There's still more coming on George Lakoff, folks, but it's taking longer than expected to write ([especially when SC has the nerve to take a vacation over a three-day weekend! -- ed.]). In order to avoid coming off like an obssessed lunatic, your host was going to make you wait until this afternoon, or even Wednesday morning, for significant new linguistic content. Anything to avoid even more ranting about Emperor Darth George Lucas. But Radagast suggested the post title, in honor of what are apparently the two tracks making up the SC mind, and so I can't resist. Without further ado:
In the just-arrived November edition of Home Theater, there's an interview with Mark Hamill, known primarily to the rest of the world as Luke Skywalker. If you know him by anything else, SC pities you for the part of your lifetime which has been irretrievably wasted. Mr. Hamill seems to have a healthy attitude about this fact; he's quoted as saying "I'm not someone who really enjoys going back and watching my own stuff". In other words, he's made peace with what Star Wars was. And like SC, he wishes that someone else would, too. Reproduced without further comment, SC's very most favorite (read: damning) parts of the Q&A:
Q: The power of home video! Has [The Empire Strikes Back] director Irvin Kershner been a good sport about the changes?A: Remember the old saying, "It's good to be the king!"? I guess with George, "It's good to be the Emperor!" If he wants to make them into musical comedies, that's his choice.
Q: And Return of the Jedi?
A: With Jedi, I was a bit disappointed because I said "Gee, it's all so pat and tied up neatly in a bunch." I voiced this opinion to George and was hoping that we'd be able to even top Empire. George explained to me, "Remember, this is meant to be a film for children."
An extended version of the interview can be found here.
Your host recognizes that it's quite easy these days to mistake this blog for being an Orwellian Hate Week directed at people named George. It's not true, it really isn't. But oh, SC will never convince anyone of it.
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