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Isn't this just the way it often goes: I already have a ton of shit to do at work today, and so I've been getting bombarded with countless fires to put out in the meantime this morning. What a pain in the ass! At least I have a job, I guess.
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It does mean I have to be very brief in today's DLU, though. I'll just tell you that last night was our second night this week we went next door to Alexia's condo to watch a Star Wars movie, this time the original theatrical release version of
Return of the Jedi.
Shobhit made dinner and we ate quickly beforehand. We skipped making popcorn this time, but did take over the leftover sliced watermelon, and brought the chai I had already made for Shobhit and me but we had barely started drinking. Between that stuff and the Blu-ray player with an extension cord and remote control, we still had plenty to lug over there.
I don't know why anyone doesn't like that movie. I still love
Return of the Jedi. And as soon as it ended, I commented on how that original trilogy, with the arc of Luke Walker and his father Anakin's (Darth Vader's) redemption, has a greater richness of mythology than any of the other movies. Each of the original trilogy films exists very well in relation to both of the others, and the same cannot be said of either of the other trilogies: the prequels are merely steps toward connecting to the beginning of
A New Hope. In the sequel trilogy,
The Force Awakens and
The Last Jedi are fantastic, but with
The Rise of Skywalker being arguably the biggest letdown of the series (with plot turns that make the least sense), those three films just can't ever fit together the same way the original trilogy films do. Any deep love that fans might actually have for the prequels (unless they were children when those came out, which I know is a thing, and kind of separate) only exists as it is traced back to these first three films. And those films form three pieces of a puzzle that create a complete picture unmatched by any other film, or set of films, in the franchise.
Anyway then we came back home in time to watch this week's episode, actually the penultimate episode of the first season, of
The Rings of Power on Prime Video.
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[posted 12:25 pm]
