How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Star Wars Archive

  • Broken Legacy: Why Star Wars shouldn’t go back to the future

    Broken Legacy: Why Star Wars shouldn’t go back to the future

    As a Star Wars fan, I feel like I should be more excited about the Legacy comic book series.  It’s trying very hard to be just as epic and sweeping as the Star Wars trilogy, and it’s established a colorful cast of characters and built off of existing Star Wars lore.  The title legacy is [...]

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  • Film vs. Game: Prince of Persia: Sands of Time

    Film vs. Game: Prince of Persia: Sands of Time

    The “Prince of Persia: Sands of Time” movie needed people like me to enjoy it.  I’ve been a fan of the 2003 video game of the same name since I first picked it up in 2007, and I devoured it and its second sequel, The Two Thrones, as fast as I could play them (the [...]

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  • Eulogizing Heroes

    Eulogizing Heroes

    “I come to bury Heroes, not to praise it. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.”

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  • Deus Ex Buffyverse

    Deus Ex Buffyverse

    “Does he exist? Is there word on that, by the way?” “Nothing solid.” —Holden Webster and Buffy Summers, “Conversations with Dead People” This may be scaring away my audience before I even begin, but I was raised Catholic and attended Catholic school from third grade through high school. While I’m not the greatest Catholic, I [...]

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  • Better Late Than Never: Battlestar Galactica (2003 reboot)

    Better Late Than Never: Battlestar Galactica (2003 reboot)

    It’s been my mission the past year or so to seek out the cool, geeky things that I have inadvertently passed over. It’s what brought me to watch all seven seasons of Buffy last fall, because enough of my friends had seen it and liked it that I thought I should give it a shot, [...]

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  • New Season of Clone Wars

    New Season of Clone Wars

    After a long wait, Season 2 of Star Wars: The Clone Wars has started up again, and I could not be happier. Season 1 ended on a high note as the animation advanced and the stories took on more dramatic heft, so I’ve been eagerly awaiting new episodes all summer. The fact that the season [...]

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