or remember and I wasn’t able to completely follow the third cause I’d missed the first two, but I remember thinking that the Ewoks were pretty cool. I saw all three during their re-release to the theater and then I saw Phantom Menace when it came out.

Part of my lack of enthusiasm, I guess, was that it was never larger than life to me because I was so old by the time I saw it. They were good movies, but they were good in a wow-golly-gee sort of manner about as subtle as a sledgehammer. That’s why I’ve found criticisms of the Phantom Menace to be kind of odd. It seems like a lot of fans wanted the movie to grow up with them. But not having been a huge fan, I’m not sure if I’m the most qualified person to say that.

But though I haven’t seen the Sith movie, I have heard enough tidbits to comment on one particular aspect of it. If I am coming to the table with erroneous facts, please correct me. But anyway, when it’s a six movie saga, I can’t imagine it’s that hard to keep continuity straight. In fact, I would go as far as to say that there’s really no excuse for any continuity error, story-wise.

Additional Links:
Star Wars: The Flow Chart {I love it!, found at TVT}
Star Wars: The Science of Consistency – On fictional universes and the fans who rationalize them (Todd Seavey, Metaphilm) {for the fantasy/sci-fi/superhero geek in all of us}
The Case for the Empire (Jonathan Last, Daily Standard)
No Case for the Empire (Glenn Lamont, Solo HQ) {I figured I should put up a rebuttle of the above, but the only one I could find was this Objectivist-based one. If anyone can point me to a better one, please do.}
May 21, 1980 (Barry @ Inn of the Last Home)